Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The Visual Resources Association has announced that select chapters of their DLF-sponsored project, Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Objects and their Images, known as CCO, is now available. Based on the core data elements found in the VRA Core 3.0 and the CDWA structures, CCO provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate catalog records. CCO is designed to promote good descriptive cataloging, shared documentation, and enhanced end-user access
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Free trial is available
Applications are now being accepted for the First Step Award a Wiley Professional Development Grant, a cash award which is applicable toward travel costs for the next ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, June 24-30, 2004. The purpose of the $1,500 grant is to provide librarians new to the serials field with the opportunity to broaden their perspective and to encourage professional development in American Library Association Conferences and participation in ALA/ALCTS Serials Section activities
Announcing a new Internet-Draft for an Informational RFC, to allow commonly used identifiers to be part of the Web: The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces
The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 8th International ISKO Conference in London, England, July 13-16 2004. The conference will be hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London. The theme of the conference is: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society. The keynote address will be delivered by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
Monday, September 29, 2003
xrefer has announced version 2.0 of its xreferplus service, which includes improved information visualization capabilities (a new "Research Mapper"), a host of new content and unit conversions. The Research Mapper is a visual map that displays how search terms and topics in xreferplus are interconnected. Users can access the Mapper from any set of search results, enabling them to quickly explore the links among topics within the area they're researching
In partnership with the Department of Canadian Heritage's Canadian Culture Online Program, the Canadian War Museum has announced the launch of a fully searchable online archive containing articles from the Hamilton Spectator's clippings morgue. Featuring more than 144,000 articles, Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War offers an incomparable look at the Second World War through the eyes of newspaper reports published at the time
freedominfo.org is a one-stop portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the world. It contains crucial information on freedom of information laws and how they were drafted and implemented, including how various provisions have worked in practice
Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 109 - October 2003 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University
The Librarian's World and Welcome to It : a day in the life of an academic librarian by Dennis Dillon, University of Texas at Austin - Chronicle.com
The Access Initiative (TAI) is a global coalition of public interest groups collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making
Sunday, September 28, 2003
Emerald's Journals of the Week for September 29, 2003 are International Journal of Public Sector Management and Microelectronics International
The Esther J. Piercy Award Jury is seeking nominations for the award to be presented at the ALA Annual Conference in June 2004. The award, a $1,500 grant and citation donated by Yankee Book Peddler, Inc, recognizes contributions to library collections and technical services by a librarian with no more than 10 years of professional experience, who has shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution and leadership
The National Archives of the UK has announced the launch of a new archive of UK Central Government websites
Saturday, September 27, 2003
Fazzle is a new search engine that searches Wisenut, Altavista, Teoma, Lycos, Yahoo, MSN, and Netscape. Free registration to get advanced search features. You can bookmark or email search results
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)