Friday, March 18, 2005
RSS: Moving Into the Mainstream by Randy Reichardt, Cameron Science and Technology Library, University of Alberta. From Ei UPDATE, March/April 2005
France to develop Google 'rival' - France is spearheading a project to make European literary works available online in an effort to counter growing US cultural dominance worldwide. The virtual library initiative follows a similar move by US firm Google to make 15m works available on its site - BBC
Information Wanted - archive of a column published in the Boston Pilot from 1831 to 1921, with advertisements from people looking for lost friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. Sponsored by Boston College's Irish Studies Program
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Presentations from Future Trends in Publishing Breakfast Briefing, 15 February 2005, are now available
Free online access to Evidence & Policy: A journal of research, debate and practice. First issue launched January 2005
A partnership between Penn State Press and the University Libraries has formed to create an Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing at Penn State. The principal mission of the Office of Digital Publishing will be to use new media technologies to advance scholarly communication at Penn State and beyond. Through projects sponsored by the office, the libraries and the Press will be able to clarify the costs associated with electronic publishing and assess the long-term benefits to the scholarly communication system. The work of the office will also directly involve the Penn State community in managing the changes to the benefit of the faculty and their research goals
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week, April 10-16, 2005, is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of the nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate
SciFinder Scholar has enhanced its standing as one of the world's most widely used research tools by exceeding an installed user base of one thousand colleges and universities internationally. The one thousand institution mark was surpassed as academic consortia in Brazil and mainland China signed agreements to adopt SciFinder Scholar to serve the research needs of member universities with a combined enrollment of more than a million students
British Library exhibition: Hans Christian Andersen - aims to reveal the underlying themes to Andersen's fiction. Using clues provided by some of his best known characters it explores the dark side as well as the innocence of his vision. See how the fairy stories reflect Andersen's true story - 20 May 2005-2 October 2005
National Acquisitions Group Seminar - The Changing Library Market - 6 April 2005 - University of London Library
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
PERSEE is a portal that grants online access to entire back runs of French journals in the social and human sciences. Launched in 2004, the initiative is overseen by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research in close collaboration with researchers and journal editors whose common aim is to preserve and enhance the scientific heritage. Hardcopy collections of journals are digitized and made available online in accordance with copyright regulations. Internet users may consult the full text unlimited and free of charge
Dynix Institute Web Seminar Series: Issues and Opportunities in Web Site Analytics for Libraries - March 22, 2005 - Stephen E. Arnold, Arnold Information Technology
ebrary, an information services and technology provider, has announced that several new collections specifically for government and military libraries are now available through the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP). ebrary's DCP is a hosted content delivery service that combines software with full-text books, reports, and other content from STM, academic, and professional publishers
Monday, March 14, 2005
Xrefer has announced that leading reference publisher McGraw-Hill has agreed to license some of its key reference titles for inclusion in the Xreferplus service. This brings the number of publisher partners currently working with Xrefer to 42
The Mind's Eye: Theory and Practice of Digital Imaging in Cultural Heritage Institutions - A program sponsored by Los Angeles Chapter of American Society for Information Science and Technology (LACASIS) - April 22, 2005 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced the launch of PLoS Pathogens, a monthly, peer-reviewed open-access publication with the inaugural issue scheduled for September 2005
ETD2005: evolution through discovery - 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations - 28-30 September 2005 - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Rural Librarianship - a four-part teleconference series with Bernard Vavrek, Director, Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship, Clarion University of Pennsylvania; and Founder, Association of Rural and Small Libraries - April 19, 2005
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will begin publication during 2005. A Call for Papers providing full information for authors, will be released in May 2005. It will be a peer-reviewed online journal, published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, and the first major open access journal in this field. As such it will offer the international community of organic chemists a service that has been available to life scientists for some time - the opportunity to make their research results freely available on an open access basis and in the public archives of science
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The European Federation of Endocrine Societies has announce that the full text of its journal, European Journal of Endocrinology is now available online with revised site designs. Free access until March 31, 2005
GeoScienceWorld has announced the launch of its new portal containing 30 leading geoscience journals plus the GeoRef database. Full-access to all content will be freely available to anyone visiting the site until March 30, 2005
The Digital Future - Edward L. Ayers, Dean of the College & Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, addresses the implications for the creation and distribution of knowledge in today's digital environment on C-Span - March 14, 2005
An ambitious international project to reinterpret the oldest Bible in the world, the Codex Sinaiticus, and make it accessible to a global audience using innovative digital technology and drawing on the expertise of leading biblical scholars, has officially launched
Emerald's Journals of the Week for March 14 2005 are Benchmarking: an International Journal and European Journal of Innovation Management
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Dialog has announced that DialogLink 5 is now available for free downloading. The new software package, designed to help enhance the role of information professionals in their organizations, has a more intuitive interface and additional tools to streamline the process of finding, retrieving and distributing information found through the Dialog online service
Searching the Internet: Google and beyond (or "What do you mean you didn't use Google?") - 14 April 2005 - Belfast - Presented by Karen Blakeman
This month marks the ten year birthday for Dublin Core, which originated at a meeting in Dublin, Ohio, in March 1995. From Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
Friday, March 11, 2005
The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer - this week Jazz - Answers here:
1. Which jazz saxophonist was known as "Bird" or "Yardbird?"
2. Which famous trumpeter and singer learned to play the cornet at the Waif's Home in New Orleans and later married Lillian Hardin?
3. Was Duke Ellington a pianist, guitarist or drummer?
4. Which saxophonist established his individual approach on his albums "Giant Steps" (1959) and "My Favorite Things" (1960)?
5. Which famous jazz quartet was led by pianist John Lewis with Milt Jackson on vibraphone?
6. The popular tune "Take Five" was written by Dave Brubeck: true or false?
7. Which famous Belgian musician managed to play jazz guitar even though, in 1928, he lost two fingers of his left hand in a fire in his caravan?
8. Which jazz singer was portrayed by Diana Ross in the 1972 film "Lady Sings the Blues?"
9. Which trumpet player (1911-1989) was nicknamed "Little Jazz?"
10. Which double bass player composed the tune "Good-bye Pork Pie Hat" and wrote the book "Beneath the Underdog?
1. Which jazz saxophonist was known as "Bird" or "Yardbird?"
2. Which famous trumpeter and singer learned to play the cornet at the Waif's Home in New Orleans and later married Lillian Hardin?
3. Was Duke Ellington a pianist, guitarist or drummer?
4. Which saxophonist established his individual approach on his albums "Giant Steps" (1959) and "My Favorite Things" (1960)?
5. Which famous jazz quartet was led by pianist John Lewis with Milt Jackson on vibraphone?
6. The popular tune "Take Five" was written by Dave Brubeck: true or false?
7. Which famous Belgian musician managed to play jazz guitar even though, in 1928, he lost two fingers of his left hand in a fire in his caravan?
8. Which jazz singer was portrayed by Diana Ross in the 1972 film "Lady Sings the Blues?"
9. Which trumpet player (1911-1989) was nicknamed "Little Jazz?"
10. Which double bass player composed the tune "Good-bye Pork Pie Hat" and wrote the book "Beneath the Underdog?
5th Annual Brick and Click Libraries - An Academic Library Symposium - Sponsored by Northwest Missouri State University - October 14, 2005
Access 2005 - October 17-19, 2005 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - The Access 2005 planning committee is hard at work organizing the 2005 Access conference. Look for new developments to be posted to this web site as they emerge. Subscribe to the RSS feed to be kept up-to-date with all the latest developments
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Search Word Pro has been released - an online search tool that is designed to search search engines, blogs, invisible Web resources, government search engines, magazines, and news search engines and sites in a new way
The ITI Show Daily at Computers in Libraries in Washington, DC, March 16-18, is a blog run by Nancy Garman, Director, Conference Development, Information Today, Inc
San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science, CA, will implement a new Executive MLIS degree for "leaders and top administrators" who already have master's degrees but don't have an MLIS. The first residency begins August 2005 and ends in two years
Judges have selected five books published in 2004 as finalists for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried fiction prize
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
ProQuest Information and Learning now distributes Safari Business Books Online, a growing electronic reference library of more than 500 titles, to the academic and corporate library markets
Images Online gives you instant access to thousands of images from the British Library's unparalleled collections. You can search, order, purchase and download images
Call for Contributions - 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference - Evolution of evidence: global perspectives on linking research with practice - Brisbane, Australia - 16-19 October 2005 - Submission of abstract deadline 1 April 2005
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
On March 29 2005 the Jesse Stuart Foundation in Ashland, in cooperation with the FIVCO/Big Sandy Regional Library of the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, will host the program Exploring Appalachian Literature and Culture for Librarians. The workshop will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dr. James Gifford of the Foundation will present the workshop
ALPSP briefing: Open Access - This short briefing is intended for all those in the publishing chain who feel they need a concise update on the Open Access debate in order to ensure that they are as well informed as possible in their discussions with journal contributors and editors, editorial board members and society representatives - 1 April 2005 - London, UK
Issue 23 of Focus on MIMAS, the electronic newsletter from Manchester InforMation and Associated Services, is now available
Monday, March 07, 2005
OCLC is hosting a Web-based speaker series featuring projects implemented with CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software. The sessions will also include a brief overview of CONTENTdm including features in the upcoming Release 4
The winners of the 2004 CBC Literary Awards were announced on February 23, 2005 in a star-studded gala at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. An eclectic group of twelve Canadian writers, from a prize-winning writer in Vancouver to a former trap-shoot operator from Newfoundland, took centre stage to receive their Awards
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Emerald's Journals of the Week for March 7 2005 are Women in Management Review and Measuring Business Excellence
ACH/ALLC Conference 2005 - June 15-18 - Victoria, BC, Canada - a joint conference between the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
ALCTS Preconference - Electronic Resources Management System: Opening a Can of ERMs - June 24, 2005 - Chicago, IL
Saturday, March 05, 2005
ITI-InfoCentral.com is the new digital archive of Information Today, Inc. Search, browse, preview and purchase from over 25,000 full-text news reports, articles, interviews, and critical reviews about the companies, products and people in the library, electronic information services, and digital content industries. ITI-InfoCentral.com links to ITI's archives, from September 1987 to the present, from Information Today, ONLINE, Searcher, Computers in Libraries, EContent, EMedia/EventDV, Multimedia & Internet@Schools, CRM, and KMWorld. The collection also includes past issues of Link-Up. Articles are available in a variety of formats, Preview, Full Text, Text+Graphics, and Page Image PDF, on a pay-per-view basis, courtesy of ProQuest Archiver
The March 2005 issues of Computers in Libraries, Information Today, Searcher, ONLINE, and MultiMedia & Internet@Schools are now available
Infotrieve, Inc. has announced plans to launch its new web-based search and discovery research environment, the Life Science Research Center (LSRC), in March 2005. The LSRC simplifies scientists' daily workflow by providing a robust user interface to search diverse types of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information and to identify relationships across traditionally disparate sources of content. The LSRC will utilize full-text searching of pre-processed STM content such as literature, patents, drug pipeline data, genes, technical protocols, laboratory products, and industry news
The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. Most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet (approximately 78 percent of the bibliography's references have such links)
Simon Fraser University and the Bill Reid Foundation on March 1, 2005 announced a new initiative that will bring Northwest Coast art into the academic mainstream. The partnership involves the Foundation’s new President, Dr. George MacDonald, and members of the University community in the development of a proposal to create the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies at Simon Fraser University
Rocketinfo Inc. has signed an agreement with Thomson Gale to provide Rocketinfo's customers with access to over 1,000 full-text periodicals, journals, and magazines licensed by Thomson Gale
March is Women's History Month and Thomson Gale has a free Web site, Women's History Month, packed with history, biographies, literature and free activities to help families and students celebrate the month
Friday, March 04, 2005
This week's Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer. Last week's Brainteaser was based on Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and this week's is based on Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, a diverse and entertaining exploration of the linguistic and cultural landscape of the modern world. See if you can answer these questions - the solutions are all in the modern Brewer. Answers here.
1. What pseudonym is used by the English pop singer George Alan O'Dowd?
2. Who portrayed Lara Croft in the 2001 film, Tomb Raider?
3. What was the name first given to Santa Clara Valley, the area south of San Francisco where many electronics and computing industries are located, and subsequently adapted to similar sites elsewhere?
4. In the Arab-Israeli conflict, you often hear about "The West Bank." This region is on the west bank of which river?
5. What is the colloquial name for the disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)?
6. What make of training shoes is named after the goddess of victory in Greek mythology?
7. A ten-digit number called an "ISBN" is assigned to every book before publication. What does ISBN stand for?
8. Which rock group got its name from a US slang word for fighter pilots investigating UFOs?
9. Which 1981 novel starts with the words "I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time"?
10. "Poet's day" is a weary worker's name for which day of the week?
1. What pseudonym is used by the English pop singer George Alan O'Dowd?
2. Who portrayed Lara Croft in the 2001 film, Tomb Raider?
3. What was the name first given to Santa Clara Valley, the area south of San Francisco where many electronics and computing industries are located, and subsequently adapted to similar sites elsewhere?
4. In the Arab-Israeli conflict, you often hear about "The West Bank." This region is on the west bank of which river?
5. What is the colloquial name for the disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)?
6. What make of training shoes is named after the goddess of victory in Greek mythology?
7. A ten-digit number called an "ISBN" is assigned to every book before publication. What does ISBN stand for?
8. Which rock group got its name from a US slang word for fighter pilots investigating UFOs?
9. Which 1981 novel starts with the words "I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time"?
10. "Poet's day" is a weary worker's name for which day of the week?
OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries), administered by the Alliance Library System, the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center, and the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, has been recognized by WebJunction as a 2005 "Public Access Super Star" for building digital opportunity through community engagement
The Good Practice Guide from UKOLN provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations involved in the development of cultural heritage Web services. The content of the guidebook is based on the advice provided by the NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service (and others) to projects funded by the NOF-digitise programme
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Navigate the World of Patents - One-day patent searching workshop - March 21 2005 - British Library Conference Centre, London - Hosted by the British Library and Thomson Scientific
All languages change over time and vary according to place and social domain, as is perfectly illustrated by these extracts taken from two large audio resources held in the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. Together, they provide a fascinating overview of spoken English during the second half of the 20th century. Its rich diversity documents both continuity and change, offering many insights into local history and the fabric of social and working lives
Put It in Writing @ Your Library writers' workshops sponsored by Woman's Day and the American Library Association. The one-day, two-hour workshops are taught by WD writers and library staff and will be held at libraries across the United States on April 12 during National Library Week. Workshops will focus on crafting query letters, developing story ideas and doing research
Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress' collections
Program now available for Intelligence Tools: Data Mining, Visualization - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 27-28, 2005 - The focus of this new annual conference is best practice in the derivation of intelligence from data. The meeting highlights the implementation of sophisticated techniques and procedures for gathering, analyzing and presenting intelligence; intelligence that is a vital factor in decision-making in enterprises or in government bodies
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
1st International Digital Curation Conference - 29-30 September 2005 - Hilton Bath City, Bath, UK - The Conference will be of interest to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data from researchers and curators through to policy makers and funders
The Women's Library has just completed updating the Women's Studies Tutorial online for the Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG). This tutorial is intended to help users develop their internet research skills by identifying and critically evaluating the wide range of resources available for women's studies on the web
The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick is offering for the ninth consecutive year a summer seminar series of five workshops exploring issues in scholarly communication. The series is designed to offer introductory and advanced level courses that effectively balance technical components with theoretical and practical "hands-on" learning opportunities in state-of-the-art, information technology labs. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the latest techniques, tools and standards while expanding their communities of practice - August 2-13, 2005
Registration for the NASIG 20th Annual Conference is now available. The 2005 NASIG Conference will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River, May 19-22 at the Hilton Minneapolis
Moving on in MARC 21: computer and web resources - 9 May 2005 - London, UK - This half-day workshop focuses on the bibliographic description of computer and web resources. Its purpose is to develop greater depth of knowledge by exploring the AACR2 elements of the topic alongside the MARC format requirements
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
The Fedora Project has announced the release of version 2.0 of the Fedora open-source digital repository software. This release represents a significant increase in features and functionality over previous releases. New features include the ability to represent and query relationships among digital objects, a simple XML encoding for Fedora digital objects, enhanced ingest and export interfaces for interoperability with other repository systems, enhanced administrative features, and improved documentation. More than ever, Fedora is capable of serving as the foundation for many types of information management applications, including institutional repositories, digital libraries, records management systems, archives, and educational software
The draft program for the Digital Library Federation Spring Forum 2005 - San Diego, California - is now available
Archives Hub Collections of the Month, March 2005: Botany - the study of plants. Historically, the living world was divided into the 'animal kingdom' and the 'plant kingdom'. Algae, fungi, lichen, and bacteria have at times been classified as plants and studied as such by botanists, including many of those whose papers are described on the Hub
Following the success of the guides to the 50 best Scottish films & bands, The List Magazine and Orange have joined forces again to publish a guide to the 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time, in association with Scottish Book Trust
More than 1,600 historical records, some of which date back to the 12th century, have gone missing from the National Archives in Kew, London
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