'Prisons must by law have libraries - so why don't schools?' (UK)

From The Evening Standard - Sack the teachers! Expel non-reading parents! Carpet-bomb the inner city with copies of The Cat in the Hat! These are just a few of the more colourful responses to the Evening Standard's investigation into London's literacy crisis, published last week. Our reports - which highlighted the jaw-dropping facts that one in three children has no books at home, that one in four 11-year-olds cannot read or write properly and that one in five leaves secondary school still unable to read with confidence - have united the Standard's readers in shock. Hearteningly, for every howl there is a thoughtful suggestion, often in the same email. Encouraged by this reaction - and by pledges of support from Britain's best loved writers - the Evening Standard today launches its Get London Reading campaign, which will, we hope, channel the passions roused into effective change...

'Jane Austen' portrait fails to sell at Christie's

An album believed to contain one of only four surviving portraits of the author Jane Austen has failed to sell at auction. The book, owned by Kent sculptor Simon Wheeler, was found by his father in a bookshop in Canterbury in the 1950s. It contains 47 watercolours and drawings by James Stanier Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent, who is known to have met Austen in 1815. The book was expected to fetch between £30,000 and £50,000 at Christie's. Experts have carried out analysis of the facial features with known portraits of Austen and believe it to be a genuine depiction of the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. The Jane Austen Centre in Bath said it was "unquestionably" Austen, though it has not been verified by the National Portrait Gallery, which houses a portrait painted by her sister Cassandra.
A spokeswoman for Christie's said she did not know whether the owner of the album would put it up for auction again - BBC

Camden library closure plan a sham, say users (UK)

Library users are outraged at Camden's plans to transfer the responsibility for running and financing Belsize, Chalk Farm and Heath libraries to residents. Under plans which go before the council cabinet on Wednesday, councillors are expected to vote to reduce opening hours at all of the borough's 13 libraries by 10 per cent and give the go-ahead for three to be transferred to community groups from 2013, as part of the council's £2million cost-cutting drive to its libraries budget. Supporters of the libraries fear the move could signal the end for all three, which cost more than £500,000 a year to run. Two other proposals involve closing seven libraries or reducing opening hours at all 13 by 35 per cent, and transferring Chalk Farm and Belsize to the community. Residents who took part in the consultation have dismissed it as a sham and accused the council of ignoring their wishes to keep all libraries open - Ham & High

North Yorkshire library chiefs look to cut amount spent on new books by £300k (UK)

North Yorkshire council bosses have cut the amount they spend on buying books and stock for North Yorkshire’s libraries by £300,000. The reduction in funding for new titles, DVDs, newspapers and website subscriptions comes as North Yorkshire County Council looks for ways to cut its budget and involve communities in running the services without making sweeping closures - The Press

UCLA Library acquires Ethiopic manuscripts collection (USA)

The UCLA Library has acquired the largest private collection of Ethiopic manuscripts and scrolls in the U.S., given by Gerald and Barbara Weiner. Together with the library's existing collections, this gift makes the UCLA Library the leading repository for Ethiopic manuscripts in North America. A classical Semitic language, Ethiopic is used as the liturgical language of the Christian church in Ethiopia. Dating from the 18th to the 21st centuries, the collection of 137 bound manuscripts and 102 scrolls is particularly rich in elaborately illustrated liturgical texts. Highlights include a late 19th/early 20th-century version of the Gospels containing 78 miniatures; a 19th-century "lives of the saints" with 40 miniatures; a 20th-century compilation of a table blessing and miracles performed by Jesus with 37 miniatures; and a 20th-century collection of prayers with an image of John the Evangelist and 26 miniatures

Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941-1978 by Michael Gorman - eEditions e-book

From his earliest reading memories in wartime Britain through five decades of librarianship, eminent librarian and former ALA President Michael Gorman offers insights from his extraordinary career in this new memoir. Gorman relates his personal and professional journey in prose that is by turns charming, opinioned, and revealing. He made perhaps his most significant contribution to librarianship as editor of the 1978 Anglo- American Cataloguing Rules, a major development that receives detailed attention here. The debates and arguments that would shape professional practice for years to come are dramatically presented, with a vivid cast of characters including leading librarians from two continents. Broken Pieces, Gorman's account of being on the front lines of many of the most important decisions made in librarianship during his career, is a timely and entertaining read

Japan Science and Technology Agency selects ScholarOne Manuscripts from Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters has announced that the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has selected ScholarOne Manuscripts™ as a peer review workflow management system for its 64 journals

New book: Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion. Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists - including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers - to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act

Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative - Issue 1

The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is the official journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. It publishes the proceedings of the annual TEI Conference and Members' Meeting and special thematic issues: state-of-the-art reports on electronic textual editing, current trends in TEI encoding, and new use cases for TEI. It furthermore provides a forum for articles on the discussion of the interface between the TEI and other communities, and more generally of the role of technological standards in the digital humanities, including digital scholarly editing, linguistic analysis, corpora creation, and newer areas such as mass digitization, semantic web research, and editing within virtual worlds. Voleume 1, June 2011 now available. RSS feed

Writing History in the Digital Age - call for ideas and essays (USA)

Has the digital revolution transformed how we write about the past - or not? Have new technologies changed our essential work-craft as scholars, and the ways in which we think, teach, author, and publish? Does the digital age have broader implications for individual writing processes, or for the historical profession at large? Explore these questions in Writing History in the Digital Age, a born-digital, open-review edited volume, under contract with the University of Michigan Press for the Digital Humanities Series of its digitalculturebooks imprint. RSS feed

CLPE Poetry Award 2011 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2011 CLPE Poetry Award was announced on June 3rd 2011. Troubadour is once again sponsor the CLPE Poetry Award. Travelling Books is the largest independent provider of Book Fairs to UK schools. The winner of the 2011 Award will be announced at a ceremony at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education on Tuesday, July 5 2011. The judges are Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Lambirth and Fiona Waters and the judging panel is chaired by Julia Eccleshare:

* Allan Ahlberg: Everybody Was a Baby Once and other poems, illustrated by Bruce Ingman, Walker Books

* Phil Bowen: Cuckoo Rock, illustrated by Fred James, Salt Publishing

* Mandy Coe: If You Could See Laughter, Salt Publishing

* Philip Gross: Off Road to Everywhere, illustrated by Jonathan Gross, Salt Publishing

* Roger Stevens (compiler): A Million Brilliant Poems (part one), illustrated by Jessie Ford, A & C Black

Téa Obreht wins the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction (UK)

Serbian/American author Téa Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). At 25, Obreht is the youngest-ever author to take the Prize. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world. At an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, hosted by Orange Prize for Fiction Co-Founder and Honorary Director, Kate Mosse, the 2011 Chair of Judges, Bettany Hughes, presented the author with the £30,000 prize and the ‘Bessie', a limited edition bronze figurine. Both are anonymously endowed

Landes Bioscience titles added to JournalTOCs

Roddy MacLeod has added 26 Landes Bioscience journals to JournalTOCs. You can now search/browse/follow their latest Tables of Contents. Selected titles include: Cancer Biology & Therapy, Cell Cycle, Plant Signaling & Behavior, and Cellular Logistics. Landes Bioscience participates in the World Health Organization's Programme for Access to Health Research (HINARI). They provide full content access to all of their online publications at no cost to eligible institutions. JournalTOCs is the free service where researchers keep up-to-date with the latest scholarly articles

Women's Institute to campaign for libraries (UK)

The National Federation of Women's Institutes have voted in favour of campaigning in support of public libraries at their AGM. With over 208,000 members and a history of campaigning on a wide range of important issues, the WI is respected as a powerful lobbying force.

"I'm thrilled that we have a new and powerful friend fighting our corner," said Annie Mauger, Chief Executive of CILIP, "It's fabulous news for the millions of people across the UK that love their libraries. Libraries are an essential education and information resource. They are at the heart of communities across the country and are too important to lose."

Ruth Bond, Chair of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, said:

"WI members confirmed their support for local library services today and have pledged their commitment to fight to prevent local library closures wherever they are proposed. As an educational organisation, WI members clearly recognise the worth that local library services bring to communities, often in isolated areas, and we will now work hard to prevent such services being removed from the areas where they are often needed most."

Sheet Music Consortium (USA)

The Digital Library Programs of UCLA and Indiana University have announced the launch of a newly designed Web site for the Sheet Music Consortium, along with a new workflow that makes it much easier to contribute metadata to the Consortium

Springer and Canada's International Development Research Centre launch new book series

Springer and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have announced the launch of a new book series, Insight and Innovation in International Development, to be co-published by Springer and IDRC. The series aims to contribute fresh ideas and insights on international development. Four titles are planned annually, each in English and French. Drawing on research funded by IDRC, the books present new ways of looking at social, economic, political, and environmental challenges. They offer lessons for policy and practice, and will interest decision-makers, teachers, students, and development professionals. All books in the series will be reviewed by IDRC's Editorial Committee, will reflect IDRC's development research mandate, and will showcase a diversity of topics, geographies, and authorship. The first book in the collection, Universities in Transition, edited by Bo Göransson and Claes Brundenius, was released in December 2010. Volumes on economic integration in West Africa and ecosystem approaches to human health are in development; additional titles are forthcoming

FreePint Newsletter 328

FreePint Newsletter 328 - 9 June 2011 now available

2CUL partnership expands Southeast Asian Studies collaboration (USA)

Expert librarians from Cornell University Library in the field of Southeast Asian Studies will extend their services and collections to the entire academic community at Columbia University. Thanks to the innovative 2CUL partnership between the institutions, faculty, students and staff at both universities will be able to borrow books and other materials in an expedited manner from either library. Through this new formal arrangement, Cornell's two Southeast Asia librarians will work with faculty and students at Columbia, offering in-depth reference services. They will also work directly with Columbia's librarians, providing advice on collection development and selecting materials. Cornell will provide improved access to materials in multiple languages, including Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Malaysian, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese. Columbia will continue to maintain and enhance its English language resource collection. This new agreement builds upon the success of 2CUL's first resource-sharing agreement: collaborative collection development and research help in Slavic and East European Studies, which was implemented in fall 2010

Outreach Librarian Survey

Melissa Dennis of the University of Mississippi writes: "As part of my research, I am seeking fellow outreach academic librarians to take a short survey about recent outreach projects or events. The information gained through the survey may be used in a research paper. To participate, please follow this link. I appreciate your help in passing this along to other librarians conducting outreach work. The survey ends June 30, 2011"

Gluejar

Gluejar is building a place for individuals and institutions to join together to liberate specific ebooks and other types of digital content by paying rightsholders to relicense their works under Creative Commons licenses. What does this mean?

* Book-lovers and libraries everywhere can join together to set books free

* Authors and publishers get the compensation they deserve

* Books that are out of print, not available as ebooks, or otherwise hard to enjoy will be available for everyone to read, share, learn from, and love - freely and legally

Watch Eric Hellman Explain Gluejar

Diva.js (Document Image Viewer with AJAX)

Diva.js (Document Image Viewer with AJAX) is a Javascript frontend for viewing documents, designed to work with digital libraries to present multi-page documents as a single, continuous item. Only the pages that are being viewed at any given time are actually present in the document, with the rest appended as necessary, ensuring efficient memory usage and high loading speeds. Written as a jQuery plugin, diva.js requires the jQuery Javascript library, along with several jQuery plugins and the jQuery UI, all of which are included. On the backend, the images will be served by IIPImage server after processing, and the image information will be sent, in JSON format, through an AJAX request by a PHP script (also included)

Shelley-Godwin Archive to offer digital versions of key romantic texts

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant of $300,000 to the Shelley-Godwin Archive, a digital resource comprising works of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Humanities scholars, curators, and information scientists from The New York Public Library (NYPL), the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, the Houghton Library of Harvard University, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and the British Library will collaborate on the archive's creation. They will be led by Elizabeth C. Denlinger, Curator of the Pforzheimer Collection of the NYPL. Neil Fraistat, director of MITH, a renowned scholar in both the digital humanities and Shelley studies, will act as co-Principal Investigator

The Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to Co-Lead Learning Resources Framework Initiative (USA)

The Association of Educational Publishers, and Creative Commons have announced a partnership to improve search results on the World Wide Web through the creation of a metadata framework specifically for learning resources. This work is being underwritten with grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This represents the first industry-specific initiative since the recent announcement of Schema.org by major search vendors Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing. Schema.org aims to create a universal framework for tagging web-based content to provide a faster and richer search experience. Google Shopping and Google Recipes are two prototypes of how metadata is used to improve search results and their presentation

Finalists announced for 2011 CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award (UK)

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the finalists in this year's Libraries Change Lives Award, one of the leading accolades in the library and information world. The three projects in the running for this prestigious annual award are:

1. The NEALIS project
(North East Accessible Library and Information Services)
Providing improving library, information and reading services to blind and partially sighted people throughout North East England, this is a wide ranging partnership project across a variety of organisations including 12 public library authorities, and is endorsed by the Society of Chief Librarians and Share the Vision Six Steps pledge.

2. Making the Difference: Opportunities for Adults With Learning Disabilities
(Kent Libraries and Archives)
An innovative project that welcomes adults with learning disabilities into libraries and works with them to develop services that meet their needs, and help them to lead more active lives in their communities.

3. Our Tyneside & The History Club (Newcastle City Libraries)
A pioneering partnership that engages adults with learning difficulties with their local heritage and family histories through practical, skill-developing activities, guided tours and talks in a safe and friendly environment.

The winner will be announced on 13 July

Too many computers in libraries, says new Children's Laureate (UK)

The new Children's Laureate for the UK - Scottish-based best-selling author Julia Donaldson - has raised concerns over the profusion of computers in libraries. Ms Donaldson, author of the hugely popular children's book The Gruffalo, is campaigning to protect libraries - which are threatened in local government cuts. However, yesterday she said one aspect of modern library services troubles her – the amount of computers, which she first noticed when she was writer in residence in Easterhouse, Glasgow, for three years. "I thought it was a shame when so many computers were brought into libraries - adults using them for playing card games, teenagers looking at [questionable] websites, I thought that was a mistake," she told The Herald. "At the time [as computers were being installed] I said we needed to have more children's writing specialists. "I might get into hot water by saying this, but I would love to see more [investment] going into stocking children's titles, even at the expense of adult sections. But part of my job is to create a stink." - The Herlad, Scotland

14 more OA Journals added to JournalTOCs, the free journal current awareness service

Roddy MacLeod has added 14 more Open Access journals to JournalTOCs, where you can find the latest Tables of Contents from over 16,000 scholarly journals

NISO/BISG 5th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape

Building on four years of successful co-programming, NISO and BISG will again co-host The Changing Standards Landscape during the 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA. This year's free program will focus on common synergies between publishers and libraries in the critical areas of e-book content identification, discovery and format. June 24, 2011 - New Orleans, LA, USA

Gale and Library Journal name King County Library System 2011 Library of the Year

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Library Journal magazine have announced that King County Library System in Issaquah, Washington has been named the 2011 Library of the Year. Each year this prestigious recognition goes to the public library in the United States that most profoundly demonstrates service to community, creativity, leadership and innovation in developing specific community programs, particularly programs that can be emulated by others. In addition to a cash award of $10,000, King County Library System (KCLS) will be featured as the cover story for the June 15, 2011, issue of Library Journal

Bookstock: The Brighton Book Festival 2011 (UK)

From Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th June, 2011, Brighton and Hove will be playing host to its very first book festival - Bookstock. Promising many book-themed events in venues throughout the city, this friendly and fun festival is hoping to channel the Woodstock vibe through celebrating the written word. The core team behind Brighton Book Festival are Festival Director Ian Jones, Cerys Jones, Alice Reeves and Eleanor Beeton

Julia Donaldson is new children's laureate (UK)

Julia Donaldson, the author of the bestselling picture book The Gruffalo, has been appointed the new children's laureate, taking over from illustrator Anthony Browne for a two-year term. Donaldson, who lives near Glasgow and is the first Scottish-based laureate, has been writing children's books for more than 20 years, from picture books and reading schemes for schools to a novel for teens. She is best known for her rhyming texts for picture books, particularly the collaborations with Axel Scheffler which produced The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, Zog and The Snail and The Whale. Julia Donaldson's official website

Danish local history archive now available on Europeana

Fascinating 100 year-old newspapers, images, music and ephemera from Roskilde in Denmark are now available worldwide thanks to their inclusion in the European cultural database Europeana. The online database brings together material from 27 countries and already includes 15 million records which can be searched simultaneously

BiblioLabs and the British Library announce British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad

BiblioLabs, LLC and the British Library have announced that their British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad is now available on the App Store. The app takes advantage of the form and function of iPad, bringing a renewed sense of wonder to the discovery and enjoyment of antiquarian and historical books. Currently the app features over a thousand 19th Century books, but it will provide access to more than 60,000 titles by later this summer when details on pricing for the service will be announced. The 60,000 books, which are all in the public domain, are part of the British Library's 19th Century Historical Collection and span numerous languages and subject areas including titles such as "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" [with plates] by Charles Dickens

Yiddish Theatre in London exhibition

From the late 19th century, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe brought a rich and expressive form of theatre to the East End of London. Plays were performed in Yiddish, the language spoken by Central and Eastern European Jews. They ranged from comedy to tragedy, drawing on Yiddish folk tales, adaptations of Shakespeare and stories of immigrant life. The early 20th century was the heyday of Yiddish theatre in London, with packed theatres and long queues for tickets. In this virtual exhibition you can find out more about the people, buildings and plays that made Yiddish theatre in London so special, as well as explore the unique collection of Yiddish theatre photographs, documents and objects held at the Jewish Museum London

New journal: BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance - Volume 1, Issue 1 now available

Social Media, Libraries, Librarians and Research Support (UK)

ALISS One Day Summer Conference: Social Media, Libraries, Librarians and Research Support will include presentations and practical tips from practitioners considering how Web 2.0 can be used by library and information professionals to promote their services, and support teaching and research needs - 20 July 2011 - Lanchester Library, Coventry University, UK

Linked Data and Libraries 2011 (UK)

Linked Data and Libraries 2011 will be held at The British Library in London on Thursday July 14. Again it will be a free event, with limited spaces allocated. Opening Keynote by Dame Lynne Brindley, British Library Chief Executive

New book: CLIP Note #43: Strategic Planning in College Libraries

Strategic Planning in College Libraries (CLIP Note #43) compiles strategic planning documents from a surveyed group of college libraries of all sizes. The purpose of this study was to gather information on how academic libraries develop strategic plans and to collect documents that will assist other libraries in creating or revising their own strategic plans. The survey conducted for this CLIP Note collected detailed information on strategic planning in college libraries and incorporates sample plans from 25 academic libraries, ranging from one-page strategic plans to documents offering more than 20 pages of detailed goals, objectives, action plans, timelines, and assessment measures

Library for the Performing Arts plans Noel Coward exhibition

Noël Coward once said, "The only thing that really saddens me over my demise is that I shall not be here to read the nonsense that will be written about me and my works and my motives." The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center promises to display both sense and nonsense about the composer, director and playwright at a new exhibition devoted to Coward that is scheduled for next spring. Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward will run from March 12 to June 9 in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery and include photographs, programs, scripts, costumes, personal effects, memorabilia, and other objects, as well as audio and video components. There will also be a series of public and educational programs around the city related to the exhibition

Get your hands inside a Haptic Cow at British Library Growing Knowledge Exhibition

On Tuesday 28 June, for one day only, our friends at The Royal Veterinary College are kindly bringing over some of their haptic technology, including the award winning Haptic Cow, and will be providing hands-on demonstrations throughout the day. Visitors will have the opportunity to "feel" whether the cow is pregnant, test their manual skills using touch feedback games and even make their own virtual touchable 3D model using interactive software! The Growing Knowledge Exhibition at the British Library explores the exciting evolution of research by showcasing a wide variety of innovative technologies and digital tools currently shaping the way we interact with information. Introducing a bit of serendipitous knowledge sharing and cross-disciplinary exploration, visitors and researchers are invited to experience new technologies, some not typically encountered in a traditional library setting, and be inspired by how the future of research is evolving. Haptic technology could be explored in the cultural heritage setting as a means of communicating the feel and touch of virtual objects for visitors and users of our collections. The cow is a fun and hands-on way of introducing this new bit of tech and sparking that conversation

"Lincs to the Past" (UK)

Lincs to the Past is a site that contains hundreds of thousands of records covering items held in Lincolnshire's Historic Environment Record, Archives, Libraries, Museums and Tennyson Research Centre. Its search engine provides a single place from which to search through the catalogues of the cultural heritage collections held across Lincolnshire. This is an ongoing project, and additional entries and images will be added regularly

1960s Britain: a view from the archives (UK)

From UK National Archives: An exciting new document collection on 1960s Britain has been launched for teachers and students on our Education site. The collection contains over 40 documents relating to protest, youth culture, women and employment, the economy, fashion, modernism, new technology, race relations, and the Profumo affair. Also included is a photograph of the newly completed Post Office Tower, a telegram on the Apollo moon landings, a letter about the impact of Beatlemania, a report on mods and rockers, and letters from Mary Whitehouse to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. All these documents are contextualised by an introduction to the period by historian Dominic Sandbrook. Providing unique primary sources on the era, the purpose of the collection is to allow history students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on the social and cultural aspects of 1960s Britain

Kentucky Oral History Commission receives NEH grant

The Kentucky Historical Society Foundation has received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which will enable the Kentucky Oral History Commission to fund a project entitled Pass the Word: The Guide to Oral History in Kentucky. "Pass the Word" will survey oral history holdings in repositories across Kentucky and create a comprehensive, online database, enabling researchers and educators alike to easily locate oral history collections and interviews held in libraries and archives throughout the state

Medicine in the Americas

The National Library of Medicine has announced the release of Medicine in the Americas. A digital resource encompassing over 300 early American printed books, Medicine in the Americas makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is now officially complete

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is now officially complete - 21 volumes of Akkadian, a Semitic language (with several dialects, including Assyrian) that endured for 2,500 years. The project is more encyclopedia than glossary, offering a window into the ancient society of Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, through every conceivable form of writing: love letters, recipes, tax records, medical prescriptions, astronomical observations, religious texts, contracts, epics, poems and more

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #155

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #155. "This week's first episode brings a teaser discussing the difference between rattling off stats and talking about benefit statements for individuals. This will be further explored later this week". Previous Podcasts can be found here

New Professionals Conference 2011 Programme (UK)

The New Professionals Conference is open to any library and information professional, including students and those that have an interest in the work of information professionals but may not be qualified or studying for a qualification at this time. The main target group for participants are those that are newly qualified, within the last 5 years or so but all are welcome - June 20 2011 - Manchester, UK

C&RL News – June 2011

C&RL News – June 2011 is now freely available online from The Association of College and Research Libraries

June 2011 batch of Early Reviewer books now available at LibraryThing

The June 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 2942 copies of 103 books available this month

First Monday - June 2011

First Monday - Volume 16, Number 6, 6 June 2011 now available. First Monday is a Great Cities Initiative of the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library, USA

Karen Adams is the new President of the Canadian Library Association

Karen Adams, Director of Libraries of the University of Manitoba, began her term as President of the Canadian Library Association at the 2011 CLA National Conference and Trade show in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 28. Karen assumes the role in a period of transition for CLA, and will lead the Association for the next 18 months. She grew up in Manitoba's Interlake region, and received her BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Manitoba in 1967, and M.L.S. from the University of Western Ontario in 1975

Emerald adopts EPUB to enhance mobile access to research

Emerald Group Publishing Limited has recently introduced the EPUB format to the download options of ebook series volumes from its website

New titles in PubMed Central

Journal of Clinical Medicine Research

The Journal of the Indian Prosthodontic Society

Irish Veterinary Journal

Integrative Medicine Insights

World Journal of Stem Cells

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology

Advances in Nutrition

Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences

World Journal of Clinical Oncology

Ochsner Journal

Project Gutenberg's official Facebook page

Project Gutenberg now has its own official Facebook page

New book: Without a net by Jessamyn C. West

Description from Amazon.com: Teaching novice computer users, including seniors and individuals with disabilities such as low vision or motor skills, how to do what they want and need to do online is a formidable challenge for library staff. Part inspirational, part practical Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide is a summary of techniques, approaches, and skills that will help librarians meet this challenge. Jessamyn C. West's experience as a librarian, deeply immersed in technology culture yet living in rural America, makes her uniquely qualified to write this book. Taking a big-picture approach to the subject, she demystifies and simplifies tech training for the busy librarian, providing an easy-to-use handbook full of techniques that can be used with many different library populations. As an added bonus, she also examines the players in the library technology arena to offer firsthand reports on what works, what doesn't, and what's next. Published May 6, 2011

Children's Laureate: Cuts are 'outrageous' (UK)

Outgoing Children's Laureate Anthony Browne warned last night that we will "pay the price in the long term" for closing public and school libraries as he urged his successor to do everything to support them. The author and illustrator, whose tenure ends on Tuesday when his replacement is announced at a ceremony in London, said he found it "incredible and outrageous" that libraries were being forced to close. In an open letter to the Waterstone's Children's Laureate 2011-13, he urged: "Do everything you can to support libraries – God knows, they need every bit of help they can get nowadays." His plea comes as councils threaten to axe libraries in response to spending cuts. A recent National Literacy Trust report found one in three young people do not have books of their own. - The Independent

New College of the Humanities (UK)

New College of the Humanities is a British university, established in Bloomsbury, London, in 2011. Its stated aim is to offer a high-quality education to rival Oxford and Cambridge. Founded by the philosopher, A.C. Grayling - who will become its first master - the university will offer courses in law, economics, philosophy, history, and English literature, with one-on-one tutorials and a 10/1 student-teacher ratio. Fourteen other academics are involved in the project, including Richard Dawkins, Ronald Dworkin and David Cannadine. The first classes will be offered in September 2012, with annual fees of £18,000

www.nchum.org -- Professor A C Grayling on New College from New College on Vimeo.

IOP Publishing open access policy

IOP Publishing has introduced a new open access option on 23 subscription-based journals to complement its existing open access publishing programme. The new service offers authors the choice of having the final versions of their journal articles published on an open access basis in exchange for an article publication fee

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #158

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #158 - June 2, 2011 is now available from Peter Suber

Boston University Libraries join HathiTrust

Boston University Libraries has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. The Libraries plan to contribute public domain volumes digitized through in-house projects and partnerships with the Internet Archive through the Boston Library Consortium

Make A Noise In Libraries Fortnight 2011 (UK)

Make A Noise In Libraries Fortnight, from the Royal National Institute of Blind People, takes place June 6-19 2011

Public Library Data Service Statistical Report 2011 (USA)

The Public Library Data Service (PLDS) Statistical Report (July 2011) is designed to meet the needs of public library administrators and others, including media outlets, for timely and relevant library-specific data that supports a wide variety of management decisions. Published annually, the PLDS Statistical Report collects information from more than 800 public libraries across the United States and Canada on finances, library resources, annual use figures and technology. In addition, each annual PLDS report contains a special survey highlighting statistics on one service area or public library topic. Advance order form for PLDS 2011 available now

Schema.org

Schema.org provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages

Alexander Street Press announces partnership with MEDCOM-TRAINEX (USA)

Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press has announced plans to publish Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and professional development of nurses and nursing assistants. The result of a partnership with MEDCOM-TRAINEX, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide, the collection will give nursing faculty and students at subscribing institutions 24/7 online access to MEDCOM's highly regarded library of full-length training programs together with the advanced functionality typical of Alexander Street's video collections. Already widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, MEDCOM videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award

#AskArchivists Day on Twitter

From The UK National Archives: "On Thursday 9 June 2011 we will spend the day answering your questions on Twitter. The National Archives, alongside national and local archives from around the world, will be taking part in #AskArchivists Day. On this day, you can use your Twitter account to ask us any questions about our collection, online resources and how to research at The National Archives. We have many of our experts on hand, so ask us: how to start your research, about archival practice and advice, where to find a particular record, about conservation, digital preservation and web archiving. In the afternoon, between 14:00 and 16:00, Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper, will also be available to answer any questions you may have for him, as part of our 'Meet the Keeper'. To keep up to date with the plans for #AskArchivists follow us on Twitter @UkNatArchives. If you don't have a Twitter account but are still interested in following the day online, search on Twitter for #AskArchivists"

Podcast: Behind the scenes: two centuries of census-taking (UK National Archives)

The census has been described as a 'snapshot in time', recording the nation as it stands at midnight on one Sunday every ten years. But the preparation for each census started years before each census date, and the collating and publishing of the results continued long after. This talk, by Audrey Collins, takes a look at the army of civil servants, temporary clerks, registrars, enumerators and others, and the part they played in this astonishing feat of organisation once a decade. Of course, there were incidents and accidents along the way, some of which are revealed in the talk, including the only time advertising was allowed on census material: it didn't end well

RSC Publishing makes its entire eBook Collection available to RLUK research libraries

The Royal Society of Chemistry has teamed up with Research Libraries UK to offer their library members enormous value for money for the RSC eBook Collection. eBook options are now available to RLUK members for 2011 within a one-off purchase regime that will give standard indefinite access to high-quality research content from industry and academia. The complete RSC eBook collection, dating from 1968 to 2011, includes 1,039 eBooks and can be purchased at great value or alternatively, an annual collection can be bought to suit a particular budget. RSC Publishing has an extensive portfolio of books ranging from food science and analytical chemistry to organic and physical chemistry

32 libraries lead the way to Web-scale innovation - OCLC Web-scale Management Services on target for July 1 general release

Since OCLC announced it was making its cloud-based library management services available to early adopters just 10 months ago, 32 libraries have committed to using OCLC Web-scale Management Services, the Web-based cooperative library management tools for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflow improvement. The early-adopter phase has now ended, and July 1 will mark general release of these innovative cloud-based services. Among the libraries that have led the way for general availability of the new services:

Banning Library District
Bay Path College
Boundary County Library District
Bucknell University
California Lutheran University
Covenant College
Craven-Pamlico-Carteret Regional Library
Davidson College
Globe University
Harrison College
High Point University
Hope International University
Jacksonville University
Jet Propulsion Lab - NASA at California Institute of Technology
Mount Mercy College
Newbury College
Norwich University
Ogeechee Technical College
Pepperdine University
Saint Thomas University, Law Library
Saint Thomas University
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Library
San Diego Christian College
Simpson University
Spring Hill College
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Vanguard University Libraries
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Viterbo University
Westmont College

Columbia University Libraries institutes an open access resolution (USA)

Columbia University Libraries is joining a growing movement among universities and research institutions to make scholarly research free and available to the public online. The Libraries is among the first departments at the university to adopt an open access resolution, which calls for faculty and other researchers to post their journal articles in online repositories such as Columbia's Academic Commons. In January, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory became the first program at Columbia to adopt an open access resolution

More than 4,000 National Academies Press PDFs now available to download for free

The National Academies - National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council - are committed to distributing their reports to as wide an audience as possible. Since 1994 we have offered "Read for Free" options for almost all our titles. In addition, we have been offering free downloads of most of our titles to everyone and of all titles to readers in the developing world. We are now going one step further. Effective June 2nd, PDFs of reports that are currently for sale on the National Academies Press (NAP) Website and PDFs associated with future reports will be offered free of charge to all Web visitors

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - June 3, 2011

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Foreign Words and Phrases. "We use many words and phrases which come from foreign languages. Can you say what each of these words and phrases means?" Answers here.

1. Vice versa (Latin)
2. Picador (Spanish)
3. Maharajah or maharaja (Hindi)
4. Wiener schnitzel (German)
5. Dolce vita (Italian)
6. Favela (Portuguese)
7. Apartheid (Afrikaans)
8. In loco parentis (Latin)
9. Shiatsu (Japanese)
10. Accoucheur (French)

NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter - May 2011

NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter - Volume 3, Number 11, May 15, 2011 is now available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, USA

EBSCO Publishing acquires H.W. Wilson Company (USA)

EBSCO Publishing has acquired the H.W. Wilson. Financial details of the transaction are not available. EBSCO Publishing executives met with the Wilson team at their headquarters in the Bronx, NY, and a series of meetings will be held between management teams over the coming weeks

Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the Martha Gellhorn prize for Journalism. The prize is awarded annually to a journalist whose work has "penetrated the established version of events and told and unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or 'official drivel', as Martha Gellhorn called it." Gellhorn, who died in 1998, was a well-known war correspondent and author. The judges voted unanimously for Assange, claiming that he "represents that which journalists once prided themselves "WikiLeaks has been portrayed as a phenomenon of the hi-tech age, which it is. But it’s much more. Its goal of justice through transparency is in the oldest and finest tradition of journalism

Queen’s Park Book Festival (London, UK)

The Queen's Park Book Festival will take place on June 11, 2011. About 30 authors, many living locally or with local links, are signed up. Many free events, others covered by an all day inclusive ticket. Please be prepared to queue for the more popular events! There will be lots to interest children. Refreshments will be available at the park café and elsewhere, but why not bring a picnic and make a day of it? Some local restaurants are also doing deals on presentation of your ticket. Wristband tickets £5 in advance (£6 on the day) and programmes for the Book Festival are on sale now only at Queen's Park Books on Salusbury Road. 020 7625 1008

LIANZA announces the Children's Book Award Finalists for 2011 (New Zealand)

LIANZA (The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) has announced the Children's Book Award Finalists for 2011:

LIANZA Esther Glen Award (Junior Fiction)

* The Haystack by Jack Lasenby, (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
* Dreams of Warriors by Susan Brocker (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
* Sheep on the Fourth Floor by Leonie Thorpe (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
* Boy Zero Wannabe Hero by Peter Millet (Faber & Faber)
* Shadow of the Boyd by Diana Menefy (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)


LIANZA Young Adult Award (Fiction)

* Smiling Jack by Ken Catran (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
* Fierce September by Fleur Beale (Random House New Zealand)
* Ebony Hill by Anna Mackenzie (Longacre Press)
* Blood Lines by TK Roxborogh (Penguin NZ)
* Lethal Deliveries by Ken Benn (Penguin NZ)
* The Limping Man by Maurice Gee (Puffin)


LIANZA Russell Clark Award (Illustration)

* The Moon and Farmer McPhee by Margaret Mahy and David Elliot (Random House New Zealand)
* Quaky Cat by Diana Noonan and Gavin Bishop (Scholastic)
* Hill and Hole by Kyle Mewburn and Vasanti Unka (Puffin)
* The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate by Joy Cowley and Sarah Davis (Gecko Press)
* A Dog Like That! by Janene Cooper and Evie Kemp (Duck Creek Press)


LIANZA Elsie Locke (Non Fiction)

* Weird Wabbit & Friends/ Star Boy and Friends Series by Vasanti Unka (Penguin NZ)
* The Life Cycle of the Pukeko by Betty Brownlie (Scholastic)
* Sensational Survivors by Sandra Morris (Walker Books Australia)
* The Kiwi Fossil Hunters Handbook by James Campton and Marianna Terezow (Random House New Zealand)
* The Tui NZ Kids Garden by Diana Noonan and Keith Olsen (Penguin NZ)

Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori)

* Mahiara by Sally Sutton, Illustrated by Brian Lovelock, Translated by Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira (Walker Books Australia)
* Ngarimu: Te Tohu Toa by Andrew Burdan (Huia Publishers)
* Rāwiri, Matiu, He Kura Te Tangata, He Ora Kai Te Kupu Series by Peti Nohotima (He Kupenga Hao i te Reo)
* Manu Haututū by June Peka. Illustrated by Jo Thapa. Translated by Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira (Scholastic)
* Kapa, Te Niu Series by Hana Pōmare and Heni Jacob (HANA Limited/ Te Tāuhuhu o te Mātauranga – Ministry of Education)
* Te Mata o Tuna, a Hina rāua ko Mo’o Kuna by Hana Pōmare, Ellie-May Logan and Hēni Jacob (HANA Limited/ Te Tāuhuhu o te Mātauranga – Ministry of Education)

The 2011 Award Ceremony will take place in Wellington on Monday August 8th at Caffe L’affare, College Street

New book: A Strong Future for Public Library Use and Employment

The latest and most comprehensive assessment of public librarians' education and career paths to date, this important volume reports on a large-scale research project performed by authors José-Marie Griffiths and Donald W. King. Presented in collaboration with the Office for Research and Statistics (ORS), the book includes an examination of trends in public-library employment, such as

* Staff structure and educational level of staff
* Outsourcing of library functions
* Quality-of-life and quality-of-service assessment

This book serves as a crucial guide to public library administrators as they plan for staffing in years to come

EDUCAUSE Review - May/June 2011

EDUCAUSE Review Volume 46, Number 3, May/June 2011 is now available online. Follow EDUCAUSE Review on Twitter

5th Bloomsbury Conference on Electronic Publishing (UK)

5th Bloomsbury Conference on Electronic Publishing: the aim of this series of conferences is to examine scholarly communication and discourse in an environment of digital transition with an emphasis on research findings and practical experience of scholars and on the role of information professionals as facilitators. Previous events have examined how scholars work online (The Virtual Scholar), whether publications are reflecting or will reflect scholarly practice in communication (Beyond Books and Journals) and last year the growing importance of digital data to scholars and the scholarship (Valued Resources) - 30 June to 1 July 2011 - London, UK

The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2011 winner (UK)

Edmund de Waal has been awarded the GBP10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto). This is an annual award for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place

Indie Booksellers Choice Awards winners (USA)

The first annual Indie Booksellers Choice Awards, co-sponsored by Melville House Publishing and Shelf Awareness, have been presented to:

* The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)
* The Instructions by Adam Levin (McSweeney's)
* The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled)
* Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)
* Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr (Akashic)

Springer offers free access to research articles on E. coli bacteria

Springer Science+Business Media is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles can be found by using the search terms "Enterohaemorrhagic and Escherichia and coli" or by using the link www.springer.com/ehec. A total of over 400 scientific articles are available to print out or download from now until 1 September 2011

Duke University Press - 2012 journal and electronic collection pricing

Duke University Press has announced its 2012 journal and electronic collection pricing

QScience.com from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals preserves journals with the CLOCKSS Archive

The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals is preserving their journals in CLOCKSS' geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals ensures that its open access articles remain open access forever. If necessary, CLOCKSS will make this content available, under a Creative Commons license, at no cost to all scholars around the world

SAGE journals going mobile with HighWire

SAGE has announced that their entire collection of online journal sites will soon be available in a mobile-optimized format, taking advantage of the HighWire Mobile Web interface. Readers visiting a SAGE journal site on their iPhone, Android or other smartphone device will automatically be redirected to the mobile version

UK Memory of the World status for The John Murray Archive (Scotland)

The John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland has been added to the UK Memory of the World Register. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the register in 2010 to highlight some of the UK's lesser-known items of historical interest. It focuses on archive, library items and collections of outstanding universal value, with a remit to promote their merits. Containing over 250,000 items, the John Murray Archive covers more than 200 years of John Murray publishing. There are letters, manuscripts and business records from over 16,000 people, including some of the greatest writers, politicians, explorers and scientists of their time

Crossroads - June 2011

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - June 2011 issue is now available. RSS feed

Digital archive of George Boole papers to be created (Ireland)

University College Cork's Boole Library is to receive an EMC Heritage Grant to go towards the creation of a publicly available digital archive of newly discovered papers and printed books of the mathematician George Boole, after whom the library is named. The digital archives will be integrated into the ongoing Boole Papers digitisation project, which involves the digitisation of over 4,000 digital items, including a collection of letters, which is expected to be completed this month. The Boole Library becomes one of eight institutions around the world to be awarded a 'Information Heritage Trust' grant from EMC. The grants are offered to institutions that digitise, preserve, and protect access to invaluable cultural information. The Boole archives to be published digitally by UCC will be available to the public

New image showcase marks the Titanic launch centenary (UK)

From The U.K. National Archives: Our latest image library showcase focuses on the fateful RMS Titanic, launched in Belfast 100 years ago. Taking three years to build, the ship was the largest moving man-made object in the world at the time, and entered Belfast Lough on 31 May 1911. Though believed to be 'unsinkable', the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. The National Archives holds much unique and rare material relating to the ship and her last hours. See a selection of our documents and images in our showcase, and find out how you can purchase images. You can also find out more about our Titanic collections and listen to our podcast Titanic: the official story, which takes you through the history of the ship using a selection of documents from The National Archives

Elsevier enriches online articles with Google Maps

Elsevier has announced that Google Maps functionality is now available in its journals. This new feature enriches online articles on SciVerse ScienceDirect with interactive maps, adapting to the needs of various scientific disciplines to visualize and interact with the author's geographic data

U.S. National Archives announces First "Wikipedian in Residence"

The U.S. National Archives has selected Dominic McDevitt-Parks as the Archives' first Wikipedian in Residence. Dominic will serve as a liaison between the National Archives and the Wikipedian community. Dominic, a Masters student in both History and Archives Management at Simmons College in Boston, brings a passion for history and over seven years of Wikipedia editing experience. He describes himself as "a history buff, a word nerd, a news junkie, and an occasional pedant." As the first National Archives Wikipedian in Residence, Dominic hopes to "foster collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National Archives for their mutual benefit - or, in reality, the benefit of the public, which both projects serve"

Runnymede Collection moves to Black Cultural Archives (UK)

The Runnymede Collection, which documents the development of multiculturalism and race-relations in contemporary Britain from 1968-2001, will move to Black Cultural Archives (BCA). This unique collection of cultural and political importance will be transferred from the Cat Hill campus at Middlesex University in June 2011

WorldCat Local adds access to more databases, collections and publishers

WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery service that offers users integrated access to more than 800 million items in libraries around the world, has added more databases and collections from leading publishers and other information providers to make content more accessible to library users through the Web. WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases from a variety of international publishers and information providers; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust, OAIster and Google Books; open access materials; and the collective resources of libraries worldwide through WorldCat. With these latest additions, libraries using WorldCat Local can now offer users access to 1,400 databases and collections, and more than 500 million articles

Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner 2010-2011 (Cambridge, UK)

The winner of this year's Rose Book-Collecting Prize is Basie Bales Gitlin of Pembroke College, for his collection of salesman's samples, 'Canvassing books'. Basie is studying for an MPhil in Early Modern History and is the fifth winner of the student book-collecting prize, endowed in 2006 by Professor James H. Marrow and Dr Emily Rose in honour of Dr Rose's parents, Daniel and Joanna Rose. He receives £500 and 10 years' membership of the Friends of the University Library

Current Cites - May 2011

Current Cites (edited by Roy Tennant) - May 2011 is now available

Discover more than 42,000 new London Probate Index records 01 Jun 2011

findmypast.co.uk has just published 42,291 new London Probate Index records. Most of the records are from 1750 to 1858

Reprieve for North Yorkshire libraries after public outcry (UK)

A local authority is to continue staffing 15 libraries after plans to introduce volunteer-run branches prompted a public outcry. However, the future of eight North Yorkshire libraries remains unclear, with council chiefs still looking for local partners to run the services. As revealed in The Northern Echo last month, North Yorkshire County Council confirmed last night that it had reacted to criticism of its proposed library budget cuts by spreading the savings across the county. Under the new plans, libraries in the bigger towns – including Catterick, Harrogate, Northallerton, Richmond, Ripon, Stokesley and Thirsk – will have fewer staff and reduced opening hours, with no Sunday opening. Libraries in 15 smaller towns – such as Bedale, Colburn, Easingwold, Hawes and Leyburn – will be supported with accommodation, books, IT facilities and broadband connectivity. They will also get some professional staffing based in the library, although at a reduced level - The Northern Echo

E-News for ARL Directors - May 2011

E-News for ARL Directors - May 2011 is now available online from the Association of Research Libraries

New book: Embedded Librarians: Moving Beyond One-Shot Instruction

ACRL has announced the publication of Embedded Librarians: Moving Beyond One-Shot Instruction, edited by Cassandra Kvenild and Kaijsa Calkins of the University of Wyoming. This collection of 16 insightful essays is the first book-length treatment of the growing embedded librarianship movement. Embedded Librarians: Moving Beyond One-Shot Instruction showcases strategies for successfully embedding librarians and library services across higher education. By joining varied groups of patrons and assisting their research over the long haul, embedded librarians commit themselves to service in a very different way than they did in traditional one-shot bibliographic instruction. Case studies and reports on projects from a wide variety of institutional types and sizes demonstrate ways the embedded model helps academic librarians become valuable collaborators, trusted instructors and partners in shaping curriculum and institutional goals beyond the boundaries of the library

Above the Fold - May 9 2011

Above the Fold is a Web-based newsletter published by OCLC Research. It has been developed to serve a broad international readership from libraries, archives and museums - May 9 2011 - Vol. 4, No. 18 now available

Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World - May 2011

"Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World is a free newsletter published on a regular basis by Library Archives Canada that explores and highlights issues pertaining to government and recordkeeping practices in the public and private sector. This collaborative tool was designed to help readers stay up-to-date with the latest news, events, trends, products and publications in the field of public administration and recordkeeping" - May 2011 issue now available