Thursday, March 12, 2009
Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week
Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - March 12, 2009
Omeka 1.0 Alpha now available
"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"
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Costing and funding digitisation projects executive briefing
Costing and funding digitisation projects executive briefing - 26 March 2009 - London, UK. The programme has been developed by Simon Tanner, Director of Digital Consultancy Services at King's College London, who will chair the day and lead delegates through the programme. It includes Discussion Forums and networking sessions to ensure maximum interaction between speakers and delegates
Media Cloud
"Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon. A Project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard"
FreeLargePhotos.com
"No need to pay for a high resolution shot of the Eiffel Tower, Grand Canyon, Golden Gate Bridge or a lovely sunset. Shots of these and numerous other famous landmarks, cities and places from around the world are now available free at FreeLargePhotos.com. More than 2,600 images sized 4MP or larger are available through FreeLargePhotos.com. The site's developer and manager, Roy Tennant of Sonoma, California, said, 'The photos are free to individuals for personal use, but if they are used on a web site a photo credit and a link to the web site are required.' Commercial interests are charged $50 a shot if an image is used to sell a product or to promote a business or organization.'" - The photo left shows the main entrance hall at the American Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Roy Tennant, photographerUCLA Library acquires Aldous Huxley archive
"The UCLA Library has acquired the literary archive of the visionary novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). The collection contains literary materials he created subsequent to a devastating 1961 fire that destroyed his Los Angeles home and much of his earlier archive; correspondence, photographs, and audio tapes; and typescripts and galley proofs retrieved from publishers after his death. Also included are the papers of his wife, Laura Huxley (1911–2007), an author and lay therapist."
New blog: Library Love Fest from HarperCollins
Library Love Fest is a new blog from the marketing people at from HarperCollins
Scitopia provides free alerts
"Scitopia now provides free alerts from leading scientific and engineering societies around the world. Scitopia Alerts can be set for any routine search of content from any or all of Scitopia's partners, providing you with exactly the breadth or focus you need. Set your own alert terms and Scitopia will conduct your research automatically, delivering the results at the frequency that makes sense for you."
ARSC Conference 2009
The 43rd annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference will be held at the Liaison Capitol Hill hotel in Washington, DC on May 27-30, 2009. In addition to the many exciting presentations offered during the conference, there will be a highly anticipated pre-conference tour of the new Library of Congress Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center on May 27, 2009 (a separate registration fee applies; participation is limited to 100). Attendees will also be within walking distance of many of the city's museums and monuments
Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles
Graham Swift's archive acquired by the British Library
The British Library has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist Graham Swift. The collection of 75 file boxes contains manuscripts, notes, revisions and proofs relating to all eight of his novels - including Waterland and the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders - his short story collection Learning to Swim and his recently published non-fiction collection Making an Elephant. The collection dates back to Swift's early work from the 1970s, and even includes essays written at Cambridge University (on Shakespeare, Donne, Tolstoy, and Joyce) and a composition on Hamlet written at Dulwich College in the early 1960s (the school-boy essay is marked 'excellent', although a reference to T S Eliot is marked by his teacher as 'terribly snooty'!)Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974
GreyNet Newsletter - January/February 2009
GreyNet Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 1, January/February 2009. This new serial publication endeavors to keep information professionals abreast of developments in the field of grey literature. The bimonthly newsletter gives exposure to GreyNet's information resources and frontline activities with special emphasis on the International Conference Series on Grey Literature. The GreyNet Newsletter replaces the monthly GL Conference Memoranda (2003-2008) and is made possible through the support of GreyNet's Associate Members and Corporate Authors: The British Library (United Kingdom), INIST-CNRS (France), New York Academy of Medicine (United States), and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
"We Shall Remain" on PBS TV
"From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history" - April 2009
Guardian (UK) launches Open Platform tool to make online content available free
The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it "into the fabric of the internet". Open Platform launched with two separate content-sharing services, which will allow users to build their own applications in return for carrying Guardian advertising. A content application programming interface (API) will smooth the way for web developers to build applications and services using Guardian content, while a Data Store will contain datasets curated by Guardian editors and open for others to use.
UK PubMed Central Blog
The UK PubMed Central Blog has been created as a way of alerting researchers to:
* new service developments at UK PubMed Central
* changes to publisher policies in terms of open access and self-archiving
* relevant news from the open access (OA) blogosphere
* new service developments at UK PubMed Central
* changes to publisher policies in terms of open access and self-archiving
* relevant news from the open access (OA) blogosphere
AquaBrowser chosen by Harvard University Library
"AquaBrowser Library has been chosen by the Harvard University Library as its search and discovery platform. The AquaBrowser implementation will include faceted navigation, word cloud discovery, relevancy ranking, an integrated Authority File, real-time availability information for items, and integration with the ILS for patron services such as placing holds, making requests, viewing checkouts, and renewing items."
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
The complete series of the Calendar of State Papers, Spain, is now live. These 19 volumes cover Spanish papers concerning relations with England for all the Tudor monarchs up to Elizabeth. The Elizabethan papers can be found in the complementary Simancas series which is already live on the site. - From British History Online
Monday, March 09, 2009
LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #63
LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #63. "In this week's episode we hear from Peter Eckersley, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about their new Surveillance Self-Defense guide. Tools such as Tor and GnuPG are also presented in addition to a mention of the show's relevant GnuPG public key". Previous Podcasts can be found here
Is this portrait the real Shakespeare at last?
"A portrait owned for nearly 300 years by a family will be claimed as the only known picture of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. No other image, executed at first hand, is thought to exist of Britain's greatest writer. The claim will be supported by the world's foremost expert on Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, emeritus professor of Shakespeare studies at Birmingham University and general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare series for 30 years. The portrait, which was painted in 1610, six years before the playwright's death, has been in the possession of the Cobbe family since the early 18th century. It was initially kept at a property in Hampshire but more recently in Hatchlands, the family house in Surrey, which is run by the National Trust." - The AustralianKew via Exact Editions
Kew, the quarterly magazine of the Royal Botanic Gardens, is now available via Exact Editions
British Library acquires The Communist Manifesto
"Appearing as a wave of revolutions swept Europe in Spring 1848, the pamphlet that we know as The Communist Manifesto was first printed in London. An association of German political exiles sponsored the printing - in German, by an obscure radical press - of what would undoubtedly become one of the most momentous political works of all time. 160 years on, the British Library has acquired what is believed to be the only complete copy of the first edition of The Communist Manifesto to be held in the UK, and the only copy in the world to be held by a national library"
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Los Angeles Times 2008 Book Prize finalists announced
The 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be awarded Friday evening at 8pm, April 24, 2009, in a private ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building. The 2008 Book Prizes Event will be a private event not open to the general public.Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival 2009
Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival 2009 will take place between 6-14 March at The Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland
MyCopy from Springer
"Springer has launched MyCopy powered by SpringerLink, a pilot project to expand its services to eBook users. MyCopy allows a library's registered patrons to order soft cover copies, for their personal use, of those Springer eBooks that the library has previously purchased. Initially, 14 selected libraries and research institutions in the USA and Canada take part in the pilot project with more test partners set to join in early 2009. The MyCopy offer is currently valid for more than 11,000 eBooks out of a total of 30,000 Springer eBooks published since 2005. MyCopy books feature a full color cover while the book content itself is printed in black and white. They can be ordered by registered patrons at libraries that have previously purchased a Springer eBook collection. All MyCopy books are priced at $24.95 (including shipping and handling within the USA and Canada)"
2009 Digital Music Report
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries has released its 2009 Digital Music Report on the state of digital technology in the music industry. While the report finds that the industry has succeeded in changing its business models, its biggest challenge is still illegal music downloads
First look at new 'green' library (Cardiff, Wales)
"Funky furniture, listening hubs, a grass roof and an mini grand piano - no it's not the latest Big Brother house but Cardiff's spanking new library. The six storey building is a world away from the dark, dank and dusty libraries of old and has already been rewarded for its green design credentials. The idea, according to Cardiff council, is to make the library as attractive and welcoming as possible to visitors. The library opens its doors to the public on Saturday 14 March" - BBCSaturday, March 07, 2009
Focus on Mimas - March 2009
The March 2009 edition of Focus on Mimas is now available. Mimas is a national data centre, supported by JISC and ESRC, and based at The University of Manchester, England
BMJ Group Institutional Newsletter - March 2009
The March 2009 issue of the BMJ Group Institutional Newsletter is now available
New blog: digital stewardship now
"digital stewardship now will regularly post about milestones, issues, challenges and solutions emerging across the global digital stewardship landscape. We will endeavor to frame activity across disciplines and geographies, and provide visualizations of this rapidly evolving field to improve coherence and understanding"
eduWeb Conference 2009
eduWeb Conference 2009 - 20-22 July 2009 - Chicago, USA. The conference is also on Twitter
Curating Research 2009
Curating Research 2009: e-Merging New Roles and Responsibilities in the European Landscape - A workshop on long-term digital preservation - 17 April 2009 - Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague
Indiana University offers open source digital music library software, Variations
"Variations provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property. In addition to access tools, Variations also includes analysis and annotation tools useful in music teaching and learning. With Variations, institutions can digitize recordings and scores from their own collections and provide those materials to their students and faculty in support of teaching, learning, and research"
American Library Association announces winner of annual James Madison Award
The American Library Association has announced that the winner of the annual James Madison Award is Thomas M. Susman, the director of the American Bar Association's Government Affairs Office. The James Madison Award, named in honor of President James Madison, was established by the ALA in 1986 to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public’s "right to know" on the national level
CLIR Issues - Number 67
CLIR Issues - Number 67, January/February 2009 - is now available from the Council on Library and Information Resources
Podcast: Tracing scottish ancestors
"Holding records for Scotland from the union in 1707, The National Archives holds documents on many of our Scottish ancestors. Find out how to go about discovering them in this talk by Audrey Collins" - UK National Archives
Scotland's shared digital library gives researchers vital edge
"In the first scheme of its kind in the UK, Scotland's university researchers are to benefit from a shared digital library that will widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications. The Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) is considered vital to the development of Scottish-based research, over half of which was rated internationally excellent or world-leading in last month's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). SHEDL has been backed by all of Scotland's HEIs, who hope it will support research, learning and teaching. It is also expected to stimulate research both across different disciplines and between institutions - a feature of Scotland's research scene singled out for praise in the RAE."
2009 ESRC Festival of Social Science (UK)
"The ESRC Festival of Social Science runs from 6-15 March 2009 as part of National Science and Engineering Week. The Festival provides a fascinating insight into some of the country's leading social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future. This annual, weeklong programme of events held across the UK is designed to communicate information about the social sciences and how social science impacts on our lives. The events take a variety of formats, from traditional lectures and seminars, to exhibitions, film screenings and topical debates. Furthermore, they are aimed at a range of different audiences, including policy makers, business, the media, the general public and students of all ages."
2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics
2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures and service activities of academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications, is now available from ACRL. The publication includes survey data from 1,311 academic libraries covering five major categories:
* Collections (including volumes, serials, multimedia)
* Expenditures (library materials, wages and salaries, other operating)
* Electronic Resources (including expenditures, collections, services, usage)
* Personnel and Public Services (staff and services)
* Ph.D.s Granted, Faculty, Student Enrollment
* Collections (including volumes, serials, multimedia)
* Expenditures (library materials, wages and salaries, other operating)
* Electronic Resources (including expenditures, collections, services, usage)
* Personnel and Public Services (staff and services)
* Ph.D.s Granted, Faculty, Student Enrollment
Friday, March 06, 2009
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: True or False? Answers here.
1. The word "blog" is a shortened form of "weblog."
2. Anthropology is the study of mankind.
3. The royal penguin is the largest known species of penguin.
4. "Le Corbusier" is the pseudonym of the architect Walter Gropius.
5. Singer/songwriter Peter Skellern formed a group called "Oasis" in 1984.
6. The cube root of 125 is 5.
7. The word "jabberwocky" was coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in "Alice in Wonderland."
8. Acidophilus is a minor character in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
9. The more sides a polygon has, the larger the sum of its internal angles.
10. The title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "Tender is the Night" comes from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.
1. The word "blog" is a shortened form of "weblog."
2. Anthropology is the study of mankind.
3. The royal penguin is the largest known species of penguin.
4. "Le Corbusier" is the pseudonym of the architect Walter Gropius.
5. Singer/songwriter Peter Skellern formed a group called "Oasis" in 1984.
6. The cube root of 125 is 5.
7. The word "jabberwocky" was coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in "Alice in Wonderland."
8. Acidophilus is a minor character in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
9. The more sides a polygon has, the larger the sum of its internal angles.
10. The title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "Tender is the Night" comes from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.
2009 Blue Peter Book Awards winner announced
The winners of the 2009 Blue Peter Book Awards have been announced. Shadow Forest by Matt Haig was the Overall Winner and also won the Book I Couldn't Put Down category. The Best Book with Facts was Planet in Peril by Anita Ganeri. The Most Fun Story with Pictures was Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman.
The Golden Kite Awards 2009 winners announced
The winners of The Golden Kite Awards 2009 have been announced. The Golden Kite Awards, given annually to recognize excellence in children's literature, grant cash prizes of $2,500 to author and illustrator winners in four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Book Text, and Picture Book Illustration. Authors and illustrators will also receive an expense-paid trip to Los Angeles to attend the award ceremony at the Golden Kite Luncheon at SCBWI's Summer Conference in AugustMarch 2009 Early Reviewer books at LibraryThing
The March 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 2140 copies of 72 books available this month
Open Access Week declared for 2009
From SPARC: "To accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward Open Access to scholarly research results, October 19-23, 2009 will mark the first international Open Access Week. The now-annual event, expanded from one day to a full week, presents an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public"
ARL publishes first e-only bimonthly report, Research Library Issues
The Association of Research Libraries has published its first e-only bimonthly report, Research Library Issues, which now sports a new look and title. The e-only format enables broad distribution of the articles and the introduction of new features, such as audio excerpts from speaker presentations. The focus of the publication continues to be on the major issues that affect the ability of research libraries to meet the academic and research needs of the diverse communities they serve. The first issue of RLI, no. 262 (February 2009), features two ARL statements - on the university's role in the dissemination of research and scholarship, and on the global economic crisis - and an article by University of Washington's Elisabeth Jones on "Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum." In addition, ARL's Martha Kyrillidou writes on "Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century."
Tesco Book Club seeks Real Readers Panel members (UK)
Tesco Book Club has launched a national search for its first ever Real Readers Panel, which will give members the chance to recommend the latest titles to fellow Tesco shoppers and see their reviews in print. From August a five-strong team will choose forthcoming books of the month and their reviews will be printed on the back of the monthly selection, which will be on sale in Tesco stores throughout the UKThe Book to Talk About 2009 winner announced
Natasha Mostert and her book The Season of the Witch was named the winner of The Book to Talk About 2009. Natasha was announced as winner at a ceremony in London on World Book Day, Thursday 5 MarchThursday, March 05, 2009
Freeze Frame: Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982
"The Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge holds a world-class collection of photographic negatives illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards. Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Here you can discover the polar regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth."Today is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland
World Book Day is the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the UK and Ireland
Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces connects you with nine UK national museums and galleries allowing you to explore their collections, find like-minded people and create your own content
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog update
The March 4, 2009 edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available
2008 Discover Great New Writers Awards winners
Barnes & Noble has announced the winners of its 2008 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists, $2,500. The winners are: Fiction - The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips; Nonfiction - Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
Online Toolkit for Building Gaming @ Your Library - ALA
The American Library Association released its Online Toolkit for Building Gaming @ Your Library and with it, a 10-minute video walkthrough of the entire initiative:
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Library of Congress Information Bulletin - October 2008
Library of Congress Information Bulletin - Vol. 67, No 10 - October 2008 - is now available online
Most popular UK libraries revealed
"A library in East Anglia has been revealed as England's most popular for the second year running. The Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library had more visitors and lent more books than any other in 2007/08. Library visitor numbers were also high in Birmingham, Manchester, Croydon and Brighton, the Museums and Libraries Archive Council poll found. Chelmsford Library, in Essex, was the second highest book lender, followed by Milton Keynes, Oxford and Chesterfield. The Norfolk library attracted 1,500,695 visitors and lent 1,139,090 books during the period" - BBC
Patrick Coleman wins Kay Sexton prize
Patrick Coleman, the acquisitions librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society and a member of the board of directors of Coffee House Press, has been honored with this year's Kay Sexton Award. The award is given annually to a person who is dedicated to books and to fostering reading in Minnesota.Crossroads - March 2008
Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - March 2009 issue is now available
JISC Podcast: Theatre Archive now live online
"Over 15,000 rare photographs, posters and press cuttings charting the history of East London theatre are now freely available online as part of the East London Theatre Archive (ELTA), a digitisation project spearheaded by the University of East London and funded by JISC. In this podcast, project manager Yvonne Klein talks to Kerry O'Neill to describe what makes this rich digital archive so unique, and how opening up online access to these documents - which would otherwise be too fragile to handle - will add value and interest to the learning and teaching experience."
BBC Focus on Africa Magazine via Exact Editions
Myslexia via Exact Editions
Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles
DPE Digital Preservation Video Training
Watch the videos:
* DPE Digital preservation video training course.
Recorded at: DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor Joint Training Event: Starting out: Preserving Digital Objects - Principles and Practice 13-17 October 2008.
* WePreserve Forum 2008.
Recorded at: 17th October 2008, Prague
* DPE Digital preservation video training course.
Recorded at: DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor Joint Training Event: Starting out: Preserving Digital Objects - Principles and Practice 13-17 October 2008.
* WePreserve Forum 2008.
Recorded at: 17th October 2008, Prague
Book on life under Stalin banned by Kremlin, claims Orlando Figes
Atticus, the Russian publishers, have cancelled their contract with the award-winning British author, Orlando Figes, for his latest work, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. Their decision comes after masked officers from the Russian general prosecutor's office raided the offices of Memorial, a human rights organisation which helped Professor Figes research the book. As well as confiscating about a third of the material used for the book, the officers seized Memorial's entire St Petersburg archive, according to Prof Figes. The archive included vast historical databases containing information on repression in the country, as well as recordings and transcripts of interviews, he said. - TelegraphTuesday, March 03, 2009
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2001-2004
"On 5 March 2009 Oxford University Press publishes the first print supplement to the 60 volume Oxford DNB (2004). The new volume includes entries on 819 men and women who shaped modern Britain and who died between 2001 and 2004. Each January since 2005 the Oxford DNB's online edition has added approximately 200 new biographies of noteworthy figures who died in a single year after 2000. It is these life-stories, accompanied by 277 portraits, which are now published in a single volume - moving forward the boundary of the original 60 volumes into the twenty-first century"SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #131
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #131 - March 2, 2009 is now available
Skills for Scotland: information literacy, libraries and learning
Skills for Scotland: information literacy, libraries and learning - 19 March 2009 - Glasgow, Scotland
Ariadne - Issue 58, January 2009
Ariadne - Issue 58, January 2009 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
'Pay what you want' ebook from Faber
"Faber is to launch a "pay what you like" ebook six weeks ahead of the title's physical publication. The independent publisher claims to be the first to sell a book in this manner. The ebook, and a PDF format, of a work of non-fiction, Ben Wilson's What Price Liberty?, will launch on 27th April allowing readers to "have the freedom to pay whatever price they choose for the book, or even download it for free", Faber said. The success of this experiment would determine whether the publisher considered a similar route in the future. Silvia Novak, Faber marketing executive, said the main aim was "to stimulate debate for the issues at the centre of this book, as well as generating interest for the book itself". - Bookseller
AALL Spectrum - March 2009
AALL Spectrum - March 2009 is now available from the American Association of Law Libraries
iPRES 2008: Proceedings now available
This volume brings together the proceedings of iPRES 2008, the Fifth International Conference on Digital Preservation, held at The British Library on 29-30 September, 2008
World Book Day Mingle Event at The British Library
World Book Day Mingle Event: British Library, Thursday 5 March 19.00-22.30. "Calling all men, your National Library needs you. Set against the stunning backdrop of the British Library's grand entrance hall, the 'Mingle' event offers London's literary gents the perfect opportunity to try out a bit of Shakespeare, or quote Casanova in the search of that happy ending to their very own love story. Accompanied by the Parisian swing style music of the Kings Cross Hot Club, the evening's entertainments will involve a range of World Book Day themed activities, including games, competitions and intriguing attractions guaranteed to help 'break the ice' with the gaggle of 'Library Lovelies'
ACRL Podcast: Playing On "Practice Fields"
In this podcast, ACRL 14th National Conference Virtual Conference Committee Co-Chair Scott Walter talks with Craig Gibson about the contributed paper "Playing on 'Practice Fields': Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries." Gibson presents his paper in Seattle from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 13
Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader
"Against a backdrop of plummeting ad revenue for newspapers and magazines, and rising costs for paper and delivery, Hearst Corp. is getting set to launch an electronic reader that it hopes can do for periodicals what Amazon's Kindle is doing for books" - Fortune
CellBook signs agreement with Oxford University Press to distribute Oxford's dictionaries on mobile phones
CellBook, a Cape Town, South Africa-based mobile applications developer, has signed an agreement with Oxford University Press to distribute the Oxford Dictionary of English, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, Compact Oxford English Dictionary for University and College Students, Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Thesaurus of English and the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus on mobile phones in Africa
Monday, March 02, 2009
Tizra Publisher
Tizra Publisher is a web-based software service that lets content owners create branded commerce websites from existing content, with complete control over branding, merchandising and sales terms
Getty Research Institute launches new online cataloging initiative
"The Getty Research Institute has announced the launch of Uncovering Archives and Rare Photographs: Two Models for Creating Accession-level Finding Aids Using Archivists' Toolkit, a cataloging project that will allow scholars across disciplines to access GRI archives and rare photographs previously out of reach. The project aims to improve access to seven archives that document the intersection of art and language in the 20th-century, and 34 collections and albums of rare 19th- and early 20th-century photographs in three subject areas: Asia and Orientalism, Cities and Sites, and Expositions and World Fairs. It will create catalog records and finding aids for a diverse range of materials including letters, manuscripts, artists' books, audio and video recordings, drawings, printed ephemera, slides, stereographs, and 26,000 rare 19th- and early 20th-century photographic prints"
Journal of Electronic Publishing - February 2009
Journal of Electronic Publishing: a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users - volume 12 issue 1 - February 2009 is now available
LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #62
LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #62. "We've got two interviews this week. In the first we talk to Rod Wagner, the director of the Nebraska Library Commission. Following that we talk to Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Foley. Both interviews revolve around the same matter, namely the audit triggered when an unsuspecting taxpayer stumbled across a video of Nebraska Library Commission librarians on YouTube that did not look quite right to the taxpayer. There is a commentary following the two interviews discussing lessons that could be learned from the incident". Previous Podcasts can be found here
JISC launches first e-book
"JISC has just launched its first e-book. The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-business models to deliver quality education offers senior managers in further and higher education best-practice guidance for applying e-business approaches to their institutionsArchives Hub Collections of the Month, March 2009
Archives Hub Collections of the Month, March 2009: Special Feature: Manchester Histories Festival - "This month sees the very first Manchester Histories Festival, an exploration of Manchester's unique and fascinating past. The Festival is a one-day public event held in Manchester Town Hall. Nine of our contributors are involved in the Festival. This month's special feature highlights how they are involved and includes links to their collections on the Hub" Archives Hub is now on Twitter
Read Across America - National Education Association
"The National Education Association annually sponsors Read Across America. Now in its twelfth year, the program focuses on motivating children to read, in addition to helping them master basic skills. The nationwide reading celebration takes place each year on or near March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, community centers, and more participate by bringing together kids and books, and you can too"Family History Month at National Library of New Zealand
"The National Library of New Zealand invites you to uncover your heritage with the launch of Family History Month, 2-28 March 2009. Family History Month will be celebrated with a daily programme of events at the National Library of New Zealand brought to you by the Wellington branches of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists"
Journal of Library Innovation - call for papers
Journal of Library Innovation - publishing original research, literature reviews, commentaries, case studies, reports on innovative practices, and book, conference and product reviews. The premiere issue will be published in January 2010. Call for papers now available.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology via Project Muse
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, published by University of Illinois Press, is now available via Project Muse
La corónica via Project Muse
La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is now available via Project Muse
UK Research Reserve Phase 2 launched
The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) programme is launched at a reception at the Royal Geographical Society. UKRR is an agreement between higher education and the British Library whereby the British Library will store low-use journals for the HE community and make them accessible to researchers and others using state-of-the-art ordering and delivery systems
Dame Lynne Brindley receives 2009 Miles Conrad Award
The British Library's Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, has received a major award for her contribution to international library and information services. The NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) presented Dame Lynne with the 2009 Miles Conrad Award at its annual conference in Philadelphia
SwetsWise Online Content available on Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch
"Swets is pleased to announce SwetsWise Online Content can be accessed through the Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch. Powered by SwetsWise Subscriptions, SwetsWise Online Content is a single point of contact to one of the most extensive collections of electronic journals currently available in the scholarly information market. SwetsWise Online Content provides users with access to direct links for more than 11,000 journal titles − all from a seamless Web interface and through the convenience of their Personal Digital Assistant. Information users can search relevant online content, utilize multi-level linking, download subscription lists and much more"
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