Thursday, September 11, 2003
UKOLUG Seminar (London): Patents as part of Commercial Intelligence - Patent information is an important part of business and competitive intelligence. For those who are only occasional users of patent information or are new to this area, the UKOLUG meeting Patents for non-patent people will provide an essentail guide to resources and search techniques - 7 October 2003
Documents highlight U.S. role in Chilean Coup - newly declassified documents shed light on the U.S. government's role in the September 11 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected leader of Chile. The military coup ended in Allende's suicide and thrust General Augusto Pinochet into power
What libraries can learn from bookstores: applying the bookstore model to public libraries by Chris Rippel, Central Kansas Library System
The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College is once again hosting its annual asynchronous online workshop series. This series is of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians, and instructional design and information professionals. This series of online workshops will provide participants with an understanding of select intellectual property issues facing higher education in today's rapidly changing digital environment
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Dynix Web Seminar Series: Marketing As If Your Library Depended On It - September 24, 2003 - free one-hour web-based seminar given by Pat Wagner of Pattern Research
Cold North Wind, Inc. and Sporting News, Inc. have announced an agreement to provide the archives of the 117 year-old Sporting News online. Beginning November 1, 2003, the entire published full-page, full-text archives of Sporting News magazine, which virtually chronicles the history of sport, will be available and fully searchable on Cold North Wind’s website, www.paperofrecord.com, an online portal providing a range of historical content aggregated from a variety of different sources. Subscriptions to Paperofrecord.com, which will include the Sporting News magazine archives, will cost $16.75US per month or $99.00US per year
To mark the acceptance of The September 11 Digital Archive in the Library of Congress's permanent collection, the Library will host a day-long symposium on Wednesday, September 10, 2003. September 11 as History: Collecting Today for Tomorrow, featuring commentary by leading U.S. historians, librarians, and archivists, will be held in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium
Policy Options is Canada's premier public policy magazine. Its goal is to encourage an informed debate on the important public policy issues of today, and of tomorrow. In each edition, short articles on the immediate issues that dominate the headlines are combined with in-depth analyses of longer-term issues that are certain to emerge on the policy horizon
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Cat and class: it's OK for anyone! - 28-29 October 2003, London - this workshop provides a basic introduction to the skills of information organisation in the context of library and information services and a broad based framework built from principles and practice that participants can take away and develop in their own organisational context
International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - January 23-24, 2004 - Palo Alto, CA. This is a 100% participation workshop aimed at bringing together researchers, practitioners and users interested in new technologies that help integrate imaged and encoded documents within digital libraries such that ideally, everything that can be done with encoded documents can also be done with imaged documents
The Library and Information Research Group invites applications for the 2003 Elsevier/LIRG Research Award. The purpose of the Award is to encourage research and innovation in library and information science. It is intended that particular attention will be paid to proposals intended to improve the accessibility, retrievability and usefulness of information. The maximum value of the Award is £1000
Alternative Funding Sources for Schools and Libraries - this free webcast, which is made possible by the sponsors of the LearningTimes Library Online Conference, will explore innovative funding models that public schools and libraries use to augment shrinking state and local fiscal budgets. October 2, 2003
Monday, September 08, 2003
In2Books is an innovative literacy program that empowers elementary students to achieve their personal best by giving them meaningful books to keep and an adult pen pal to correspond with about the books. To reinforce and expand the learning experience, In2Books provides the key people in students' lives - family members, teachers, and adult pen pals - with state-of-the-art literacy and developmental training. Although initially launched only in Washington, D.C., In2Books plans to expand to other under-resourced public school districts across the country
The Guardian states that Internet shoppers have doubled their spending over the past year to more than £10bn as the e-commerce companies that survived the dotcom bust start to prosper. The most popular online purchases remain CDs, DVDs and books but the figures also show the web is increasingly the most popular way of buying travel, theatre, concert and cinema tickets
John Wiley & Sons increased sales and profits in the first quarter, ended July 31, with its professional/trade publishing division showing the most growth despite continued weaknesses in some of the unit's core markets. Wiley's U.S. professional/ trade revenues increased by 8% over the first quarter of the prior year, to $76.1 million
Emerald's Journals of the Week for September 8-14 are Pigment & Resin Technology & Collection Building
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