Librarians' Index to the Internet

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - July 7, 2005

The Library History Buff

The Library History Buff - created and maintained by Larry T. Nix, who recently retired from the Wisconsin state library agency in 2003 after 23 years of service

Colleges, Code and Copyright

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the publication of Colleges, Code and Copyright, ACRL Publications in Librarianship no. 57, from The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College. It is the proceedings of a symposium held by the Center for Intellectual Property in June 2004. The goal of the symposium was to assemble stakeholders to discuss the technological, legal, and practical issues that influence the dissemination of information on campuses and the protection of intellectual property

Building the Info Grid

Building the Info Grid: Digital Library Technologies and Services - Trends and Perspectives - 26-27 September 2005 - Copenhagen, Denmark

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki, created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas for librarians

International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects

International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects - 15-16 September 2005 - Goettingen, Germany

Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts

The University of Pennsylvania Library has announced that it is now hosting a web version of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. This unique database of more than 60,000 entries tracks the movement of manuscripts written prior to 1600 through the book and auction trade in ca. 1800. It has been compiled from book and auction catalogues, chiefly from the UK and North America. With nearly 30 discrete, searchable fields, it is a powerful tool for those doing research in and using medieval and early modern manuscripts. The database is the property of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, who is actively adding to it and updating it

Info@UK Issue 52

Info@UK Issue 52, July 2005, is now available from The British Council

e-Duke Scholarly Collection

Duke University Press has announced the official launch of its new e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted by HighWire Press at Stanford University. The new e-Duke Scholarly Collection will replace the interim electronic journals package that was offered in the summer of 2004 to the libraries that had formerly accessed Duke's humanities and social sciences journals via Project Muse

SPARC Open Access Newsletter

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #87 - July 2, 2005 now available

The Spoken Alexandria Project

The Spoken Alexandria Project is creating a free library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission). AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 audiobooks available for free download and redistribution

Let's Go Library Expo

Let's Go Library Expo, a component of Planet Library, is an ongoing series of online library and information technology conferences, symposia, and workshops. All of the things you like about conferences (great speakers and sessions, talk tables, poster sessions, networking with colleagues, etc.) are available through Let's Go Library Expo, without the less lovely aspects of traditional in-person conferences (outrageous travel expenses, long walks in cavernous convention centers, crowded meeting rooms, shuttle buses, uncomfortable beds, etc.). The next Let's Go Library Expo will be held on Thursday, July 28, 2005. The topics of this Expo will be "Books, eBooks, and Audiobooks."

The FRBR Blog

The FRBR Blog: A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

Internet tools for effective information handling

Internet tools for effective information handling – Advanced - 20 October 2005, London, UK

Change in RSS feed for this blog

I have changed the RSS feed for this blog. The new URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/iRcS. Please update your aggregator.

Exploring Medical History

Exploring Medical History: What's happening in Libraries & Archives - A one day conference on Monday 17 October 2005 at The Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK, organised by the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal College of Surgeons of England & Wellcome Trust

SLA Europe's Summer Soiree

SLA Europe's Summer Soiree is an annual event where SLA members can catch up with colleagues and meet new SLA members and other invited guests informally in the pleasant surroundings of the The City Club, Broad Street, London. Drinks and refreshments will be available throughout the evening. Steve Borley, the European Information Professional of the Year for 2005, will give a short presentation outlining his impressions of the SLA annual Conference in Toronto

Aslib training

Aslib has recently published its Autumn Training brochure which lists all the courses taking place September to December. It also includes details of new courses such as Creative Commons Licences and Freedom of information afternoon workshop

Caine Prize for African Writing winner announced

S.A. Afolabi from Nigeria has won the sixth Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, for Monday Morning from Wasafiri, issue 41, spring 2004. The Chair of the judges, Baroness Young of Hornsey, announced the winner of the US$15,000 prize at a dinner held in the Bodleian Library in Oxford

CABI Publishing

CABI Publishing and British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) have announced a new partnership in delivering animal science research. From 2006 CABI Publishing will be publishing Animal Science on behalf of BSAS

Computers in Libraries 2006

Call for Speakers - Computers in Libraries 2006: Managing Digital: Innovations, Initiatives & Insights - March 22-24, 2006 - Washington DC

3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference

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

The Digital Preservation Training Programme

The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is a project funded by JISC under its Digital Preservation and Asset Management programme, or JISC 4/04 as it is more commonly known. The project is led by ULCC, working with its partners the Digital Preservation Coalition, Cornell University and the British Library

European Library seeks user opinion

The European Library seeks user opinion. "The European Library wants to find out what works for the user of the new site and what doesn't. For this we teamed up with IRN Research, in co-operation with the national libraries of Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Switzerland. The survey is mainly about the search and retrieval capability of the site. The developers would be very grateful to any researcher able to give 10-15 minutes worth of time to answering the 8 questions. The European Library will donate 2 Euros to Book Aid International for every completed questionnaire it receives. The answers given will help TheEuropeanLibrary.org to decide the best way to develop the site for the benefit of its users"

LISWiki

LISWiki was established to give the library community a chance to explore the usefulness of Wikis. It is not intended to replace or detract from the Wikipedia Library and information science articles (or those in the printed LIS encyclopedias for that matter), but exists as a niche encyclopedia covering library-related issues

Ovid's Resources of the Month for July 2005

Ovid's Resources of the Month for July 2005 are MEDLINE on Ovid and TRANSPORT on SilverPlatter

Emerald's Journals of the Week

Emerald's Journals of the Week for July 4 2005 are Measuring Business Excellence & The TQM Magazine

Sophie Brody Medal

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and Arthur Brody and the Brodart Foundation announce the Sophie Brody Medal, an award for the U.S. author of the most distinguished contribution to Jewish literature for adults. The award, which consists of a medal for the winner and citations for honor books, is funded by Arthur Brody and the Brodart Foundation, and is given to encourage, recognize and commend outstanding achievement in Jewish literature. Works of fiction and non-fiction for adults published in the United States in the preceding year will be eligible for the award. The first award will be presented in June 2006

SLA will hold its Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD, USA, June 11-14, 2006 at the Baltimore Convention Center

The Canadian Library Association has announced the launch of its preliminary post-conference resource centre from the 60th Annual CLA Conference held in Calgary, Alberta. For those who were unable to attend the conference from June 15-18, 2005, or for delegates who wish to access presentations from sessions that they attended, this section of the Web site shouldn't be missed

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

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

1. What is the capital city of Egypt?
2. The ANC was banned in South Africa from 1960 to 1990. What does "ANC" stand for?
3. Robert Mugabe was the first prime minister of which country from 1980 to 1987?
4. Is Africa the largest, second largest, or third largest continent in the world?
5. From 1964 to 1991, was Kenneth Kaunda president of Nigeria, Kenya or Zambia?
6. What is the largest lake in Africa?
7. Which desert forms most of Botswana: is it the Kalahari or the Sahara?
8. Which republic in eastern Africa was formed in 1964 by the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar?
9. The Biafran War was a civil war in which African country?
10. Which South African playwright wrote the plays "Boesman and Lena" and "Sizwe Bansi is Dead"?

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Copyright Clearance Center and R.R. Bowker have announced a new partnership that integrates copyright permission into three of Bowker's Web-based information services. Books In Print, Global Books In Print, and Ulrich's Resource Linker now allow librarians and staff to quickly and easily clear copyright permissions as they search for bibliographic information about specific books, journals and other copyrighted material

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has announced the launch of its Humanities Archive: the first of five subject-based digital backfiles to be launched by early 2006. With its earliest material dating from 1829, the Humanities Archive contains over 300,000 articles, including major papers in history, music, religion, philosophy, literary studies, and linguistics, from Volume 1 Issue 1 of each title to the end of 1995. Journals included in the project include Essays in Criticism, English Historical Review, Past & Present, and the Journal of Theological Studies

The inside out library: libraries in the age of Amazoogle - a lecture by Lorcan Dempsey, VP of Research for OCLC - 12 July, 2005 - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - June 30, 2005

LLRX.com June 23, 2005 update is now online

Free Pint Newsletter 185

Free Pint Newsletter 185 - 30 June 2005 - now available

2005 New York Times Librarian Awards

Nominations for the 2005 New York Times Librarian Awards are now being accepted until September 2, 2005

Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, in libraries and on the Web buy, sell and lend books most wisely

Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for a Long-term Strategy by Robert F. Sproull and Jon Eisenberg - National Academies Press

Sirsi Corporation has announced the August 2005 availability of its next-generation library user interface, the Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution featuring Sirsi Rooms 2.0

Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, today predicted a switch from print to digital publishing by the year 2020. Speaking at the launch of the Library's new three-year strategy, Lynne Brindley said: "Most people are aware that a national switch to digital broadcasting is expected by the end of this decade. Less well known is the fact that a similar trend is underway in the world of publishing: by the year 2020, 40% of UK research monographs will be available in electronic format only, while a further 50% will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10% of new titles will be available in print alone by 2020..."

Online registration for the VRD 2005 Conference is now open. This year's conference will be held on November 14-15, 2005 in San Francisco, CA, and the early bird registration rates will be accepted until October 22, 2005. Please note that there are further reduced rates for students, and OCLC and RUSA members

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded Native American tribes across the United States $1,361,000 in grants to improve library services. In all, 229 grants will strengthen library service for 237 Native American tribal communities and Alaska Native villages

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced $21,087,684 in grants to 37 universities, libraries, and library organizations across the United States to recruit and educate a new generation of librarians. The grants are designed to help offset a current shortage of school library media specialists, library school faculty, and librarians working in underserved communities, as well a looming shortage of library directors and other senior librarians who are expected to retire in the next 20 years

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 130 - July 2005 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, is now available

Readex has announced the availability of a fully searchable digital edition of the American State Papers, 1789-1838. A seminal set of legislative and executive publications from the first 14 U.S. Congresses and more, this rich source of primary material details many aspects of early American history

Blog University is a one-day mini-conference for librarians and information professionals. It is focused on creating and using Weblogs to share information and knowledge with staff and clients and using Weblogs to streamline workflows, and market activities - September 18, 2005 - Arlington, VA

Doing Data Differently by Roy Tennant - "Metadata is often created in a time-consuming process by catalogers, digital library technicians, and others. It is then underused in our systems and the systems of those with whom we share the information. But recent experiments by some library organizations indicate that we are only scratching the surface of what our data can do for us..." - Library Journal

UK Libraries Plus is a co-operative venture between higher education libraries, making it easier for students and staff to use libraries conveniently near to home or work, at no admission fee. There are currently 138 Institutions participating in the UK Libraries Plus Scheme

TAPE workshop on management of audiovisual collections - 28 September-4 October 2005 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The History of the Media in 20th Century Britain: 19th Annual CCBH Summer Conference - 29 June-1 July 2005 - University of London

The British Council has just commissioned a special issue of Info@UK dedicated to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the second phase of which will be held in Tunis in mid November

ScienceDirect is now available at affordable rates to colleges within North America. The ScienceDirect College Edition offers student access to large amounts of high-quality, peer-journal articles online, complemented by authoritative reference works. These journal and reference works are exclusive to ScienceDirect and not available anywhere else online

Open CRS is a project of the Center for Democracy & Technology that serves as a centralized location to learn about the Congressional Research Service and search for CRS reports that have been released to the public by members of the U.S. Congress

SAGE Publications has announced that Environment and Urbanization and Journal of Attention Disorders are now available online

The American College of Cardiology has announced that the full text of The Journal of the American College of Cardiology is available online

PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource. June 2005 issue now available

Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 27 2005 are International Journal of Operations & Production Management and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management

Cornell University Library has announced two new electronic resources now published online using the Digital Publishing System (DPubS) software, an open source publication delivery and management system Cornell developed collaboratively with Pennsylvania State University Libraries:

Indonesia, a semi-annual journal published by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program, offers more than 700 articles and reviews devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society from 1966 to the present
Pennsylvania History, a quarterly journal that publishes the best of current scholarship on the history of the Commonwealth and the region

EyetoEye: Ingenta's library newsletter - Issue 16 - June 2005 is now available

RFID in Libraries Conference - 8 November 2005 - London, UK

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

1. Which US president was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth?
2. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo precipitated which event?
3. In which city was President John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1963?
4. Which notorious Siberian monk was assassinated in 1916 by a group of Russian noblemen?
5. Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966, when he was prime minister of which country?
6. Who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, four years before he was assassinated?
7. Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC on a day which, in the ancient Roman calendar, was called "the ides of..." - what?
8. What murder weapon was used to kill Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940?
9. Who was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday in 1793?
10. This Israeli prime minister was assassinated in 1995. What was his name?

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Innovative Interfaces has announced the availability of two new RSS capabilities for Millennium. The first offering will give libraries the tools they need to display RSS feeds in any number of locations in the online catalog. The second offering, a new product called Millennium Feed Builder, will allow staff to send the results of any Boolean query of the Millennium database as an RSS feed. This means that the library can deliver updated news and information. These new abilities will allow libraries to demonstrate their value as information aggregators and distributed content providers without the hassle of manual maintenance or the content limitations of static Web pages. Best of all, both RSS capabilities can be set up without the need for third-party servers, programming, or knowledge of XML

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - June 23, 2005

Xrefer and Paratext have announced that the Xreferplus Ready-Reference service is now integrated with Paratext's premium bibliographic database, Reference Universe

Scopus has announced an integration with RefWorks. RefWorks: Scopus Edition provides a sophisticated level of interoperability between the two services; enabling researchers an uninterrupted workflow when finding and managing their research information

Pearson has announced the acquisition of AGS Publishing from WRC Media for $270 million in cash. The acquisition will strengthen Pearson's education business in two fast-growing segments of the US School market: testing and publishing for students with special educational needs

A large collection of yellowing newsprint documenting Vietnam's war era is being archived for posterity, thanks to cooperative microfilming projects undertaken by Cornell University's Carl A. Kroch Library and other institutions

Claudia Lux, director general, Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB), Germany, has been voted President-elect by members of IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. She will begin her two-year term as President-elect during the IFLA conference in Oslo this August

OLAC Newsletter - vol. 25, no. 2 June 2005 - now available from the OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers website

Proceedings of the Annual Spring Depository Library Council Meeting 2005 are now available from USGPO

The Association of American Publishers has announced the launch of a unique new website, Authors @ Your Library, which for the first time will link publishers and librarians to simplify the process of scheduling library events

PsycEXTRA, a gray literature database, is a companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. It supplies clinicians, information professionals, policy-makers, researchers, and consumers with a wide variety of credible information in psychology, behavioral science, and health. Most of the coverage is material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more

The June 2005 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available

Provisional programme now available for Internet Librarian International 2005: Transcending Boundaries: Information Technologies & Strategies for the 21st Century - 10-11 October 2005 - London, UK

Sirsi Corporation and Dynix Corporation have announced that the two companies are merging to create SirsiDynix, a single company positioned more strongly than either company on its own to develop and deliver leading-edge information technology solutions for libraries and consortia around the world

Dag Hammarskjold Library has announced the creation of a new blog called UN Pulse: Connecting to UN Information. The blog focuses on just-released UN system-wide online information, major reports, publications and documents. Created and maintained by a team of reference librarians at the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Pulse is updated as new information is published and received

1stReads™ is an innovative new book donation program for libraries. It allows libraries to create "wish lists" specifying the exact titles and quantities of books they would like to have donated and provides readers with significant economic incentives to donate them

Open Publish 2005 - fifth annual conference for standards in publishing - July 27-29 - Sydney, Australia

CILIP and the Library + information Show have announced that the prize money for the 2006 Libraries Change Lives Award will be increased by 3,000 pounds. Next year's winning project will receive 5,000 pounds – up from 4,000 pounds in 2005, and two other finalists will receive 2,000 pounds each – up from 1,000 pounds

Mamma.com Inc. has announced the beta release of its innovative Health Search, the first installment of several deep web search verticals for its industry-leading metasearch engine. The deep web search is powered by Mamma.com's search engine technology, and CloserLook Search Services

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure Kidnapped has been chosen as Edinburgh's Book of the City. Ten thousand copies of the novel will be distributed free across Edinburgh in cafes, train stations or even taxis, with a sticker saying "I'm free, take me home and read me", in an effort to get the entire city reading a single text. The project, called One Book One City, will be officially launched next spring. The reading plan is billed as the flagship of Edinburgh's new status as UNESCO City of Literature

Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach - July 18, 2005 - Denver, CO

DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers - 30 June-1 July 2005 - Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow

H.W. Wilson has announced that it has signed an agreement with Bowker to power the new Bowker's Book Analysis System for school and public libraries with the content from H.W. Wilson's Standard Catalogs. The Wilson Standard Catalogs include Children's Catalog, Public Library Catalog, Senior High School Library Catalog, Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, and Fiction Catalog

Emerald's Journals of the Week for June 20 2005 are Journal of Property Investment & Finance and Journal of Workplace Learning

Presentations from the IATUL conference, Information and Innovation - May 29-June 3, 2005 - Quebec City - are now available online

Thomson Gale has announced a groundbreaking library advocacy initiative, AccessMyLibrary.Com, that will enable libraries to capitalize on Internet search engines as a means of connecting library users with authoritative content. This unique initiative, which builds on Thomson Gale's commitment to libraries and their users, will increase peoples' awareness and usage of the library resources users are entitled to and at the same time provide them with direct access to more high-value information than ever before through Internet search

The 2005 DIY Book Festival has set October 8 as the date for its annual awards ceremony honoring the success of independent authors and publishers. The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, photography, art, comics, 'zines, fan fiction, poetry and e-books published on or after January 1, 2003. Entry deadline is September 25, 2005

The Lilly Library, Indiana University has announced the debut of The Novel of the Century: James Joyce's Ulysses on the Anniversary of Bloomsday, an electronic exhibition

D-Lib Magazine June 2005 is now available

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

1. What is the main river flowing through London?
2. In which London church have most English monarchs since William the Conqueror been crowned?
3. Which London landmark was sold in 1968 to the McCulloch Oil Corporation and re-erected in Arizona?
4. In London in 1802, who established a famous exhibition of wax models of celebrities?
5. Which square in central London got its name from once being the garden of a convent in Westminster?
6. Which famous jewels are displayed at the Tower of London?
7. Which London theatre has three parts called the Lyttelton, Olivier and Cottesloe theatres?
8. Which famous London event was first organized in 1981 by Chris Brasher and John Disley?
9. What was the ancient Roman name for London?
10. What is the name of the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

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OverDrive has announced the addition of Video on Demand (VoD) services and materials to its Digital Library Reserve network. The service is scheduled to go live for patron use later this year

OCLC will begin a pilot project later this month that will make it easy for library staff and patrons to find and use full-text electronic journals in library collections. The pilot will involve 20 libraries and four partners—TDNet, EBSCO, Serials Solutions and Ex Libris. The pilot will make e-serials as visible as print materials in WorldCat, the world’s largest database of items held in libraries, and will expose those records to searchers on the open Web through the Open WorldCat program

Edinburgh International Book Festival - 13-29 August 2005 - Edinburgh, Scotland

RLG DigiNews - Volume 9, Number 3 now available

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - June 16, 2005

Yahoo! Search Subscriptions enables you to search access-restricted content such as news and reference sites that are normally not accessible to search engines