Hollywood Librarian - British premiere

The British premiere of The Hollywood Librarian, A Look at Librarians Through Film will take place at 7pm on Monday 25 February in Arts A2 Lecture Theatre at the University of Sussex. Supported by CILIP's Sussex sub-branch and CILIP nationally, this will be the first showing here of this film which compares the portrayal of librarians in cinema with the realities of the life of the modern information professional

The Biological Bulletin archive available

The Biological Bulletin has just completed its archival project, resulting in the online publication of over a century of content. All articles, from the first issue in 1897 to those published 12 months ago, are now available free online

2008 24-hour Freedom to Read Marathon

"24-Hour Freedom to Read Marathon celebrates the freedom to read and the freedom of expression. Exercise your fundamental freedoms (per the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms): 'freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including the freedom of the press and other media of communication.' Without our knowing, more and more books are withdrawn from the public domain. This raises the question of who determines what is fit to be read" - Saturday, March 1, 10 am to 10am, Sunday, March 2, 2008 - Downtown Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street. Winnipeg, Canada

Thomson and Reuters receive regulatory clearance

The Thomson Corporation has announced that the European Commission, US Department of Justice, and Canadian Competition Bureau have given approval for Thomson's proposed acquisition of Reuters

2008 Patent Focus Report

Thomson Scientific has published its 2008 Patent Focus Report. Authored by Joff Wild, editor of Intellectual Asset Management magazine, and published in Thomson Scientific's KnowledgeLink eNewsletter, this report explores recent activities at each of the world's major patenting authorities (USA, Europe, Japan, China and India)

Heritage Burnaby

Heritage Burnaby is an online collaboration that represents all of the community assets, heritage services and historic collections managed by the City of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Burnaby was incorporated in 1892 and is today the third largest city in B.C. and a dynamic urban center which is part of Metro Vancouver

School Libraries: Leading Learning

School Libraries: Leading Learning - Focussing on the importance of the library and librarian's support for learning within the school, the SLA has brought together many inspirational speakers such as Ian Gilbert, Founder and Managing Director of Independent Thinking Ltd, and Dr Jonathan Sharples, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind - 13-15 June 2008 - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

New RSS feeds from the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has added new email alert services and RSS feeds in the following areas: Hours of Operation, Folklife (including News, Events, and Newsletter from the American Folklife Center), Legal Issues (including News, Research, Webcasts, and Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library), and news from Chronicling America, the Historic American Newspaper project

IFLA Directory 2007-2009

The IFLA Directory 2007-2009 is now available as a PDF file. If you don't have a PDF reader you can access the file here

JScholarship at Johns Hopkins University Libraries

JScholarship is designed to gather, distribute, and preserve digital materials related to the Johns Hopkins research and instructional mission

Ariadne - Issue 54, January 2008

Ariadne - Issue 54, January 2008 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

BOBCATSSS 2009 symposium

BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium organised by students at a number of universities in Europe. It takes place under the auspieces of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and deals with themes from library and information science. The BOBCATSSS 2009 symposium is organised by students from the University of Tampere, Finland and the University of Porto, Portugal - 28-30 January 2009 - Porto, Portugal

Borders unveils "Concept Store"

"Book superstore chain Borders has opened, in its headquarters city of Ann Arbor, MI, the first of 14 new 'concept stores.' The 28,900 square foot store offers not just a cafe and a community space with stage but also innovations like a staffed Digital Center for customers to make custom CDs, download books and music, explore genealogy, and create photo books"

Museum Anthropology Review

Museum Anthropology Review is an open access journal whose purpose is the wide dissemination of peer-reviewed articles, reviews, essays, obituaries and other content advancing the field of material culture and museum studies, broadly conceived. The journal is edited by Jason Baird Jackson in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University

Wiley-Blackwell to publish the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Wiley-Blackwell has announced that it has been selected by the Institute of Psychoanalysis to publish their flagship journal, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. The journal publishes six issues per year

Planet eBook

Planet eBook - A new free resource for students, teachers and schools. The service publishes a select, high-quality set of ebooks that anyone can share in any way they like

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: First names. Answers here.

1. Surname: Ritchie, British film director who married pop singer Madonna in 2000.
2. Surname: Ferry, lead singer and principal songwriter of Roxy Music.
3. Surname: Roberts, US film actress who rose to stardom in "Pretty Woman".
4. Surname: Dahl, British author who wrote several anarchic children's books, including "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
5. Surname: Pasteur, French chemist and biologist who invented pasteurization.
6. Surname: Groening, the creator of "The Simpsons" cartoon series.
7. Surname: Prost, French motor racing driver who became the first Frenchman to win the Formula 1 world drivers' championship.
8. Surname: Putin, Russian statesman, president from 2000.
9. Surname: Robbins, US ballet dancer and choreographer, who choreographed the dances for such musicals as "The King and I" and "West Side Story".
10. Surname: Dafoe, American film actor who played the Oscar-nominated role of Sergeant Elias in "Platoon" and the controversial title role in "The Last Temptation of Christ".

Bookscans Project

Bookscans Project: graphically illustrating the evolution of Vintage American Paperbacks - 1939 through 1959

Archon

"Archon is a web-based tool for archivists and manuscript curators. It automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects to a user-friendly website. With Archon, there is no need to encode a finding aid, input a catalog record, or program a sytlesheet. Archon's powerful scripts will automatically make everything in the system searchable and browseable on your repository's website"

Carnival of the Infosciences #89

Carnival of the Infosciences #89 hosted by A Passion For 'Puters. Previous Carnivals can be found here

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - February 21, 2008

Learning Impact 2008

Learning Impact 2008 is IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual conference that brings together the world's leading creators, vendors, users, and buyers of learning technology to participate in program tracks focused on the latest innovations in learning systems, digital learning content, the learning enterprise, and open technologies. Presenters answer a key challenge question designed to inform the attendees on the state of innovation and best practices - 12-15 May, 2008 - Austin, Texas, USA

Member Opinion Survey on Greening ACRL National Conference 2009

"The ACRL Green Conference Committee is working to lessen the environmental impact of the 2009 National Conference. Please take this short survey to tell us how we should approach 'greening' the conference"

When Wikipedia Won't Cut It: 25 Online Sources for Reliable, Researched Facts

When Wikipedia Won't Cut It: 25 Online Sources for Reliable, Researched Facts by Jessica Hupp for CollegeDegree.com - "Although Wikipedia is a great place to find information, it's subject to incomplete citations, biased views, and inaccuracies. And when you absolutely have to have undisputable facts, that's just not good enough. Fortunately, there are plenty of alternatives out there that can deliver with high quality accuracy, and we've listed 25 of the best here"

Omeka 0.9.0 is now available to the public

Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. Omeka is free and open source

Challenges in Canadian Libraries: 2007 Survey Results

"Oliver Twist, The Golden Compass and Rolling Stone magazine were among the library materials challenged by Canadian library users in 2007, according to a new survey. The Canadian Library Association's 2nd annual Survey of Challenged Materials in Canadian Libraries identified 42 items challenged by patrons. Children's books, mainstream films, graphic novels and popular magazines were all challenged, and a policy on Internet access was also disputed. The survey was released in advance of Freedom to Read Week, February 24 to March 1"

Duane E. Webster honored with Lippincott Award

The Association of Research Libraries Executive Director, Duane E. Webster, has been named as the 2008 recipient of the American Library Association Joseph W. Lippincott Award. The award recognizes Webster's many accomplishments during his distinguished career at ARL

The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales

"The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales is the most ambitious reference work ever published about Wales. Encapsulated between the covers of this magnificent book are entries on all the people, places and events which make Wales so culturally, historically and geographically rich..."

TRLN member libraries join Open Content Alliance

"Members of the Triangle Research Libraries Network have announced that they are partnering with the Open Content Alliance to build a freely accessible digital library. TRLN is a collaborative organization of the research libraries at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"

Wiley-Blackwell and JoVE unveil groundbreaking online video publications

Wiley-Blackwell and the Journal of Visualized Experiments have announced that they signed an agreement for the production of online video publications. The purpose of the partnership is to integrate biological research video into the leading Wiley-Blackwell publication, Current Protocols. According to Rachel Burley, Vice President and Publisher at Current Protocols, the partnership aims to enhance articles published in Current Protocols with video demonstrations of experimental procedures to increase their reproducibility

Linworth @ The Forefront

"Linworth @ The Forefront: Webinars and More for Your Professional Learning Community is our new series of weekly webinars, beginning February 12, 2008. Listen and learn online and in real time to your favorite Linworth experts and authors. If you're a school or public librarian, teacher, administrator, writing and literacy coach, technology expert, home schooling parent, or library paraprofessional, these webinars are for you. Linworth Publishing, Inc."

25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians

25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians - a list compiled by CollegeDegree.com

851 museums, libraries, and archives selected to receive IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf

"Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has announced that 851 museums, libraries, and archives, representing every US state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, have been selected to receive the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf. The contents of the bookshelf were selected by a blue ribbon panel of conservation experts; it includes an essential set of books, online resources, and a user's guide that can profoundly impact the ability of small libraries and museums to care for their collections"

WorldCat Blog

WorldCat Blog - "a fun spot to read about what's happening on WorldCat.org and to share cool ways that people are using the site and their libraries"

NFAIS Forum on the Future of Bibliographic Control

NFAIS Forum on the Future of Bibliographic Control - March 28, 2008 - PALINET Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA, USA

eduStyle Higher-ed Web Awards

eduStyle Higher-ed Web Awards celebrate the best work in college and university websites of 2007. Thirty-five categories recognize the most innovative and exciting developments in key areas of higher education web development. The awards will be announced and presented at the eduWeb Conference to be held in Atlantic City, NJ, USA, July 21-23, 2008

World Book/ALA Information Literacy Goal Award

World Book, Inc. and the American Library Association have announced the creation of the World Book/ALA Information Literacy Goal Award, which will provide a combined $10,000 annually to a promising public library and a promising school library literacy program. The purpose of the World Book/ALA Information Literacy Goal Award is to encourage innovative and effective information literacy programs in schools as well as public libraries, particularly programs focused on users who are likely to need the most help to obtain access to information, in print or digital form, and to evaluate the quality of the information available to them

Search Pigeon

"Search Pigeon is a collection of Google Co-op Custom Search Engines designed to make researching on the web a richer, more rewarding, and more efficient process. Designed for researchers in the Arts and Humanities, with a decidedly interdisciplinary bent, the objective of Search Pigeon is to provide a tool enabling the productive and trustworthy garnering of scholarly articles through customized searching. Right now SearchPigeon.org provides CSEs that search hundreds of peer-reviewed and open access online journal, provided they are either English-language journals, or provide a translation of their site into English"

It's a Virtual Life: exploring social networks

It's a Virtual Life: exploring social networks - "Are you using Facebook, Second Life, Yahoo Groups, Bebo, LibraryThing, LiveJournal, MySpace and the like? Are your library users asking for advice on these types of communities? Come and find out more about many aspects of online social networking. Talks will cover general issues plus a variety of examples of running and using such networks" - 17 April 2008 - Ipswich, UK

The South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal

The South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal is a new peer-reviewed open-access journal of social science research on South Asia

The (UK) National Archives user forum

The (UK) National Archives user forums are open to all, providing users with the opportunity to be kept up-to-date with developments that concern them

Northamptonshire County Council libraries to sell reusable carrier bags

Reusable shopping bags will go on sale in the Northamptonshire's libraries (UK) later this year as part of a bid to banish plastic carriers

Elsevier Foundation grants

"On February 13, 2008 the Elsevier Foundation announced a total of $594,000 in new grants to thirteen institutions from around the world, selected for their innovation and potential for impact in the developing world and the academic workplace"

Nine volumes of State Papers, Foreign now live

The first nine volumes of the State Papers, Foreign series are now live. These cover the years of Elizabeth's reign from 1564 to 1582. The rest of the series will be added in the coming months at British History Online

ARL guide to NIH public access policy now online

The Association of Research Libraries has developed a Web-based guide to assist research institutions in implementing the new Public Access Policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health. The new NIH Public Access Policy, which becomes effective April 7, 2008, calls for mandatory deposit in PubMed Central of peer-reviewed electronic manuscripts stemming from NIH funding. The change from a voluntary to mandatory policy creates new expectations, not just of funded investigators, but also of the grantee institutions that support those investigators

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival - "Some 250 writers will descend on Christ Church to debate, discuss ideas and share their passion for their subject. Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Melvyn Bragg, Mavis Cheek, Monty Don, Sebastian Faulks, Adam Hart-Davis, Douglas Hurd, Joanne Harris, Roy Hattersley, Lisa Jardine, Peter Jones, Hanif Kureishi, Oona King, James Naughtie, Philip Pullman, Libby Purves, Ben Okri, Jonathan Sacks, John Simpson, Roy Strong, and many more are all coming to this year's festival. Our panel discussions will take on major issues affecting our lives and ask pointed questions about global politics, climate change, science and much more. For addicts of heated debate, our discussions on the future of Palestine, the solace of nature writing, the threat to our oceans and the rubbish that passes itself off as 'news', will all be irresistible draws" - 31 March to 6 April 2008

Lincoln and his Circle at the University of Rochester

The project seeks to digitize and make available the letters to, from, and about Abraham Lincoln that are held in the collections of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester, USA

Borders Personal Publishing

"Borders Personal Publishing is a new service that enables Borders customers to publish their own books quickly, easily, and cost effectively in paperback or hard cover formats. This new Borders program is powered by Lulu.com. Lulu provides the technology you'll use to publish your book online. Now, Borders customers can create their own professionally-bound works, whether they are personal gifts for friends, family, and colleagues or works intended for the retail market"

CACUL Innovation Achievement Award - call for nominations

The intent of CACUL's Innovation Achievement Award is to recognize academic libraries which, through innovation in ongoing programs/services or in a special event/project, have contributed to the advancement of academic librarianship and library development.
The award consists of $1000 and a plaque. The application deadline is February 28, 2008. CACUL is The Canadian Association of College and University Libraries

SOLSTICE Conference 2008

The SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Edge Hill University has announced its 3rd international conference. Building on the success of the 2007 conference, which attracted over 200 delegates from across the UK and as far away as Russia and New Zealand, the 2008 conference will focus on the relationships between research, innovation, and development - 5 June 2008 - Lancashire, UK

Graduate Certificate in Digital Information Management (DigIn)

"The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science and The University of Arizona Office of Continuing Education jointly administer the graduate certificate program in Digital Information Management (DigIn). DigIn provides hands-on experience and focused instruction for people seeking new careers in or improving their skills and knowledge of digital archives, digital libraries, digital document repositories and other kinds of digital collections. he application deadline for summer admission and scholarship applications is April 1"

ABC-CLIO eZine - February 2008

The February 2008 issue of the ABC-CLIO eZine is now available online

3rd International Plagiarism Conference

The 3rd International Plagiarism Conference examines the challenges facing institutions as they evolve solutions to the issue of ensuring authenticity in learners' work in a changing information environment. The conference will seek to consider best practice from secondary through to higher education - 23-25 June 2008 - Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Technologies to Promote Your Libraries with Stephen Abram

Technologies to Promote Your Libraries with Stephen Abram: "In our fast changing Web 2.0 on-line world, how do we keep up with new technologies to use promote our libraries? One way is to talk to those in the know and that's what this audio session is all about. Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates, interviews globe-traveling Stephen Abram about the cool new technology tools he has experienced, heard about, observed as well as interesting research about new technologies, specifically those that can be used to promote the library. Through exciting stories, Abram shares his knowledge of new technologies and examples of libraries using them, and provides lots of places to look for further resources" - February 19, 2008

VALA 2008 conference presentations

Presentations from the VALA 2008 conference, held 5-7 February in Melbourne, Australia, are now available

OCLC awarded Mellon grant to conduct museum data exchange study

OCLC has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further develop standards for museum data exchange. The $145,000 grant will be used by OCLC to fund projects involving OCLC Programs and Research and seven RLG Programs art museum partners to build an information architecture and model behaviors that museums can use to routinely exchange data

Electronic Collection Development for the Academic E-Library

Electronic Collection Development for the Academic E-Library: An ACRL Online Seminar -
In this hands-on course you will learn to create an academic e-library collection development plan for free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for a patron community of your choice. Students will focus on developing a collection plan for one library patron group of their choice. Patron groups may include: faculty, students, researchers, general public, subject specialists, etc. This collection plan will be developed in five parts. Each part includes lecture, discussion and hands-on activities that will step participants through creating or assessing a collection plan for developing a e-library collection - March 10-28, 2008

2008 National Book Festival

The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2008, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine). The event is free and open to the public.

INSOURCE 2008 proceedings

Proceedings now available from INSOURCE 2008: Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, February 5-6, 2008

WilsonWeb CX Edition

WilsonWeb CX Edition - "the next generation of WilsonWeb, features a sleeker interface, for even faster loading and better integration with your institution's website; clearer screens and more accessible tools for quicker, more intuitive searching; simplified Print, Email & Save functions; a simplified Search History screen; electronic translation of full-text articles into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Korean; plus interface enhancements for such databases as Biography Reference Bank, Art Museum Image Gallery, Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus, and Current Issues in Health"

JISC Inform 20

JISC Inform 20, 18 February 2008, is now available. In this issue: how international collaboration is vital to JISC's work; a new Jazz repository; intellectual property rights in a Web 2.0 world; a new report looks at the 'Google Generation'

Cites & Insights 8:3 available: The Centenary Issue

Cites & Insights 8:3 (March 2008) is now available for downloading

JISC Collections considering World Biographical Information System Online

"JISC Collections is considering a licensing agreement for World Biographical Information System Online. The database contains a wealth of biographical information drawn from original sources, covering men and women of all classes and professions from around the world, ranging from the 4th millennium BC to the present. These factors combine to give WBIS Online a social, geographic and historical scope that makes it unique"

Scopus adds 600 titles

Scopus has announced that it will add 600 titles to its database of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals

Law Library of Congress now offers RSS feeds

"The Law Library of Congress now offers RSS feeds for use in an RSS reader or RSS-enabled Web browser. Library feeds consist of headline, brief summary, and a link that leads back to the Library's Web site for more information. Available feeds cover: Law Library News and Events, Law Library Webcasts, Legal Research Reports, and the Global Legal Monitor"

Other library-related feeds can be found at the RSS Compendium

Getting Started with Screencasting - March 2008

Getting Started with Screencasting: This two hour session will explore screencasting - delivering screen captures via RSS - and its potential applications in the academic library. Participants will be provided with examples of screencasts, information on various software applications used to create screencasts, and tips for choosing content, preparing, recording and delivering a screencast. March 11, 2008

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Love. Answers here.

1. In the 1590s, who wrote the comedy "Love's Labour's Lost"?
2. At the height of the Vietnam War, the slogan of the summer of 1967 was "Make love not...what"?
3. Which American film actor and director made the films "Love and Death" (1975) and "Everyone Says I Love You" (1997)?
4. Which song about love was written by the Beatles for a television programme entitled "Our World" which linked 24 countries by global satellite in June 1967?
5. In 1964, which US jazz saxophonist made an album called "A Love Supreme" which is considered to be his masterpiece?
6. In 1973, which singer produced the instrumental hit by the Love Unlimited Orchestra called "Love's Theme"?
7. Was "love apple" the original name given to the tomato, the peach or the pomegranate?
8. Which singer-songwriter recorded an album in 1970 called "Songs of Love and Hate"?
9. What does it mean when a love letter carries the coded message "ITALY"?
10. Which composer wrote the opera "L'Elisir d'Amore" - that is, "The Love Potion"?

CaSTA 2008 in Saskatchewan

CaSTA 2008 (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon from 16-18 October 2008 and will feature two main components: a pre-conference workshop on "Digitizing Material Culture" and the conference proper on the theme of "New Directions in Text Analysis." This combination of interests is intended to foster connections between scholars working in textual analysis and those working in other areas of humanities computing

A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University

A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University is a collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. It includes over 1,000 scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries first collaborative effort to make a historic collection digitially available. Collections are contributed from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance. The collection includes photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events. These images present HBCUs as cultural, social, and political institutions from the early 1800's until today

Public Library of Law

Public Library of Law "is the largest free law library in the world, because we assemble law available for free scattered across many different sites - all in one place

Carnival of the Infosciences #88

Carnival of the Infosciences #88 hosted by Library Garden. Previous Carnivals can be found here

ProQuest acquires WebFeat

ProQuest has acquired WebFeat. ProQuest plans to merge WebFeat with Serials Solutions, its Seattle-based business unit and developer of e-resource access and management tools for libraries

EDUCAUSE Quarterly

EDUCAUSE Quarterly - Volume 31, Number 1, 2008 is now available

The Managing Information Across Partners (MIAP) database

Managing Information Across Partners (MIAP) will streamline the collection, handling and sharing of information on learning and achievement for education and training organisations. It will enable excellent services to be made available to individuals, employers and communities. MIAP's Learner Registration Service will be capable of issuing a Unique Learner Number (ULN) to every person aged 14 and over in education and training, and will allow them to build a lifelong record of their participation and achievements. The LRS was launched in September 2007 with 'early adopter' organisations across England committed to using the service. Wider roll out of the service will commence early in 2008

LCCN Permalink from Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has announced LCCN Permalink - a new persistent URL service for creating links to bibliographic records in the Library of Congress Online Catalog using the Library of Congress Control Number

Rushworth's 'Historical Collections' at British History Online

Volume 1 is now live. John Rushworth's eight-volume work is a fundamental source for the political history of seventeenth-century England. The remaining seven volumes should appear over the next five months

FreePint Newsletter 246

FreePint Newsletter 246 - 14 February, 2008 now available

2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature winner

The 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has been awarded to Lucette Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. An award ceremony will take place in April 2008

2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize winner

"The winner of this year's Waterstone's Children's Book Prize is Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls. Ways to Live Forever is a scrapbook of lists, stories, pictures, questions and facts put together by 11-year-old Sam..."

SAGE donates to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital/Library

"SAGE has announced that it recently made a $2.5 million donation to the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to support the rebuilding of the hospital, including its new medical library. Additionally, because it is a teaching hospital and the only Level II Trauma Center between Los Angeles and San Francisco, SAGE has also made its entire collection of science, medical, and technology journals available to the staff at no charge"

Wildy & Sons Ltd RSS feeds

Wildy & Sons Ltd, the London, UK-based law bookseller, has RSS feeds for forthcoming titles and subjects

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - February 14, 2008

Podcast: The Strategic Content Alliance with Emma Beer

"The Strategic Content Alliance is a three year JISC-funded initiative committed to delivering a co-ordinated framework of principles and best practice for the provision of online e-content for UK citizens. Its aim is to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded e-content can gain best value from those resources. Emma Beer is the manager for the SCA and in this interview she speaks with Robert Haymon-Collins at Online Educa in Berlin about the SCA, business models & sustainability and e-content alliance partnerships in general"

Domesday freely available on the internet

"Domesday Book (1086) is the oldest and most famous public record, the 'jewel in the crown' of the National Archives. The history of the great majority of English towns and villages begins with Domesday Book which records - as one disgruntled contemporary complained - every sheep, cow and pig in the country, as well as every landowner, peasant and taxpayer and their resources. It is the most comprehensive collection of social and economic data of the pre-industrial world. The data can be accessed through the Data Catalogue held at the UKDA. An Athens ID and password is needed to access the collection"

eBooks on Demand

"eBooks on Demand is a new and exciting service, whereby millions of books will be available on request in electronic form. This project, co-funded by the EU, comprises 13 European libraries from 8 countries"

Wanted: photos of Anne Lipow in action

Roy Tennant writes: "In the next month or so I will be publishing a book on Lulu.com in honor of my good friend, colleague, and mentor Anne Lipow. It consists of a dozen essays on technology in libraries contributed by those who were close to her or were touched by her writings. The book will be available for free download from the book web site, as well as for purchase in hardback. I want to include an image of Anne 'in action' - speaking, teaching, or working with a group of librarians as only she could. But I find, to my dismay, that I have none. Therefore I'm hoping that among all the many people that Anne touched someone will have a photo or two to share that may be just the one for the frontispiece of this book. Please let me know if you think it's you"

African-American Women Students at The University of Iowa

"Though The University of Iowa was one of the first institutions to open admission to African Americans, African American women students at the University have often had to overcome other barriers to an equal education. This collection brings together newspaper articles, photographs, correspondence, oral histories, and other primary sources chronicling their university experiences"

Darwin Day Celebration

"Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the day that Charles Darwin was born on in 1809. Specifically, it celebrates the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin - the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor. More generally, Darwin Day expresses gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity"

LexisNexis InfoPro updated

LexisNexis InfoPro has been updated with a new look and new features

Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide

David Solomon writes: "Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide is to my knowledge the first comprehensive book on creating an open access (OA) journal. Thousands of OA journals have been developed over the last 15 years and are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of specialized knowledge that most people interested in creating such journals lack. The goal of the book is to provide the essential information needed and guide someone through the process of designing and operating a successful OA journal"

British Museum takes collection online

"The British Museum has set up a new website to provide more details of its collection to the public. It has described the launch of its Collection Online as a landmark in its history. It will enable the public to access records for approximately 260,000 objects, making this one of the largest museum collection databases on the web. The project is ongoing but at launch it will include records for pictorial art objects in the collection (50,000 drawings and 180,000 prints). Other departmental collections will be added during 2008, and the database is expected to be completed during 2009"

Harvard faculty adopts Open-Access requirement

"Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has adopted a policy that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online"

'Embracing the Spirit of the Avant Garde' postgraduate competition winner

"Avant Garde in the 21st century is revealed through a new installation at the British Library by competition winner Rebecca Pohancenik from Kingston University. The competition was organised by the British Library to accompany its current exhibition, 'Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde'. Postgraduate students from across the creative disciplines were invited to submit designs that explored the relevance of Avant Garde philosophy and demonstrate how it has influenced their work"

BlogHighEd

"BlogHighEd is a higher ed blogger network. We are trying to unify the community of bloggers that talk about the 'higher ed' niche. We want to aggregate the best of the best in higher ed from all areas: webmasters, marketers, vendors, counselors, consultants, and more"

NLM Drug Information Portal

The National Library of Medicine has announced the release of the NLM Drug Information Portal, which gives the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers a gateway to current, accurate and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies

Credo Reference Content Update - February 2008

Latest titles added to Credo reference:

Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained
Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia
Dictionary of Existentialism
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy

The Royal Society Library - Spring 2008 events

The Royal Society Library has launched its Spring 2008 events programme

Red House Children's Book Award 2008 shortlist

The shortlist for the Red House Children's Book Award 2008 has been announced

SirsiDynix Institute Web Seminar: February 19, 2008

SirsiDynix Institute Web Seminar: February 19, 2008 - The 21st Century Classroom: Copyright and Electronic Content with Dru Zuretti, Copyright Education Manager, Copyright Clearance Center

Journal of Electronic Publishing

Journal of Electronic Publishing: a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users - volume 11 issue 1 is now available