Internet Librarian International 2005 - 10-11 October 2005 - Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

R.R. Bowker has announced that, starting April 2005, it will directly collect, manage and maintain bibliographic information regarding all books, audio books and videos published in the United Kingdom. This expansion of service is poised to deliver a most comprehensive and competitive UK information solution to information researchers, library professionals and retail buyers

New Beginnings by Various authors from Bloomsbury Publishing - A unique collection of the first chapters of forthcoming novels by the world's biggest authors in support of the Tsunami relief fund, with all proceeds going to charity

Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 31 2005 are Corporate Governance: the International Journal of Business in Society and Team Performance Management

DRH 2005: Digital Resources for the Humanities - 4-8 September 2005 - University of Lancaster, UK

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - January 27, 2005

2005 International Association of Music Libraries, Archives & Documentation Centres conference - 10-15 July 2005 - Warsaw, Poland

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, January 20-26, are now available

Avanti Library Systems has released Avanti MicroLCS version 1.0 beta 4, a Java based OPAC and cataloging system. Many things have been changed and improved in beta 4, mostly under the hood. Among these are a much simplified installation procedure, a server management console, a simpler architecture and directory layout, and many bug fixes, optimisations and refinements that make this a rock solid release

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of novels and novelists. Answers here.

1. Iris was the title of a film in 2001 about the life of which novelist?
2. The first novel by the English author Douglas Adams, published in 1979, was called The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to... - what??
3. Which novel by George Orwell begins with the sentence: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen?"
4. In D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lady Chatterley responded to the advances of her gamekeeper. What was the gamekeeper's name?
5. Which 19th-century English novelist wrote The Warden, Barchester Towers and Dr. Thorne?
6. Who wrote the novels The Shipping News in 1993 and Accordion Crimes in 1996?
7. In Britain, the first Harry Potter book was called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Which word was substituted for "Philosopher" for the US version?
8. Which French author wrote the licentious novels Justine in 1791 and Juliette in 1797?
9. Philip Pullman is famous for His Dark Materials, a set of three novels. Give the titles of two of them.
10. Which well-known English novelist has published detective novels under the name of Dan Kavanagh?

Library and Information Conference Wales 2005 - Old Friends and New Partners - Hotel Metropole, Llandrindod Wells - 3-4 March 2005

Choosing and Using Canadian Government Documents and Government Information on the Web - Governments around the world have embraced the web as a major publication tool for government documents, laws, statistics, and citizen-based information. Web-based government information is a great enhancement to a library collection, if you know how to find and use these resources - On-line @ your desktop, 6 weeks starting February 7, 2005 - Instructor: Jeff Moon, Queen's University

CILIP training workshop: Reflective practice for information & library staff - The ability to reflect on activities and learn from the experience adds purpose and meaning to the way we work. This workshop allows participants to explore approaches to reflective practice - 27 April 2005, London, UK

OCLC Research has announced a contest intended to give developers an outlet for creative software development of library services. The contest is intended to encourage innovation and development of Web-based services for libraries and library users. Contestants will be challenged to think differently about their environments by working with deconstructed functional components of library services. The prize is US$2,500.00

The CLA/OCLC Canada Award for Resource Sharing Achievement is an annual award consisting of $1,000 and a plaque recognizing and honoring an individual, an organization or a project team for outstanding professional achievement, leadership and contributions to library resource sharing in Canada. Deadline: February 28 2005

Reed Business International and NBC Universal Television Stations have announced plans for a new national book award, called the Quill Awards, to be decided by the general public voting online and in bookstores. Organizers and leaders within the publishing industry said they hope the Quills will generate excitement about books and fill an important niche

ONLINE Insider, the editorial blog by Marydee Ojala, Editor of ONLINE, intends to extend the reach of the print publication, presenting a more timely commentary on the products, people, and events that shape today's online world. It explores new technologies as they impact the working lives of information professionals, explains resources for specific topic areas, and expounds on information management tools and techniques

The world-renowned John Murray Archive is on its way to Scotland. The Heritage Lottery Fund announced its decision to contribute 17.7 million pounds towards the National Library of Scotland's bid to buy the literary treasure trove and keep this important collection in the UK

EDUCAUSE Review January/February 2005, Volume 40, Number 1, is now available online

The draft of Release 1 of the new COUNTER Code of Practice for online books and reference works is now available for comment

Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources is a 32 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find academic and scholarly information and knowledge available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address that can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file authored by Marcus P. Zillman

The Changing Book: Transitions in Design, Production, and Preservation - University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa - July 22-25, 2005

Joint Workshop on Electronic Publishing - Organised by Delos, SVEP and ScieCom - Lund, Sweden - 14-15 April, 2005

Free Pint Newsletter 175 - 27 January 2005 - now available

The London A-Z street atlas, first published in 1936, yesterday beat volumes by Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Conrad, Zadie Smith and Peter Ackroyd to come in at number five in a poll of the 30 best-loved London books

The Macclesfield Psalter, a compendium of medieval piety and outrageously bawdy jokes, will stay in East Anglia, where it was made in about 1320, thanks to a national appeal which has raised the £1.7m to match the auction price offered by the Getty Museum in California

Andrea Levy has won the 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Small Island

Brill Academic Publishers has announced some new electronic newsletters in various disciplines

ALPSP seminar: E-only journals: is it time to drop print? - 2 February 2005 - Oxford, UK

Information Research Volume 10 No.2, January 2005, is now available

Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services - The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete - 11-13 May, 2005

Registration is now open for the SURA-ViDe 2005 Digital Video conference, which has become a widely-recognized event for learning about development and deployment showcasing the growing promise of digital video technology. This year's conference will take place March 28-31 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia

School Libraries in Canada Volume 24, Issue 2 is now available online

The Third International Conference on the Book - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK - 11-13 September 2005. The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the book and its surrounds, including the past, present and future of publishing, libraries, information, literacy and learning in the information society

Dialog has integrated the ABIX database of Australian editorial content into its Dialog NewsRoom service. ABIX features abstracts of articles published by 122 mostly Australian newspapers, magazines and news services

Thomson Scientific has announced that Zoological Record is now available on ISI Web of Knowledge

LexisNexis Group has announced the launch of a new Chinese language online service called LexisNexis China Online. This new research tool, which LexisNexis has developed specifically for the Chinese market, is designed to help customers quickly and easily find relevant data, particularly on rapidly changing legal and regulatory issues in China

The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives. From The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center

Global Resources Newsletter Winter 2005 is now available as a PDF file. An initiative from the Association of American Universities and ARL in cooperation with CRL. This issue features a look at The Latin American Open Archives Portal

The new Google Video allows you to search recent TV programs online

Baruch College, a senior college within The City University of New York, and Kognito Solutions LLC, have announced the release of a free interactive guide to help faculty determine the appropriate copyright guidelines they must follow when using different types of copyrighted media in their courses

Association of UK Media Librarians annual conference - Essential Skills for Information - 11-13 March 2005 - York, UK

International Conference on Information management in a knowledge society - 21-25 February 2005 - Mumbai, India

Current Cites Volume 15, no. 12, December 2004 is now available

Cambridge University Library's Exhibition Centre reopens on 25 January with All Good Friends, a collection of material donated or funded by the Friends of Cambridge University Library. Books, maps, music and manuscripts are included in the display, representing some of the most important and interesting of the gifts, bequests and purchases made by the Friends

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Institute of Physics (IOP) have announced a special agreement that will make the contents of the Institute of Physics Journal Archive between 1874 and 1998 permanently accessible to all higher and further education institutions in the UK. The entire archive now represents some £30,000 worth of material

In a bid to slow the domination of the big chains and put the independents in touch with potential customers, The Guardian has launched Shoptalk. The idea is simple: email the name and details of your favourite bookshop, along with a 100-word explanation of why you love it, to books.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk. For a shop to qualify, there are just two rules: it must be within the British Isles and have no more than three outlets. The results will form a database of independent bookshops compiled by bookworms for bookworms

Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 17 2005 are Disaster Prevention and Management, An International Journal and Industrial & Commercial Training

Really Simple Syndication(RSS): This course will explore RSS, discuss the use of RSS reader software, and examine how libraries can create their own RSS content feeds - May 20, 2005 - NOLA Regional Library System, Ohio

With the addition of ten years more retrospective coverage in September 2005, Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective, from H.W. Wilson, will allow users to search periodicals as far back as 1908. Based on the classic print reference Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, this is the space-saving online equivalent of 38 ILP print cumulations. The database makes more than 70 years of periodicals research readily available for educators, students, law professionals and others, with cover-to-cover indexing of publications 1908 through 1981

INFORUM 2005 - 11th INFORUM Conference on Professional Information Resources - Prague, Czech Republic - May 24-26, 2005 - The conference is organized by Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., the leading distributor of electronic information resources in the Czech and Slovak Republic, and the University of Economics. The INFOPARTY social evening is organized in co-operation with the National Library of the Czech Republic

Internet Librarian 2005 - Monterey, CA - October 24-26, 2005

HighBeam Research has announced that its online research service will be free January 24-28 to celebrate the first anniversary of the service. Free registration required

NOVA turns its lens on the timeliest developments and most intriguing personalities in science and technology in a new magazine series, NOVA scienceNOW - PBS.org

New books for January from Facet Publishing:
The Content Management Handbook by Martin White
The Academic Library - 2nd edition - by Peter Brophy
E-Journals: A how-to-do-it manual for building, managing, and supporting electronic journal collections - by Donnelyn Curtis

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, January 13-19, are now available

2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05) - September 19-22, 2005 - Compiegne University of Technology, France

Effective February 4, 2005, SAGE Journals content will only be available via SAGE Journals Online and the following authorized intermediaries: EBSCO's EJS service, Swets Wise Online Content and OCLC-FirstSearch

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of food. Answers here.

1. Is "summer pudding" usually served hot or cold?
2. Which type of food gets its name from an Earl who spent long periods at the gaming table and carried a portable meal of beef in bread?
3. Which fish is found in varieties called chinook, chum, coho, humpback and sockeye?
4. In the UK, beef sausages must contain what percentage of meat?
5. Which Italian cheese is called "vecchio" when it is 2 years old and "stravecchio" when it is 3 years old?
6. Kedgeree is a breakfast dish of egg and rice mixed with what?
7. Pan dowdy is an American sponge pudding, containing which fruit?
8. Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish of various foods stuffed into what container?
9. What kind of Italian bread has a name that literally means "old slipper"?
10. Vichyssoise is a cold soup made from potato and which other vegetable?

The finalists for the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize honouring literary non-fiction include the authors of a personal story about recovering from alcohol addiction and an eyewitness tale of the invasion of Iraq. The $25,000 prize, to be awarded February 28, celebrates the book that "best demonstrates and combines an uncommon command of the English language, an elegance of style and a subtlety of thought and perception"

The January 2005 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available

The 2005 call for Innovation and Development Fund proposals has been issued by the Scottish Library and Information Council. Bids are invited from member organisations on the key priority theme of Equity and Access. Funding of up to 10,000 pounds per project is available for suitable initiatives and the deadline for submission of bids to SLIC is 25th February 2005

ALPSP Strategic Management Workshop: Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Publishers - 5-6 April 2005 - London, UK

University of Buffalo Library presents Albert Einstein and the World Year of Physics 2005 - Celebrate the life and achievements of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) by viewing manuscripts and papers, scientific articles, related news and events, photographs and AV, and even sites for kids

An alliance between MSN Music and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will make tens of thousand of historic songs from legendary performers of folk, blues, jazz and world music available online for the first time, allowing music fans to discover a diverse world of music and sound. The Smithsonian Folkways catalog of nearly 35,000 tracks, which is only available for download through MSN Music in the United States, features legendary artists Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lucinda Williams, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ella Jenkins and more. The archive also features nonmusical tracks including speeches, poetry and natural sounds from around the world

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library has a number RSS feeds for its magazines and transactions

Lists Related to The Open Access Movement by Peter Suber - Last revised January 14, 2005

The European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery and the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery have announced that the full text of Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery is now available online

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has announced that the full text of The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy is now available online. The free trial will end June 30, 2005

6th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services - The Impact and Outcomes of Library and Information Services: Performance measurement for a changing Information environment - 22-25 August 2005 - Durham, England

CLIR Issues - Number 43 January/February 2005 - is now available from the Council on Library and Information Resources

Libraries and Library Systems in the New Information Landscape by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. Clifford Lynch wrapped up the LITA National Forum with a talk about preservation, personalization, education delivery and learning management systems, and consumer marketplace developments

Netskills has announced its programme of workshops for January to April 2005. These workshops will be running at venues including Oxford, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, London, Southampton and Newcastle

E-Learn 2005 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education - October 24-28, 2005 - Vancouver, Canada

Serials Resource Management for the 21st Century: An Introduction - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - 9 February 2005

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Alexander Street Press have announced an agreement to publish the entirety of Smithsonian Global Sound as a streaming music service to libraries around the world. The collaboration will deliver content from archives of traditional music in South Africa and India as well as the audio collection of the U.S. national museum

LibraryPOP intends to provide a timely, easy-to-use, authoritative guide to what is current and potentially of most interest to those who are responsible for popular music and film collections in libraries. Items being most frequently added to library collections and suggested purchases form the core of LibraryPOP. Additional features may be added as requested and warranted by the site's authors

NISO Newsline - January 2005- is now available

eLit2005 - eLiteracy and eLearning - 4th International Conference on eLiteracy - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland - 15-17 June 2005

R.R. Bowker has announced the introduction of Ulrich's Resource Linker, a new tool that integrates all of a library's periodicals through a single service and allows library patrons to easily connect to those holdings by following a few simple links

DLF Newsletter Volume 5, Number 1. Fall 2004 is now available

The January 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available

New journals at BioMed Central: Molecular Pain, Particle and Fibre Toxicology, Cerebrospinal Fluid Research

The editor of the New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship is currently seeking articles for the next edition (No 2, Volume 11). The deadline for papers is 31 March 2005

Aslib has announced that the 2005 programme of events is now available

The final evaluative report on the InfoEyes virtual reference project for the visually impaired is now available

Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 17 2005 are Library Hi Tech and The TQM Magazine

The Seattle Public Library: Shattering Stereotypes - April 27-29, 2005 - Seattle, Washington

The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery has announced that the full text of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Volume) is available online

Beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer a structured Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. Five one-year, non-renewable fellowships will also be available to CAS and MS degree students wishing to focus on digital libraries. The program aims to give students a thorough and technically focused background in digital libraries that will enable them to serve as designers, decision-makers, and creators of digital collections

When Popular Goes Public by Roy Tennant - "As librarians, we are in the business of serving the public. Perhaps the public happens to be those who live in a particular city or county, or study at a college or university, or work at a certain organization. No matter where we work, we have clientele whose needs for information and entertainment we try to meet. You think we would know what they want..." - Library Journal

Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for RLG Cultural Materials - This set of guidelines is designed to help contributors to the RLG Cultural Materials database, but a broad audience can also benefit from its clear overview of the daunting concepts and acronyms in the field of descriptive metadata. Written by an expert working group and vetted by a wide community, these guidelines can be used to create or review local best practice in describing collections of unique cultural objects—regardless of the specific metadata standards you use

The Library of Congress's Rare Book & Special Collections Division has announced the release of a new digital collection, The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, available on the Library's Global Gateway Web site

NFAIS 2005 Annual Conference - February 27-March 1 - Preliminary program is now available

The Open eBook Forum has released its annual list of Top Selling eBooks

Copyright Clearance Center and Innovative Interfaces have announced an integration partnership that will make copyright compliance for electronic reserves faster and easier. By providing direct access to Copyright Clearance Center's rights database from Innovative's electronic course reserves solution, librarians and staff can now fulfill e-reserve requests for copyright permission more efficiently and quickly

The London Book Fair has added a new feature to the highly successful Academic, STM and ELT sector of the show. The e-Content Pavilion and seminar theatre will offer Information Professionals, Knowledge Managers, Librarians and Publishers the opportunity to view an exclusive selection of the very best online information management content all in one place

BucksKey is your instant link to a selection of the most useful and informative Internet sites around. BucksKey was developed and is maintained by information specialists in Buckinghamshire Libraries and Heritage

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, January 7-12, are now available

Call for Proposals: DIGITS FUGIT! - Preserving Knowledge into the Future - 33rd Annual Museum Computer Network Conference - Boston, MA - November 3-5, 2005 - Proposal Deadline: February 12, 2005

Endeavor Information Systems has reported a successful initial beta test of the first release of its ENCompass for Journals OnSite (EJOS). The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) tested the advanced EJOS system, which is designed to manage, search and link locally hosted journal collections

ARL Bimonthly Report 237 - December 2004 - Libraries and Changing Research Practices: A Report of the ARL/CNI Forum on E-Research and Cyberinfrastructure by Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, Coalition for Networked Information

American Anthropological Association, the world's largest organization of anthropologists, and the University of California Press, its publishing partner, has announced the release of AnthroSource, the premier online resource for anthropology

This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of Colo(u)rs. Answers here.

1. What colour was the panther in the title of a 1963 film comedy starring Peter Sellers?
2. What colour is the carpet laid down for an important guest to walk on?
3. What colour occurs in the title of a 1982 novel by US writer Alice Walker?
4. What colour was the hero of Baroness Orczy's bestselling 1905 novel about Sir Percy Blakeney?
5. What colour is the surname of an American singer who had a 1971 hit record with "Let's Stay Together"?
6. What colour is the royal family of the Netherlands: the House of...what?
7. What colour was the mood in one of Duke Ellington's most popular songs?
8. Edward (1330-1376), the eldest son of Edward III of England, had a nickname including which colour?
9. Burt Lancaster was a pirate of what colour in a 1952 film?
10. The mako, an Australian species of shark, is also known as a "pointer" of which colour?

Science Magazine now publishes a number of RSS feeds

Issue no. 9 (July - December 2004) of the DPC/PADI What's New in Digital Preservation bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site and the National Library of Australia's PADI Web site

Cites & Insights 5:2 (Midwinter 2005) is available for downloading

Free Pint Newsletter 174 - 13 January 2005 - now available

Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching aims to explore the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology. The project will also investigate digital-library technologies that will allow for the flexible delivery and customized use of these resources

Opera offers free site licenses to higher education institutions. Opera delivers a secure, fast and reliable internet browsing alternative at no cost to schools. Students will enjoy Opera features such as tabbed browsing, integrated searches, pop-up blocking and saved sessions

Berlin 3 Open Access: Progress of Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - February 28-March 1, 2005 - University of Southampton, UK

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity welcomes the help of librarians in encouraging entries for their Peter Pan Awards

The Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America will be held on January 28, 2005 in Ames Auditorium at The New York Lighthouse, located at 111 East 59th Street, New York City

Presented at the 6 January 2005 conference of the Arizona Association of Law Libraries (AzALL), Finding News Faster examines using XML-based (RSS or Atom) feeds in research. It starts with the basics - what they are, how to display them, and how to find them. It continues with sources and strategies for selecting feeds, or for creating keyword-specific feeds

Dynix Institute Web Seminar Series: Beyond Text: Libraries Create and Deliver Access to Rich-media Collections - January 26, 2005 - Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Consultant and Author

Openly Informatics, Inc. has announced that it had added OpenURL 1.0 support, along with several other user-friendly features, to an Open Source browser plugin extension that adds linking to web pages in the Google Scholar service

The inaugural edition of the PLA blog will cover the ALA Midwinter Meeting which takes place in Boston, January 14-19, 2005. The PLA blog effort was begun by librarian, consultant, and blogger Steven M. Cohen, who is best known as the proprietor of LibraryStuff.net and also serves as the Internet Spotlight columnist for "Public Libraries" magazine

Adobe has released Adobe Reader 7.0 - free software that lets you view, print, search, and share Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files more securely using a variety of platforms and devices. Commenting tools enabled by Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software let you actively participate in document reviews. Adobe Reader 7.0 features a faster launch time and real-time zooming and panning

UK Serials Group 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh - 11-13 April 2005 - Programme and booking forms are now available

University of Regina Library in Saskatchewan, Canada, has a new website

NASIG's 20th Annual Conference will be returning to the Upper Midwest this spring as we visit the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The conference will be held May 19-22, 2005 at the Minneapolis (downtown) Hilton

Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman's Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts — all available for the first time in one place

xrefer has announced that four leading reference publishers will contribute key titles to its xreferplus Ready-Reference service. The company, which now has over 45 publishing partners, will incorporate reference works from Sage, H.W. Wilson, Continuum and Macquarie

AllPages.com Yellow Pages - Online yellow pages and business directory for US States. You can search for businesses or simply browse via the simple navigation by states, cities, or categories

The VRD 2004 Online Proceedings offers presentations, handouts, models, papers, and other materials presented at the VRD 2004 Digital Reference Conference in Cincinnati, OH, on November 8-9, 2004. Other papers not appearing in this online proceedings will be published in a print publication entitled Creating a Reference Future to be published by Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. in 2005

The list of Free Online Full-text Articles, published online with the assistance of HighWire Press, has been updated. It now contains links to 820,911 free full-text articles and 2,075,515 total articles

Registration for the Spring DLF Forum, April 13-15 2005, San Diego, is now open

International Journal of Medical Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing high quality scientific papers of excellence in all areas of medical sciences. Articles include original research and review, important case reports and analysis, short research communications presenting novel research ideas and timely research finding, and reports of new drug development and clinical trials

Following a remarkable year for the spread of open access ideas and the gathering of momentum for real change, the New Year begins with an announcement by JISC of the winners of funding under the second round of its Open Access programme. Following the success of the first year of the JISC programme, the decision has been made to award five publishers funds to support open access delivery for their journals

Preservation of local newspaper titles published in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1700 and 1950 through the Newsplan 2000 project is now complete. The titles have been preserved on microfilm and the delivery of microfilm reading equipment to libraries and archives has now begun

The American Association of Critical Care Nurses has announced that the full text of their two journals American Journal of Critical Care and Critical Care Nurse are now available online with revised site designs

Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 10 2005 are International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance and Personnel Review

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has embarked on a new phase of its ambitious plan to transform scientific publishing, announcing the 2005 launch of three new open-access journals: PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogens. These PLoS Community Journals answer the increasing calls of scientists, scientific societies, and governments around the world for the free and open sharing of discoveries and data through reputable, high-quality, peer-reviewed journals targeted to specific research communities

Internet threat to libraries analyzed - A major national study conducted by the School of Informatics and the Urban Libraries Council found five years ago that increased Internet use in the U.S. had not produced a reduction in the public use of libraries... With Internet use continuing to grow by leaps and bounds, the UB researchers now are poised to undertake a much larger national study to see what, if any, changes have taken place over the past five years

Bob Martens of Vienna University Of Technology has created a database that provides
access to all of the conference papers presented at the ELPUB (Electronic Publishing) conferences from 1997

The January 2005 issue of the SCATNews Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section is now available

Writing for the Wired World: Creating Online Content That Works - Writing for a different medium, like the Web, can be challenging. Find out what usability studies reveal about how people actually read online and what the implications are for developing microcontent, menus, layout, and writing style. Filled with examples, tips, and tricks, this interactive online course is a must for library web site content developers and webmasters who want to improve their sites - Instructors: Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan and Frank Cervone, Northwestern University - Online @ your desktop, 6 weeks starting January 10, 2005

The Mitchell and Kenyon Collection - For around seventy years, 800 rolls of early nitrate film sat in sealed barrels in the basement of a shop. Now miraculously rediscovered and undergoing restoration, this amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century is the most exciting film discovery of recent times and promises to radically transform British film history

State libraries for the blind in Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Oregon, along with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, have partnered to launch an innovative digital audio book service for visually impaired users

LexisNexis U.S. has acquired key assets of Rachel Hollingsworth Court Reporting, Inc., a privately owned civil public records provider based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Endeavor Information Systems has announced that it has chosen to partner with Cognos to offer customers advanced business intelligence and reporting features
Endeavor also has information regarding its presence at ALA Midwinter 2005 in Boston

The Egyptian Journal of Biology and The Egyptian Journal of Natural History are openly accessible online. Both journals are published in english, with english and arabic summaries. All papers are reviewed by at least one or two Egyptian referees, and then by international referees

The complete index to all articles appearing in the FreePint Newsletter, 1997-2004, is now available

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, December 30-January 6, are now available

Members of the Planning Committee of the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) are arranging for its annual Institute. LACUNY Institute 2005 will take place at the William and Anita Newman Conference Center at Baruch College, CUNY May 20, 2005. The program title is: Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Payers and Players

2004 Whitbread Book Awards category winners announced

UNESCO starts assessing the situation of archives and libraries in the Asia disaster region

The United Nations has announced the availability of its Official Document System (ODS), the premier full-text web resource for official United Nations documentation, to the general public as of 31 December 2004. The ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation originating from duty stations worldwide, including selective documents of the regional commissions: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)

Ovid's Resource of the Month for January 2005 is PsycBOOKS

Version 2.2.0 of Koha has been released. Koha is the 1st Open-Source Integrated Library System. Released at first in New Zealand, in 2000, it is maintained by a team of volunteers from around the globe, the Koha system is a full catalogue, opac, circulation and acquisitions system

Call for applications for the DLF Forum Fellowships for Librarians New to the Profession for the Spring Forum in San Diego, California, from April 13-15, 2005

10th Anniversary School for Scanning: Building Good Digital Collections - Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) - June 1–3, 2005 - Boston, Massachusetts

The second issue of Webology, an international open access journal, is published and is available online now. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike

With effect from the 2005 volume, Journal of Government Information will be merged into Government Information Quarterly - Elsevier announcement

As of January 2005 the Walter de Gruyter journals are accessible from the Extenza platform

The University of Maryland College of Information Studies is offering a 4-week, on-line workshop on virtual reference from January 31-February 25, 2005. Virtual Reference Workshop 1.0 is designed for newcomers to the virtual environment from public, academic, or special libraries. This interactive, web-based workshop features readings, message board discussions with peers and knowledgeable faculty, and hands-on practice with LSSI Virtual Reference Toolkit software

Nylink has announced its new classes and demos for January through June 2005

EBSCOhost has announced some new features for January 2005

The Boloto Group has introduced a free software called the Library Card, an electronic pass that consumers use to access features of the Web by filling out a registration. With the Library Card, users have access to products, services, and entertainment ranging from online dating to career connections, personal finance to multi-lingual communications, and media

From CILIP: Freedom of Information Web Resources - The Freedom of Information Act (2000) came into force on 1 January 2005. This list provides signposts to FOI-related internet resources

Info Career Trends January 2005: Next Generation Librarianship

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, January 2005: Visions of the Future

New e-journals available: European Heart Journal, Journal of Research in Nursing, The Diabetes Educator

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The January 2005 issues of Computers in Libraries, Information Today, Searcher, and ONLINE are now available

Project Briefings from The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2004 Task Force Meeting - December 6-7, 2004 - Portland, Oregon - are now availabe

The January 2005 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter is now available

Lake Superior State University 2005 List of Banished Words

Emerald's Journals of the Week for January 4 2005 are The Electronic Library and Managing Service Quality