The Autry Museum of Western Heritage and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian have launched the new Collections Online database, which includes integrated searching of 8,000 records from the Autry Museum artifact collections with 5,000 images, and more than 40,000 records from the two library databases

Bernie Sloan, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has updated his list of Collaborative Live Reference Services

The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge - 5th Annual Conference - May 15- 18, 2004 - Timberline Lodge is one hour east of Portland, on the slope of Mt. Hood - Call for papers has been announced

The 2004 ALA Midwinter Meeting will be held in San Diego, CA from January 9-14, 2004. The exhibits will be held from from January 9-12, 2004 in the San Diego Convention Center

First time novelist DBC Pierre wins the £50,000 Booker Prize with a satirical tale of contemporary America

The Neal-Schuman Directory of Management Software for Public Access Computers by Michael Sauers and Louise Alcorn is now available

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium will hold its third annual Members' Meeting at ATILF, the nationally-funded laboratory for analysis and data processing of the French language, based at the University of Nancy, France, 7-8 November 2003

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has announced the launch of the Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA), a collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820

The Renaissance Library Calendar for 2004 is now available, containing colour photographs of beautiful old libraries, from 527AD to 1932, with brief history and description of items of special interest

The Open Video Project is managed at the Interaction Design Laboratory, at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This repository is hosted as one of the first channels of the Internet 2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Initiative, a project that supports distributed repository hosting for research and education in the Internet 2 community

A collection of more than 12 million historic photographs, capturing scenes from the Boer War to the D-Day landings, has been published. The images, which date back to the turn of the 20th century, have been captured from the archives of the British Pathe newsreel, a cinema news service that pre-dated television. The unique collection has been created by re-scanning every inch of the archive's 3,500 hours of 35mm film

Virtual Reference Desk Conference 2003 - November 17-18, 2003 - San Antonio, Texas - The conference will feature more than 50 programs dealing with planning, implementing, managing, and marketing virtual reference programs

The goal of the Citizen Access Project is to allow citizens and public officials to better understand public access to local government information in the United States

Electronic Collection Development for Health and Medicine E-libraries - In this hands-on web-based course you will earn to create an e-library collection development plan for free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for health and medicine - Instructor: Diane K. Kovacs

The inaugural issue of PLoS Biology is now available online and in print, featuring peer-reviewed research articles on diverse topics ranging from malaria genetics to elephant evolution authored by prominent scientists from around the world

Library and Informatic Systems Technology - An exhibition for suppliers and prospective buyers of Small Library Management Systems - organised by infologistix and Biblio-Tech Review - 16 October 2003 - London, UK

The National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield, has over 80,000 images in the photographic collection, in addition to audio and video material, journals and magazines, and nearly 3,000 monographs. The collection also includes a unique body of fairground ephemera (programmes, handbills, posters, charters and proclamations, plans and drawings).

The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2003 has been awarded to Susan Sontag

The Crime Writers' Association has announced its short lists for its Daggers Awards 2003. Winners will be announced and Daggers presented at the CWA 50th Jubilee Dagger Awards Lunch in London on 13 November

Library Link Newsletter - October 2003 issue now available

Dogpile, the metasearch engine, has announced the launch of an updated version of the Dogpile Search Toolbar with new features designed to provide users with added convenience and faster access to information. The new Toolbar is immediately available for download for users of Windows 98/2000/ME/XP and Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher

For the first time libraries can have access to the most comprehensive electronic collection of South African scientific and scholarly journals in the world. Most of these journals are peer reviewed and are accredited by the South African Department of Arts, Science and Culture. At present 131 titles are available and the number of titles is growing steadily

SITE 2004 is the 15th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education - March 1-6, 2004 - Atlanta, Georgia

KM Europe 2003 - 10-12 November 2003 - Amsterdam RAI International Exhibition and Congress Centre

The ARL-NEWMEAS list has been established as a communication mechanism for those individuals interested in the Association of Research Libraries work to develop new measures for research libraries. Members of the list are welcome to share ideas and information about performance measures, quality initiatives, and characterization of research libraries for discussion. Notices of events, readings, web sites, and organizations who are working in this area are also welcome

The Harvard-Yenching Library will host Books in Numbers: A Conference in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Harvard-Yenching Library on October 17 and 18. Scholars and librarians from around the world will participate, and a commemorative conference volume will be published

A redesigned American FactFinder from the U.S. Census Bureau will be released October 17, 2003

Emerald's Journals of the Week for October 13, 2003 are Library Hi Tech News and The Electronic Library

The Second International Conference on the Future of the Book. To be held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China, from 29-31 August 2004, the conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the future of the book, as well as its past and the state of the book industry, books and reading today

A small but growing number of libraries have already or are now developing non commercial link resolving solutions with OpenURL at the core. These libraries now have a peer support group for the exchange of ideas and solutions: lib-openurl-dev-l
To subscribe, send a message to listserv@listserv.uiuc.edu
The body of the message should be:
subscribe lib-openurl-dev-l Your Name

A sub-committee of the Full Disclosure Implementation Group has awarded a total of £64,500 as a result of the Full Disclosure Call for Proposals 2003. The aim of this particular call was not to initiate completely new projects but to extend the range and increase the impact of existing or recent initiatives in retrospective catalogue conversion, by, for example, bringing in new partners or making catalogue data accessible in a more integrated way

Joined-up Resources: Local studies through Libraries, archives & museums - 25 November 2003 - Stamford, Lincolnshire - The target audience is local studies managers in public libraries, regional and government bodies, library partnerships and co-operatives, and others concerned with the development of local heritage and memory services, especially colleagues in the archive and museum domains

Dr. Michel Biezunski and Dr. Steven R. Newcomb will be presenting a lecture entitled Topic Maps: The Inventor's Perspective on Subject-based Access at the Library of Congress on October 15

Digital scholarship, digital culture - a special lecture series sponsored by the School of Humanities, King's College London - October 2003 to May 2004

The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer this week tests your knowledge of proverbs. Questions set by Tony Augarde, author of "The Oxford Guide to Word Games". Answers are here:

1. According to the proverb, all roads lead to where?
2. What would you use to keep the doctor away?
3. A watched pot never does what?
4. According to a saying adapted from the Sermon on the Mount, who shall inherit the Earth?
5. According to the proverb, what can't you judge by its cover?
6. A 17th-century horse-dealer in Cambridge gave his name to which proverbial phrase for a choice that actually offers no alternative?
7. Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play "Huis Clos" stated that hell is...what?
8. What opinion about hope was coined by Alexander Pope in 1732 and quickly became proverbial?
9. Which animals, according to a 19th-century proverb, "are very unlikely birds"?
10. Which proverb was probably created by US journalist Dan Cook in 1978?

Art for Votes' Sake: Visual Culture and the Women's Suffrage Campaign - 2 October - 20 December 2003 - The Women’s Library, London, UK

The Library of Congress announces the release on the American Memory website of American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920. The website is comprised of 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions abter American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920

The UK National Acquisitions Group is running a two-day Stock Management School 18-19 November 2003 at the Hotel St Pierre, Wakefield

Best Practices 2003: Innovative Internet Use in Canadian Public Libraries - LibraryNet

The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2004-05 Fellowships in the Humanities

Leadership for Library Staff - October 24, 2003 - The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen

Bargain record label Naxos has made a complete recording of Ulysses by James Joyce on 23 CDs, which will be issued next year in time for the 100th anniversary of the original "Bloomsday", June 16 1904

Belfast poet Ciaran Carson has won the £10,000 Forward Prize, the UK's biggest annual poetry award

Plans are underway for celebrating a second national Web Awareness Day on February. 19, 2004. It is sponsored by the Media Awareness Network, in partnership with local libraries, provincial and national library agencies, Bell Canada and other sponsors. It provides an opportunity for public libraries across the country to focus on our increasingly important role in supporting parents, children and communities to develop safe and appropriate Internet literacy skills

LISU has been commissioned by JISC to undertake a national survey of all HE and FE libraries to investigate the adoption of locally developed and commercially purchased library portals. The LibPortal project will provide JISC with a comprehensive review of current practice and future prospects of library portals, and their impact on the use of information sources

A British Library MARC records survey has been created in order to gain a better understanding of how its bibliographic records are used, what users think of them, and what improvements they would like to see

EEVL, the internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, has become a Content Partner with scenta, the new online portal for the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) community

Call for Papers and Workshops - The 33rd Annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use is to be held June 14-16, 2004 at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia

First Monday - Volume 8, Number 10 - October 6th, 2003 now available

MCN Conference 2003 - Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation - November 5–8, 2003 - Las Vegas, Nevada

NFAIS has released a set of Guiding Principles with regard to reference linking, and is encouraging all those involved in any aspect of information creation and/or distribution to provide for such a capability in their products and services

Gale and Google have signed an agreement that will allow users of select products on Gale's InfoTrac Web platform to link to the Google Image Search service while searching within the premium databases

World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council - "Libraries: Tools for Education and Development" - August 22-27 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Introduction to Business Research Tools - a one-day workshop at The Professional Learning Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto - 14 Nov 2003

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA, has announced its upcoming workshops

The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education periodically invites leaders, interested in advancing knowledge and learning with information technology, to serve on the Editorial Review Boards of its internationally respected journals

Journal of Digital Information Management - September 2003 issue now available

The Archive-Skills Consultancy, London, UK, has announced its training prospectus for 2003-2004

Emerald's Journals of the Week for October 6, 2003 are TQM Magazine & Soldering & Surface Mount Technology

Ex Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information Junkies - #193, October 3, 2003 is now available

The 12th annual SHARP conference will be held in Lyons, France, 20-24 July auspices of the Institut d'histoire du livre. The main topic of the conference will be "Crossing Borders" : cultural transfers between the old and the new worlds, on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. Presentations of European archival sources for the history of the book are also encouraged. As always, SHARP welcomes proposals for papers dealing with the creation, diffusion, or reception of the written or printed word in any place or historical period

Advanced Web Search Strategies - October 24, 2003 - Faculty of Information Studies, Toronto - Every day thousands of people look for information on the Web but only the trained few find their answers quickly and some never find an answer at all. This workshop will lay out the key Internet search strategies and help you build the skills you need to use the main search services - Instructed by Gwen Harris

Publishing the Future: Scholarly Communication in an Information Age - November 11, 2003 - Center for Tomorrow, University at Buffalo

The Grolier Club Library's online catalogue gives access to a database of over 41,000 records, representing about one third of the Library's estimated holdings. Researchers can now search the Grolier's monographic reference collection (ca. 25,000 items), its collections of archives, letters, and manuscripts (ca. 10,000 items in over 100 series), its book auction catalogues to 1900 (ca. 14,000 items), as well as rare books acquired since 1983 (ca.1,000 items)

PubMed Central has initiated a major archival scanning project in conjunction with several participating publishers

Second call for papers for the NASIG 2004 Annual Conference - June 17-20, 2004 - Milwaukee, WI

The Bibliographical Society, London, has announced its lecture programme for 2003-2004

ALPSP, The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, has announced its award winners for 2003

Oxford English Dictionary - September 2003 newsletter is now available

The September 29, 2003 issue of LLRX.com is now available. LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools

The National Library of Australia has announced In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s -1930s, the first in a two-part exploration of the Pictures Collection and examines the relationship between the development of photography and the recording of Australian history. The online exhibition will open 9 October 2003

CILIP Workshop - How to bid for Funds - 8 October 2003 - London, UK - This is an advanced course suitable for anybody who has attended the introductory Fundraising for librarians course, or who already has some experience of fundraising strategy or fundraising research

ERIL (Electronic Resources in Libraries), a community of librarians concerned with the practical aspects of managing electronic resources in libraries, now has a new home. The Resources page has also recently been updated

ARL/OLMS Webcast - The TEACH Act and Distance Learning: Doing the Digital - October 30, 2003 - Cosponsored by EDUCAUSE

Award applications from the Public Library Association are now available. Deadline is December 1, 2003

Oxford University Press (OUP) is has announced a partnership with Oxford University Library Services, (OULS) in support of the national SHERPA project. Under the terms of the agreement, OUP will provide the Systems and Electronic Resources (SERS) department of OULS with online access to articles by Oxford University-based authors published in many of the Oxford Journals from 2002. The articles will then be searchable via the OULS pilot institutional repository and available free of charge to researchers across the globe

The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer this week tests your knowledge of sporting terminology. Can you identify the sports from the clues below. Answers are here:

1. Which sport is played on a rink with a puck?
2. In which sport would you talk about "deuce" and "tramlines"?
3. In which sport might you talk about foul shots, free throws and a basket?
4. In which sport would you hear about a mid-on and a mid-off?
5. In which sport do you get a field goal and the end zone?
6. In which sport would you use a piton?
7. In which sport might you encounter a divot?
8. In which sport might you use a bean ball?
9. In which sport could you hear of criteriums and stage races?
10. In which sport would you use a cesta?

California's public libraries have identified the "top 12" workshops and meetings which they feel could be conducted via videoconferencing or other virtual means to enable more participation by constituents

The new JISC Resource Guides are published today, providing free overviews of quality-assured information about electronic resources and support services, all of them selected by subject specialists

SURA/ViDe 6th Annual Digital Video Workshop - Indianapolis, Indiana - March 22-25, 2004 - This workshop has become recognized as the essential annual learning venue in collaborative videoconferencing, streaming video, and storing/serving video-on-demand. Workshop content will include examples of digital video projects in the research and education community, how-to sessions, and information on emerging technologies

Call for papers for a joint ACCUTE and COCH/COSH Session at the Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Manitoba in May, 2004 - Playing with Text Analysis

Libraries in the Digital Age - 25-29 May, 2004 - Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia

Celebrating our Community: Sharing Our Values, Sharing Our Value is the theme for the 2004 Joint Conference of the Canadian Library Association (CLA) and British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) in Victoria, British Columbia, June 16-19, 2004 - Call for proposals deadline is October 31, 2003

October 2003 issues of Information Today, ONLINE, Computers in Libraries, Searcher, MultiMedia Schools, and CRM Magazine are now available

Nominations are being sought for the Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award for 2004. The Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award is presented by the ALCTS (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services) Serials Section of the American Library Association and is sponsored by R.R. Bowker Company, publisher of Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. The award consists of a citation with a cash award of $1,500. The winner will be honored during the ALA Annual Conference 2004

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003 is awarded to the South African writer, John Maxwell Coetzee

Free Pint Newsletter 146 - 2 October 2003 - now available, containing the feature article Digital Preservation - Barbarians at the Gate by Jonathan Crowhurst

Online Northwest call for proposals. This one-day conference focuses on the use of technology within libraries, attracting librarians from the Pacific Northwest and around the USA. It is sponsored by the Oregon University System and takes place February 24, 2004 in Corvallis, Oregon

Netskills has a full schedule of workshops running throughout the UK from October 2003 to March 2004. Many of these workshops will count towards the Netskills/BTEC Professional Development Certificates in both Web Development and e-Learning

The UK Serials Group is pleased to announce details of its International Research Awards Programme for 2004. Two separate £1,000 awards are available to any individual currently registered in a higher education institution or in employment and undertaking formal pre-qualification study (full- or part-time). In both cases, the piece of work being undertaken must form part of the requirements for the course or of the formal pre-qualification study

National Poetry Day 2003 - Thursday 9 October 2003

LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction has announced the official Call for Proposals for the 2004 national conference, which will be held in Ypsilanti, MI on May 6-8, 2004. The conference theme is, Library Instruction: Restating the Need, Refocusing the Response

Great American Public Libraries: The 2003 HAPLR Rankings - by Thomas J. Hennen Jr. - American Libraries, October 2003

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the research collections. The Program in Hellenic Studies also supports a limited number of Library Research Grants in Hellenic studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s books

Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections - November 4-5, 2003 - Las Vegas, Nevada - This conference explores digitization for collections management and education in museums and other cultural institutions of all sizes. The faculty includes museum and library professionals, technical experts, educators, and administrators who will discuss a broad range of highly relevant topics

The IFLA Section on Management and Marketing in collaboration with IFLA Gold Corporate Partner 3M has announced the IFLA 3M International Marketing Award for 2004. The objectives of the award are to reward the best library marketing project worldwide each year, encourage marketing in libraries, and give libraries the opportunity to share marketing experiences

The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Its third annual Movers & Shakers supplement will profile 50 up-and-coming people from across the U.S. and Canada who are innovative, creative, and making a difference. Deadline for submissions is November 1, 2003

The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR has announced that its website has been redesigned and updated

Rare Book School, University of Virginia, has announced its courses for 2004

Infobits September 2003 is now available from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill