Science.gov, the Web portal for federal science information, now provides a free and convenient "Alert" service that delivers information about the most current science developments right to desktops each Monday. Launched at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Feb. 17-21, 2005) in Washington, D.C., the Science.gov Alert Service provides weekly emails to those interested in science

Version 57 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,325 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet

COMET 2, a HEFCE-funded Good Management Practice project, is hosting its final one-day conference dEvolution: from project to strategy to practice on March 17 2005 at Edge Hill, Ormskirk, Lancashire. The target audience will be HE and FE academics, technologists, librarians and support staff with an interest in online learning and the use of technology in teaching and learning

The February 2005 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available

FindWhitePapers Inc is a research portal for IT Professionals seeking information about products and services within the technology realm

Libraries in Danger: a seminar - 26 April 2005 - CILIP, London, UK

LILAC 2005: Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference - 4-6 April 2005 - Imperial College, London - provisional programme now available

The Taylor & Francis Group has announced that, following the acquisition of Marcel Dekker, Inc in 2004, all Dekker journals will now be hosted by the T&F Online Journals website. All 2004 content for the list of 78 Dekker titles is now loaded. All archival content will be posted by the end of February 2005. The Marcel Dekker website will close by the end of March 2005

WhiteHouseTapes.org - Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. The site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs

The February 2005 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available

D-Lib Magazine February 2005 is now available

The People's Network: online services from England's public libraries. This is the pilot site of the People's Network Service, a lottery-funded project to develop national online services from England's public libraries. The first of these services, allows you to have any enquiries answered by knowledgeable staff, just as if you were in your local library. It is being piloted before its launch to the public in Spring 2005

Manitoba Library Conference 2005 - May 3-4, 2005 - session information and registration is now available. I will be presenting two sessions:
RSS for Beginners and Tools for the Non-Programmer Working with the Web

The program for the 20th NASIG Conference to be held at the Minneapolis Hilton and Towers in Minneapolis, MN, May 19-22, 2005 is now available

Endeavor Information Systems has announced that the Universal College of Learning (UCOL) Libraries, Palmerston North, New Zealand has selected the Voyager integrated library management system

E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship - v.5 no.2-3 (Fall 2004) is now available

CrossRef Newsletter - February 2005 issue now available

A couple of new library association blogs:
Cincinnati Law Library Association
California Library Association

Google Out of Print by Roy Tennant for Library Journal

AbsTracked by Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill - "A blog listing useful theme-related links. (Since this blog is from the perspective of a lunching law librarian, you can generally expect the themes to be law, library, reference and lunch related.)"

2005 Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library - October 14, 2005 - Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. This event will include featured speakers Lawrence Lessig (Stanford), Siva Vaidhyanathan (NYU), Clifford Lynch (CNI), and others. The symposium proceedings will be peer-reviewed and subsequently published

My Kingdom for an OPAC by Andrew K. Pace - American Libraries, February 2005

Emerald's Journals of the Week for February 14 2005 are Circuit World and Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ASSIGN News from Social Science Libraries and Projects - January 2005 now available

The Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities - 2-5 August 2005 - University of Cambridge, UK. The conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers

Several independent progressive journalists and publications, will be launching the Open Source Press Association (OSPA) as an alternative to media agencies such as the Associated Press. The OSPA will function on four levels: ethics in journalism, alternative press membership, networking and projects, resources, anti-smear council, and resources and distribution

New England Technical Services Librarians Annual Spring Conference - "Metadata and Meaning: Creating the 21st Century Catalog" - April 8 - College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, February 3-9, are now available

HeinOnline: The Modern Link to Legal History - February 3, 2005 update now available

LexisNexis has announced that it has expanded its extensive collection of Dun & Bradstreet content with the addition of the enhanced D&B Business Information Report and the Comprehensive Report, including new visual graphics, coverage of 5 million new U.S. businesses, and expanded D&B PAYDEX Information

The 46th RBMS Preconference will be held June 21-24, 2005, in St Louis, Missouri. "Bridging The Gap: Education and Special Collections" will explore a crucially important issue in our profession: the rift between the growing variety of educational roles played by special collections librarians, as teachers, advocates, interpreters, impresarios, and the shrinking opportunities for formal training and continuing education available to prepare special collections librarians for these roles

Atlantic Provinces Library Association 2005 Conference - May 25-29, 2005 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Reminder: Freedom to Read Week, February 20-26, 2005, is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

A London, Ontario group is raising $35,000 to buy books promoting tolerance of different sexual orientations for schools in the Thames Valley District school board. Barb MacQuarrie of the University of Western Ontario's Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children said the goal of the Strong Communities Campaign launched Wednesday is to get the books into libraries at each of the board's 156 elementary and 30 secondary schools - The London Free Press

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

1. What is the meaning of the word "brut" when used to describe a wine?
2. Is hock a red wine or a white wine?
3. Buck's fizz, or Mimosa, is a drink of champagne mixed with what?
4. How much wine does a magnum hold: 1.5 litres, 2.5 litres or 3.5 litres?
5. The wine called "soave" comes from which country?
6. When it is broached, Beaujolais nouveau is rushed to the UK and USA on the third Thursday of which month?
7. In wine, what are the "lees?"
8. Claret comes from which region of France?
9. Mirin is a sweet wine used in the cookery of which country?
10. Which red wine, or the grape it is produced from, gets its name from a French word meaning "baby blackbird?"

EyetoEye - Ingenta's library newsletter - Issue 14 now available

MSc in Digital Libraries is a brand new course, starting in October 2005, which focuses on start-of-the-art research in the design and deployment of digital libraries. This course is intended for students who have pertinent experience of library or information work, including membership of a relevant professional body and a good Undergraduate degree and/or a Masters degree in librarianship or a cognate discipline. Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

A new beta version of JHOVE (the JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment, pronounced "jove") is now available. JHOVE is an extensible framework for format-specific object identification, validation, and characterization

Directory of Astronomy Librarians and Libraries - The list aims at fostering cooperation among astronomy librarians and is not to be used for any commercial purpose

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - February 10, 2005

Royal Society Library Newsletter - February 2005 - is now available

Canadian Association of Law Libraries 2005 conference - May 15-18, 2005 - St. John's, Newfoundland

ARL Webcast - Teaching, Learning, & Research: Libraries and Their Role in the Academic Institution - Live Event Date March 1, 2005

The Library of Congress and Bernan Press recently published the Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress: For Congress, the Nation & the World, an authoritative, one-volume reference work of newly written and researched essays, articles and statistical appendices. Edited by John Y. Cole and Jane Aikin, the volume describes the historical development of the collections, functions and services of the world's largest library and research institution from its origin in 1800 through late 2004

The Campaign to Save America's Libraries was begun two years ago by ALA Past President Maurice J. Freedman in response to state budget shortfalls and subsequent library funding cuts that threatened services coast to coast

Always Fresh: Fast Content For Library Web Sites with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) by Darlene Fichter - "Keeping a library web site up to date with fresh content is a challenge for any webmaster. Learn how to publish, merge and format RSS feeds into instant web content. Discover how libraries have made specialized pages featuring article titles of new journal issues, new library acquisitions, book and movie reviews, and much more. Take away a list of sites that allow anyone to simply cut, paste and publish RSS content to their site in seconds."

Free Pint Newsletter 176 - 10 February 2005 - now available

E-LIS (E-prints for Library and Information Science) is an international open access archive for e-prints related to Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines

Page Turners has announced an excitingly diverse selection of books, covering fact and fiction, from crime to cookery, in BBC ONE Daytime's comprehensive guide to this season's hottest reads which launches this spring. The programme showcases 24 of the best new books available, all championed by some of the biggest authors and popular names from the entertainment world

Ingenta and Infotrieve, Inc. have announced an expanded partnership that will enable Ingenta-hosted content to be indexed by Infotrieve's full-text crawler. This relationship will enable Infotrieve to provide full-text article searches via its discovery research portals, increasing the depth of discovery resources for Infotrieve customers and generating additional document delivery traffic for Ingenta-hosted publishers

The Professional Learning Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, presents a one-day workshop: Introduction to Prospect Research - February 18, 2005 - Toronto, Canada

Managing Government Information 3rd Annual Forum - March 7-10, 2005 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sign up to SAGE Publications' New Product Alerts service before 28 February 2005 and enter a prize draw for free SAGE Products. 10 Winners will be given a choice of either one year's free access to SAGE Journals Online, or 200 pounds worth of SAGE Books

The Newberry Library, an independent humanities research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2005-06 Short-Term Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library

Library Worklife Volume 2, No. 2 - February 2005, now available from ALA-APA

OCLC Abstracts - February 7, 2005 - now available

Jenny Levine's two presentations from last week's Ontario Library Association Superconference are available, one on blogging and one on RSS (both are PDF files)

Enterprise Search Paris - Solving the Findability Dilemma in Your Organisation - 1-2 June 2005 - CNIT, Paris

First international convention of Slavicist librarians in Sarajevo - 22-24 April 2005 - Sarajevo - The central theme is: How do others see us? How is South-Eastern Europe, and Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular, represented in the collections of Western European and North American libraries

The 14th North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by the North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information Science, will be held April 14-15, 2005 at the William Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, February 2005: Cor, blust, squit! - To coincide with Unesco's Mother Language Day, this month we celebrate the richness and variety of the dialects of the British Isles

Ex Libris, the providers of SFX, have announced a new, exciting subscription service: SFX eXpress. SFX eXpress brings with it the many benefits of the award-winning SFX linking technology while providing a fast-track solution for institutions that prefer not to host a server. Further, new models of subscription service meet the needs of a wide range of libraries, including small college libraries, public libraries, and special libraries

The National Institutes of Health has announced a new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The policy, the first of its kind for NIH, calls on scientists to release to the public manuscripts from research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within 12 months of final publication

Emerald's Journals of the Week for February 7 2005 are The Bottom Line and Soldering & Surface Mount Technology

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Vol. 31, No. 2, December/January 2005 now available

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's online exhibit of the Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers provides a small sample of the materials found in the collection. A full description of all the Woodward and Bernstein papers available at the Ransom Center is provided in the online finding aid

Info@UK Issue 47, February 2005 is now available from The British Council

Links to resource writeups from the latest issue of ResearchBuzz, January 27-February 2, are now available

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

1. What is the name for the type of skirt that ended well above the knee, popular from 1965 to 1970?
2. Which London street, east of Regent Street, became famous in the 1960s as a much publicized clothing centre for fashion-conscious young people?
3. Which US fashion designer launched a new line called "CK" in 1992?
4. Which Italian fashion designer was shot dead in 1997 outside his home in Miami Beach, Florida?
5. What is the first name of the designer Armani, born in Italy in 1934?
6. In 1997, which daughter of a famous father was appointed chief designer at the French couture house Chloé?
7. Which French designer created the "little black dress", made out of jersey wool, in the 1920s?
8. Which English designer opened her first boutique as "Bazaar", with her future husband Alexander Plunket Green?
9. Which French designer became famous with his "New Look" and later his "H" line and "A" line?
10. Which German fashion designer was hired by Balmain in 1955 and became design director of Chanel in 1983?

Managing Paper and Digital Records - 28 April 2005 - National Library ofScotland, Edinburgh

21st International Learned Journals Seminar - The Web and after: the future of scholarly e-publishing - 8 April 2005 - London, UK

The Canadian Library Association has announced the launch of the first phase of a series of new online tools and services to provide members with easier and more efficient ways to interact with CLA and with each other. These new services will be rolled out over the next few months. While CLA will eventually offer members access to secure online ordering, payments and registration services, the first phase of implementation is CLA Communities

HeinOnline: The Modern Link to Legal History - January 25, 2005 update now available

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 125 - February 2005 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, is now available

Sirsi SuperConference 2005 - February 27-March 2 - Nashville, TN

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - February 3, 2005

SUNCAT is the pilot Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK. The pilot service includes records from 22 of the largest UK research libraries and the databases of the CONSER programme and the ISSN International network. Further libraries will be added continuously over the next two years. A full service will be launched in Autumn 2006. SUNCAT can be used to locate serials in contributing libraries. SUNCAT will also provide links to the web pages of contributing libraries so that users of this service can find the library addresses, phone numbers, opening hours and lending services

Cape Town will host the first ever international book fair to be held in South Africa in June 2006. With the signing of a joint venture agreement between the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Publishers' Association of South Africa, Cape Town will be partnering with the largest and most successful book fair organisation in the world

The Diversity in Publishing Network has been established to promote the status and contribution of diverse ethnic groups within all areas of publishing, as well as support those seeking to enter the industry. The network will provide a forum for discussion, sharing of information, mutual support and practical advice

Ovid's Resource of the Month for February 2005 is Global Health and International Science Database

Ovid Technologies has announced its new statistical reporting tool, Ovid Stats, for the Ovid Web Gateway interface. It will provide administrators with a reporting tool that allows for quick and efficient usage monitoring of their Ovid databases, books, and journals

Eldis is a gateway to information on development issues, providing free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources. It provides summaries and links to over 14,000 online documents, and offers a directory of websites, databases, library catalogues and email discussion lists

Land Register Online provides easy access to details of more than 19 million registered properties in England and Wales. Copies of title plans and registers held in electronic format can be downloaded in PDF format for 2 pounds each. The register includes ownership details and where available property price information. We are unable to provide details of any properties that are not registered

Jinfo is the place to find information and library jobs in the UK. Pronounced 'Jin-fo', the service was previously called 'FreePint Jobs'

Cites & Insights 5:3, February 2005, is now available

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #82 - February 2, 2005 - is now available

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation. Supported, in part, by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in accordance with P.L. 107-116, with special thanks to the Congressional Black Caucus

Xrefer and A&C Black have announced that Who's Who 2005 and the full Who's Who archive Who Was Who are now available to search and browse on the xreferplus Specialist Reference platform

The Canadian e-Content Institute is preparing for the 16th annual Information Highways conference to be held in Toronto, April 5-7, 2005.  The program is designed to meet the educational needs of information professionals, content/document/records and knowledge managers.  Case studies and best practises and workshops on portals, web services, new content delivery models and information management will be provided by enterprises and agencies such as  Foreign Affairs, Public Works, the Ontario government, Stikeman Elliott, Sun Microsystems, CIBC, Bearing Point, Bell Canada, IDC Canada and many many more

The February 2005 issues of Computers in Libraries, CRM Magazine, Information Today, and Searcher are now available

The Women's Library, London, UK Spring Events Programme - February-April 2005

WebClarity Software Inc. has announced the general release of BookWhere 4.3.1. Incorporating significant workflow enhancements as well as support for the latest YAZ Z39.50 protocol stack, this release is available free to all maintenance holders as a software update

2005 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2005) - 16-17 June 2005 - National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

The Book Standard is the one-stop online information center that provides Nielsen BookScan-powered charts, book-market analysis, news, reviews, commentary, job boards, plus extensive database resources

Libraries matter. is a library awareness campaign sponsored by Alliance Library System in Illinois, a regional organization consisting of academic, public, school, and special libraries

The Journal of the Medical Library Association - Volume 93 Number 1, January 2005 - is now available online

Thomson Gale has assembled a collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics related to Black History Month

Ariadne - Issue 42, January 2005 is now available. Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community. Its main geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide

Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical data (PV 2005) - 21-23 November 2005 - Royal Society, Edinburgh, UK

Endeavor Information Systems has announced details of recent user-focused design activities instrumental in the creation of the company’s Meridian product for efficient, effective management of all types of electronic resources. This new usability initiative brings user-centered design practices into the development process for Endeavor systems and offers libraries improved staff workflows and more intuitive user interfaces