HeinOnline Update - January 2009

HeinOnline Update - January 2009 is now available online

Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators

The Digital Library Federation has announced the publication of Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators, a report that identifies and evaluates tools that can be used to normalize and enhance metadata. Commissioned by DLF Aquifer, the report was written by Greta de Groat, electronic media cataloger in the Metadata Development Unit of the Stanford University Libraries, and was supported by a grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

World Book Day Competition (UK)

"ReadingZone.com has joined with World Book Day and National Year of Reading to run a competition for ten schools to win a free author visit during 2009. The winning schools (primary and secondary) will be announced on World Book Day on 5 March 2009. To enter the competition, you will need to provide details (up to 500 words) about what your school or class is doing to ensure a legacy for the National Year of Reading. The Reading for Life campaign will continue the work of the 2008 National Year of Reading from April 2009"

CRL Focues - Winter 2008-09

The Winter 2008-09 of CRL Focus, from the Center for Research Libraries, USA, is now available online

Historically Speaking via Project Muse

Historically Speaking, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, is now available via Project Muse

Histoire social/Social history via Project Muse

Histoire social/Social history, published by the University of Toronto Press, is now available via Project Muse

Videos from Digital Repositories meeting

Videos from the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (Baltimore, November 17-18, 2008) are now online

Tom Flemming's Bookmarks on delicious

Tom Flemming, former Head of Public Services at McMaster University Health Sciences Library writes: "My new del.icio.us collection now has over 8,100 links to important and useful health care internet sites. The extensive network of links to alternative and complementary health care from the old site is once again accessible on del.icio.us. There are links to practically every topic in health and health care that librarians and their clients will want to explore, including: disease, healthy living, nutrition, substance abuse, nursing, surgery, bariatric medicine, aromatherapy, endometrial cancer, lesbian wellness, naturopathy, smoking cessation and many, many more..."

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

@tic : Revista d'Innovació Educativa

International Journal of ChemTech Research

International Journal of PharmTech Research

Open Software Engineering Journal

Conflict & Communication Online

Open Chemical and Biomedical Methods Journal

Open Mineral Processing Journal

Open Public Health Journal

Journal of Radiology Case Reports

TeMA : Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

Medieval Gascon Rolls to go online

"Important unpublished records of the Hundred Years War are to be made available online in an innovative new project led by the University of Oxford and assisted by The National Archives. The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded almost £750,000 to the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool to digitise and edit the Gascon Rolls. These consist of 113 unpublished manuscripts which cover the era 1317 to 1468. The rolls, currently held at The National Archives, comprise administrative records relating to English rule in medieval Gascony. These include writs and grants, but also contain enrolments of diplomatic and official material"

Crossroads - February 2009

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - February 2009 issue is now available

Podcast: Irish land records

"With the loss of the nineteenth century census returns for Ireland, Sharon Hintze guides us through the alternative sources for family historians researching their Irish ancestors". UK National Archives Podcast

Ian Rankin tops library lending list

"The Naming of the Dead" by crime writer Ian Rankin has topped a list of most-borrowed books from Scottish libraries. The book, which is one of the Scots author's Inspector Rebus series, came ahead of titles by Scots-based writers JK Rowling and Quintin Jardine. The figures, released by the Public Lending Right, cover the period from July 2007 to June 2008. The top 10 in Scotland includes four titles from US writer James Patterson, the UK's most borrowed author - BBC

IDP News Issue No. 31

IDP News Issue No. 31, Spring/Summer 2008, is now available from The International Dunhuang Project

Texas Library Association Conference 2009

Texas Library Association Conference 2009 - 31 March-3 April, 2009 - Houston, TX, USA

Tennessee Library Association Conference 2009

Tennessee Library Association Conference 2009 - 8-10 April, 2009 - Nashville, TN, USA

Wikipedia Loves Art

"Wikipedia Loves Art is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles. The event is planned to run for the whole month of February 2009"

RINews - Winter 2008

RINews - Winter 2008, Issue 7, is now available from The Research Information Network, London, UK

Copac on Twitter

The Copac library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland. Twitter addess is https://twitter.com/Copac

ALA Council: Who, What, Why, and How

Members of ALA Council discuss what Council actually does and why you should consider getting involved: