The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Abbreviations. Answers here.

1. "e.g." is an abbreviation of the Latin "exempli gratia" What does it mean?
2. In connection with the Internet, what does "WWW" stand for?
3. When popular music is called "R & B", what does this stand for?
4. What does "TLC" stand for when referring to a sick person nursed back to health?
5. As the name of a state of the USA, what does "Ga" stand for?
6. Which disease caused by a bacillus is abbreviated as "TB"?
7. The Penguin English Dictionary gives eleven meanings for the abbreviation "p". Can you guess five of these meanings?
8. Which phrase is abbreviated as "WAGs", referring to spendthrift, vacuous, glamorous young females? It was inspired by the behaviour of the England football team's partners during the 2006 World Cup.
9. A popular rock group was named R.E.M. What is this an abbreviation of?
10. NASA is an abbreviation of the name of the agency responsible for all nonmilitary aspects of the US space programme. What does "NASA" stand for?

Antiquarian maps presented to Newberry Library

"Four seminal antiquarian maps that celebrate art, scientific achievement and exploration were presented to the Newberry Library by The Boeing Company, enriching what is already one of the premier collections of cartography in the world"

OpeningScholarhip Project

"The OpeningScholarship project explores the transformative potential of information and communication technologies in the context of the University of Cape Town, one of South Africa’s leading research universities"

JISC Collections welcomes the British Library as an Affiliate Member

"JISC Collections is delighted to welcome the British Library as an Affiliate Member. The British Library qualifies for Affiliate Membership through its public sector status together with its commitment to lifelong learning. As the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest research libraries, the British Library provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection"

BookTour

"BookTour is a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to corporate events. Authors create their own page (biography, books, tour dates and availability) and any group looking for speakers can find them and contact them directly to arrange for an appearance..."

2007/2008 Education Institute Programs

Online Course
Time Management for Library Staff -
Cheryl Stenström, Online Course, September 10-October 5, 2007. 4 Week Course with the Education Institute.

Technology Tuesday Series

September 4 - On-line Outreach: 2.0 Marketing Strategies for Libraries - Sarah Houghton-Jan
September 18 - Setting up the New Stuff: Planning & Implementing Library 2.0 - David Lee King
October 16 - Lego Your Library: Social Software and Web 2.0 Building Blocks - Geoffrey Harder and Kenton Good
October 30 - Is My PC Infected? Practical Ways to Stomp Out and Prevent Malware & Spyware - Alex Merill
November 13 - New Rules of Web Design - Jeff Wisniewski
November 27 - Tagging, Folksonomies, and Libraries - Ellyssa Kroski
December 11 - In the Eye of the Beholder: Privacy, Censorship and Identity on the Web - Geoff Harder and Kenton Good
January 8 - Federated Search: New Tools and Best Practices - Frank Cervone and Jeff Wisniewski
January 15 - Ten Top Technologies for 2008 - Michael Stephens

The Jossey-Bass Online Teaching & Learning (OTL) Conference Online

"Based on the popular series of Jossey-Bass guidebooks on online teaching and learning, the OTL Conference Online brings all of the books' authors - as well as a community of hundreds of professionals worldwide - right to your desktop for interactive online sessions, discussions, hands-on learning, strategy swapping, and networking" - October 17-18, 2007

The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM)

"The Association of American Publishers has just launched "PRISM" (Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine). PRISM is an anti-OA lobbying organization, to counteract the accelerating growth of OA and the dramatic success of the pro-OA Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA) lobbying organization in the US and the EC Open Access Petition in Europe"

FreePint Newsletter 236

FreePint Newsletter 236 - 30 August, 2007 - now available

RecordKeeping - Summer 2007

RecordKeeping - Summer 2007 - from The UK National Archives is now available online

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - August 30, 2007

Principles of Digital Preservation

The first joint DPE/Planets/nestor training event - Principles of Digital Preservation: a hands-on approach - 1-5 October 2007 - Vilnius, Lithuania

Wiley-Blackwell announces launch of Microbial Biotechnology

Wiley-Blackwell and the Society for Applied Microbiology have announced publication of the first articles for Microbial Biotechnology. The new international journal will focus on advances in the expanding field of biotechnology. The first issue of the journal will publish in January 2008 via Blackwell Synergy. All articles will be free of charge for the first year of publication

Royal Society Digital Journal Archive - free online access

The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing in excess of 60,000 articles, will be free online from 1 September to 30 November 2007. During this three month period, librarians and academics will be able to access and download any article from arguably the most comprehensive publishing resource in science

Marquette Journals

"In January 2008, Marquette Books LLC will begin publishing eight open-access scholarly journals serving the fields of mass communication and communication studies. Like other journals, MB journals publish scholarly works that go through a blind peer-review process"

MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2007

The KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) project of the British Computer Society invites participation in a MetaKnowledge Mash-up on data, information and knowledge management - 17 September 2007 - London, UK

NSDL Wiki

The NSDL Wiki from the US National Science Digital Library provides a collaborative online environment where users can organize, create, and annotate listings in the NSDL Data Repository

mtvU Poet Laureate - John Ashbery

"MtvU, the subsidiary of MTV Networks that is broadcast only on U.S. college campuses, has announced that it has selected its first poet laureate, John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet and frequent award winner known for his dense, postmodern style and playful language"

Missing Constable sketch discovered at British Library

"A 'lost' early sketch by John Constable and hundreds of original artworks and autographs by prominent 18th and 19th century artists have been discovered at the British Library. The beautifully bound 13-volume collection entitled The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., features over 1,600 additions including portraits, views, autographs, engravings and original drawings including Turner correspondence and works by the artist's contemporaries, many previously unknown or considered 'lost'"

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 154

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 154 - September 2007 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, is now available