The Living Library to launch in Japan

"Eight years and four months after its first presentation in Denmark, at Roskilde Festival 2000, the Living Library now reaches Japan. On December 6th the first Official Living Library will take place in Kyoto, Japan as part of the ATAC 2008 Conference" - The Living Library Network

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #46

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #46 : "This week's episode features original material and no interviews. A book review as well as a Linux flavor 'first look' are presented. A commentary is also featured in the episode". Previous Podcasts can be found here

Call for contributions to Communications in Information Literacy: Special issue on assessment in information literacy instruction

Call for contributions to Communications in Information Literacy: Special issue on assessment in information literacy instruction - The aim of this special issue is to highlight ways in which assessment has been and can be used to inform and improve instruction in a variety of settings, from individual classroom sessions to comprehensive information literacy programs. Deadline for submission: Friday, May 1, 2009

UK Monthly Digest of Statistics October 2008

Monthly Digest of Statistics October 2008 - "An important reference work containing the latest monthly and quarterly business, economic and social data (UK)"

Participate in the Perceptions 2008 International Library Automation Survey

Marshall Breeding writes: "We live in interesting times when it comes to automation strategies in libraries. Competition intensifies between traditional companies licensing their products and a new wave of open source challengers. I think that it is important to pursue research that gauges the effectiveness of the various approaches to help other libraries make decisions regarding their automation strategy. I'm especially interested in hearing any comments you have regarding the automation products used in your library and about the companies that support them. Consider this your chance to offer a few words in support of your vendor or to warn others regarding your concerns. Be candid. Your responses will not be publicly attributed to any individual or library in the published report. In last year’s report, we found the comments to be just as important in understanding the state of the industry as the structured responses"

Babylon, Myth and Reality

"Drawing on the combined holdings of the British Museum London, the musée du Louvre and the Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the exhibition, Babylon, Myth and Reality, explores the continuing dialogue between the Babylon of our imagination and the historic evidence for one of the great cities of antiquity at the moment of its climax and eclipse. Open from 13 November 2008 until 15 March 2009"

London Transport Museum: The art of the poster

The art of the poster - this new exhibition celebrates a century of iconic poster design for London's public transport network. It reveals stunning artworks, many of them previously unseen and uncovers the stories behind their creation. Exhibition closes 31 March 2009

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, November 2008

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, November 2008: Tom Eckersley - "This month we celebrate the work of Tom Eckersley (1914-1995), one of the foremost graphic designers of the twentieth century working in the UK"

Harvard University Library opts out of Google settlement

Harvard University Library has decided not to participate on the terms reached by the libraries involved in the settlement discussions between Google and the publishers and authors

A Guide to free ebooks

A Guide to free ebooks - a Wiki page listing various free e-book resources, created by Joyce Valenza, teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT's School of Library and Information Science

Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award

"The Library Journal editors are seeking nominations for the 21st annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library profession. Deadline is November 17, 2008"

Histories of Anthropology Annual via Project Muse

Histories of Anthropology Annual, published by University of Nebraska Press, is now available at Project Muse

2008 Guardian first book award shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2008 Guardian first book award has been announced. The shortlist comprises two non-fiction titles, The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross and Owen Matthews' Stalin's Children, as well as God's Own Country by Ross Raisin, Booker-shortlisted A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz and A Case of Exploding Mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif

New bepress Journal: Journal of Drug Policy Analysis

"The Berkeley Electronic Press has announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal on substance abuse control, policy, and health, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. This is the 42nd bepress journal, and completes the ResearchNow 2009 collection that includes all 42 journals"

In old El Paso, this detective story is written in pictures

"Claudia Rivers is a librarian by trade, but lately she has become a detective hot on the trail of 50,000 mysteries. Her quarries are the names behind the faces in 50,000 antique negatives left in the town's shuttered Casasola photography studio - WSJ

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Hallowe'en. Answers here.

Today (31 October) is Hallowe'en, when some people think particularly about ghouls, witches, devils, and other frightening things. This brainteaser is about Hallowe'en, witches, and other things that people associate with this subject.

Questions:
1. Which vegetable is most often used to make a Hallowe'en lantern by placing a candle in the hollowed-out centre, and carving a face in the rind?
2. What is the word for a male witch, sorcerer, wizard, or demon?
3. What time of the day or night is "the witching hour"?
4. What is the word for a group or gathering of witches?
5. What is "trick or treat"?
6. In children's stories, what do witches usually ride on?
7. When talking about witches or sorcerers, what is a "familiar"?
8. Was British legislation against witchcraft abolished in 1751, 1851 or 1951?
9. Which 1953 historical drama by the US playwright Arthur Miller is about the witchcraft hysteria that swept through Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692?
10. What title did the 17th-century Englishman Matthew Hopkins give himself as a merciless persecutor of suspected witches?

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #61 - Define successful

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #61 is now available for download. Topics:

Internet Librarian 2008
HOWTO give a good presentation (walking paper)
A Side Effect of Social Networks I Hadn't Anticipated (Pegasus Librarian)
Reflections on Internet Librarian 2008 (Travelin' Librarian)

Library and Archives Canada brings Canadian content to Flickr and YouTube

"Library and Archives Canada has announced that a selection of digital images related to Irish-Canadian documentary heritage have been made available for the first time on Flickr.com, a popular photo-sharing community. As part of the pilot project, this November 2008 a number of video presentations will be added to YouTube.com, a popular video-sharing community. Both online communities allow for commenting, sharing, and tagging of content"

Call for applicants: Winnemore Dissertation Fellowships

Applications for Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities' Spring 2009 Winnemore Digital Humanities Dissertation Fellowship are now being accepted. Intended for students whose dissertations engage the intersections between new media and the traditional concerns of the Arts and Humanities, the Winnemore Fellowship will provide a stipend of $9,570, plus full benefits and tuition remission up to five credits

2008 Whiting Writers' Awards

The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation has named ten recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writers' Awards. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than $6 million to 240 poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights