Motion Picture Scripts Database

The Motion Picture Scripts Database provides a searchable interface to the film script holdings of six Los Angeles-area collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Writers Guild Foundation. This database is limited almost exclusively to the screenplays of produced films; that is, films which were actually made. The only exception is the inclusion of a few published scripts of unproduced films

ARL Issue 243, December 2005

ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Action from ARL, CNI, and SPARC - Issue 243, December 2005 - Special Issue on the Role of the Library in a Digital Landscape

Library Advocacy Now! Training

Librarians can learn how to speak up about some of the most challenging issues facing libraries today at a Library Advocacy Now! Training on January 21, 2006, at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in San Antonio. The session, entitled "Google? Library closings? The USA PATRIOT Act? Access? Funding?: Speaking Up About the Hard Issues," will feature an overview of challenging issues that libraries face at both the local and national levels. Attendees will learn to develop, reframe and refine key messages, techniques for dealing with tough questions and strategies for making sure the compelling library message is heard at the local, state and federal levels

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer

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

1. Which British group had a 1973 hit with "Merry Xmas Everybody?"
2. Which American performer had a hit in 1994 with "All I Want for Christmas is You?"
3. What was the title of the Christmas song organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise funds for Ethiopia?
4. Which song was a hit at Christmas 1988 for Cliff Richard?
5. Boney M had a number 1 hit all over Europe at Christmas 1978 with which song?
6. Who wrote the song "White Christmas?"
7. Which English electric-folk group had a British hit at Christmas 1973 with the Latin carol "Gaudete?"
8. Complete the title of Dora Bryan's 1963 Christmas hit: "All I Want for Christmas is a..."
9. Which American rapper had a 1979 hit with "Christmas Rapping?"
10. Which traditional carol was a hit for Mike Oldfield in 1975?

Librarians' Internet Index New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index New This Week - December 22, 2005

Reaching Beyond Bibliographic Referencing

Reaching Beyond Bibliographic Referencing: The course aims to bring the user up-to-date with the latest software for managing different reference types beyond bibliographic sources. The course will consider different types of packages including OpenSource Software, image retrieval software and additional software for dealing with other types of reference data - 01 June 2006 - London, UK

Weblogs & Libraries: Communication, Conversation, and the Blog People

Weblogs & Libraries: Communication, Conversation, and the Blog People - Dynix Institute Web Seminar Series - February 15, 2006

E-Learn 2006

E-Learn 2006: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education - October 13-17, 2006 - Honolulu, Hawaii

Central European History now published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press has announced that in 2006 it will begin publishing Central European History. Owned by the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association, the journal has been published by Emory University, Humanities Press, and through the end of 2005 by Brill Academic Publishers

Health Economics, Policy and Law first issue now online

Cambridge University Press has announced that the first issue of Health Economics, Policy and Law is now available online

ALPSP briefing: Digitisation initiatives

ALPSP briefing: Digitisation initiatives - First Amazon, then Google, and now a number of other players have launched initiatives to digitise print publications for Web indexing (and, in some cases, potential future sales models). While publishers have welcomed the added visibility which search-engine indexing brings, they have been concerned both at those initiatives which do not involve seeking rightsholder permission to digitise in-copyright works, and at the implications of third-party sales of all or part of their works - 25 January 2006 - London, UK

2006 NFAIS Annual Conference

2006 NFAIS Annual Conference: Content Unleashed: Delivering the New Information Experience - February 26-28, 2006 - Philadelphia, PA

Read4Charity

Read4Charity is a fundraising initiative set up by Bookshop Partnership Ltd. Its aim is to raise funds for charitable and non-profit making organisations by selling books and donating 15% of the sale

IATUL 2006 Conference

IATUL and the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, with the collaboration of the Universidade do Minho and Universitat Polytenica de Catalunya have announced the IATUL 2006 Conference in Portugal, Porto on 22-25 May, 2006

International Journal on Digital Libraries call for papers

International Journal on Digital Libraries call for papers for a Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience. Submissions are due May 1, 2006

Info@UK Issue 58

Info@UK Issue 58, January 2006, is now available from The British Council

Elsevier and NESLi2 conclude major new agreement

The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Elsevier have announced the conclusion of a new agreement as part of NESLi2, the national electronic journals initiative for the higher education and research communities in the United Kingdom. The new two-year agreement, which begins in January 2006, provides the framework under which the UK's universities and research communities will have electronic access to Elsevier’s scientific, technical and medical journals through the ScienceDirect platform. These include many of the most highly ranked and important journals in their respective fields

'1000 publishing jobs could go'

More than 1,000 Oxfordshire publishing jobs could be at risk if proposals to alter the way scientific journals are published become reality. Bosses at major Oxford employers, including Reed Elsevier, Oxford University Press and Blackwells, are alarmed at a move by Labour MP Ian Gibson to allow articles to be published by authors on the Internet instead of in specialist publications - Oxford Mail

Google Librarian Newsletter

Google Librarian Newsletter December 2005 - This newsletter was conceived at the 2005 ALA conference in Chicago , where Google hosted a booth in the exhibit hall. We spent three days chatting with librarians about Google: what you liked, what you didn't like, and where you saw opportunities to work together to help people find useful, relevant information

Elsevier MDL collaborates with NIH to catalog biological properties of small molecules

Elsevier MDL has announced an agreement with the National Institute of Health (NIH) to contribute to the NIH effort to catalog information on the biological properties of small molecules in its freely available PubChem database. Elsevier MDL will enrich the growing PubChem resource for the scientific community by furnishing chemical structures from Elsevier’s xPharm database, giving scientists with an xPharm license the ability to move from biological data in PubChem to more focused pharmacology data in xPharm that is essential to drug research