Thomson ISI has announced the Century of Science, an initiative to provide the research community with access to the world’s most influential scientific research throughout the 20th century. Currently, Web of Science coverage extends to 1945. The Century of Science initiative will expand the Web of Science to include bibliographic data from the highest impact scientific literature published between 1944-1900, adding nearly 850,000 articles from approximately 200 journals. The journals have been carefully selected by the Thomson ISI editorial team based on such criteria as citation patterns, geographic origin, and meaningful balance across scientific disciplines

The September/October 2003 issue of the Bulletin from the National Library of Canada is now available

The programme for the 2004 Search Engine Meeting - The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 April 2004 - is now available

The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World-War-II period. The project is the product of ongoing cooperation between the Library of Congress and the National Library of the Netherlands, which has enlisted the cooperation of other leading Dutch libraries, museums, and archives

PhysicsFinder, from the American Institute of Physics, is designed to help researchers find information published in AIP journals

The long list of nominated titles for The 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award have been announced

Taylor & Francis Group PLC has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory clearances, the business and publishing assets of the Dekker group of companies, a US based Scientific, Technical and Medical publisher from the family owned Marcel Dekker Inc for US$138.6 million

Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles by Paula J. Hane - Information Today

LITA has just added Proxy Web Servers & Authentication as a full-day Institute preceding ALA's Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, January 9, 2004. This program is a combination of instruction on the theory of proxy servers, their use in library situations, and practical examples of implementations. The background of proxy servers as defined in the HTTP protocol specification will be outlined, followed by a discussion of the application of proxy servers for library uses

The VALA2004 12th Biennial Conference and Exhibition is the Australian forum where the use of technology in libraries is discussed. It will feature invited overseas and Australian keynote speakers, plenary and concurrent sessions and an exhibition highlighting the latest products from leading suppliers - 3-5 February, 2004 - Melbourne Convention Centre

The Year in Books 2003 - War in Iraq, politics, both domestic and literary, and the rise of the graphic novel made for a year of controversy and surprise - Publishers Weekly

The IDEAlliance Webinar, XML Primer, will be broadcast on November 20 2003 by Dianne Kennedy of IDEAlliance. IDEAlliance Webinars are broadcast live to your desktop

ACRL Information Literacy website - a gateway to and a gathering place for resources on information literacy focused on improving the teaching, learning, and research role of the higher education community

Emerald's Journals of the Week for November 17, 2003 are Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology and Journal of Knowledge Management

Hand Bookbinders of California 31st Anniversary Exhibition - on display until December 27 2003 at Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, San Francisco, CA

A World of Wonders: Danish Children's Literature - National Library of Scotland - Exhibition dates: 17 November-10 December

This week's Friday brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of War and Peace. Answers here:

1. Which war started with what was called "the phoney war"?
2. "CO" is used for a person who objects to serving in the armed forces. What does this abbreviation stand for?
3. In which year did the Falklands War take place between Britain and Argentina?
4. The Vietnam anti-war movement began soon after which American president ordered the bombing of North Vietnam in March 1965?
5. Which country did Iraq invade in 1990, starting the first Gulf War?
6. Who said "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding"? Was it Winston Churchill, J. F. Kennedy or Albert Einstein?
7. The Peace of Ghent was signed in 1814 to end war between which two countries?
8. Which Soviet president was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1990?
9. What strange name was given to the war between Britain and Spain in 1739?
10. Which composer wrote the "War Requiem", an anti-war choral work first performed in 1962?

More than 105,000 Canadians who are blind or visually impaired now have access to thousands of books, daily newspapers, and magazines with the launch of The CNIB Digital Library. The online library is the most advanced library of alternative formats in the world and a model for 175 international libraries producing alternative-format information. It also contains The Children’s Discovery Portal, the world’s first portal of its kind for children who are blind.

Links to presentations given at Internet Librarian 2003 in Monterey, CA., are now available

Online Content for All: accessibility & compliance in e-publishing - London, 3 Dec 2003 - BCS-EPSG one-day conference

The latest resource writeups from ResearchBuzz, November 6-12, are now available

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the names of the finalists for the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Awards, in English and in French, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation

2004 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award - nomination ppplication deadline is December 31, 2003 - PEN American Center and Newman's Own seek to honor each year an individual who has fought courageously, against adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression in the United States as it applies to the written word wherever it may be threatened: in books, newspapers, magazines or pamphlets, film scripts or plays, or any other medium. A cash award of $25,000 will be presented at the PEN Benefit Dinner in spring 2004

The November 3003 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available

DigiCULT.Info 5 - October 2003 issue is now available

Internet Filters and Public Libraries by David L. Sobel is a new First Report now available from the First Amendment Center

The Library and Information Technology Association has announced the publication of XML: A Guide for Librarians, LITA Guide Number 11, by Ron Gilmour

Luminary Lectures @ Your Library - Karen Coyle: The Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management - November 19 in the Pickford Theater, Library of Congress

BOPCRIS is the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents. BOPCRIS currently contains 23,279 references

Library of Congress Subject Headings 26th Edition 5 Volume Set, now including Free Floating Subdivisions, is available from Books Express, the official authorised distributors of all Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) publications

Artifact is a freely available Internet gateway developed by a consortium of partners led by the Manchester Metropolitan University. It provides quick and easy searchable access to the best arts and creative industries information on the Internet. It has been specifically designed to support the learning, teaching and research needs of those in post-16 education but is also perfect for anyone interested in any aspect of the arts and creative industries

Digitizing your Journal Backfiles - 1 December 2003 - London, UK - This is a half-day seminar designed for journal publishers who are looking for practical information on journal backfile conversion

ReJoyce Dublin 2004 - official site for the Rejoyce Dublin 2004 Bloomsday Centenary Festival featuring information on all festival events

IFLA President Kay Raseroka has announced the appointment of Mr. R. Ramachandran as the new Secretary General of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). He will assume the position on 1st April 2004, following the retirement of Ross Shimmon

The WebJunction Community presents an online event Open Source for Libraries? - November 10-14, in the Software forum on All Aboard

The Library Project Symposium: Of Fishes, Monsters, and Libraries - Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University - November 13, 2003

The 2004 CILIP Training Directory is now available

The ACRL/Greater New York Metropolitan Area Symposium Planning committee has announced this year's upcoming symposium, Operation Intellectual Freedom: Librarians on the Front Line to be held at Baruch College November 21, 2003. This year's event will cover the 'Patriot Act', and other issues concerning intellectual freedom that affect libraries, librarians and their patrons

The catalog at The Queens Borough Public Library, New York, can now be searched in Cyrillic, and the citations for Russian-language books contained in Queens Library's collections can be viewed in Cyrillic as well

Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services by Darlene Fichter - Marketing Library Services - November/December 2003

EEVL: the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, has announced the launch of two new, free services which will make it much easier to scan the latest industry news and jobs announcements from top sources in engineering, mathematics and computing. The new services are so easy to use that they have been named OneStep Industry News, and OneStep Jobs News

Breaking Boundaries in Television Historiography: Historical Research and the Television Archive - A one-day symposium organised under the auspices of the Centre for Television Drama Studies, University of Reading, UK, 9 January 2004

The 2004 LITA National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions at the 7th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Sheraton Westport Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, October 7-10, 2004. Forum title: 10 Years of Connectivity: Libraries, the World Wide Web, and the Next Decade

The American Library Association and Logitech have launched a program designed to raise funds for the ALA’s 21st century literacy initiatives. Logitech will donate a portion of the sales proceeds for every Logitech cordless mouse sold in U.S. retail stores between October and December 2003

Emerald's Journals of the Week for November 10, 2003 are Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development and International Journal of Service Industry Management

The Library Journal editors are seeking nominations for the 16th annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library profession. Deadline is November 17, 2003

Grampian Information Annual Conference 2003: The Power of Information - 21 November 2003 - The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen

Resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, October 30-November 5, are now available

Collaborative Live Reference Services by Bernie Sloan - Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Updated November 7, 2003

Content management: so what's that all about then? - City Information Group seminar - 24 November 2003 - London, UK

Conference on Technology in the Humanities - May 24-26, 2004 - Ithaca College, New York

This week's Friday brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of the animal world. Answers here:

1. Which animal is defined in the dictionary as "A mature female bovine animal"?
2. Which animals are the largest species of the cat family?
3. Which animal is the offspring of a female horse and a male donkey?
4. Which animal gets its name from a Greek term meaning "river horse"?
5. The condor is a kind of vulture: true or false?
6. What is the usual word for a young moose, elephant or whale?
7. Which breed of dog, originating in Germany, got its name from the German words for "badger" and "dog"?
8. Which animal did Mark Twain say "is the only animal that blushes, or needs to"?
9. What does a koala normally eat?
10. A roadrunner is a kind of cuckoo: true or false?

Under the leadership of the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and the Southern Illinois Talking Book Center have announced the opening of InfoEyes, an online information community and virtual reference service for the visually impaired

Signs of the Time: Library Architecture as a Signal of Cultural and Educational Policies - 24-25 November 2003 - Vienna, Austria - Organised by The Austrian Library Association in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

DigiCULT Thematic Issue 4 now available - Learning Objects from Cultural and Scientific Heritage Resources - "Heritage institutions need to improve their relevance for the education sector and lifelong learners in attractive, efficient, and sustainable ways. Simply displaying collection objects, considered useful for informal learning in some way or another online, is not enough. What is called for are learning objects: highly interoperable and reusable modular building blocks for e-learning content based on widely shared specifications or standards"

AIP Publishing Services will announce a relaunch of its online publishing services platform during Online Information at the Olympia Grand Hall in London on December 2, 2003 at the AIP Stand 49. The platform relaunch will take place in January 2004 and will be known as Scitation

Research Opportunities for 2004 - UCLA Library Deptartment of Special Collections:
2004 James & Sylvia Thayer Fellowships
2004 Mitzi Myers Fellowships

Info@UK - October 2003 newsletter is now available

E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship - v.4 no.2-3 Fall 2003 is now available

Four new Collins Bilingual Dictionaries have been added to xreferplus:
Collins French Dictionary Plus Grammar
Collins Latin Dictionary Plus Grammar
Collins Portuguese Dictionary
Collins Spanish Dictionary

New in November from Facet Publishing: Metadata Applications and Management - International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2003-2004 and Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland 2004 - 30th edn

Serials Reloaded: Cataloging, Management, and Access - November 21, 2003 - College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA - Sponsored by NELINET, Inc

M.G. Vassanji was named the 2003 winner of The Giller Prize, Canada’s premier literary prize for fiction. The winning novel, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, is published by Doubleday Canada. The largest annual prize for fiction in the country, The Giller Prize awards $25,000 each year to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English

In January EMBO Journal will be transferred from Oxford University Press to Nature Publishing Group, joining its sister publication EMBO reports

The National electronic Library for Health Awareness Week 24-30 November 2003

Dialog has added three files of epidemiological data to its collection of medical information available through its Dialog online service

Sirsi Corporation has announced an Alliance Partnership with Moreover Technologies, a provider of real-time information management solutions, to enhance Sirsi Rooms Context Management Solutions

Libraries, and virtual libraries in particular, are increasingly faced with the current challenges of globalisation and competition. The workshop: Information Centres appraised using economic indicators as criteria: An evaluation and assessment of trends will focus on the business techniques for attracting users and the most innovative methods for promoting the use of libraries' services and resources

The Scottish Theatre Archive forms part of the Special Collections Department of the University of Glasgow. Its role is to help preserve and promote interest in Scotland's theatrical heritage by providing a safe home for archival material and by making it accessible to all those interested in Scottish Theatre

The Pitcairn Islands Study Center, Pacific Union College, contains material relating to the Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh, HMS Bounty, and Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands

COPAC has completed the load of National Library of Scotland (NLS) catalogue onto COPAC. This is a large legal deposit catalogue (c. 3.5 million records) which enhances the range of materials available on COPAC, particularly those relating to the study of Scotland and the Scots

Libraries and the Enhancement of E-learning - OCLC E-learning Task Force - provides a look at how college coursework is being enhanced electronically and online and explores the role of library cooperation as campuses expand and enhance the instructional technology environment

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd will not be renewing its licensing agreements with database aggregators ProQuest and The Gale Group. The ProQuest contract expires on 31 December 2003 and the Gale Group contract ends on 31 March 2004

The October 27, 2003 issue of LLRX.com is now available. LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools

First Monday - Volume 8, Number 11 - November 3rd 2003 is now available

Emerald's Journals of the Week for November 3, 2003 are Interlending & Document Supply & International Journal of Bank Marketing

New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) is seeking nominations for the fourth annual NETSL Award for Excellence in Library Technical Services. The NETSL Award recognizes and honors significant New England-based contributions to the field of library technical services

The immediate goal of the Library Fellowship Program at Cornell University Library is to increase the number of African-American, Latina/o, and Native American staff in academic libraries at Cornell University

The 2003 Lieberman Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Roderick Stinehour, founder of the Stinehour Press, in conversation with book designer and printer Jerry Kelly, at Wellesley College, MA, November 18, 2003 at 4:30 P.M.. All Lieberman lectures are free and open to the public

ED-MEDIA 2004: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications - June 21-26, 2004 - Lugano, Switzerland - call for presentations has been announced

ALLC/ACH 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities - Goteborg University, Sweden - June 11-16, 2004

Taylor & Francis has expanded its Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) portfolio through the acquisition of Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers for 16.75 mln eur from Koninklijke Swets & Zeitlinger Holding NV

The November/December 2003 issues of Information Today, ONLINE, Computers in Libraries, Searcher, MultiMedia Schools are now available

Australian Medical Pioneers Index - a database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875. The site covers Australian medical history, with a database of medical pioneers and educational background material. You will find doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists are included. AMPI provides access to information obtained from sources such as medical registers, shipping records, newspapers, pictorial archives, and early medical publications

Archives Hub Collections of the Month November 2003: Astronomy - The Hub includes descriptions for the papers of leading astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians, and for the records of instrument makers and observatories

JewishEncyclopedia.com - contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part Natihe public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations

Free Resource of the Month from Ovid for November is Inspec Biomedical Technology

From Aesop to e-book: the story goes on - SLA/IASL joint conference - 17-20 June, 2004 - Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Linux In Libraries (LIL) is an electronic mailing list/user group dedicated to utilizing the Linux operating system in academic, public and special libraries as an alternative affordable solution for public access computing

Ariadne - Issue 37 - October 2003 - is now available

The October 2003 issue of the ALCTS Newsletter Online is now available

How Much Information? 2003 - This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year. Newly created information is distributed in four storage media – print, film, magnetic, and optical – and seen or heard in four information flows – telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet. This study of information storage and flows analyzes the year 2002 in order to estimate the annual size of the stock of new information contained in storage media, and heard or seen each year in information flows - University of California at Berkeley

Cabeza de Vaca and La relacion On-Line - comprehensive web archive devoted to the Spanish explorer. Digital access to the 1555 edition of La relacion, full-text academic essays, art, bibliographies, and more - Texas State University-San Marcos

The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 extends previous legal deposit legislation passed 1911. The Act enshrines the principle that electronic or e-publications and other non-print materials will be deposited in the future under secondary legislation. It ensures that these publications can be saved as part of the published archive, and become an important resource for future generations of researchers and scholars

Cambridge University Press has announced that 14 new journals have been added to its list for 2004, widening its scope across several disciplines. Among these, three renowned law journals, two brand new music titles, and other high profile publications such as Compositio Mathematica, and Utilitas have been added

Freedom to Read Week - February 22-28, 2004, encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The winter roster of LIS continuing education workshops delivered wholly via the Internet is now available from the University at Buffalo library school. A computer with Internet access and a Web browser are all that's needed to access these self-paced instructional modules, accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the posting period. New workshops have been added covering serials cataloging, proposing & surviving new library technologies, XML, and constructing database driven web sites

Managing the Electronic Monster: the Impact on the Library User - The Southern California Technical Processes Group will present a program on managing electronic resources and the impact on library users - November 21, 2003 - California State University, Northridge

CIT Infobits - Issue 64 October 2003

Humanities Computing Needs: A Survey - A Project of TAPoR, the Text Analysis Portal for Research, assessing the needs of the humanities research community concerning electronic text and text analysis tools