Friday, January 11, 2008
Developing an RSS Journal Service for Your Library
"Special Breeze Session: Developing and Marketing an RSS Journal Service for Your Library. Please join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 for a special, additional Breezing Along with the RML session at 11 A.M. Central Time. For those of you who were unable to attend MCMLA 2007 or missed the session on Developing and Marketing an RSS Journal Service for Your Library, the NN/LM MidContinental Region has invited the Librarians from Ebling Library at the University of Wisconsin for an encore presentation of their Omaha session"
ProQuest Search Widget
"The ProQuest Search Widget helps your library increase visibility of licensed databases by letting you embed a ProQuest search box on any institutional web page. You pick the databases to search, and can pre-populate the search with specific search terms - whatever meets the research need you are trying to support"
total:spec available via Exact Editions
total:spec, the magazine that "covers the worlds of music, politics and fashion, with some art and entertainment on the side", is now available online via Exact Editions
Library Management Systems & Services Showcase
"CILIP is running it's highly successful LMS showcase on Friday 14 March, 2008. Interest from exhibitors has already been high with seven companies already signed up for the event"
Library of Congress and Microsoft announce agreement
"The Library of Congress and Microsoft have signed a cooperative agreement that will change the way Library visitors experience history. The joint technology initiative will electronically deliver the Library's immense collection of historical artifacts to patrons visiting its Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., and will allow unparalleled and immersive interactive experiences that will bring the institution's vast historical collections and exhibits to life–on-site and online–through the upcoming myloc.gov Web site"
ARL: A Bimonthly Report - February 2008
ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 256 (February 2008) is now available
Librarian of the Year 2008: New Jersey State Librarian Norma Blake
Norma Blake of the New Jersey State Library has been chosen 2008 Librarian of the Year by Library Journal
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Readex announces The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction
Readex has announced the release in Spring 2008 of The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction - a fully searchable digital resource for students and scholars. This unique collection, selected from the Archive of Americana, provides extensive local and national coverage of culture, politics and society during a tumultuous time that redefined a nation. The Civil War features more than 180 newspapers as well as approximately 50,000 government documents and 3,500 broadsides and pieces of ephemera. Newspapers include the Baltimore Sun, Charleston Mercury, Dallas Weekly Herald, Milwaukee Sentinel, National Intelligencer, New Orleans Times Picayune, New York Herald, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Francisco Bulletin
Yale University Press selects Ingram's CoreSource
"Yale University Press has selected Ingram Digital Group to assist in the development and deployment of Yale University Press' digital publishing strategy to make the Press' titles more widely available. Under the agreement, Yale University Press will use CoreSource - Ingram's suite of asset management and search-and-discover services - to convert, protect, manage, and monetize the Press' digital assets, whether they be sold or marketed as print books or eBooks. This is estimated to involve more than 3,000 documents and other digital assets that are owned by Yale University Press"
The National Library of Wales centenary exhibition
The National Library of Wales centenary exhibition, In This Place, is now available online
20th Century Cabinet Records: Digitising a core collection of modern political records
Ed Hampshire discusses the Cabinet Records Digitisation Project, explaining how the innermost records of government will soon be made fully available online and what visitors to the site can expect when the project is completed. The National Archives Podcast Series
SciBX: Science–Business Exchange
"SciBX: Science–Business Exchange is a groundbreaking weekly publication that will transform your ability to efficiently identify and evaluate new developments in science and technology that have commercial and investment potential within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical arena. The publication and the associated websites are the result of a powerful collaboration that unites the business intelligence of BioCentury Publications, Inc. with the scientific acumen of Nature Publishing Group"
SCATNews - December 2007
The December 2007 issue of the SCATNews Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section is now available
E-News for ARL Directors, January 9, 2008
E-News for ARL Directors January 9, 2008 is now available online
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Nominations for the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Poetry Prize
The Library of Congress is accepting nominations from publishers for the $10,000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. The prize will be awarded in April, which is National Poetry Month. The prize, given biennially, is for the 2008 award. It will be presented to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years, 2006 and 2007, or for lifetime achievement in poetry. Publishers may submit entries for the best book; the lifetime achievement awarding is at the sole discretion of the prize jury
Borders to launch SoftWide in Oxford Street (London, UK) store
"Borders UK has announced that it has signed a deal with Tribeka Ltd to trial a service that will offer CD and DVD Rom on demand. Borders will be the first retailer to have such a system in store. Branded as On Demand, it will go into the Borders flagship Oxford Street (London) branch in London on 4 February, offering customers the opportunity to choose from over 1,500 software items, including educational, business and entertainment products such as games, music and video"
The 2008 National Year of Reading
"The 2008 National Year of Reading will create a powerful focus of opportunities and activities so that children, families and adult learners understand the benefits that reading for pleasure and purpose can bring to change their lives." Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). The NYR will run from January to December 2008
Proposed changes to UK copyright exceptions
Libraries and schools could benefit from possible changes in the UK copyright laws, according to the Intellectual Property Office. The IPO has launched a consultation on how the laws should apply in the digital age. This follows the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, which recommended reforms to the law
New blog: ACRL Insider
"The mission of ACRL Insider is to keep ACRL members and other interested parties current and informed on the activities, services and programs of the association. ACRL Insider features information on publications, events, conferences and eLearning opportunities, along with podcasts and other media. With the launch of this new communication tool, ACRL hopes to foster openness and transparency by providing an outlet for connection between members and staff. In order to encourage a collaborative environment, all ACRL Insider posts allow for reader comments and suggestions"
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