Salt Lake City Library program aims to help homeless connect with services (USA)

The Salt Lake City Library has developed a plan to better help Utah's homeless. The plan consists of hiring three on-site social workers to help the homeless better understand resources available to them

ACRL Podcast: 2012 Vice-Presidential candidates

In this podcast, C&RL News editor-in-chief David Free talks with Trevor A. Dawes and Debbie Malone, 2012 candidates for ACRL vice-president/ president-elect about their potential plans for the association

World Poetry Day

Every year on 21 March UNESCO celebrates the World Poetry Day. A decision to proclaim 21 March as World Poetry Day was adopted during the UNESCO's 30th session held in Paris in 1999

Einstein Archives Online

Starting this week, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is bringing online an extensive archive of papers and letters belonging to the great humanist and scientist. The collection currently features 2,000 documents and will eventually surpass 80,000. And it all gives a rounded view of Einstein's life and work. The documents shed light on his personal relationship with his mother, wife and many mistresses; his views on the Arab-Israeli conflict; and his work on physics itself

Tales from the Terminal Room - February 2012, Issue No. 100

Tales from the Terminal Room - February 2012, Issue No. 100 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

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

On the W@terfront

Open Access Medical Statistics

Chiropractic and Manual Therapies

Medical Heritage Library

The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world's leading medical libraries. The collection resides at the Internet Archive. The Medical Heritage Library is a content centered digital community supporting research, education, and dialog that enables the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. MHL serves as the point of access to a valuable body of quality curated digital materials and to the broader digital and nondigitalholdings of its members. Through active community building and coordinated content selection, the MHL facilitates much needed discourse around the contemporary practice of medicine and human health

Explore libraries, pubs and historic sites of Ireland with ASCLA in 2012

The trip will run October 4-12, 2012 and will include hotels and transportation to Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork, Cobh and Killarney; four dinners; tours of the National Library and the Killarney Library, Trinity College and the Book of Kells, Powerscourt Gardens, Kilkenny and Blarney Castles and the Ring of Kerry. Participants will also tour Waterford Crystal, visit the heritage center in Cobh to learn more about important Irish historical events such as the mass migration of Irish to America and throw back a pint at a pub established in 1703. Participants are responsible for their own airfare

National Library Workers Day 2012 (USA)

Since 2003, National Library Workers Day has been celebrated on the Tuesday of National Library Week. The day recognizes the contributions of all library workers, including librarians, support staff and others who make library services possible. This year National Library Workers Day is April 10

Vaizey resign, say library campaigners (UK)

Library campaigners and Unison have called for Ed Vaizey to step down from his position as minister for culture, communications and creative industries after failing to take a strong stance over the issue of library closures

Classical Music in Video from Alexander Street Press

Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video - approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. This release contains 435 video titles totaling 219 hours

UK mag the Spectator announces a 190-year online archive, and refreshes its iOS app

UK magazine The Spectator has made a number of new announcements relating to its digital offering, including a new iOS app and a pretty extensive online archive which is due to launch in the spring

Banipal available via Exact Editions

Banipal is an ever-open window on contemporary Arab literature. Since 1998, its three issues a year have presented fiction, poetry and interviews by established and emerging Arab authors and poets in English translation, most for the first time. Each issue also contains book reviews and features Guest Literature from a non-Arab country. Banipal is renowned for its dedication to bringing the works of Arab authors onto the global arena through English translation and is still the only publication of its kind. With the digital edition we're offering readers all over the world the chance to read the magazine on their computers, ipads or iphones, wherever they are

1,596 new maps and images added to the David Rumsey Map Collection

1,596 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection, bringing the online collection to 30,599 maps and images. Included in this addition is Bowles' 1733 Geography Epitomiz'd, an early example of information visualization; Abraham Bradley's 1805 Post Road Map of the United States; Aaron Arrowsmith's General Atlas of 1817; a group of U.S. Mexican War broadsides and maps; Mitchell's 1855 Universal Atlas; a group of 214 individual maps, charts, broadsides, ephemera, and manuscript maps, several of which are listed separately below; Sonnenschein and Allen's 1880 3D Royal Relief Atlas; Erwin Raisz' 1944 Atlas of Global Geography and 1964 Atlas of Florida; and Richard Harrison's important 1944 Fortune Atlas for World Strategy

JISC Historic Books

JISC Collections has purchased a range of historic book archives for perpetual access by member institutions. Currently, these archives must be separately accessed, searched and browsed on a range of platforms, and are subject to an annual access fee. JISC Historic Books contains the full text or page images of over 350,000 books published in Britain from 1475 to 1900. The service draws together content from two of the best-known and long established early book collections

CRL posts ILL video tutorial

CRL recently released a short video on how to borrow from CRL for interlibrary loan librarians. During this six-minute tutorial, Kevin Wilks, Head of Access Services, also discusses digital collections, terms of access, searching CRL's online catalog, and member programs such as Demand Purchase

Talks continue to avert Toronto Public Library shutdown (Canada)

The Toronto Public Library and its workers' union are allowing themselves until at least noon on Sunday to reach a settlement. A 12:01 a.m. Sunday strike or lockout deadline has come and gone and the parties are still at the table. The deadline was initially extended until 6 a.m., and then noon

The War of 1812 at Library and Archives Canada

The 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 is a unique opportunity for all Canadians to take pride in our traditions, and our shared history. The Government of Canada recognizes the War of 1812 as a defining moment in the history of our nation and has big plans to commemorate this event of national and international significance. This commemoration is just one of the many events that are bringing Canadians together and will continue to link us in the years to come. Library and Archives Canada holds a unique and vast collection of records about the Canadian men and women who were involved in the War of 1812. Muster rolls, paylists, claims, certificates of service, medal registers, maps, paintings, and published sources are featured in LAC holdings that document this key event. To commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, LAC is unveiling a series of projects about this important chapter in Canadian history

Podcast: Our ancestors and the fear of the Victorian workhouse (UK)

In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of the 'Workhouse System'). This was one of the most important pieces of 19th century social legislation and it touched the lives of millions of ordinary men, women and children. It was designed as both a national system of welfare for the poor, while at the same time providing a mechanism to deter all but the most impoverished. This talk concentrates on key aspects of the poor law as well as the sources which:
a) track individual paupers within the system, and
b) illustrate the conditions in which paupers lived.

Dr Paul Carter is the Principal Records Specialist for Domestic Records within the Advice and Records Knowledge Department here at The National Archives. He is also currently a research fellow at the University of Nottingham looking at 19th century poverty. He has provided numerous talks and written extensively for local, family and academic history audiences interested in poverty during the Victorian period. This talk was sponsored by the Friends of The National Archives

Journal of Nutritional Science launched

Journal of Nutritional Science is an international, peer-reviewed, online only, open access journal that welcomes high-quality research articles in all aspects of nutrition. The underlying aim of all work should be, as far as possible, to develop nutritional concepts. JNS encompasses the full spectrum of nutritional science including public health nutrition, epidemiology, dietary surveys, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body composition, energetics, appetite, obesity, ageing, endocrinology, immunology, neuroscience, microbiology, genetics and molecular and cell biology