The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Weather. Answers here.
1. Does thunder precede or follow a flash of lightning?
2. What was the name of the hurricane which devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005?
3. Smog is a mixture of which two substances?
4. Is a "northeaster" a wind blowing to the northeast or from the northeast?
5. Who danced in puddles in the 1952 film musical "Singin' in the Rain"?
6. What phrase is used to describe a technique for producing rain by dropping chemicals or small objects into clouds?
7. In which country does the wind called the "mistral" mainly blow?
8. What does a barometer measure?
9. "SAD" is an abbreviation for mental depression apparently linked to the seasonally changing amount of light during autumn and winter. What does "SAD" stand for?
10. The Fujita scale or F-scale is the standard scale for measuring the severity of which weather phenomenon?
Friday, January 04, 2008
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Lake Superior State University 2008 List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness
Lake Superior State University has released its 2008 List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness
United States National Archives budget increased for FY08
The United States National Archives and Records Administration will receive $411.1 million in funding for the current fiscal year under the omnibus appropriations bill signed by President George W. Bush on December 26
PublicRecordsWire
PublicRecordsWire - "An open system for cataloging, sharing and discovering new public records databases. The system promotes the databases that are most used and voted upon with the goal of enhancing overall quality of public records databases"
Costa Book Awards 2007 category winners announced
Chair of the 2007 final judging panel, author Joanna Trollope, has announced the 2007 Costa Book Awards category winning authors
Gunpowder plot 'skin' book sold
BBC - "A private buyer has paid GBP5,400 at auction for a book alleged to be bound in the skin of a Jesuit priest executed over the 1605 Gunpowder Plot"
New collaboration for scholarly publishing
"Five United States university presses have announced a collaboration that seeks to find a way to reduce costs of scholarly publishing and to allow more books to be released. The collaboration, created with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will set up a joint operation for copy editing, design, layout and typesetting for the work in American literatures. The presses will retain complete control over book selection and distribution"
LISjobs Message Boards
LISjobs.com: Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals, now has some discussions forums
British Library's Chief Executive made a Dame in New Year Honours
"Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, has been made a Dame of the British Empire in the New Year Honours. She receives the honour for services to education, having led the British Library since July 2000. Lynne Brindley said, 'I am truly delighted to receive this recognition. It is, of course, a great personal honour but it is also a tribute to my many talented colleagues at the British Library and in the library and information profession'"
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Journal of Music Theory
Duke University Press has announced the addition of the Journal of Music Theory to its list of journal titles. The acquisition of the journal represents a change in publisher only. The editorial office at Yale University will remain unchanged
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large: 8:1 (January 2008)
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large: 8:1 (January 2008) is now available for downloading
SirsiDynix Symphony 3.2 now available
SirsiDynix has announced the general availability of SirsiDynix Symphony 3.2, "the library community's open, evolutionary and customizable integrated library system"
Information Today - January 2008 issues
The January 2008 issues of Computers in Libraries, Information Today, and Searcher, are now available
New blog: Collections 2.0
Collections 2.0: a place to speculate about the future of libraries, especially how digital technology and social software (Web 2.0 and Library 2.0) together might affect the development and management of library collections
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Archives Hub Collections of the Month, January 2008
Archives Hub Collections of the Month, January 2008: Brass Bands: "This month we look at brass bands, and highlight descriptions for the papers of composers, bands and events"
Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary announced
A new bursary for aspiring writers has been set up by the family of Luke Bitmead, who died in 2006. The bursary will include a cash award of GBP2,500 for the winner and a publishing contract from Bitmead's publisher Legend Press
30 Library Technology Predictions for 2008 from Stephen Abram
Stephen Abram of SirsiDynix has written 30 Library Technology Predictions for 2008
LIS Future: A Library Mentor and Leadership Development Wiki
"LIS Future: This wiki is designed to be a collective resource for library mentoring and library leadership ideas, programs, and tools for current and aspiring directors or department heads as well as for students and new librarians preparing for leadership positions"
LLRX.com December 29, 2007 update
LLRX.com December 29, 2007 update is now online. LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal, library, IT/IS, marketing and administrative professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996
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