Library and Archives Canada has announced the Canadian Metadata Forum 2005 - a two day event designed for key decision-makers and leaders in the field of information resource management. The Forum will be held September 27-28, 2005 at 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Canada. The theme of this year's Forum is Metadata: A Reality Check

The World Factbook from the CIA has been updated as of 21 April, 2005

The Infinite Library by Wade Roush, May 2005 - "The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is the only place you are likely to find an Ethernet port that looks like a book. Built into the ancient bookcases dominating the oldest wing of the 402-year-old library, the brown plastic ports share shelf space with handwritten catalogues of the university's medieval manuscripts and other materials...." - From TechnologyReview.com

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Islands. Answers here.

1. What is the world's largest island (apart from Australia)?
2. Which island, 20km long, between the Hudson and East rivers forms part of New York?
3. Which south-east Asian republic consists of more than 13,000 islands, including Sumatra and Java?
4. Reykjavik is the capital and largest city of which island?
5. The Shetland Islands are part of Scotland. Are they north or south of the Orkney Islands?
6. In which ocean is the island of Madagascar?
7. What is the British name for the islands for which the Argentine name is "Islas Malvinas?"
8. Which island is the smallest state of Australia?
9. In New Zealand, which is larger: North Island or South Island?
10. Name five of the seven main islands in the Canary Islands

Here is an XML feed (beta) for the Brain-teaser

METALIS is a system of service providers that harvest metadata about papers in Library and Information Science from several OAI-PMH compliant repositories. Its main features are a search tool with advanced search options, filters and sorting, and an experimental service for the creation of dynamic links to resources related to search results

The scope of MarcXchange is to provide a tool for interchange of MARC records in XML as a supplement to interchange of MARC records in ISO2709. Last update: 20 April 2005

DELOS Summer School 2005 - Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries - June 5-11, 2005 - INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Knowledge Management: lessons from leaders - a tfpl seminar - 16 May 2005 - London, UK

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health - An online open access journal published by BioMed Central

The InfoSci-Online database is a comprehensive collection of full text literature published by Idea Group Inc, regarding research, trends, technologies, challenges and solutions in the fields of Information Science, Technology and Management. Updated as soon as IGI material becomes available for distribution, this online resource provides instant access to the latest research findings from IGI's four imprints. A free 30 day trial is available

Netskills has announced its programme of workshops for May to July 2005

Librarians' Index to the Internet - New This Week - April 28, 2005

California Library Association's Information Technology Section presents What's Hot in Technology Webcast - May 17, 2005. This webcast is limited to 80 participants. Anyone can view the archived webcast after the event date, but the live webcast is open to California library staff only

Xrefer and Berkshire Publishing Group have announced that the highly acclaimed Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is now available online from Xrefer as an Xreferplus Specialist Reference title

AskOxford.com is running a contest, allowing you to win the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary. Closing date is May 5, 2005

JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) has issued a series of fact files designed to introduce publishers to the key issues they will need to address in making their electronic resources available to further and higher education through agreement with JISC. Over 40 publishers, agencies and other content providers have already secured licenses with JISC, and these fact files, written as an introduction to a range of technical and management issues, are intended to ensure that other publishers are made fully aware of these key issues

The operational release of YourLondon, the official online guide to London's public and community services, took place on 25 April 2005 and represents the first building block in the development of the single most comprehensive point of reference for residents, visitors and businesses. Funded by the London authorities and the Mayor of London

Free Pint Newsletter 181 - 28 April 2005 - now available

Cites & Insights 5:7 (May 2005) is now available for downloading

ALA Chicago Wiki - created by Meredith Farkas to provide information for people attending the ALA 2005 Annual Conference in Chicago. It is collaboratively authored and edited by the online community at large