Free ACRL Springboard Event with Clifford Lynch

Free ACRL Springboard Event with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information - June 3 2009. There is no registration fee for this member event

Glearch Global Search

Glearch stands for "Global + Search" and is a search tool for global business professionals, researchers, travelers and any one who would like to perform searches by specific countries and languages. Glearch selects the top results from Google, Yahoo and MSN as well as the most popular search engines for the selected country and returns results

The Canadian Library Association Announces Winner of the CLA/Information Today Award for Innovative Technology

Canadian Library Association / Association canadienne des bibliothèques has announced that the 2009 recipient of the CLA/Information Today Award for Innovative Technology is the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library (PARL). The award is given in recognition of "Lobster Fishing on the Susan B", a digital story book. "Lobster Fishing on the Susan B" is the first electronic book to be produced by a public library in Nova Scotia. This interactive digital story book describes the lobster fishery in an entertaining and instructive way for children aged 4-8. It was designed with a language arts component, which can be integrated into a teaching curriculum, assisting children learning to read with narration and certain words defined individually. The e-book serves to highlight tourism, economic development and the local artistic community for the northern shore of Nova Scotia

Scoopler

Scoopler is "a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time"

Ottoman Turkish manuscripts week

Developed in association with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, the Wellcome Library is hosting a week-long study course based around its Ottoman Turkish manuscripts.

Date: 1–4 June 2009

Course tutor: Mr Philippe Bora Keskiner, SOAS, University of London

Venue: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

Genocide Studies and Prevention via Project Muse

Genocide Studies and Prevention, published by University of Toronto Press, is now available via Project Muse

Conservative Judaism via Project Muse

Conservative Judaism, published by Rabbinical Assembly, is now available via Project Muse

2009 WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam

"Join fellow coders for a WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, May 13-14, sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and International Institute of Social History (IISH), at IISH headquarters. The European Mashathon follows on the heels of a previous WorldCat Hackathon in New York City. Participants will spend the two days brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems, OCLC Web Services, and many other Web Services to embellish existing library services and create new ones"

Podcast: Catching Victorian and Edwardian criminals on paper

"The problem of serious habitual criminals and how to keep track of them greatly exercised the minds of our Victorian and Edwardian forebears. This lecture focuses on the methods utilised by police and government to record and monitor such offenders, and how the surviving records can be used by present-day historians to investigate both historical and contemporary questions concerning serious and persistent crime - UK National Archives

Book: The Sequel

Perseus Books will be creating a book - from beginning to end - at BookExpo America this year. The book is Book: The Sequel and will be designed, edited, published, promoted, and sold live from BEA's show floor with all the proceeds going to the National Book Foundation. The book will be published in every format - print, eBook, audio

Collaborative Librarianship - Volume 1, Number 2

Collaborative Librarianship - Volume 1, Number 2, 2009 is now available. The journal is sponsored by: Colorado Academic Library Consortium, Colorado Library Consortium, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Regis University, and the University of Denver

2009 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books

The shortlist for the 2009 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books has been announced:

Early years (0-7): Manfred the Baddie by John Fardell, Pink! by Lynne Rickards and Margaret Chamberlain and Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Younger readers (8-11): Dino Egg by Charlie James, The Eleventh Orphan by Joan Lingard and First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts by Lari Don

Older readers: (12-16): Crash by J A Henderson, Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray and The Reckoning by James Jaunce

Palgrave Macmillan announce Access All Areas 2009

Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, has announced that it will offer free online access to its complete journals and online reference portfolio from 1 to 31 May 2009 at www.palgrave.com/accessallareas

After 400 years, health and safety bans stepladders from historic Oxford library...but nobody can reach the books

"Stepladders have been banned from part of Oxford University's historic Bodleian library - because of health and safety fears. The ruling by officials means that students cannot use items on the higher shelves of the Duke Humfrey reading room. However, the university is standing its ground and refusing to move the books from their 'original historic location' on the room's balcony. As a result of the stalemate, students have to travel to libraries as far away as London to view other copies" - Mail

LIBREAS: Library Ideas 14 - Spring 2009

LIBREAS: Library Ideas 14 - Spring 2009 - Open Access und Geisteswissenschaften, is now available online

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

(con)textos : Revista d'Antropologia i Investigació Social

Amsterdam Law Forum

International Journal of Chemistry

International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security

Journal of Injury and Violence Research

Journal of Mathematics Research

The Professional Medical Journal

International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

Libertarian Papers

The Modern Journal of Applied Linguistics

International Journal of Biology

Catalan Historical Review

The International Journal of Applied Economics and Finance

Convivium : Revista de Filosofía

Open Diabetes Journal

Open Statistics & Probability Journal

Open Environmental Pollution & Toxicology Journal

Mystery Beatles lyric is a dream display at the British Library

A previously unseen George Harrison lyric, found by author and collector Hunter Davies, goes on display at the British Library. Written in early 1967 when George was aged 23 or 24, the untitled song was penned at a time when The Beatles had stopped touring to spend more time in the studio to work on what would arguably become their most famous record, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles are still one of the world's greatest bands, almost 40 years after their split. Hunter Davies found the lyric during his research for a new edition of The Beatles official biography, which has just been re released more than 40 years after its original publication. In its introduction, Hunter recalls how he collected Beatles lyrics discarded as scrap paper from the floor of Abbey Road studio and kept them as souvenirs. It's almost certain that they would have been thrown out by the cleaners if he hadn't picked them up

The Seven Journals of SAE International are now online via Stanford's HighWire

The Seven Journals of SAE International are now online via Stanford's HighWire:

SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Electronic and Electrical Systems
SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems
SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles
SAE International Journal of Aerospace
SAE International Journal of Engines
SAE International Journal of Materials & Manufacturing
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants

iPres 2009

iPres 2009: The Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects - 5-6 October, 2009 - San Francisco, CA, USA

Biblio Tech Review - April 2009

The April 2009 issue of Biblio Tech Review is out.

This issue includes:
* OCLC and EBSCO Partnership Offers Library Patrons Online Access to Full
Text of Electronic Journals
* Forschungszentrum Julich and SirsiDynix Partner to Deliver the First
Symphony Implementation in Germany
* Association of Research Libraries Launches New Web Site for ClimateQUAL
* Bibliotheca and iTeam Announce Strategic Partnership

Springer LibraryZone on Facebook

"Springer's LibraryZone is a community developed to foster sharing of information with the library community. Originally, a quarterly newsletter, it has been extended to online communities and localized events"

LIS-AWARDS mailing list

LIS-AWARDS - A list to disseminate information about awards such as sponsored places to conferences or research awards to library and information practitoners and postgraduate students

ASM Journals announce online price freeze for 2010

Online subscription prices for the 9 research journals and 2 review journals published by the American Society for Microbiology will not increase in the 2010 subscription year. The pricing freeze applies to all ASM online journals and bundles, including the All-ll, Basic, and Clinical packages. The base price increase for 2010 print subscriptions is a nominal 4%

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

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

This week's quiz is about the Mediterranean Sea and the countries around it:

1. Algiers is the capital of which country south of the Mediterranean sea?
2. Which canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
3. Is Lebanon on the northern, southern or eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea?
4. Which country, extending SE from the Alps into the Mediterranean Sea, separates the Tyrrhenian Sea from the Adriatic Sea?
5. The Mediterranean Sea is saltier than the Atlantic: true or false?
6. Which United Kingdom Overseas Territory is situated at the west entrance to the Mediterranean Sea?
7. The Hellenic Republic is the official name of which country?
8. Name the principality on the Mediterranean Sea which consists of an enclave in southeast France and which has been ruled by the Grimaldi family since the 13th century.
9. Which country bounded by the Mediterranean Sea includes the cities of Rabat and Casablanca?
10. Which country on the Mediterranean is divided into 73 ils or provinces for administrative purposes?

2009 Irish Book Awards winners

The winners of the 2009 Irish Book Awards have been announced:

The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber)



The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber)



The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year:

Blood Runs Cold by Alex Barclay (HarperCollins)



The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year:

Stepping Stones by Seamus Heaney and Dennis O'Driscoll (Faber)



Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year: 

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)



Energise Sport Irish Sports Book of the Year:

Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara (Transworld Ireland)



International Education Services Irish Newcomer of the Year Award:

Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien (Hachette Ireland)



Best Irish Published Book of the Year:

The Parish by Alice Taylor (Brandon Books)





The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year:




Junior

Before You Sleep by Benji Bennett (Adams Printing Press)


Senior

Playing with Fire by Derek Landy (HarperCollins)

Library Connect - April 2009

Library Connect Volume 7, No 2, April 2009 is now available from Elsevier

Open Video Conference

Open Video Conference - June 19-20 2009 - NYU Law School, NY, USA

BookCamp Toronto

BookCamp Toronto - a conversation about the future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age - June 6, 2009 - Toronto, Canada

Guantanamo records to be preserved at NYU and Seton Hall

"New York University's Tamiment Library and Seton Hall University's Center for Policy and Research have announced a project to document, preserve, and provide access to legal records and other documents of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. The materials will include lawyers' files, oral histories of the attorneys and detainees, Department of Defense websites, photographs and videotapes, and electronic records, as well as records relating to the rules governing enemy combatants, prisoner interrogation, and the government's representation of battlefield capture" - American Libraries

The Romantic Era Redefined is live

"Through a partnership with London-based publisher Pickering & Chatto, students and scholars have access to important primary texts for the study of Romantic-era literature and social history - with more than 87,000 pages of Pickering & Chatto's esteemed critical editions. The collection also includes additional content from other publishers, archives, the leading Romanticism journal, The Wordsworth Circle, and other sources never-before-available online. Besides the literature - poetry, novels, short fiction, and drama - there are letters, diaries, conduct literature, speeches, travel narratives, political writings, philosophical works, theological and sociological writings, and more. Featuring work from writers in Britain, the British Empire, and North America, the collection is particularly strong in its coverage of the Romantic Era's "second generation," which spans the years from 1800 to 1830. The Romantic Era Redefined brings something distinctly new to academic study, with access to overlooked and inaccessible important works" - Alexander Street Press

HeinOnline Update - April 2009

HeinOnline Update - April 2009 is now available online

A snapshot of 1911 Britain

"Among the paintings and drawings, musical works and advertisements that make up the records series COPY 1 are well over 100,000 photographs. Volunteers from the Friends of The National Archives have now provided online Catalogue descriptions of those registered for copyright in 1911 – over 2,700 in total. The many images of urban and rural life and long-disappeared vistas will be of interest to both local and family historians, providing context to social and family research. Engineering feats and disasters are covered, along with the coronation celebrations for Edward VII, the Empire exhibition at Crystal Palace, and images of music hall stars. Sportsmen and women are also featured, including boxers (one photograph includes Jack Johnson – the 'Galveston Giant'), rugby players, footballers and T. W. Burgess, who swam the Channel for the first time since Captain Webb in 1875."

Women's Word (UK)

Women's Word at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, is a summer festival celebrating women's voices and creativity in a multitude of media and settings, including fiction, poetry, film, and journalism. Women's Word includes talks, readings and performances from novelists, biographers, barristers, actors, scientists, poets and musicians. For two weeks each summer from 2009 audiences from Cambridge and beyond will come to Lucy Cavendish College to hear what different women have to say and how they say it; they will share the experiences, language and inspiration of women who are finding exciting, imaginative ways to put their lives and ideas into words - 13-28 June 2009

May 2009 Early Reviewer books at LibraryThing

The May 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 1569 copies of 61 books available this month

Elsevier admits journal error

"Elsevier, the world's leading scientific publisher, said it had failed to meet its own standards for "accuracy and transparency" in producing a publication sponsored by Merck, the US pharmaceutical group, but presented as an independent academic journal. The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, complete with an honorary editorial board of academics from Australia and New Zealand, contained a selection of reprinted articles from other journals concerning Merck's medicines Fosamax and Vioxx, and no disclosure that it was funded by the company. The publication marks a fresh twist in tactics to promote medicines by pharmaceutical companies, which have long provided substantial income to academic journals by paying for large numbers of reprints of articles favourable to their drugs for distribution to doctors. However, the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which was produced in several issues between 2003 and 2005, has no website and is not listed as a journal in standard depositories of academic literature such as the Medline database" - FT

Library 2.0 Gang May 2009: Cloud Computing Libraries and OCLC

A discussion about one of the recent trends in computing and the Internet, Cloud Computing, and how it will influence libraries, especially in the light of recent announcements by OCLC

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - May 7, 2009

The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation 2009

"Stephen Spender was himself a fine translator of poetry. By means of this annual prize, The Times and the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust hope to encourage and stimulate a new generation of literary translators. Entrants must be British residents or British citizens. The winners will be notified and the results publicised in The Times and on the Trust's website by 30 October 2009"

Crossroads - May 2009

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - May 2009 issue is now available

2009 Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story shortlist

The shortlist for the 2009 Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story has been announced:

* Chris Beckett, The Turing Test, Elastic Press
* Gerard Donovan, Country of the Grand, Faber
* Anne Enright, Yesterday's Weather, Random House
* Shena Mackay, The Atmospheric Railway, Random House
* Ali Smith, The First Person and Other Stories, Hamish Hamilton

ReadWhale - share your books through Twitter

ReadWhale is "a vibrant community for people to discover and share their passion for books":

* Discover new books
* Connect with fellow book lovers
* Upload your books to your bookshelf
* Review and rate books
* Create and join discussion groups
* Share your books through Twitter

Resource of the Month from Ovid - May 2009

Each month, Ovid provides you with the opportunity to "test drive" a sampling of its content, tools and services - free of charge - through its Resource of the Month program. May Resource of the Month is the British Nursing Index

5th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference

5th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference - June 29 to July 3 2009 - Stockholm, Sweden

2009 James Beard Foundation Awards winners

The winners of the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards have been announced

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies

Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences

Journal of Artificial Intelligence

Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

The Python Papers

Research Journal of Immunology

Research Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Rivista di Diritto dell'Economia : dei Trasporti e dell'Ambiente

GPO.gov relaunched

GPO has announced the re-launch of its agency Web site. "This enhanced site includes separate Web pages for FDLP and LSCM information for the public. The new Web pages will help inform the public about and lead the public to Federal depository libraries. The redesigned site includes links to FDsys, GPO Access, the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, the Federal Depository Library Directory, The FDLP Desktop, Ben's Guide, and more, as well as Web pages for each of the agency's departments"

Cites & Insights 9:7 (June 2009)

Cites & Insights 9:7 (June 2009) is now available for downloading

2009 academic librarian salary survey results

The Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), recently completed revisions to academic library position descriptions included in surveys covering salaries, benefits and other benchmarks

SPARC and ACRL announce Chicago ALA forum will focus on the economy

The next SPARC-ACRL forum on emerging issues in scholarly communication, to be held at the Chicago meeting of the American Library Association in July, will explore "Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace." The forum is co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College and Research Libraries. The 19th biennial SPARC-ACRL Forum will be held July 11, 2009 from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Sheraton Chicago. The ACRL Scholarly Communications discussion group, which offers a more intimate setting to explore forum topics in greater depth, will be held July 12, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Intercontinental Hotel

The Perseus Books Group adds FiledBy as online marketing platform

"The Perseus Books Group is using FiledBy sites as an effective way to provide an online presence and digital marketing solution for authors. The FiledBy platform enables authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers, editors and other contributors to easily build an online community where they can promote their work and interact with fans and peers. 'FiledBy has put together a thoughtful and effective community that enables authors to take control of their own content, sell their books, link to other sites and directly communicate with readers,' said Peter Costanzo, director of online marketing for Perseus. 'It's a terrific digital marketing platform for any author looking for a low-cost and effective web presence.'" Beginning with the Vanguard Press imprint, Perseus authors now on FiledBy include:

* Eileen Goudge, author of One Last Dance, Garden of Lies and Thorns of Truth
* Alan Jacobson, author of The Hunted and False Accusations
* Kyle Mills, author of Lords of Corruption and Darkness Falls
* Shane Briant, author of Worst Nightmares
* David Morrell, author of Scavenger and The Shimmer

Designing Libraries Newsletter Issue 17: April 2009

Designing Libraries Newsletter Issue 17: April 2009 is now available via Aberystwyth University, Wales

Canadian Public Policy via Project Muse

Canadian Public Policy, published by University of Toronto Press, is now available via Project Muse

InSITE - May 4, 2009

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 14, No. 18, May 4, 2009 is now available

DailyLit launches Digital Publishing Group

DailyLit has launched Digital Publishing Group, "an industry group designed to educate, inspire, and empower publishing professionals to take advantage of the digital space"

2009 Chicago Annual Conference Promo

Produced by ALA Conference Services, this video features plenty of your colleagues discussing the value of Annual Conference - and the benefits to holding it in Chicago. Annual Conference this year is July 9 to 15:

American Society for Microbiology makes research publications on influenza A (H1N1) freely available

"Because of the current public health emergency and worldwide concern about Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu), the American Society for Microbiology has made articles on H1N1 published within the past 6 months, November 2008 to May 2009, in ASM's Journal of Virology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy freely available online. The 14 articles can be accessed in one location: http://tinyurl.com/asmh1n1

Free Workshops at the Wellcome Library (UK)

The new spring/summer programme of Wellcome Library workshops can be found on the Library website. The workshops provide introductions to information resources and research and are aimed at the general public.

The programme includes:

- thematic workshops such as science in the news, and the history of medicine on the internet
- training on specific resources such as the Wellcome Images database and PubMed Central
- and introductions to the Wellcome Archives and genealogical research resources at the library.

All workshops are free and available to everyone who joins the library (library
membership is also free and open to all)

18th Annual MINITEX ILL Conference

18th Annual MINITEX ILL Conference - May 19, 2009 - St. Paul, MN, USA

SERIES-L mailing list

SERIES-L is dedicated to concerns about bibliographic control for library materials issued in series. To sign up for SERIES-L send an e-mail to LISTSERV@PO.MISSOURI.EDU with the text SUBSCRIBE SERIES-L plus your forename and surname

3rd Bloomsbury Conference on Electronic Publishing

3rd Bloomsbury Conference on Electronic Publishing - June 25-26 2009 - London, UK

DHO Summer School 2009

"The Digital Humanities Observatory in conjunction with NINES and 18th Connect are offering a week-long workshop to allow scholars undertaking digital projects to develop their skills, share interests, and work towards common goals. Workshop strands, master classes and lectures will focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects." - 13 - 17 July 2009 - Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin

RefWorks launches mobile phone interface

"RefWorks has announced the launch of RefMobile, a new interface that enables students and researchers to use the RefWorks web-based research management service from anywhere, via web-enabled mobile phones, smart phones, and personal data assistants (PDAs). The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, viewing references by folders, adding and removing references from folders, creating new folders, and adding comments to Notes fields. Users can also efficiently import new references to their RefWorks account using the new SmartAdd feature"

Writing on the Wall 2009

Writing on the Wall 2009 is a festival of outsiders: writers, musicians and artists well-known for defying convention and corporate attitudes - 2-30 May - Liverpool, UK

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #70

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #70. Previous Podcasts can be found here

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition - paperback version

Digital Scholarship has published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. as a paperback book. The paperback book is available from Lulu for $40. It is 231 pages long, 8.5" x 11", and has perfect binding. The book is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License

Information Today May 2009 issues

The May 2009 issues of Computers in Libraries, Information Today, and Searcher, are now available

Sci-Mate

"The Sci-Mate (Scientific Material Transfer Exchange) is an open collaboration to address well known problems in academic publishing and commercial development using proven Web 2.0 software solutions"

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #133

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #133 - May 2, 2009 is now available

Ancestors Magazine - May 2009

The May edition of Ancestors, the family history magazine from The National Archives, is available now. This month's issue has an Irish feel with articles on beginning research in Ireland, land records and Belfast's Linen Hall Library. Other topics include:

* Parliamentary papers
* Tracing dentists
* Nelson's memorials around Britain
* Milliners

Podcast: Every journey has two ends: using passenger lists (UK)

The UK National Archives' Chris Watts reveals the benefits of using both arrival and departure records when searching for details of our migrant ancestors, as well as demonstrating how the shortcomings of content, indexing and accessibility can be minimised

Man Booker Prize 2009 dates now available

"The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 can confirm the longlist, shortlist and winner announcement dates. They are:
* Tuesday 28 July 2009 - Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist announcement

* Tuesday 8 September 2009 - Man Booker for Fiction 2009 shortlist announcement

* Tuesday 6 October 2009 - announcement of the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 at Guildhall

This year's judging panel is chaired by James Naughtie. He is joined by Lucasta Miller, John Mullan, Sue Perkins and Michael Prodger"

UKSG 33rd Annual Conference and Exhibition 2010

UKSG 33rd Annual Conference and Exhibition - April 12-14 2010 - Edinburgh, Scotland

Library Philosophy and Practice Annual Special Issue 2009

Library Philosophy and Practice Annual Special Issue 2009 is now available from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Libraries. Contains papers from the 3rd conference of the Student Association of Medical Library and Information Science of the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran, held in December 24 and 25, 200

ProQuest-sponsored travel to the 2009 ALA Annual Conference

"In response to shrinking library budgets that have reduced or even eliminated conference travel, ProQuest is conducting a random drawing sponsoring a librarian's travel to the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. To enter, eligible applicants should complete the brief online entry form before midnight on May 10, 2009. A winner will be selected randomly and notified on May 11, 2009"

Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service

The Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service enables both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress via URIs

Mashups - a free evening seminar from CILIP BBOD

Karen Blakeman is giving a presentation on mashups at next Tuesday's CILIP BBOD evening meeting. Date: 5 May 18.00 for 18.30 (postponed from February). Venue: Great Expectations, Reading, Berkshire, UK

MetaJuris

"The Information and Telecommunication Technology Center and the School of Law at the University of Kansas have developed a powerful online search tool for legal researchers. MetaJuris, a metasearch engine, simultaneously searches various legal databases for cases, statutes and literature citations. The free service is open to the public"

The new BMJ online archive

"Every BMJ article published since the journal's first issue in October 1840 is now available online from bmj.com. This was achieved by digitally scanning 824,183 pages of the print journal. It cost about $1 (GBP0.68; {euro}0.76) a page and was made possible by the extraordinary generosity of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust and Joint Information Systems Committee" - BMJ

Swine flu: free access to world-renowned public health database

CABI has announced free access to its specialist Global Health database, the definitive database for public health information, to assist in the battle against swine flu

Institute of Museum and Library Services awards almost $3 Million to support conservation efforts at Nation's Museums (USA)

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced the 35 recipients of $2,994,748 million in Conservation Project Support (CPS) grants. These grants are awarded to museums that are committed to identifying conservation needs and priorities, and performing activities to ensure the safekeeping of their collections. "These 35 museums, by preserving and conserving their collections, are ensuring the longevity of our nation's treasures for the education and enjoyment of all Americans," said Anne-Imelda Radice, Director, IMLS"

First Monday - May 2009

First Monday - Volume 14, Number 5, 4 May 2009 now available

2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards winners

The winners of the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards have been announced

Radio Berkman: Open Accessories

"This week Peter Suber, Senior Researcher at SPARC gives us little look inside the battle for Open Access"

Roberta Stevens elected ALA President for 2010-2011

"Roberta Stevens, outreach projects and partnerships officer at the Library of Congress and project manager for the National Book Festival, has been elected president of the American Library Association for the 2010-2011 term, defeating Kenton L. Oliver, executive director of the Stark County District Library in Canton, Ohio. As ALA president, Stevens will be the chief elected officer for the oldest and largest library organization in the world. The ALA has a membership of more than 67,000 librarians, library trustees and library supporters. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information. Stevens will become president-elect in July 2009, and will assume the ALA presidency in July 2010, following the ALA Annual Conference. She will serve a one-year term as president and a one-year term as Immediate Past President"

2009 ACRL election results

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, coordinator for information literacy services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and assume the presidency in July 2010 for a one-year term. Lisabeth Chabot, college librarian at Ithaca College, and Ann Campion Riley, assistant director for technical services at the University of Missouri, have been elected to the ACRL Board of Directors as director-at-large. Full 2009 election results are available on the ACRL Web site

C&RL News - May 2009

C&RL News Volume 70, No. 5, May 2009 is now available from ACRL

Branford Boase Award 2009 shortlist

The shortlist for the tenth annual Branford Boase Award has been announced. The winner of the award will be announced on 9 July 2009 at an award ceremony to be held at Walker Books in London, UK:

* The Traitor Gate by B R Collins, Bloomsbury
* The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt, David Fickling Books
* Flood Child (originally published as Reavers' Ransom) by Emily Diamand, Chicken House
* Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen, OUP
* Bloodline by Katy Moran, Walker Books
* The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Walker Books
* Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls, Scholastic (Marion Lloyd Books)

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

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

This week's brainteaser is about famous sons and daughters or their famous parents.

1. What is the name of the US actor and producer who is the son of Kirk Douglas?
2. What was the name of the American-Indian princess who was the daughter of Powhatan and who saved the life of English adventurer John Smith?
3. The Beatles' song "Hey Jude" was originally intended to be "Hey Jules", referring to whose son?
4. Liza Minnelli is the daughter of which American singer and film actress?
5. Which British guitarist was prompted to write the song "Tears in Heaven" by the death of his son, Conor, in 1991?
6. Who was the father of the Indian political leader Indira Gandhi?
7. What is the title of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, son of the rajah of the Sakya tribe ruling in Kapilavastu, Nepal?
8. Svetlana Alliluyeva is the only daughter of which former Soviet Communist leader?
9. The musician Frank Zappa had four children, all with unusual names. Can you give the first names of two of his children?
10. What were the first names of William Shakespeare's twin children?

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - April 30, 2009

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 172

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 172 - May 2009 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, is now available

Free access to influenza updates - EBSCO

"Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors are making DynaMed's latest information about Swine Influenza available at no charge to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak"

English 4-11 Book Awards 2009 for the Best Books of 2008

English 4-11 Book Awards 2009 for the Best Books of 2008 have been announced. "English 4-11 is the only journal dedicated to English in the primary classroom. It is a joint publication of the English Association and the United Kingdom Literacy Association"

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Advances in Hematology

Advances in Mathematical Physics

Asian Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Asian Journal of Crop Science

Asian Journal of Mathematics & Statistics

Asian Journal of Scientific Research

British Journal of Medical Practitioners

Current Research in Bacteriology

International Journal of Analytical Chemistry

International Journal of Biomaterials

International Journal of Chemical Engineering

International Journal of Pediatrics

International Journal of Zoology

Journal of Cancer Epidemiology

Journal of Toxicology

Obstetrics and Gynecology International

Revista Cubana de Fisica

Trends in Agricultural Economics

1611 : Revista de Historia de la Traducción

Byzantina Symmeikta

Design and Technology Education: An International Journal

Journal of Formalized Reasoning

Studiositas

Informática Educativa Comunicaciones

Intercâmbio

Revista de enseñanza y tecnología

Revista Lusófona de Educação

Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

Journal of Qafqaz Universty

Global Media Journal : Canadian Edition

The Romanian Economic Journal

Current Cites - April 2009

Current Cites (edited by Roy Tennant) - April 2009 is now available

The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures (2008)

In December of 2008, CC and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society joined forces to bring you the panel discussion: "The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures." Panelists included James Boyle, The Public Domain; Lawrence Lessig, Remix; Joi Ito, Free Souls; and Molly S. Van Houweling, Creative Commons’ first Executive Director. Jonathan Zittrain, of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, moderated. This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies. Creative Commons license: Attribution 3.0

Handel's Messiah: A Facsimile

"Marking the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the British Library is publishing a full colour facsimile of the composer's most famous work, Messiah. Composed in the summer of 1741, Handel's original Messiah manuscript is one of the British Library's greatest treasures and the jewel in the crown of the music collections. Consisting of 280 pages, the draft score gives a fascinating glimpse into the composer's methods, showing his frequent changes of mind and occasional frustrations in committing his ideas to paper. The British Library's full-colour reproduction brings this creative process to life, showing every pen stroke and every crayon coloured amendment"

Wales Book of the Year 2009 longlists announced

The longlists for the Wales Book of the Year 2009 have been announced

2009 Arthur C Clarke Award winner announced

"Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod and published by PS Publishing is the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK's premier prize for science fiction literature. The announcement was made at the award's official ceremony held in London, Piccadilly on the evening of 29 April at an exclusive event held as part of the opening celebrations of this year's SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival. The annual award is presented for best science fiction novel of the year and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year"

AASL seeking presenters for 2010 ALA Annual Conference

The American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, is now seeking presenter proposals for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference. The conference will be held June 24-30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The deadline to submit a proposal is 5 p.m. CDT on May 31, 2009

First female Poet Laureate named (UK)

"Carol Ann Duffy has been named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post. Duffy, 53, who takes over immediately from Andrew Motion and will serve 10 years in the position, says she will give the GBP5,750 annual payment away. The author, who is best known for her collection The World's Wife, is also the first Scot to be named Laureate. The appointment will be formally announced by the culture secretary" - BBC