Credo Reference partners with public libraries to launch Literati Public

Credo Reference has announced plans to serve public libraries with Literati Public, a new expression of its suite of Digital and Information Literacy solutions

Osceola Mills Public Library forced to close (USA)

In two weeks, the Osceola Mills Public Library, Pennsylvania, will no longer exist. After funding cuts over the last few years, the library is being forced to close. Since 2008, state aid for the library has decreased 33 percent. In 2008, it received $173,265. In 2012, the library received $115,876 in state aid

Above the Fold - June 11, 2012

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 - June 11, 2012 - Vol. 5, No. 23 now available

Search 70,000 new Sheffield parish records (UK)

findmypast.co.uk has just published almost 70,000 new parish records for Sheffield. The records span the vast period 1767 to 1986 and will be essential to anyone with ancestors from Sheffield

ArtsGuide Anaheim 2012

The ACRL Arts Section has published an updated Anaheim ArtsGuide, just in time for the upcoming 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Check it out for all the best in art, music, architecture, theater, and more that the Anaheim and Orange County area has to offer. ArtsGuides are semi-annual guides developed by members and associates of ACRL's Arts Section to help ALA conference attendees find arts-related venues and events in and around host cities (ArtsGuides are also published for ACRL conference host cities)

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Tony. "Tony Augarde writes these weekly brainteasers, so he thought he would set a quiz about his first name. Can you identify these people whose first name is Tony - or its longer forms, Anthony or Antony?" Answers here.

1. British prime minister from 1997 to 2007.
2. US film actor who appeared in "Trapeze" and "Sweet Smell of Success", and starred in "Some Like It Hot" with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
3. Television actor who was brought to fame largely through his role as Baldrick in the "Blackadder" comedy series. He presents the "Time Team" archaeological series for Channel Four.
4. English novelist whose work includes "A Clockwork Orange" and "Earthly Powers".
5. Welsh actor who appeared in the films "The Lion in Winter" and "The Elephant Man", and performed as serial murderer Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs".
6. A photographer who married Princess Margaret in 1960 and was created Earl of Snowdon.
7. English novelist (1815-82) who wrote the Barsetshire novels, including "Barchester Towers", "Doctor Thorne" and "The Small House at Allington".
8. American singer, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, who is most associated with the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".
9. English sculptor who cast his own body in plaster, lead, and fibreglass to create faceless, featureless nudes. His best-known sculptures include "Another Place", an installation of 100 cast iron figures spread out on Crosby Beach, Merseyside, and "Angel of the North", erected near Gateshead in 1998.
10. A teenage prodigy as a jazz drummer, this American musician was the mainstay of Miles Davis's group from 1963 to 1969. He later formed the group Lifetime.

Tales from the Terminal Room - May 2012, Issue No. 101

Tales from the Terminal Room - May 2012, Issue No. 101 is now available. Tales from the Terminal Room is an electronic newsletter that includes reviews and comparisons of information sources; useful tools for managing information; technical and access problems on the Net; and news of RBA's training courses and publications. Editor: Karen Blakeman. Published by RBA Information Services

2012 Brick and Click Libraries Symposium (USA)

Now in its 12th year, the Brick and Click Libraries Symposium is a one-day event featuring concurrent and lightning round sessions that explore cutting-edge technologies, practical solutions, and timely topics. The Symposium supports the academic information needs of both on-ground (brick) and online (click) students, library professionals and paraprofessionals - October 26, 2012 - Maryville, Missouri, USA

Cleveland Public Library's TechCentral offers users advanced technology

The Cleveland Public Library is getting a high-tech upgrade - one it says is the first of its kind in any U.S. library. Today, the library unveils TechCentral, its downtown destination for computing and emerging technologies. The center will give visitors access to dynamic, interactive technology unrivaled in any library in the country, said library Executive Director Felton Thomas. Anyone with a library card can toy with tablet computers, print plastic 3-D models, engage in wireless computing and do much more in the 7,000-square-foot center on the lower level of the Louis Stokes Wing

Bodleian Library considers lending books after 410 years (UK)

For 410 years, the Bodleian library at Oxford University has stood as a beacon of exclusive learning, a reference archive hosting some of the world's rarest and most sought after books. Now all could be about to change. Plans are being discussed to allow students to borrow books from the Bodeian for the first time, and the very idea has caused a stir amongst academics and students. The changes are being proposed as the History Faculty Library moves into the Bodleian this summer, and the university is considering using the merger as a vehicle to alter the centuries-old regulations on lending - The Telegraph

New WWI and WWII Prisoner of War records published (UK)

You can now search for your ancestors in new WWI and WWII Prisoner of War records published on findmypast.co.uk. These records hold vital information about men taken prisoner of war during both World Wars. Naval and Military Press provided findmypast.co.uk with these records

Presentations from 'Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access'

This free one day event was aimed at those working in research repositories and higher education libraries. It showcased examples of innovative approaches which support open access to research outputs and an open approach to scholarship. This includes new publishing initiatives – journals and monographs, new approaches to peer review, data sharing, the role of repositories and the use of social networking tools by academics - June 1, 2012 - London, UK

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (USA)

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 13 million documents (70+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities - University of California, San Francisco

ARL Statistics® Webcast recording now available

The Association of Research Libraries has released a YouTube video of the ARL Statistics® Webcast, held on June 5, 2012. The webcast informs survey coordinators and library staff about the nature of descriptive research library statistics, demonstrates how ARL members and nonmember libraries can access the ARL Statistics® data, and shares how data can be used to make a case for your library. The webcast also unveils some of the upcoming changes to the ARL annual surveys and discusses the benefits of these changes

Digital Preservation Awards 2012

The Digital Preservation Awards 2012 is now open. The Digital Preservation Awards celebrate the excellence and innovation that will help to ensure our digital memory is available tomorrow. It was first awarded in 2004 as one of the Conservation Awards and it has been presented on four occasions (2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010), sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition with the Institute for Conservation. Although based on the Conservation Awards the Digital Preservation Award has always been distinctive in how it implements the criteria and eligibility

Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner 2011-2012

The winner of this year's Rose Book-Collecting Prize is Alessandro Bianchi of Robinson College, for his collection Japanese Popular Publications before the Twentieth Century. Alessandro is studying for a PhD in Japanese Studies, focussing on early-modern literature, and is the sixth 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

Digging into data challenge - Phase 2

The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition to explore the possibilities of using large-scale digitised corpora into social socience and humanities research. Phase 1 (2010-11) is completed and Phase 2 (2012-14) is underway

Nominations invited for the 2012 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award

UKeiG is now seeking nominations for the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award 2012. The UKeiG Jason Farradane Award is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information profession. The Award embraces activities in the information profession in its widest sense, while the Group's other award, the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award focuses more narrowly on information retrieval. The closing date for nominations is Friday October 5th 2012

Disaster response and salvage training (UK)

Disaster response and salvage training - Preservation Advisory Centre Training Day - 4 July 2012 - British Library Centre for Conservation, London, UK

The Mills Archive is 10 years old (UK)

This year the Mills Archive is 10 years old. The Mills Archive was established in 2002 as a permanent repository for historical and contemporary material on traditional mills and milling, and to make that material available for public inspection and use in research and learning. It is managed by the Mills Archive Trust and has rescued over a million documents and images that might otherwise have ended up in a landfill site. The archive was originally set up to care for four historically important Foundation Collections. The private collections of M. M. Cookson, J. K. Major and A. Stoyel are three of the largest collections of material on traditional mills and milling in the UK, and represent between them more than 130 years researching and working with mills. The fourth collection consists of material deposited over the years with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Mills Section by various mill researchers and enthusiasts; as the Section does not have the space or the expertise to develop these collections it has agreed to pass them to the Mills Archive to better care for them. In addition to these, the archive has been given more than 70 other collections of varying size. All together the collections have more than 2,000,000 items. These show the rich and diverse crafts, buildings, machinery, equipment and people involved with mills in the UK and around the world

Library and Information Science (LIS) Research Coalition June newsletter available

In 2012 the LIS Research Coalition will issue regular newsletters to keep the LIS research community and practitioners informed of its work. The June newsletter is now available

Blackwell Companions Humanities Collection from Credo Reference

Credo Reference presents the Blackwell Companions Humanities Collection, one of 47 Credo Publisher Collections

ebrary announces new Android app

ebrary®, a ProQuest business, has announced a new Android™ app that will be freely
available on Google Play this summer

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice - Vol 7, No 2 (2012)

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice - Vol 7, No 2 (2012) is now available. RSS Feed

PeerJ Inc. - new Open Access academic publishing company

PeerJ Inc., a new Open Access academic publishing company, has been announced. Founded by seasoned academic publishing and technology professionals from PLoS ONE and Mendeley, PeerJ will publish a broad based, rapid, peer-reviewed journal ('PeerJ') and an innovative preprint server ('PeerJ PrePrints'). PeerJ will open for submissions in Summer 2012, and will publish its first articles in December 2012

Library Connect - July 2012

Library Connect - July 2012 - Volume 10, Number 2 is now available online from Elsevier

Berlin 10 Open Access Conference 2012 (South Africa)

The upcoming Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will mark the first such meeting to take place in Africa. The meeting will be held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Wallenberg Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 6-8 November 2012. The Conference is an international forum, and this year's location provides a unique opportunity for African organisations to fully participate in shaping the program and ensure a lively, inclusive, and productive conference. Berlin 10 is being organised by representatives from the science, humanities, research, funding and policy communities

Open Access Week 2012

Open Access Week 2012 is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research - October 22-28, 2012

Above the Fold - May 25, 2012

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 25, 2012 - Vol. 5, No. 21 now available

Dolly Parton book scheme to be launched in Bradford

A children's centre in Bradford plans to adopt a reading scheme launched in Rotherham by US country singer Dolly Parton. The Imagination Library encourages children under five to read by sending them a free book every month. Parton launched it in Rotherham in 2007 after pioneering the scheme in the US. Chris McKay, head of Canterbury Children's Centre, said the project would help families who could not afford to buy books. The centre would be the 31st place in the UK to start an Imagination Library

"A library in every school, please" by Susan Elkin

Susan Elkin writes in The Independent: "Books are to education and learning what air and water are to life. Every child needs access to the printed word and lots of encouragement to explore it in order to develop properly. You might, therefore, be surprised to learn that many schools do not have a library or a librarian - which seems a contradiction in terms. How can you have an organisation whose raison d' ê tre is learning if it has no library? It's like a restaurant without a kitchen or a zoo without any animals..."

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #201

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #201. "This week's episode brings not just an editorial about the Smith-Mundt Act & domestic dissemination of the Voice of America, economic chatter, but a news miscellany too". Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

Acorn Park Little Free Library opens (USA)

A world-wide movement called the "Little Free Library" has now started up in Eugene. The movement started in Wisconsin in 2010. This is the first Little Free Library in Eugene. The library is simple. Pick any donated book and read it. Then bring it back with other books to contribute. The library is located at 1595 Buck Street in Eugene. Residents say it is a great way to bring the community together. "It has allowed us to interact in a different way and gotten us to work together and put together this project. It is completely community based, community built and donated. It is a great way to build a community," said Val Hoyle

2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival (USA)

2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival - September 22-23, 2012 - Washington, DC, USA

First Monday - June 2012

First Monday - Volume 17, Number 6, 4 June 2012 now available. First Monday is a Great Cities Initiative of the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library, USA

OLAC 2012 Conference (USA)

2012 Online Audiovisual Catalogers Conference - October 18-21, 2012 - Albuquerque, NM, USA

Digital Preservation Network: Cliff Lynch speaks with UVA's James Hilton

CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch speaks with James Hilton, Chief Information Officer, University of Virginia about the Digital Preservation Network, an initiative which aims to create a federated approach to preservation of academic content

Estonian ministry funds online database for folk costumes

A project to collect detailed information on the traditional regalia of Estonia's 108 historical parishes and make it available in an online database has been approved for funding by the Ministry of Culture. Although the database was set up by the non-profit Rahvarõivas (Folk Costume) and the Estonian Folk Art and Craft Union as far back as 2008, the website currently provides information on only a small number of traditional clothing items

SAGE to publish Adoption & Fostering from 2013

SAGE and the British Association for Adoption & Fostering have announced a new agreement to publish BAAF's journal, Adoption & Fostering, from 2013

Birth: a changing scene. Part I: Images of home birth in the Wellcome Library

Library Assistant Anna Ostrowska shares some of her research for her recent Wellcome Library Insight Session

Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI)

The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history (specifically the First World War period) through the development of an 'enquiry environment'. Lead institution: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Partner institutions: Die Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB) Germany, Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MISANU), Serbia, University of Birmingham, UK, Georg August Universitaet Goettingen, Germany, Czech National Library, Czech Republic, International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin, Italy, Fondazione Ezio Francheschini, Italy, Bibliothek fuer Zeitgeschichte, Germany, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, France, Consortium of European Research Libraries, UK, The De Koninkljike Bibliotheek - European Library, Netherlands

2012 Scottish International Storytelling Festival

The 2012 Scottish International Storytelling Festival celebrates the art and humanity of folktales across Europe, tracing the way in which the publication of the Brothers Grimm Tales 200 years ago, sparked a revival of interest in nations and regions across the continent and influenced every artform - 19-28 October, 2012 - Edinburgh, Scotland

New peer-reviewed journal on Big Data launching in Fall 2012

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced the launch of Big Data, a peer-reviewed journal that will provide a unique forum for world-class research exploring the challenges and opportunities in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating vast amounts of data, including big data analytics

Hay Festival 2012: Life Changing Literature - David Lammy (UK)

"Libraries are the universities of the masses – we can't lose them", writes David Lammy - The Telegraph

Turning the Page 2.0 (USA)

Turning the Page 2.0 is a free library advocacy training course developed and presented by the Public Library Association with generous support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this six-week, facilitated online course, library staff and supporters will learn how to create and tell their library's story, deliver effective presentations, develop a compelling case for support, and build and sustain partnerships along the way. Participants are encouraged to come with a specific, self-determined advocacy goal for their library. At the end of six weeks, you'll have a complete Advocacy Work Plan to guide your efforts. Turning the Page 2.0 consists of the following components:

* In-person kick-off (optional)
* Facilitator-led virtual classroom sessions (1 hour each week for 6 weeks)
* Independent work on Turning the Page online modules (about 1 hour each week)
* Online community for discussion (optional)
* Completion of an Advocacy Work Plan (about 1 hour each week)
* One-on-one feedback via email from professional facilitators (free consultancy)

Utah State University adopts Open Access policy (USA)

Utah State University has joined an emerging national trend and the ranks of a growing number of the country's universities in adopting an official "Open Access" policy. USU's University Libraries headed the effort. "For the library and, indeed, the whole university, this is a momentous occasion," said Richard Clement, USU's dean of libraries. "It enables faculty authors to retain rights to their own publications and to make the fruits of their research and scholarship freely available to all." The new open access policy - officially known at USU as Policy 535 - ensures that all employees at Utah State University retain the ability to share their publications with colleagues, students and the public upon their publication. The policy was first unanimously approved by USU's Faculty Senate in April, followed by approval by the President's Executive Committee with the endorsement of USU President Stan Albrecht

TWIL #75: Leonee Ariel Derr (Youth Services Librarian)

How can we provide value for young people? "Nothing is really easy" and traveling the world on a scholarship to learn about libraries. All of this and more in this week's episode of TWIL: your weekly dose of library innovation

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - June 8, 2012

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Singer-Songwriters. "In the world of popular music, singer-songwriters not only sing but also write songs, usually for themselves to sing. Try to answer these questions about singers who also write songs" Answers here.

1. Which US singer-songwriter had the most successful album of the early 1970s, in a duo with Art Garfunkel, with "Bridge Over Troubled Water"?
2. Which popular singer and songwriter had best-selling albums with "Off The Wall" (1979) and "Thriller" (1982)?
3. Born Robert Zimmerman in 1941, which influential singer-songwriter "went electric" for the albums "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde"?
4. Which singer-songwriter was murdered by Mark David Chapman in 1980?
5. Which Canadian singer-songwriter composed the songs "Both Sides Now" and "Big Yellow Taxi"?
6. P. J. Harvey is a singer-songwriter. What is her first name (starting with P)?
7. Which Canadian singer-songwriter was a poet and novelist before he made albums entitled "Songs from a Room" and "Death of a Ladies' Man"?
8. Which American singer-songwriter made albums called "Tuesday Night Music Club" and "The Globe Sessions" and performed the title track to the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies"?
9. Which female singer-songwriter reached the American Top Five with "Chuck E's in Love" (1979)?
10. Which singer-songwriter married singer-songwriter Carly Simon in 1972?

The Wrecking of Canada's Library and Archives - Myron Groover

Myron Groover writes: "The ongoing cuts and changes to service delivery at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) continue to be a source of consternation for Canada's archival community and to the users of Canada's documentary heritage. It's quite easy to get carried away on a tide of outrage around these issues, though, and so I present here a brief summary of the proposed changes themselves so readers can have an idea what's going on..."

Search new Kent parish records on findmypast.co.uk

Search more than 7,500 new parish records for North West Kent on findmypast.co.uk

ReadersFirst

ReadersFirst: a movement to improve e-book access and services for public library users

Cites & Insights 12:5 (June 2012)

Cites & Insights 12:5 (June 2012) is now available for downloading. Edited and published by Walt Crawford

Social Sciences Directory

Social Sciences Directory is a new web-based open-access publishing platform, aimed at the global academic research and higher education market

CRL acquires Central American Archives

The first portion of CRL's purchase of the complete set of the Archivo General de Centroamérica (Central American Archives) has been received and processed. These archives encompass six million pages of original primary source documents (many of which are unique copies) spanning more than three centuries, from 1519 to 1898. They document Spanish rule in the New World from the founding of the city of Antigua, in Guatemala. The collection documents all aspects of commerce, politics, and development throughout El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Yucatan and Chiapas regions of Mexico. Central American Archives is a rich resource for Latin American, Central American, and Spanish studies

JSTOR Current Scholarship Program announces 2013 catalog and pricing

JSTOR has announced the 2013 catalog and price list for the Current Scholarship Program are now available online. A total of 230 titles - 24 of them new to the program - will be available for the 2013 subscription year

Librarian of Congress appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate (USA)

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library's Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library's annual literary season with a reading of her work on Thursday, September 13 in the Coolidge Auditorium. Her term will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Library's Poetry and Literature Center and the 1937 establishment of the Consultant-in-Poetry position, which was changed by a federal law in 1986 to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry

Free access to Women Writing in Africa from Alexander Street Press

Alexander Street Press is providing free access to "Women Writing in Africa" only for institutions in Africa

IMLS awards $50,000 to the Public Library Association to prototype a summer reading app

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced a planning grant of $50,000 to the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. This National Leadership Grant will aid in the development of a "summer reading app" for mobile devices by the summer of 2013

The HeinOnline Newsletter - May 2012

The HeinOnline Newsletter - May 2012 - Issue #5 is now available online

2012 LITA National Forum Registration

Registration is now open for the 2012 LITA National Forum, October, 2012

2012 Spectrum Scholarship winners announced

This year, the American Library Association's Office for Diversity is awarding a new round of 50 Spectrum Scholarships. The Spectrum Scholarship Program provides scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students pursuing graduate degrees in library and information studies. Its mission is to improve service at the local level through the development of a representative workforce that reflects the communities served by all libraries. Since 1997, the ALA has awarded more than 800 Spectrum Scholarships

New website for SPARC Europe

SPARC Europe has a new website with an updated look and new features

Crossroads - June 2012

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - June 2012 issue is now available

FreePint Newsletter 352

FreePint Newsletter 352 - 7 June 2012 now available

116 more Open Access and subscription Journals added to JournalTOCs

Roddy MacLeod has added 116 more Open Access journals to JournalTOCs, where you can find the latest Tables of Contents from over 19,200 scholarly journals, including over 3,900 Open Access journals

Video: Interview with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein

In this eight-minute video, Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant talks with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein about his plans to help connect researchers with library collections and services using Wikipedia

Ex Libris releases Primo 4.0

Ex Libris® Group has announced the release of version 4 of the Primo® discovery and delivery solution

June 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is up at LibraryThing

The June 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 2341 copies of 93 books available this month

Welsh memories of Queen’s coronation

The coronation of Queen Elzabeth II in 1953 was one of the key events that inaugurated the age of mass television in Britain. It was the first large royal event to be televised. For many in Wales and elsewhere it was their first experience of seeing television at all. The coronation therefore played an important and formative role in defining the way television recorded national events

2012 Year Book Australia

Year Book Australia provides a comprehensive and detailed statistical overview of Australia's environment, society, industry and economy. As well as providing a statistical picture of contemporary Australia the 2012 Year Book includes feature articles that recognise and celebrate the National Year of Reading, the Australian Year of the Farmer and the International Year of Co-operatives

CLA Announces the 2012 scholarship winners (Canada)

The Canadian Library Association has announced the awarding of the CLA Dafoe and H.W. Wilson Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded annually to a student entering an ALA-accredited degree program in library and information studies. Grant Hurley of Vancouver, BC is being awarded the CLA Dafoe Scholarship ($5000). Leila Meshgini of Toronto, ON is being awarded the H.W. Wilson Scholarship ($2000). Criteria for the scholarships include academic achievement, leadership potential and a demonstrated interest in the profession

2012 ARL/DLF/DuraSpace E-Science Institute

DuraSpace has announced the 2012 Association of Research Libraries/Digital Library Federation (ARL/DLF)/DuraSpace E-Science Institute scheduled for the 2012–2013 academic year. This Institute will be offered to academic and research library audiences seeking opportunities to boost institutional support of e-research and the management and preservation of our scientific and scholarly record

Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A report from ACRL

ACRL has released a new white paper, "Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic Libraries Summits," which reports on two invitational summits supported by a National Leadership Collaborative Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Gale and Library Journal Name San Diego County Library as the 2012 Library of the Year

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Library Journal magazine have announced that San Diego County Library is the 2012 Library of the Year

NYOpenGovernment.com (USA)

NYOpenGovernment.com is an effort by the Attorney General's office to promote your right to know and to monitor governmental decision-making. NYOpenGovernment.com is the only statewide resource that allows you to easily access statewide government information, which until now has been scattered or difficult to retrieve

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #164

SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #164 - June 2 2012 is now available from Peter Suber

C&RL News – June 2012

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

New British Library exhibition explores Islam, Trade and Politics on a journey across the country

Islam, Trade and Politics Across the Indian Ocean, a new photographic exhibition produced by the British Library and funded by the British Academy for the Association of South-East Asian Studies and British Institute at Ankara was opened 30 May and goes on a year-long journey across the country

Accessing Linda Hall Library materials through CRL

Earlier this year, CRL and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology formed a strategic partnership to preserve and develop historical research collections in the fields of science, technology, and engineering. Beginning July 1, CRL libraries will have access to the combined CRL and Linda Hall science, technology, and engineering print serials. These current and back issues of over 50,000 journal titles acquired and maintained by CRL and Linda Hall will be made available electronically through on-demand digitization and traditional document delivery through the RapidILL service

38th IASSIST annual conference (USA)

The 38th IASSIST annual conference will be in Washington, D.C., USA, June 4-8, 2012, hosted by the National Opinion Research Centre. The theme is Data Science for a Connected World: Unlocking and Harnessing the Power of Information

Now over 5,000,000 pages at The British Newspaper Archive (UK)

The British Newspaper Archive website has just reached another milestone, as page number 5,000,000 was recently added

Ovid's Resource of the Month - June 2012 - APA PsycINFO™ and APA PsycTESTS®

Each month, Ovid provides you with the opportunity to "test drive" a sampling of our content, tools and services - free of charge - through our Resource of the Month program. A different combination of resources is offered around the first business day of each month, so be sure to check back regularly to see what new resources are available

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #200

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #200. "This week's episode provides a news miscellany and reminds us that the largest democracy by headcount is India". Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

Art and Architecture in Video from Alexander Street Press

Art and Architecture in Video, an online streaming film collection, delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses, the works within this collection offer a dynamic tool to enhance understanding of visual media

Knox County Black History Archives (USA)

Knox County, Ohio has been home to Black residents from the earliest days of settlement of the region by non-indigenous persons. As a consequence of their small numbers, the history of Black folks of the area was largely over-looked, if not outright ignored, by the mainstream press, academicians, and local historians. Although living and working closely with their White neighbors, the Black community, forced by custom and convention and inspired by other "colored" people living in communities both large and small, built parallel, albeit segregated, institutions to meet their social, economic, and spiritual needs. The establishment of these archives was intended to open a window into the fascinating world of African American life and experience in rural Ohio as well as advance the reclamation of the proud histories of the invisible people who occupied "the community within." These Archives are made possible, in part, by funding from the Ohio Humanities Council in addition to continuing support from Kenyon College and the Rural Life Center. Use of the items in these archives are limited to non-commercial uses, and contingent upon the proper acknowledgment of the Rural Life Center at Kenyon College

Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources - An Annotated Link Compilation by Marcus P. Zillman

This new guide focuses on the latest and most significant academic and scholar search engines and sources. With the constant addition of new and pertinent information released online from every sector, it is very easy to experience information overload. A real asset in responding to the challenges of so much data is to apply techniques to identify and locate significant, reliable academic and scholarly information that resides in both the visible and invisible web. The following selected academic and scholar search engines and sources offer a wide range of actionable information retrieval and extraction sources to help you accomplish your research goals - May 31, 2012

The Geothermal Resources Council launches the GRC Online Library (USA)

Our database contains approximately 33,000 records on all aspects of geothermal energy, including exploration, reservoir engineering, power plant design and operation, direct use, geothermal heat pumps, regulatory issues, energy policy, energy markets, news briefs, and more. We provide article-level citations to: all GRC Transactions (1977 to present), all GRC Special Reports, numerous feature articles and news briefs from the GRC Bulletin (1973 to present), corporate and academic technical reports, journals, and books

TWIL #74: Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research & Instructional Services at Temple University's Paley Library

TWIL #74: Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research & Instructional Services at Temple University's Paley Library - Making yourself visible as a librarian. The cost of textbooks and creating passionate users

EBSCO Publishing brings Associated Press Images Collection to library customers

EBSCO Publishing will make millions of images from the Associated Press available to library customers. EBSCO has been named the sole library distributor of the AP Images, the commercial photo unit of AP. It is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery including more than twelve million photographs dating back more than 100 years

John Hayes MP announces new accessibility tools (UK)

John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning launched two new JISC TechDis tools this week as part of our work to improve access to education for all abilities. The tools TechDis Voices and TechDis Toolbox will improve text to speech and provide a one-stop toolbox of resources, aimed primarily at helping people with disabilities or other difficulties to improve their work and learning

DeepDyve

DeepDyve provides simple and affordable access to millions of articles across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Content from the world's leading publishers including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and more

Information Today - June 2012 issues

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

British Design 1948–2012 (UK)

In 1948 London hosted the first Olympic Games after the Second World War. The 'Austerity Games' (as they became known) took place at a time of economic crisis in a city devastated by bombing, but they provided a platform for reconciliation and reconstruction. In 2012 Britain welcomes the Olympics once more, and while the spirit remains, the context in which they are taking place has entirely changed. British Design 1948–2012 traces those changes by exploring buildings, objects, images and ideas produced by designers and artists born, trained or based in Britain.

The displays examine the shifting nature of British design over 60 years: three galleries respectively explore the tension between tradition and modernity; the subversive impulse in British culture; and Britain’s leadership in design innovation and creativity. The exhibition reveals how British designers have responded to economic, political and cultural forces that have fundamentally shaped how we live today. They have created some of the most inventive and striking objects, technologies and buildings of the modern world

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - May 30, 2012 update

The May 30, 2012 edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers

Current Cites - May 2012

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

Facet Publishing release three new titles (UK)

Facet Publishing has announced the release of The New Professional's Toolkit, Information 2.0, and Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time, 6th edition

Long-sealed Watergate documents may be released (USA)

The U.S. Department of Justice says at least some materials sealed as part of the court case against seven men involved in the 1972 Watergate burglary should be released

The Publishers Association releases report detailing the potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo

'The potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo', a report commissioned by The Publishers Association and the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers, found that an across-the-board mandate might have a material effect on libraries' subscriptions; and that the impact on publishers' revenues would be considerable. Higher Education Institutions' libraries may be impacted by the collapse or scaling down of academic publishing houses. The world's most distinguished research institutions would, the report suggests, be impacted the most, since published outputs are essential for the work carried out by their researchers. The reports' results indicate that STM publishers could expect to retain full subscriptions from 56% of libraries, compared with 35% for AHSS publishers

Royal Household Staff Records 1660-1924 now online (UK)

In celebration of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, family history website findmypast.co.uk, in association with the Royal Archives, has launched the Royal Household Staff Lists, a detailed collection made available online for the first time

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - June 1, 2012

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Animals in Films. "We recently had a brainteaser about animals in books. Now here's a quiz about animals in films" Answers here.

1. Which 1942 animated feature film told the story of a young fawn whose friends included Thumper and Flower?
2. In "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy said to her dog "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more!" What was the name of her dog?
3. Leo the lion roars at the beginning of each movie made by which film company?
4. Which cartoon animal was featured in Walt Disney's first sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie"?
5. What was the title of the 1995 film adapted from Dick King-Smith's novel "The Sheep-Pig", about a pig who discovers it can herd sheep?
6. "Ring of Bright Water" was a 1969 film based on Gavin Maxwell's life with which kind of animals?
7. Which 1993 movie featured an orca whale calf called Keiko?
8. "National Velvet" was a 1945 film starring Elizabeth Taylor in which Velvet, a butcher's daughter, wins what in a raffle?
9. What kind of fish was Nemo in the 2003 film called "Finding Nemo"?
10. What was the name of the Siamese cat that appeared in the 1958 film "Bell, Book and Candle"?