Monday, June 30, 2003
NEMLAC News - regularly updated service of news items from The North East Museums Libraries & Archives Council (UK), its members and from the sector locally, regionally and nationally; briefing reports on projects; and, signposts to new training events and funding opportunities
Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock printing in China 1980-2000 - a free exhibition in the Pearson Gallery, British Library, in association with the Muban Foundation - 7 November 2003 to 7 March 2004
Word Wizards: The Canadian Online Language Toolkit - offers a comprehensive compendium of online, made-in-Canada language tools - from Canadian Heritage
New at the National Library of Canada - Beyond the Letters: A Retrospective of Canadian Alphabet Books
Sunday, June 29, 2003
Iraqi Cultural Heritage: Second UNESCO Mission - The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has announced that a second UNESCO expert mission would be leaving for Iraq on 28 June 2003, to take stock of the situation of Iraqi heritage. The misson will include specialists in museums, archives, libraries, historical monuments and archaeological sites
Sirsi Corporation has announced that INFOhio, a cooperative school library and information network that serves nearly 1 million Ohio K-12 students, has selected it's suite of software and services to support more than 2,000 school libraries in the state
Saturday, June 28, 2003
PapersINVITED.com was conceived and developed to assist scientists, professors and student researchers who have had a difficult time in tracking Calls for Papers from professional bodies, universities, journal editors and other conference organizers
e-Learning for Marketing and Management in Libraries - IFLA Satellite Meeting - Geneva, Switzerland - July 28-30, 2003
Friday, June 27, 2003
Microsoft Canada president Frank Clegg receives the Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial Award for helping to create a digital library for blind and visually impaired Canadians
Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians, is launching a public campaign aimed at making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS argues that the current closed system of scientific publication places the narrow interests of publishers before the public interest and greatly diminishes the value of the more than $50 billion dollars invested by US taxpayers each year in scientific and medical research
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large - volume 3, issue 8 (July 2003), is now available for downloading
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Managing Digital Records - a summer school intended for practising archivists and records managers, as well as librarians and other information professionals, who want to increase their knowledge and expertise in managing records in the electronic environment - 11-14 August 2003 - UCL, London
Presentations from Outsourcing library and information services: threat or opportunity? held June 12, 2003 in London are available online
Registration is open for the 2003 Dublin Core Conference to be held in Seattle, WA, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2. The conference will provide participants with a forum for intensive interaction with researchers, practitioners and decision makers concerned with advances in metadata for resource discovery, retrieval, management and use
Palmerston North City Library in New Zealand has launched it's 8-week Pass It On! : winter reading festival - 22 June to 17 August 2003
From the UK National Archives - 'They Can't Get On Without Us' Women in Wartime posters 1914-1945 exhibition - 21 June-20 September - explores the many roles of women during the First and Second World Wars through a stunning selection of posters and government propaganda designed to boost women's efforts on the home front
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