Latest release of Oliver and Liberty from Softlink receives over 1,200 enhancements

Softlink has announced the latest release of the Oliver system for schools and Liberty for Special, Academic and Public libraries. Based on user feedback, Version 5 Build 4 is one of the largest updates ever made to a Softlink product, incorporating over 1200 enhancements designed to increase administrative efficiency and improve the content management experience

81 Scholarly journal publishers oppose Federal Research Public Access Act (USA)

81 U.S. scholarly journal publishing organizations have expressed their strong opposition to the third introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA, H.R. 4004 and S.2096). The Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (AAP/PSP) and the DC Principles Coalition sent letters on behalf of a diverse cross-section of American non-profit, scholarly society and commercial organizations, to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Chair, and Sen. Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Publishers' letter to the Senate and Rep. Darrell Issa, Chair, and Rep. Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Publishers' letter to the House

Brooklyn Public Library launches fundraising drive (USA)

The Brooklyn Public Library has kicked off a fundraising drive to raise $500,000 for new books, DVDs and eBooks at its 60 sites. The fourth annual spring “Support Our Shelves” initiative encourages residents to support their local libraries through donations and advocacy. The campaign started March 1 and will continue through June 30. Donations can be made directly at local libraries, online at https://bpl.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/donate or by calling 718-230-2738. The library is also accepting donations at select locations through ABC Kiosks, which allow customers to make small donations in the amounts of $1, $5, $10 and $20

GPO Access shuts down on March 16

FDsys is now GPO's official system of record for online Government information. Later this spring, GPO Access will become an archive only, with no new content added

Librarians' views on five years of ebooks

To celebrate its first five years in ebook production, Springer has consulted with a number of stakeholders to produce the report STM eBooks: Librarian Perspectives on the First 5 years. The report outlines the challenges and opportunities that ebooks present to key stakeholders

HathiTrust Digital Library - Update on February 2012 Activities

HathiTrust Digital Library - Update on February 2012 Activities

ACRL Podcast: Value of Academic Libraries - Nancy Marlin

In this podcast, C&RL News editor-in-chief David Free talks to Nancy Marlin, provost at San Diego State University, about ways libraries can use existing data to enhance student succes

Maney Publishing strengthens 2012 journal collections

Maney Publishing has announced that seven new journals have been added to its portfolio for 2012. Maney has built new partnerships for 2012 including the European Association of Archaeologists, the European Medical Writers Association, The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, and The Chinese Historians in the United States

Earliest Charles Dickens film uncovered

The oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character has been discovered, in the year of the 200th anniversary of the author's birth. The Death of Poor Joe, which dates back to March 1901, was discovered by British Film Institute (BFI) curator Bryony Dixon, in February. Until now the earliest known Dickens film was Scrooge or Marley's Ghost, released in November 1901

IMLS Five-Year Strategic Plan 2012- 2016

The complete IMLS Five-Year Strategic Plan 2012-2016 encourages strategic thought and action. The complete plan provides details on the strategic planning process, as well as details about goal- and objective-related performance metrics and benchmarks used to measure progress

INFORMS journals now in full-text HTML

INFORMS journals "Interfaces" and "Organization Science" are the first two INFORMS journals to publish in full-text HTML. This new format allows for faster and easier viewing and improved accessibility on portable and handheld devices. Your patrons now have more flexibility when reading INFORMS new 2012 journal articles

The Online Newsstand Project (USA)

The goal of the Online Newsstand Project is to increase usage of libraries' electronic resources by library patrons, and to do so by making access to them easier and more enjoyable. The founder of the project is Steve Butzel, a website and database developer whose real job is serving as the assistant director at the Portsmouth Public Library in Portsmouth, NH

Author T.C. Boyle's papers acquired by Harry Ransom Center (USA)

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of novelist and short-story writer Tom Coraghessan "T.C." Boyle, author of such acclaimed works as "The Tortilla Curtain" (1995) and "World's End" (1987). Spanning more than 30 years from the 1970s through the present, the archive covers the breadth of Boyle's prolific career

SAMP preserves D’avat

SAMP (South Asia Microform Project) has completed microfilming of six years of the New Delhi newspaper title D'avat, from late 1965 through 1971. This Urdu newspaper covers the early years of Indira Gandhi's first term as Prime Minister, as well as the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971

The Listening Project (UK)

The Listening Project is inviting people across the UK to share an intimate conversation. Some of these conversations will be broadcast by the BBC and curated and archived by the British Library building a unique picture of our lives today and preserving it for future generations

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - March 9, 2012

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: The Letter D. "Some time ago, we had brainteasers about the letters A, B and C. Now here's a quiz where the answers are all words or phrases that start with the letter D." Answers here.

1. What is the surname of the American film actor who starred in "Good Will Hunting", "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Bourne Identity"?
2. What is the surname of the author (1812-1870) of "Oliver Twist", "Nicholas Nickleby" and "The Old Curiosity Shop"?
3. "Disco" is a shortened form of which word?
4. Which country is bounded to the north by the Skagerrak, east by the Kattegat strait, south by Germany, and west by the North Sea?
5. Which disease can be caused by reduced production of the hormone insulin, or a reduced response of the liver, muscle, and fat cells to insulin?
6. What surname was used by the singer/songwriter who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941?
7. Which 1963 film had the sub-title "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"?
8. What is the English name for the island off the northeast coast of French Guiana which was a penal colony notorious for its terrible conditions? Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned here.
9. Which satirical romance by Miguel de Cervantes is about a gentleman who sets out on his wanderings accompanied by his servant, Sancho Panza?
10. What is the name of the former capital of Tanzania, which was also the capital of German East Africa and of Tanganyika?

OverDrive plans its own world digital library in Garfield, Ohio (USA)

eBook distributor OverDrive has announced that it has begun construction of its world headquarters and "Blue Sky Campus" in Garfield Heights, Ohio, in the Greater Cleveland Area. As a result of domestic and international growth in the eBook industry, OverDrive is developing a 95,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre tech campus to accommodate more than 300 employees

Library Design Showcase 2012 (USA)

The 2012 Library Design Showcase highlights the best in new and newly renovated library buildings, divided into sections that each focus on one architectural aspect. American Libraries' annual review of the best in new and renovated library facilities

Famous family trees: Charlie Chaplin (findmypast.co.uk)

The first in a new series of blogs which explores the family trees of the famous. Experienced family historian, Roy Stockdill, takes us on a journey through time as he investigates the family history of the famous, both living and dead. Roy’s first blog focuses on silent film star Charlie Chaplin

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Machado de Assis em Linha : Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Machadianos

İnternet Uygulamaları ve Yönetimi Dergisi

Arqueología de la Arquitectura

Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos

Estudios Geográficos

Coactivity : Philosophy, Communication

International Journal of Computer Technology and Electronics Engineering

Principia : an International Journal of Epistemology

Research Opinions in Animal & Veterinary Sciences

Modern Language Association members receive complimentary access to CHOICE Reviews

The Modern Language Association and Choice recently announced a pilot project to provide MLA members with complimentary access to Choice reviews. During the pilot phase, all MLA members will receive free and full access to Choice Reviews Online through a link from the members-only portion of the MLA website

Books on demand technology comes to Brooklyn Public Library

A group of 3rd-graders from Brooklyn's P.S. 399 watched Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses being printed on demand in bound paperback format March 7 at Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library's Central branch. The children were invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony to introduce the library's new Espresso Book Machine, which can print more than 8 million titles in any language with the push of a button

Grammatica

Grammatica helps you analyze grammar, displays stress marks and turns any Russian text into learning material

New publication: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

The mission of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research

Crossroads - March 2012

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - March 2012 issue is now available. RSS feed

Harvard Library to deposit additional volumes in HathiTrust

The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard's first deposit of approximately 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011

Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics launch book series

Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) will partner to publish a new book series: SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of mathematics to social and industrial problems

FreePint Newsletter 346

FreePint Newsletter 346 - 8 March 2012 now available

Book Grocer: 7-13 March 2012

Book Grocer: 7-13 March, 2012 - The week ahead in literary London from the Londonist blog. #books #London

EMBO Molecular Medicine to publish under open access model

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and EMBO has announced that EMBO Molecular Medicine will, as of March 2012, join the Wiley Open Access publishing program. Articles in the journal will be open access and free to view, download and share for non-commercial use

SUNCAT: Two new contributing libraries (UK)

The serials records of two institutions have been added to SUNCAT. This takes the number of SUNCAT Contributing Libraries up to 85, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals. Added are Robert Gordon University and The Courtauld Institute of Art

EBSCO Publishing releases first eBook subscription offering - eBook Academic Subscription Collection

EBSCO Publishing has released its first subscription eBook collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection™ supplies full-text eBooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included in eBook Academic Subscription Collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with unlimited access to the content. Each title is offered with unlimited users allowing more users access to each title in the collection. As with all eBooks available from EBSCO, eBook Academic Subscription Collection will integrate seamlessly with all EBSCOhost® content. Users will be able to search the collection on its own or side-by-side with other EBSCOhost databases

March 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is up at LibraryThing

The March 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 3103 copies of 91 books available this month

Introducing Google Play

With Google Play you can:

* Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
* Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
* Browse the world's largest selection of eBooks
* Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles

Starting today, Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore will become part of Google Play

LITA publishes first open access issue of Information Technology and Libraries

The Library Information Technology Association has published the first open access issue of Information Technology and Libraries under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

The Cairo Genizah Collection of the Bodleian libraries (UK)

The collection of Cairo Genizah fragments held at the Bodleian Libraries is one of major collections of its kind. Acquired over the years since 1890 it consists of about 4,000 fragments. Skilful selection ensured that the Bodleian Genizah holdings became one of the most important collections worldwide, featuring Bible, Early Rabbinic literature (Midrash, Mishnah and Talmud), numerous liturgical fragments (Piyyutim and Selichot), many legal documents and letters, both personal and commercial

Scott Walter appointed College & Research Libraries editor

ACRL has announced the appointment of Scott Walter to the post of editor for College & Research Libraries (C&RL). Walter will serve a three-year term beginning July 1, 2013

emtacl12 (Norway)

emtacl12 is a technology-oriented conference for information professionals working in higher education - 1-3 October 2012 - Trondheim, Norway

Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) 2012 Conference

Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) 2012 Conference - April 2-4, 2012 - Austin, Texas, USA

'Consortia Conference' for local government and libraries (UK)

Two of the UK's largest public library consortia, the London Libraries Consortium and LibrariesWest, have announced a consortia conference to be held on Thursday 3 May in Bath. The day-long conference aims to equip delegates from local government and public libraries across the UK with the knowledge to set up their own consortium or to implement shared services or shared working on a smaller scale

Baker & Taylor in deal with Smashwords

Baker & Taylor has signed an agreement with Smashwords that will enable the e-book distributor to offer its titles through B&T's Blio application. Using Blio, readers can sample and purchase Smashwords e-books, create digital libraries for purchased and sampled titles, publish text or YouTube video book reviews, and "favorite" their chosen authors, publishers and titles. The agreement will also bring Smashwords e-books to public libraries that subscribe to B&T's Axis360 digital media platform which was launched last year. Smashwords says it has 100,000 e-book titles from self-publishers and indie presses

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Revista Tecnologias na Educação

Şişli Etfal Hastanesi Tip Bülteni

A|Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture

Jurnal Sistem Komputer

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Health and Human Rights

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research

Communication

Taylor & Francis transfers 7 titles from Brill Academic Publishers to its journals portfolio

Taylor & Francis Group has announced that it will be adding 7 journals to its Science, Technology and Engineering portfolio. These titles are transferring from Brill Academic Publishers to Taylor & Francis over the coming weeks, and following the transfer, the journals will be published under the Taylor & Francis imprint and will be available via Taylor & Francis Online. The titles cover a range of topics in materials & surface science, electromagnetics, and robotics and include:

* Advanced Composite Materials, edited by Y. KogoChiba and Chun-Gon Kim
* Advanced Robotics, edited by S. Sugano
* Composite Interfaces, edited by H. Ishida
* Designed Monomers and Polymers: an international journal on monomer and macromolecular synthesis, edited by M.K. Mishra
* Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology: an international journal of theoretical and basic aspects of adhesion science and its applications in all areas of technology, edited by K.L. Mittal, H.-J. Kim, and J.M. Martín-Martínez
* Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, edited by S.L. Cooper, K. Kataoka, and M. Vert
* Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, edited by W.C. Chew

OCUL Wins the 2012 OLITA Award for Technical Innovation

The Ontario Council of University Libraries' (OCUL) geospatial data platform Scholars GeoPortal was awarded this year's Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA) Award for Technical Innovation. This award, sponsored by OCLC Canada, supports technical innovation in libraries. The Scholars GeoPortal officially launched on 1 March 2012, and offers Ontario's university students and researchers the ability to enrich their research as they search, preview, manipulate and download geospatial datasets on topics including land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, points of interest (such as schools, airports, and golf courses), and orthophotography

Interlend 2012 (UK)

Interlend 2012, will take place 25-26 June 2012 at the University of Worcester, UK

Wellcome Library - Midwives and Doctors

With the current home birth rate in the UK at a mere 2.5 per cent, this session will look at the Wellcome Library holdings on the history of midwifery and some drawbacks of the rise of the male presence in the birth chamber, challenging the perception of a hospital birth as the only safe option for a pregnant woman. March 8, 2012
Speaker: Anna Ostrowska, Wellcome Library
This event is free. Reserve 90 minutes before the start.

UNESCO launches World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education

The World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education includes more than 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The Atlas enables readers to visualize the educational pathways of girls and boys in terms of access, participation and progression from pre-primary to tertiary education. It also illustrates the extent to which gender disparities in education have changed since 1970 and are shaped by factors such as national wealth, geographic location, investment in education and fields of study

Waukegan Public Library wins 2012 Marshall Cavendish Award (USA)

The Waukegan (Ill.) Public Library has been named the 2012 winner of the Marshall Cavendish Excellence in Library Programming Award. The award, donated by the Marshall Cavendish Corporation, is given in recognition to either a school or public library that demonstrates excellence in library programming

Carnegie Corporation of New York, American Library Association announce new literary prizes for adult best fiction, nonfiction book of year

Winners of two new annual literary prizes - the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction - will be announced at the 2012 American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, in June. This is the first time that ALA, which sponsors the prestigious Youth Media Awards including the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals for children's literature, is offering single-book awards for adult trade fiction and nonfiction

Map series reveal Scotland's changing places

Detailed maps of Scotland in the 1890s, 1940s and the 1950s have been scanned and added to the National Library of Scotland's online maps collection. Showing features such as streets, buildings, rivers and roads, the maps allow web users to view the same place at different times in the past. Google satellite and map overlays also help people compare how places have changed from Victorian times to the 21st century

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #188

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #188. "After a trip to visit Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and pick up computer parts on the way back, LISTen is finally posted". Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #189

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #189. "This week's episode is another quick one that talks about the seemingly ephemeral nature of electronic communications as of late". Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

Open Education Week

Open Education Week is taking place from 5-10 March 2012 online and in locally hosted events around the world. The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources is free an open to anyone

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Business, Management and Education

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement

Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials

Free online access to all Palgrave Macmillan journals in March

From March 1st to 31st Palgrave Macmillan is providing free online access to the current content and archives of more than 60 journals – including Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of International Business Studies, IMF Economic Review and Feminist Review

Maney Journal of the Month - March 2012 - Deafness & Education International

From 1 March to 15 April Maney is lifting all access restrictions on all 2011 Deafness & Education International content to make it available to you completely free of charge

MEMP microfilms Iraqi newspapers

The Middle East Microform Project preserves on microform unique, hard to obtain, and often expensive research material for Middle East studies. MEMP recently microfilmed five Iraqi newspapers published since 2003

Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands (British Library)

As the world's attention turns to the UK this summer, the British Library will be celebrating some of the outstanding treasures of its English literature collections. Featuring a range of stunning items, some of which have never been seen before, Writing Britain will draw on the breadth of the Library's collections to explore how writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf and Hanif Kureishi have been inspired by, and helped to shape, the nation's understanding of landscape and place. From William Blake to the 21st-century suburban hinterlands of JG Ballard, Writing Britain will examine how the landscapes of Britain permeate the nation's great literary works. Taking location as its starting point the exhibition will allow visitors to read between the lines of great works of English literature, discovering the secrets and stories surrounding the works' creation and critical reception over the years, shedding new light on how they speak to the country today - 11 May to 25 Sep 2012 - British Library

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #163

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #163 - March 2 2012 is now available from Peter Suber

2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus

comScore presents the 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus, its annual report on the prevailing trends in general web usage and demographics, social media, online video, digital advertising, mobile and search that are defining the current Canadian marketplace and insights into what these trends mean for the year ahead

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe

CAMP microfilm of Siggi/Taxaw now available

The Cooperative African Microform Project has recently microfilmed the serials Siggi and Taxaw, which were published by the Senegalese intellectual and activist Cheikh Anta Diop. He was associated with a left-leaning political opposition group that was not legally recognized by the Senegalese government at the time these irregularly published serials were distributed. The titles helped Diop's nationalist ideology reach a broader audience

Titanic 1912-2012: commemorating the centenary (UK)

One hundred years ago, on the night of 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank into the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in the tragic deaths of some 1,517 passengers and crew. Here at The National Archives we have many records about RMS Titanic, including passenger lists, crew lists and the Board of Trade enquiry into the sinking. To commemorate the centenary we have created a new page on our website that includes biographical accounts of individuals on board, short videos and podcasts. You can also search passenger and crew lists from across Titanic, Olympic (Titanic's sister ship) and Carpathia, the ship that rescued the survivors from the lifeboats

Video: 1940 Census from the US National Archives

A National Archives 3:13 minute video short provides a "behind-the-scenes" view of staff preparations for the April 2, 2012, 9 a.m. EST launch of the 1940 census, and gives viewers a tutorial on how to use the data once it is launched. This video is in the public domain and not subject to any copyright restrictions. The National Archives encourages the free distribution of it

The Digital Bookmobile National Tour 2012 (USA)

Dates for The Digital Bookmobile National Tour 2012 are now available. The Digital Bookmobile is a 74-feet long, 18-wheel tractor-trailer that boasts a "gadget gallery." It is a high-tech update of the traditional Bookmobile that has served communities for decades

Internet Librarian International 2012 (UK)

Internet Librarian International 2012 - 29-31 October 2012 - London, UK

The Coal Mining History Resource Centre (UK)

The Coal Mining History Resource Centre is the UK's largest and most comprehensive website concerning the history of coalmining - including a searchable database of over 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths

U.S. Government Posters - Iowa Digital Library

In partnership with the Government Printing Office, The University of Iowa Libraries has collected U.S. federal government information since 1884. This includes nearly 1500 posters promoting services, programs, and initiatives by agencies such as the Works Progress Administration, the War Mobilization Office, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Although the bulk of the UI collection spans the 1970s through the 1990s, it also includes items from pre-WWII through the present. These posters provide a graphic representation of priorities of a given presidential administration and of the culture at a discrete point in time

Revised version of Aboriginal Peoples: Guide to the Records of the Government of Canada

Library and Archives Canada has announced that the revised version of Aboriginal Peoples: Guide to the Records of the Government of Canada is now available. Originally released in 1996, the revised online guide includes updated instructions on how to locate records from the Department of Indian Affairs (RG10 / R216) and the Department of the Interior (RG15 / R190) in Archives Search. The guide also explains how to search by finding aid number in Archives Search

Podcast: The British Red Cross and its archives (UK)

The British Red Cross has long recognised the importance of its history and archive collection, maintaining an archive since the late 1960s. The talk outlines the history of the British Red Cross and show how this has left a record in the archive collection. It provides an overview of the wider international movement, its formation and early years, local organisation, joint work with St John's during the First and Second World Wars and our peacetime role and expansion of remit. Sarah Cox has worked as the Collections Assistant at the British Red Cross Museum & Archives since August 2011, where her role is to assist the Archivist and Curator in managing and promoting the historical collections and responding to internal and external historical enquiries. Sarah previously worked as the Archive Graduate Trainee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and is currently studying for the MLitt in Archives & Records Management at Dundee University

Podcast: Tithe tales: what the Tithe Survey records tell us about early Victorian place and society (UK)

The maps and textual records of this vast tax survey date from around 1840, and are a detailed and unique resource for social, local and family historians. They hold information on the use and value of property and owners throughout England and Wales, as they were around the time of the earliest surviving census returns, and before Ordnance Survey maps came into widespread use. Rose Mitchell, a map archivist at The National Archives and author on using maps for local and family history, explains how the Survey was undertaken and the records made. Rose shows how Survey maps and records can reveal a wealth of information about people and place in Victorian society, from Wordsworth and the Brontës to humbler folk, and from farmsteads to areas already showing the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution. She also looks at the range of other related records in the archives, such as those of legal disputes. The talk includes an update on access improvements to these records by The National Archives and around the country.

SAGE publishes Research Ethics

SAGE now publishes Research Ethics, the quarterly journal of the Association of Research Ethics Committees, with the first SAGE issue appearing in March 2012. Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. It is aimed at all readers and authors interested in ethical issues in research, the regulation of research and the procedures and process of ethical review. The journal aims to promote, provoke, host and engage in open and public debate about research ethics but also to contribute to the education of researchers and reviewers of research

Al-Babtain Library App (Kuwait)

Al-Babtain Library has just launched its iPhone app and available free at the App store. The app helps you search library resources, gives you information about the library, hear audio poems, and follow the library Facebook and twitter account. Lets all pray that one day we find Kuwait University library or Paeet Library app in the app store

Scran Newsletter Spring 2012 (Scotland)

Scran Newsletter Spring 2012 is now available from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

DOE Data Explorer

Use the DOE Data Explorer to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The DOE Data Explorer provides access both to collections and to individual datasets that have been submitted to OSTI by their creator, by a DOE National Laboratory, or by a DOE Data Center

OCLC completes transfer of licensed databases to EBSCO Publishing

OCLC has transferred to EBSCO Publishing the rights to license publisher-owned databases that are currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch reference service. This transaction is intended to complete the cooperative's transition out of the role of content reseller. OCLC is focusing on management and access to libraries' full collections through the OCLC WorldShare Platform

4th All-California Joint Institute (USA)

4th All-California Joint Institute - The State We're In: California Law Libraries in Unprecedented Times. A Joint Venture of SANDALL, NOCALL, and SCALL - March 9 and 10, 2012 - San Diego, CA, USA

Information Today - March 2012 issues

The March 2012 issues of Computers in Libraries, Information Today, and Searcher, are now available

2012 Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship

Applications for the 2012 Brooks McNamara Scholarship are being accepted now. The submission deadline is June 30, 2012. The Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship acknowledges the outstanding professional accomplishments of promising students currently enrolled in MLS or archival training programs specializing in performing arts librarianship

Random House will keep all its E-Books in libraries, with a price increase

Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries - and it said yesterday it will continue to do so, though it is raising prices

Old Maps Online

The broadest single collection of historical maps from around the world is now available online. The JISC-funded Old Maps Online, described by its creators as like Google for old maps, will act as a central repository to a vast collection of maps held by institutions across the globe. It is the first time that access to such an extensive collection has been made available online. Paola Marchionni, programme manager at JISC, said: "Maps have great potential to engage not only professional historians but also students and the amateur public. But they have previously been difficult to access because you need so much detail about what you are looking for. "By customising existing technology Old Maps Online makes it easy for everybody to find and compare maps through time in a highly visual way without the need for specialist knowledge. JISC is supporting a big step towards widening access to and use of these fascinating resources." The service, hosted by the university of Portsmouth, launches with over 60,000 maps which will double by the end of the year

New tool provides insights into e-resource usage (UK)

A new tool launched by Cardiff University's information services directorate and JISC allows people to assess the popularity and use of e-resources so they continue to deliver value for money. Eileen Brandreth, director of university IT at Cardiff, said: "I am confident that Raptor will make a real difference to education institutions looking to maximise value from investments in e-resources. The information that Raptor provides will enable institutions and individual Academic Schools to assess the best value and most useful e-resource subscriptions for their students and researchers." People using Raptor can produce statistics on e-resource use whenever they are needed in as much detail as they require - for example, usage by an individual university department

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Journal of Public Administration and Governance

Journal of Academic and Applied Studies

Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

Revista EducaOnline

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi : Ciências Naturais

Baltistica

Journal of Cultural Research

160th ARL Membership Meeting (USA)

ARL President Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, will convene the 160th ARL Membership Meeting on May 2, in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will adjourn around noon on May 4. The Board of Directors and ARL committees will hold working sessions on May 1 and 2, before the Membership Meeting

Nearly 4 million new Welsh records on findmypast.co.uk

findmypast.co.uk has just published almost 4 million Welsh parish registers. This is the first time that the complete Welsh parish baptism, marriage and death records have been published online. The records cover Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Glamorganshire

"Library Terms That Users Understand" website updated

The "Library Terms That Users Understand" website from John Kupersmith is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It compiles data from usability studies evaluating terminology on library websites, and suggests test methods and best practices for reducing cognitive barriers caused by terminology

NTIS Technical Reports Library Newsletter - February 2012

NTIS Technical Reports Library Newsletter - Volume 4, Number 8, February 15, 2012 is now available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, USA

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - March 2, 2012

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Popular Names (again). "Here's another brainteaser about the popular names that are given to people or things. Some people or things have two names: one is their full or proper name; the other is a popular name or nickname. So the actor John Christopher Depp II is popularly known as Johnny Depp, while the Strategic Defence Initiative is colloquially known as Star Wars. Try to answer this new batch of questions about popular names." Answers here.

1. What is the popular name of Gerald N. Springer, a television presenter, lawyer, and politician, who hosted a controversial TV show?
2. Is Dixie a popular name for the northern or southern states of the USA?
3. What was the popular name of Joseph Louis Barrow (1914-1981), a boxer also known as The Brown Bomber? He was heavyweight champion for more than 11 years.
4. What is the popular name for a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830?
5. Which American city has the nickname of "The Big Easy"?
6. What was the popular name in World War II for the German counterattack in the Ardennes, Dec.,1944-Jan., 1945, also known as the Battle in the Ardennes, creating a dent in the Allied lines?
7. What was the popular name of James or John Cleveland, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin? Hitler left the stadium to avoid having to congratulate an African-American.
8. What was the popular name given to the major painter of the Florentine Renaissaince, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole?
9. What was the popular name of Ferdinand Lemott (1885-1941), jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader? His band was called the Red Hot Peppers.
10. What name was given to the Spanish epic hero Rodrigo Diaz (1040?-1099), a professional mercenary motivated by an endless quest for money? His title derived from an Arabic word for "lord".

C&RL News – March 2012

C&RL News – March 2012 is now freely available online from The Association of College and Research Libraries

2nd International Conference on Integrated Information (Hungary)

2nd International Conference on Integrated Information - August 30 to September 3, 2012 - Budapest, Hungary

ACRL Podcast: Value of Academic Libraries - Troy Swanson

In this podcast, C&RL News editor-in-chief David Free talks to Troy Swanson, library department chair at Moraine Valley Community College, about assessing the effectiveness of libraries on academic success

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Wellcome Library: Here Comes Good Health!

Here Comes Good Health! is a new exhibit in the Lightbox which showcases some of the health propaganda films and other health promotional activities devised by Bermondsey Borough Council during its hey-day of civic activity between 1920-1939. Originally, the films were taken out into the streets of Bermondsey and back projected from a specially customised 'cinemotor' van. The films were also shown repeatedly in schools, clubs and other institutions so they became familiar fixtures. However, after the Second World War, the films became relatively obscure. The display includes the rear of a recreated cinemotor together with seating so that the films can be viewed in a sympathetic environment. The films are also available to view online via Wellcome Film and YouTube. The four digitised films in the exhibition have been acquired with permission from the Southwark Local History Library and Archive and the British Film Institute where the film masters are held

Thousands of new Manchester military records (UK)

Search for your ancestors in 74,000 new Manchester military records on findmypast.co.uk. This release comprises two sets of records: Manchester City Battalions and Manchester Roll of Honour

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Filosofia e Educação

International Journal of Research in Pharmacy and Science

Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto

This Rough Magic

Revista de Educação, Ciência e Cultura

OLAC Newsletter - March 2012 (USA)

The OLAC Newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers. March 2012 issue now available

Current Cites - February 2012

Current Cites (edited by Roy Tennant) - February 2012 is now available

E-News for ARL Directors - February 2012

E-News for ARL Directors - February 2012 is now available online from the Association of Research Libraries

2012 ACRL Award Winners, Part 2

2012 ACRL Award Winners, Part 2:

* CJCLS EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Award - Sheila Afnan-Manns, Reyes Medrano, Kandice Mickelsen
* CJCLS EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award - Mary Ann Laun
* CLS ProQuest Innovation in College Librarianship Award – Anne Burke, Adrienne Lai, Adam Rogers
* Hugh C. Atkinson Award - John F. Helmer
* IS Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award - Char Booth
* IS Innovation Award - Joshua Vossler, John Watts
* WGSS Career Achievement Award - Ellen Greenblatt
* WGSS Significant Achievement Award - Kirsten Canfield, Kayo Denda, Alicia Graham, Rhonda Marker, Li Sun, Lucy Vidal

Springer launches six new medical review journals

Springer is adding six new quarterly clinical review journals to its existing medicine portfolio in March 2012. These new journals will expand the publisher's medical specialty coverage, focusing on dermatology, geriatrics/gerontology, nutrition, obesity, obstetrics/gynecology and respiratory care. Editorial responsibilities will be carried out at the Springer Philadelphia office

The Read to Recovery Project 2012 (UK)

In May 2012 City Reads will set-up and run 6 Read Aloud groups aimed specifically at people with mental health problems in Brighton & Hove and West Sussex. These groups will be run by specially trained volunteers, under the guidance of paid mental health professionals