The Known World by Edward P. Jones has won the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

LITA Blog - the official blog for the Library and Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association. LITA blog will be an interesting blog to follow if you are interested in technology in library and information systems. LITA's mission is that it "educates, serves, and reaches out to its members, other ALA members and divisions, and the entire library and information community through its publications, programs, and other activities designed to promote, develop, and aid in the implementation of library and information technology."

Free Pint Newsletter 184 - 16 June 2005 - now available

The University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries has launched a new online exhibit entitled Las Vegas and Water in the West. The exhibit draws from the extensive archives contained in the UNLV Libraries Special Collections, especially images and documents related to the surveying and building of Hoover Dam

William H. Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites you to beta test its newly-developed Virtual Reference Application which allows librarians and patrons to interact with one another in real time. Features include chatting, co-browsing, and document sharing. The goal is to develop a solid, open-source virtual reference application that can be freely distributed to other libraries

Novelist Jonathan Coe has won BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction for his biography of author BS Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant

Sirsi Corporation has announced a new service that permits a library to link its holdings to Google Scholar via Sirsi Resolver, Sirsi's OpenURL reference linking tool. Using this service, library users can search Google Scholar, rely on a link between Sirsi Resolver and Google Scholar to indicate whether or not the library has access to the particular e-resources, and then have one-click access to full-text articles from those licensed e-resources

EBSCO Publishing is now offering the PEP Archive via EBSCOhost. The PEP Archive is the definitive source for psychoanalytic research. This database offers the full text of 13 premier psychoanalytic journals - many dating back to 1920 and the full text of over 20 classic psychoanalytic books. PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) publishes this archive, updating it annually. There is a three-year embargo on all journal content

100 Hours to Guinness Glory!: Librarians from the Henderson District Public Libraries in Nevada are trying to break the Guiness Book record for reading aloud

Xrefer and Blackwell Publishing have announced that twelve titles from the well-known Blackwell Handbooks in Psychology series are now available online as Xreferplus Specialist Reference titles. Each title in the series covers a specific area of psychological study, ranging from infant development and adolescence to research methods in clinical and experimental psychology. Also included are social psychology handbooks in the fields of interpersonal and group processes

The 2005 Book Summit and Bestseller Awards: Join the insiders, trend spotters and dealmakers of the book world for revelatory and surprising discussions about the big book season of 2005 and what's going to work, and what's not in 2006 - September 22, 2005 - Roosevelt Hotel, New York

Managing Electronic Resources - 9 September 2005 - Royal College of Nursing, London, UK

The new ALPSP research report Online Submission and Peer Review Systems by Mark Ware has just become available. It provides a completely up-to-date review of currently available systems and also includes the findings of three specially commissioned ALPSP surveys of Authors and Referees, Editors and Publishers, carried out recently. It gives an objective account of the current state of play and provides a comprehensive overview of all the available online systems, describing their features and offering a framework for analysing and choosing between them

Designing Libraries Newsletter: Issue 4 (07.06.05) is now available

LIBER 34th Annual Conference 2005 - July 5-9 - University Library of Groningen, The Netherlands

OCLC PICA has announced that it has won the tender to provide electronic content to the NHS Scotland e-Library. NHS Scotland is now licensed to use 5,000 health related titles from OCLC's NetLibrary eBook service, making this collection one of the largest medical eBook collections in Europe

The British Library's unrivalled collections and the pioneering technology of JISC will combine to the benefit of researchers and students across the UK with the signing today of a memorandum of understanding committing both partners to a wide range of innovative development projects. Its principal goal is to ensure that learning and research in the UK are supported by the leading-edge technology and access to exceptional content that such a cross-sectoral collaboration can offer

Dialog and CSA have announced that they have signed a new content agreement. More than 30 CSA files of scientific and technical research are being added to Dialog services throughout 2005. The CSA databases will be offered through Dialog to the corporate and government markets

Make a Noise in Libraries 2005 - Working in partnership with public libraries to highlight the need for equal access to books and information for visually impaired people. The campaign has been extended due to popular demand and will take place over a fortnight from 9 to 23 July 2005. The campaign will be launched at Central Library, Manchester, UK, 8 July

Registration is now open for 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference - Evolution of evidence: global perspectives on linking research with practice - Brisbane, Australia - 16-19 October 2005

Social Sciences Online: Past, Present and Future - a weeklong virtual event, part of the ESRC Social Science Week - June 20-24 2005 - Hosted by Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)

ALISS News from Social Science Libraries and Projects - June 2005 now available

University of Saskatchewan Archives, the University of Saskatchewan Library's Special Collections and the Diefenbaker Canada Centre have announced the launch of the Northern Research Portal: Archival, library, and Internet resources for the study of northern Canada and the circumpolar world

Technology Electronic Reviews from the American Library Association - Volume 12, Number 2 now available

The 9th annual KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition will be held on November 15-17, 2005 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in San Jose, California

Taxonomy Boot Camp: Organizing Information for Search & Discovery - September 27-28, 2005 - New York

Knowledge and Networks the official newsletter of Emerald Library Link - May 2005 now available

The winners of The Red House Children's Book Award 2005 have been announced

Directory of Open Access Journals now lists 1601 journals. 400 journals are searchable at article level and 73908 articles are included

Ovid's Resources of the Month for June 2005 are IEEE Biomedical Library and The Philosopher's Index

ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily. From Deep Web Technologies

Making knowledge visible: new territory for information managers - 8 November 2005, London

Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,420 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Prefixes. Answers here

1. What is the meaning of the prefix "multi-" or "mult-"?
2. Does the prefix "neo-" mean "never" or "new or modern"?
3. What does the prefix "co-" mean?
4. What does "cyber-" signify?
5. Does "intra-" mean "within" or "interrupting"?
6. What does "cardio-" mean?
7. Does "proto-" mean "best" or "first"?
8. Which part of the body does "nephro-" refer to?
9. Does "oligo-" mean "many" or "few"?
10. Does "witch-" or "wych-" mean "of witches", "of rivers", or "having pliant branches"?

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Judith Russell, Managing Director, Information Dissemination, US General Printing Office has been honored by the Special Library Association for her outstanding contribution to the global community of information professionals. Judith is also the first woman in history to hold the position of US Superintendent of Documents

The Scottish Arts Council has announced that Kathleen Jamie has won the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award for her widely praised poetry collection, The Tree House

Info@UK Issue 51, June 2005, is now available from The British Council

Preliminary calendar for the 7th Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference is now available. The conference will be held on November 14-15, 2005 in San Francisco, CA

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier - The Library of Congress has rdesigned and expanded its bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site devoted to Spanish exploration and settlement in North America from the 15th to the early 19th centuries. This cooperative effort between the National Library of Spain and the Library of Congress has added materials from the collections of the National Library. The project is part of the Library of Congress Global Gateway initiative to build digital library partnerships with national libraries around the world

Some sample materials for Beyond ECDL: applying ICT in the library context, a learning programme for public library staff, are now available from CILIP

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - June 9, 2005

Proposals for Online Northwest, a one-day conference that examines the use of technology in libraries - February 10, 2006 - are now being accepted

9th Annual Webby Award and People's Voice Award winners have been announced

Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa - LIANZA 2005 Conference - 11-14 September 2005 - Christchurch, New Zealand

Five new Internet tutorials for adult learners have been launched in the RDN Virtual Training Suite:

Internet for Arts and Craft
Internet for Digital Photography
Internet for Gardening
Internet for Health and Well Being
Internet for Job Searching

LJ Tech Blog from Library Journal is now up and running

Library Technology NOW - Spring 2005 Theme now available

The World Almanac E-Newsletter - Volume 05, Number 06 — June 2005 is now available

Library Connect Volume 3, No 2, June 2005 is now available from Elsevier

The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) has announced a new OpenURL link with TDNet, a leading supplier of electronic resource management solutions

Ovid Technologies has announced its exclusive partnership with scientific publisher Elsevier to offer EMBiology, a new bibliographic database in the field of bioscience

Ingenta has announced OpenURL-Enabled Email Alerting

Uruguayan novelist Mario Benedetti has won this year's Menendez Pelayo prize for Spanish-language literature. The prize carries an award of $58,000

Lionel Shriver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 with her book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Finding OZ: Discovering a Bright Future for Libraries - Presenter: Canadian Library Association President and SIRSI Vice-President for Innovation, Stephen Abram - June 22, 2005 - Chicago, IL.

Coming in July 2005 on WilsonWeb, the Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank

LexisNexis U.S. has announced the launch of a new taxonomy program that allows companies to license proprietary LexisNexis taxonomies and access expert consulting services

Library Journal has a new website

To Boldly Go...Exploring New Archival Frontiers - find out about a whole range of new archive services and exciting projects relating to digitisation, web archiving and innovations in online searching - 13 July 2005 - Manchester, UK

ebrary has announced that it has launched a new version of the ebrary Reader, its free software application that turns static PDF files into research-ready documents that can be cross-referenced and searched online

The PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary) was created by the public broadcasting community in the United States of America for use by public broadcasters and related communities. Initial development funding for PBCore was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The PBCore is built on the foundation of the Dublin Core (ISO 15836), an international standard for resource discovery, and has been reviewed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Usage Board

More new dates for Aslib training courses have been announced

The first issue of SMUG 4 EU, the European Newsletter for SFX and Metalib users, has been published

The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) and CHOICE magazine now are accepting applications to serve on the editorial board of Resources for College Libraries, a new core collection of recommended titles for academic libraries. The successor to "Books for College Libraries, 3rd Edition" (BCL3), RCL will be an online product whose coverage includes both electronic resources and books. The target publication date is September 2006

ALISS (Association of Librarians and Information professionals in the Social Sciences) is a new group for librarians and information professionals in the social sciences. The group is a not-for-profit unincorporated professional society

Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 6 2005 are International Journal of Managerial Finance and Health Education

ABA International Book Fair at Olympia 2, London, UK - 9-12 June 2005

Book Slam is the brainchild of Ben Watt and Patrick Neate. As one half of Everything But The Girl, Ben is a sometime pop superstar, full time DJ-producer and occasional mogul. Patrick is a prize-winning author, poet and all-round renaissance bloke. Their intention was simple: create a regular literary event in London that doesn't make sane people want to stab themselves with rusty cutlery

Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) has announced that its books publishing programme has been acquired by Taylor & Francis Group. Starting 1 July 2005, Taylor & Francis will assume all editorial, sales, marketing, customer service, and warehousing responsibilities for this prestigious list of almost 600 titles

Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, beating British authors Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan. The writer, who has lived in France since 1990, will receive 60,000 pounds at a ceremony in Edinburgh on 27 June

LITA 2005 National Forum: The Ubiquitous Web: Personalization, Portability, and On-line Collaboration - September 29-October 2, 2005 - San Jose, California

Umbrella 2005 will be presented at The University of Manchester on 30 June to 2 July 2005 with the theme 'Tackling the key issues together'. It will provide a forum for library professionals from across the UK to discuss and debate key issues directly affecting their current work and their future prospects

JSTOR and the Harvard University Library have announced that the initial production release of JHOVE (the JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment, pronounced "jove") is now available

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

Atypon Systems has introduced a new online subscription module. This module added to Atypon's Literatum and Extenza e-publishing platforms allows publishers to offer their online users multiple ways of purchasing content under various licensing models. The new module gives publishers a range of options on how to sell or renew access to all or subsets of their content

Endeavor Information Systems has announced the first general release of Endeavor Meridian, a breakthrough enterprise-level electronic resource management system. Providing a single, cost-effective database about a library's electronic collections, Endeavor Meridian reduces the staff effort traditionally required to manage, deliver and analyze e-content while providing improved service to patrons

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Opera. Answers here

1. Who were the other members of the Three Tenors from 1988 besides Luciano Pavarotti?
2. What is the term for the words or text of an opera?
3. Were the operas "Rigoletto," "La Traviata" and "Otello" written by Verdi, Gilbert & Sullivan, or Rossini?
4. Which 1935 opera by George Gershwin was the first opera written for an all-Black cast?
5. Who wrote the operas "The Barber of Seville" and "William Tell?"
6. Which 1893 opera by Engelbert Humperdinck was about a brother and sister taken in by a witch who lives in a gingerbread cottage?
7. Was the soprano Maria Callas born in Athens, Verona or New York?
8. John Adams won a Grammy Award in 1989 for which of his operas - about an American president abroad?
9. Which opera by Richard Strauss, first performed in 1911, has a German title that means "the knight of the rose?"
10. Which 1728 opera by John Gay was adapted by Bertolt Brecht as "The Threepenny Opera?"

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Live from SLA 2005: A Weblog from the staff of Information Today - SLA 2005 Annual Conference - June 5-8 - Toronto. Blog coverage begins June 4

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - June 2, 2005

Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations - Compiled by Bonnie Shucha - Updated June 2, 2005

W.B. Yeats: West End Poetry - Readings of poetry with illuminating commentary by novelist Josephine Hart. Profits from this event will be donated to The Actors' Centre - Readers : Sinead Cusack, Bob Geldof and others to be confirmed - Location: British Library Conference Centre, London - 8 June 2005

The Library of Congress has announced a new Web site providing an overview and technical specifications for the development phase of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This program, a partnership between the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and digitization of select historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH grant program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has released a report on how museums and libraries bolster K-12 education and lifelong learning in communities across the Nation. Charting the Landscape, Mapping New Paths: Museums, Libraries, and K-12 Learning, is based on a workshop the Institute hosted August 30-31, 2004 at which more than seventy educators, researchers, policymakers, and museum and library professionals examined K-12 collaborations among their organizations

Papers, presentations and related documents from the Lilac 2005 conference are now available online from the Information Literacy Group website

The MyiLibrary e-content platform contains some of the most current and topical e-book collections available today, with collections both from Intergovernmental Agencies such as the World Health Organisation and the World Bank, as well as from some of the world's largest commercial publishers such as Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley and Oxford University Press. MyiLibrary, with over 2 million users, offers direct on-line access to tens of thousands of books and works closely with all publishing partners to aid in the electronic dissemination of e-content, be that databases, journals or books

The Board of Trustees of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) has announced that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has joined the DLF as its first Strategic Partner from outside the United States or Europe

American Libraries Online is now providing a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed for its top stories. You can also use a javascript version for your own site

Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems - July 17-22, 2005 - Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY

Trunk Show at the Women's Library, London, UK, is an international travelling exhibition, initiated in the USA by artist and curator Ann Shostrom, with the idea of building an international exhibition from the ground up, involving local curators and artists at each venue. With each new location, a local curator adds a new trunk full of artworks, with artists exploring themes of portability, mapping, miniaturization, travel and displacement. Trunk Show so far includes over 100 artists based in the USA, Ireland and the UK, and the London showing features both established and emerging artists, including Rosemarie McGoldrick, Double 0, Nicola Oxley, Elizabeth Price, Bob & Roberta Smith and Camilla Wilson

Ivyspring International Publisher currently publishes two Open Access journals, International Journal of Medical Sciences and International Journal of Biological Sciences. Both titles have recently been added to the collections at PubMed Central

The latest list of journals available on the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service now covers 12018 titles

As of June 1, 2005, the new URL for Oxford Journals is www.oxfordjournals.org

Dynix has announced a partnership with Cymphonix, Inc. Through the partnership, Dynix is introducing LiveNetwork, a managed service offering through which libraries will gain unprecedented levels of control in administering their computer networks

Dynix Institute Web Seminar Series: Rethinking Resource Sharing - Presented by Brenda Bailey-Hainer, Director, Networking and Resource Sharing & Gail Wanner, Dynix Resource Sharing Product Specialist - June 14, 2005

childrenselibrary is designed to appeal to teachers and librarians seeking in-print, out-of print and original enhanced e-books for use on school and library networked computers. Sold via subscription model, childrenselibrary provides school and library institutions with unlimited access to ebooks for all their patrons and students - even from their homes or any remote location via the internet. Free trial available

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

This month Archives Hub would like you to complete its short Questionnaire - only eight questions - and enter the Prize Draw for the chance to win a £30 Book Token, Archives Hub mugs, and Archives Hub propelling pencils

British Library Direct - search and order from a database of over 9 million articles directly from this site. Starting June 1, 2005

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century

BookExpo America - June 3-5, 2005 - Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY