GPO.gov relaunched

GPO has announced the re-launch of its agency Web site. "This enhanced site includes separate Web pages for FDLP and LSCM information for the public. The new Web pages will help inform the public about and lead the public to Federal depository libraries. The redesigned site includes links to FDsys, GPO Access, the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, the Federal Depository Library Directory, The FDLP Desktop, Ben's Guide, and more, as well as Web pages for each of the agency's departments"

Cites & Insights 9:7 (June 2009)

Cites & Insights 9:7 (June 2009) is now available for downloading

2009 academic librarian salary survey results

The Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), recently completed revisions to academic library position descriptions included in surveys covering salaries, benefits and other benchmarks

SPARC and ACRL announce Chicago ALA forum will focus on the economy

The next SPARC-ACRL forum on emerging issues in scholarly communication, to be held at the Chicago meeting of the American Library Association in July, will explore "Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace." The forum is co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College and Research Libraries. The 19th biennial SPARC-ACRL Forum will be held July 11, 2009 from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Sheraton Chicago. The ACRL Scholarly Communications discussion group, which offers a more intimate setting to explore forum topics in greater depth, will be held July 12, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Intercontinental Hotel

The Perseus Books Group adds FiledBy as online marketing platform

"The Perseus Books Group is using FiledBy sites as an effective way to provide an online presence and digital marketing solution for authors. The FiledBy platform enables authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers, editors and other contributors to easily build an online community where they can promote their work and interact with fans and peers. 'FiledBy has put together a thoughtful and effective community that enables authors to take control of their own content, sell their books, link to other sites and directly communicate with readers,' said Peter Costanzo, director of online marketing for Perseus. 'It's a terrific digital marketing platform for any author looking for a low-cost and effective web presence.'" Beginning with the Vanguard Press imprint, Perseus authors now on FiledBy include:

* Eileen Goudge, author of One Last Dance, Garden of Lies and Thorns of Truth
* Alan Jacobson, author of The Hunted and False Accusations
* Kyle Mills, author of Lords of Corruption and Darkness Falls
* Shane Briant, author of Worst Nightmares
* David Morrell, author of Scavenger and The Shimmer

Designing Libraries Newsletter Issue 17: April 2009

Designing Libraries Newsletter Issue 17: April 2009 is now available via Aberystwyth University, Wales

Canadian Public Policy via Project Muse

Canadian Public Policy, published by University of Toronto Press, is now available via Project Muse

InSITE - May 4, 2009

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 14, No. 18, May 4, 2009 is now available

DailyLit launches Digital Publishing Group

DailyLit has launched Digital Publishing Group, "an industry group designed to educate, inspire, and empower publishing professionals to take advantage of the digital space"

2009 Chicago Annual Conference Promo

Produced by ALA Conference Services, this video features plenty of your colleagues discussing the value of Annual Conference - and the benefits to holding it in Chicago. Annual Conference this year is July 9 to 15:

American Society for Microbiology makes research publications on influenza A (H1N1) freely available

"Because of the current public health emergency and worldwide concern about Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu), the American Society for Microbiology has made articles on H1N1 published within the past 6 months, November 2008 to May 2009, in ASM's Journal of Virology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy freely available online. The 14 articles can be accessed in one location: http://tinyurl.com/asmh1n1

Free Workshops at the Wellcome Library (UK)

The new spring/summer programme of Wellcome Library workshops can be found on the Library website. The workshops provide introductions to information resources and research and are aimed at the general public.

The programme includes:

- thematic workshops such as science in the news, and the history of medicine on the internet
- training on specific resources such as the Wellcome Images database and PubMed Central
- and introductions to the Wellcome Archives and genealogical research resources at the library.

All workshops are free and available to everyone who joins the library (library
membership is also free and open to all)

18th Annual MINITEX ILL Conference

18th Annual MINITEX ILL Conference - May 19, 2009 - St. Paul, MN, USA

SERIES-L mailing list

SERIES-L is dedicated to concerns about bibliographic control for library materials issued in series. To sign up for SERIES-L send an e-mail to LISTSERV@PO.MISSOURI.EDU with the text SUBSCRIBE SERIES-L plus your forename and surname

3rd Bloomsbury Conference on Electronic Publishing

3rd Bloomsbury Conference on Electronic Publishing - June 25-26 2009 - London, UK

DHO Summer School 2009

"The Digital Humanities Observatory in conjunction with NINES and 18th Connect are offering a week-long workshop to allow scholars undertaking digital projects to develop their skills, share interests, and work towards common goals. Workshop strands, master classes and lectures will focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects." - 13 - 17 July 2009 - Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin

RefWorks launches mobile phone interface

"RefWorks has announced the launch of RefMobile, a new interface that enables students and researchers to use the RefWorks web-based research management service from anywhere, via web-enabled mobile phones, smart phones, and personal data assistants (PDAs). The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, viewing references by folders, adding and removing references from folders, creating new folders, and adding comments to Notes fields. Users can also efficiently import new references to their RefWorks account using the new SmartAdd feature"

Writing on the Wall 2009

Writing on the Wall 2009 is a festival of outsiders: writers, musicians and artists well-known for defying convention and corporate attitudes - 2-30 May - Liverpool, UK

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #70

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #70. Previous Podcasts can be found here

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition - paperback version

Digital Scholarship has published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. as a paperback book. The paperback book is available from Lulu for $40. It is 231 pages long, 8.5" x 11", and has perfect binding. The book is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License