"BISG's Making Information Pay 2009 conference will feature high-level data analysis and practical advice designed to help book executives understand how to weather today's shifting sales channels and consumer trends while building a profitable business for the future. Over the past six years, Making Information Pay has become one of the book industry’s leading events for senior-level professionals seeking practical advice on real-world issues. 2009's event will be held May 7th in New York City"Saturday, April 11, 2009
Making Information Pay 2009
"BISG's Making Information Pay 2009 conference will feature high-level data analysis and practical advice designed to help book executives understand how to weather today's shifting sales channels and consumer trends while building a profitable business for the future. Over the past six years, Making Information Pay has become one of the book industry’s leading events for senior-level professionals seeking practical advice on real-world issues. 2009's event will be held May 7th in New York City"
2009 Charleston Conference
"The 2009 Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, USA, November 4-7, to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment"
SOLSTICE Conference 2009
The SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Edge Hill University is pleased to announce its 4th international conference. Enhancing learning with technologies presents many challenges for practitioners, not least in terms of how the learner's experience and behaviours can be understood and evaluated. To this end, innovation, research and development cannot exist independantly of one another. The relationship between the three is therefore a key factor in ensuring the 'intelligent' deployment of technologies. - 4 June 2009 - Edge Hill University, UK
Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections
Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections - May 27-29, 2009 - San Diego, California, USA - A conference presented by Northeast Document Conservation Center
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
"As electronic resources continue to permeate scholarship, the challenge of keeping abreast with new developments becomes ever more pressing. The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts seeks to provide a technological solution to a simple and rather delightful "problem": the breathtaking increase in the number of medieval manuscripts available on the web in their entirety, but in a bewildering range of venues and formats. Digitizing medieval manuscripts and releasing the images on the web has a long history, but the number of digitized manuscripts rises swiftly as the cost of high-quality digital images decreases, and the expertise needed to create easily navigable web sites becomes more common. What has been notably lacking, however, is any centralized site to collect and disseminate basic information about what is available."
School Library Media Month 2009 (USA)
"Libraries are at the heart of the learning experience for almost 44 million elementary, middle and high school students. During the entire month of April, parents, students and library media specialists will celebrate the value of our nation's school library media centers with School Library Media Month. Once stocked mainly with books and other print materials, today's school libraries have been transformed into learning centers with a full range of multimedia and emerging digital information resources. From virtual homework help to wireless environments, school library media centers are dynamic places. According to the 2009 State of America's Libraries Report, released annually by the American Library Association, individual visits to school library media centers increased significantly in 2008, up more than 22% compared with data gathered in 2007"
American Libraries - April 2009
American Libraries - Volume 40, Issue 4, April 2009 - is now available
Rockefeller University Press freezes journal prices
Responding to the squeeze placed on library budgets by the economic slump, Rockefeller University Press has decided to freeze its 2010 journal subscription rates at 2009 levels
LibraryThing podcast 2: Unstructured yapping
"A 50-minute kaffeeklatsch between LibraryThing employees. Topics:
* The Kindle
* Comic books
* Academic publishing
* Archaeology
* Newspapers
* O'Reilly books
* Marginalia
* Female archaelogists who wear plants
* Why Chris Holland is above CSS books
* Internet Explorer 6
* Bad collections forecasting
* The Kindle
* Comic books
* Academic publishing
* Archaeology
* Newspapers
* O'Reilly books
* Marginalia
* Female archaelogists who wear plants
* Why Chris Holland is above CSS books
* Internet Explorer 6
* Bad collections forecasting
Arcadia gives $5 million to support core collections, services in the Harvard Libraries
"Britain's Arcadia Fund has awarded $5 million to the Harvard University Library. Arcadia's five-year grant will provide flexible support for the Library's core functions: acquisitions, access, preservation, and dissemination. University Library Director Robert Darnton announced that, initially, Arcadia's grant will be used to strengthen the Library's print collections, to support processing of 17th- and 18th-century collections in the Archives, and to underwrite conservation treatments for fragile or damaged material from 17th- and 18th-century collections."
Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year Award 2009 announced
The winner of the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year Award 2009 is The Shepherd's Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter, published by Groundwood Books
Book groups launch new effort to amend Patriot Act
"Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away by the USA Patriot Act. Since 2003, the Department of Justice has used its expanded power under the Patriot Act to issue more than 200 secret search orders under Section 215 and more than 190,000 National Security Letters (NSLs). Despite several efforts to reform the Patriot Act, the FBI can still search any records it believes are "relevant" to a terrorism investigation, including the records of people who are not suspected of criminal conduct."
George Bush releases new promo video for his Library, highlighting 9/11 and largely ignoring Iraq
"Former deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel has posted a new video of President Bush promoting his presidential library. In the five-minute video, there are a full 35 seconds of clips of 9/11 and Bush's subsequent reaction. However, there is just one mention of Iraq in the entire piece. Additionally, Bush promises to use his library 'policy center' to be 'front and center' pushing for another attempt to privatize Social Security"
George W. Bush Presidential Center from laura crawford on Vimeo
George W. Bush Presidential Center from laura crawford on Vimeo
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: All at Sea. Answers here.
1. Which is the largest of the world's five oceans?
2. Which sea is bounded by the Strait of Gibraltar in the west?
3. What name is given to the roughly triangular area of the Atlantic bounded by Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico?
4. Which ocean has the longest coastline?
5. In 1998, what destroyed two villages in Papua New Guinea?
6. The rivers Danube and Volga flow into which sea?
7. What name is given to the clockwise ocean current carrying warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic to the British Isles and Scandinavia?
8. Oceania is a name for the groups of islands in the southern and central areas of which ocean?
9. What kind of thing is the Maelstrom off the north-western coast of Norway?
10. Which ocean was known in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea?
1. Which is the largest of the world's five oceans?
2. Which sea is bounded by the Strait of Gibraltar in the west?
3. What name is given to the roughly triangular area of the Atlantic bounded by Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico?
4. Which ocean has the longest coastline?
5. In 1998, what destroyed two villages in Papua New Guinea?
6. The rivers Danube and Volga flow into which sea?
7. What name is given to the clockwise ocean current carrying warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic to the British Isles and Scandinavia?
8. Oceania is a name for the groups of islands in the southern and central areas of which ocean?
9. What kind of thing is the Maelstrom off the north-western coast of Norway?
10. Which ocean was known in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea?
ProQuest boosting local, regional, and military news coverage with exclusive access to 85 Gannett titles
"ProQuest has signed a long-term agreement to be the exclusive provider of 85 full-text newspaper titles from the world-leading news and information provider Gannett Company, Inc. An additional 7 U.S. military newspapers will be available from ProQuest to libraries and educational institutions worldwide on a non-exclusive basis. These titles will be made available through ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest Archiver, and ProQuest's Newspapers in Microfilm, and as an add-on package to ProQuest Central. Six of the largest Gannett titles are also slated to be produced as ProQuest Historical Newspapers"
Tudor queen celebrated in new online resource
As part of the celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne, the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre has launched an online resource looking at his marriage to Wiltshire-born Jane Seymour. Part of the Archive Awareness Campaign, the blog looks at some of the records relating to their marriage and, in particular, Henry's gifts of land and properties to his third, and 'favourite', wife. Henry became engaged to his mistress Jane Seymour on 20 May 1536 - only one day after the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. The Henry VIII blog, featuring images of the lavishly decorated documents, can be found at wshc.eu/blog.
Podcast: Finding company records
Historian Alex Ritchie looks at the distribution of business records and introduces the finding aids that are available to researchers, as well as revealing some of the less obvious resources that can be used to identify and track down business information. UK National Archives
Pres4Lib2009
"Looking to hone your presentation skills, become a better speaker, or develop your training/presenting toolkit? If so, you will not want to miss the inaugural Pres4Lib Camp on June 12, 2009 in Princeton, NJ. The camp, hosted by the bloggers of Library Garden and friends, is being sponsored by SJRLC, CJRLC and the Princeton Public Library. The camp is open to anyone who works in libraries or with libraries and librarians."
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