The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 extends previous legal deposit legislation passed 1911. The Act enshrines the principle that electronic or e-publications and other non-print materials will be deposited in the future under secondary legislation. It ensures that these publications can be saved as part of the published archive, and become an important resource for future generations of researchers and scholars

Cambridge University Press has announced that 14 new journals have been added to its list for 2004, widening its scope across several disciplines. Among these, three renowned law journals, two brand new music titles, and other high profile publications such as Compositio Mathematica, and Utilitas have been added

Freedom to Read Week - February 22-28, 2004, encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The winter roster of LIS continuing education workshops delivered wholly via the Internet is now available from the University at Buffalo library school. A computer with Internet access and a Web browser are all that's needed to access these self-paced instructional modules, accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the posting period. New workshops have been added covering serials cataloging, proposing & surviving new library technologies, XML, and constructing database driven web sites

Managing the Electronic Monster: the Impact on the Library User - The Southern California Technical Processes Group will present a program on managing electronic resources and the impact on library users - November 21, 2003 - California State University, Northridge

CIT Infobits - Issue 64 October 2003

Humanities Computing Needs: A Survey - A Project of TAPoR, the Text Analysis Portal for Research, assessing the needs of the humanities research community concerning electronic text and text analysis tools

This week's Friday brain-teaser from xrefer takes a look at the magical world of stage and screen musicals. Answers are here

1. Which actor famously sang in the rain in the 1952 film "Singin' in the Rain"?
2. Which composer had five musicals running concurrently in London in 1993?
3. In the 1960s, which English singer, whose real name is Harry Webb, starred in the musical films "The Young Ones" and "Summer Holiday"?
4. Which 1943 musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein changed the direction of musical theatre?
5. Which 1956 musical was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion"?
6. Name the character played by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film "The Sound of Music".
7. The musical "Five Guys Named Moe" featured songs associated with which American musician?
8. What was the first name of Fred Astaire's sister, who appeared with him in several stage musicals?
9. Who composed the music for the shows "Sweeney Todd" and "Sunday in the Park with George"?
10. The 1950 musical "Guys and Dolls" was based on stories by which writer?

The shortlist for this year's Guardian First Book Award have been announced

MedRef-L is a discussion of health and medical reference issues. The focus of this discussion is on reference services, marketing and promoting library services and the role of the health/medical library in the organization or in the community served, professional continuing education and training, etc. MedRef-L is not meant to replace MEDLIB-L but rather to provide a forum specifically for the discussion of health and medicine reference issues

The CHCC Census Resource Discovery Service is a catalogue of census data and associated learning and teaching materials available to the UK higher and further education sector

Internet Use in Libraries - ALA Library Fact Sheet Number 26 - almost all academic, public, and school libraries in the U.S. are connected to the Internet, both for staff use and for public access. Here are the most recent national statistics for each type of library

Global Learn Day VII - A 24 hour continuous live webcast with presentations from educators in every world time zone - show starts November 15 at 5:00 PM Pacfic time

EXEMPLARIA has announced the launch of Medieval Noise, a Special Cluster under the guest editorship of Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (The George Washington University)

Issue 5, October 2003 of Reference Update from xrefer is now available

TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library is a CD-ROM library that includes the contents of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, as listed in the World Bank's 1998-9 World Development Report

How to find statistics on the EU will explore the key features of the Eurostat website and how to access other sources such as OECD, the CIA, EU Country Reports and the World Bank. It will also tell you how to identify a reliable source and what's available free of charge. Particularly useful for anyone dealing with EU enquiries or who needs European statistics on an an occasional or regular basis - 20 November - Oxford, UK

The CILIP/LiS Libraries Change Lives Award is established as one of the leading accolades in the library and information world. Its aim is to highlight and reward good practice in any innovative library/information related project. Open for entries until Friday 30 January 2004

A list of future courses from The Professional Learning Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, is now available

Helping Users find your Content - 20 November 2003 - BSG House, London

Digital identifiers: bringing digital communities together - 24 November 2003 - The Liberal Club, London

The new British Library site is up, including the new sections Services for researchers, Services for business, Services for library and information professionals and Something for everyone

Sirsi has selected Openly Informatics OpenURL linking technology as the core engine for Sirsi Resolver, Sirsi's solution for OpenURL resolution and linking

OverDrive, Inc. has announced that over 150 publishers have joined its Digital Library Reserve. Best selling titles from Microsoft Press, Merriam-Webster, Barnes & Noble Digital Publishing, Tyndale House, Zondervan, Multnomah, Rough Guides, RosettaBooks, Peanut Press and others will join eBook collections from Time Warner, HarperCollins Perfectbound, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Scholastic for libraries to loan their patrons

The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Competition by December 1, 2003. The winning manuscript will be chosen in April 2004 and will be awarded with the publication of a letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook designed, printed and bound by artists at The Center for Book Arts

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awards $9,898,338 in 27 inaugural grants under a new program, Recruiting and Educating Librarians for the 21st Century

The Depository Library Council, a 15-member advisory body to the Public Printer of the US, seeks input on three topics the Public Printer addressed at the annual Federal Depository Library conference last week in Arlington, Virginia. These issues are significant ones and will impact federal documents depository libraries. The three topics are: Preservation; Authentication/Version Control; and Revenue Enhancement to the GPO sales program. Council has until December 1st to respond

Applications for presenting Poster Sessions at the 2004 American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, are now being accepted. The website also provides rules and guidelines for presenting poster sessions, helpful hints in applying, frequently asked questions, and photos of sample poster sessions

MLA '04: Seize the Power! - May 21-26 2004 - Washington Hilton and Towers in Washington, DC. The wide variety of educational programs sponsored by sections and special interest groups (SIGs) offer exciting opportunities for you to share the power of your library’s innovative and improved projects, planning, and research. Visit the Participate area of this site to submit your contributed paper and poster abstracts

Effective Information Training Skills - A One Day Course for CoFHE LASEC - 4 December 2003

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 110 - November 2003 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University

IOP Publishing Limited has announced its book sale. with over 360 books knocked down in price by 75%. The sale ends 31 December

The proceedings of the 2003 Dublin Core Conference, held in Seattle, are now available online

The Calicut Medical Journal - The Refereed Online Biomedical Journal published by the CMC Alumni Association will be published exclusively online. All content will be openly and freely accessible. First issue available 30 October 2003

The Open WorldCat pilot is a year-long initiative that makes library resources available from nonlibrary Web sites. The pilot aims to test the effectiveness of Web search engines in guiding users to library-owned materials, making libraries more visible to Web users and more accessible from the Web sites many people turn to first

On the occasion of the anniversary of the secularization, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek presents the exhibition Lebendiges Büchererbe. Säkularisation, Mediatisierung und die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek from 7 November 2003 to 30 January 2004. The exhibition focuses on the consequences of the upheavals of the year 1803 for the Bavarian libraries. Choice treasures from the dissolved Bavarian monasteries and cathedrals are on show, among them the Codex aureus, the Gutenberg Bible, the Serbian Psalter, the Qur'an of Père Lachaise, the Gospel Book of Otto III and the Old Church Slavonic texts from Freising

Elsevier has signed a declaration of compliance of the usage reports for its product ScienceDirect, with the international COUNTER Code of Practice (Release 1), which governs the recording and exchange of online usage data. The COUNTER Code of Practice is supported by librarians, publishers and intermediaries worldwide, as well as by their professional organizations. It promotes the credible, consistent and compatible measurement of the usage data from online information resources

A two-week long festival, 27 October–9 November, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dylan Thomas aims to increase the poet's profile in Welsh schools

Emerald's Journals of the Week for October 27, 2003 are foresight & European Journal of Innovation Management

Arden Davies Publishing, legal publishers specialising in the law applicable to the public sector in England and Wales, is offering free 3-month subscriptions to its journals

The Marxist.Net site is maintained by the Committee for a Workers International, an international socialist campaign group. It provides links to a wealth of online resources relating to Marxism, Communism, Leninism and Trotskyism. Thes include recent news stories and access to full text classic writings (such as the works of Karl Marx and Lenin) and pamphlets published by the Committee for a Workers International

On 8 December 2003 the public services of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, currently located in central London, will open at the National Archives building at Kew. Prior to the move the HMC reading rooms in Quality Court will close on 7 November, to allow staff to prepare for and carry out the move. When services reopen on 8 December they will no longer be based in Chancery Lane but at Kew in West London

The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress, has been updated

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the names of the finalists for the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Awards, in English and in French, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation

2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2004) - 18-19 March, 2004 - The Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei, Taiwan. The intended community for ICDAT 2004 includes those interested in technologies and tools for advanced digital archive systems, new knowledge about archival storage and preservation, best practices of technology development in digital archives, and applications of digital archive technologies

Online Information 2003 - December 2-4 - London, UK - the programme for its free seminars and Masterclasses has been announced

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - the first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1920 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years

ICSTI, The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information has published their study The Information Imperative which looks at the socio-economic impacts of scientific information

The National Agricultural Library has selected the Canadian-based Relais Enterprise document delivery system to further automate the library's document delivery services

The University of Delaware Library has created a web site which provides digital images of the Library's collection of more than 2,000 Delaware postcards. The postcards in the collection date mainly from the very end of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, although there are also postcards from throughout the later part of the twentieth century

Version 51 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,000 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet

The Haworth Press, Inc. has announced the following new journals for Spring/Fall 2004:

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work (Spring 2004)
Journal of Child Custody (Spring 2004)
Journal of Crop Improvement (Spring 2004)
Journal of Dual Diagnosis (Fall 2004)
Journal of E-Government (Spring 2004)
Journal of Electronic Resources in Law Libraries (Spring 2004)
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries (Spring 2004)
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning (Spring 2004)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries (Fall 2004)
Journal of Natural Fibers (Spring 2004)
Journal of Security Education (Fall 2004)
Substance Abuse (Spring 2004)
Journal of Website Promotion (Spring 2004)

Treasures in Full: Caxton's Chaucer - on this site you will find William Caxton’s two editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, probably printed in 1476 and 1483. The originals are both in the British Library

On 27 October 2003 The British Library will unveil its new home page and a series of welcome pages providing easier ways for users to find the web content they need

This week's brain-teaser from xrefer.com tests your knowledge of Art and Artists. Answers are here

1. In which Italian city is the Uffizi gallery?
2. In 1962, which American painter produced famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans?
3. Is the flat, thin board on which a painter mixes his colours called a palate or a palette?
4. Which famous painter (1475-1564) had the surname Buonarroti?
5. Which French painter offended conservative tastes in 1863 with his picture of a picnic on the grass?
6. What phrase is used to describe a picture of inanimate objects, such as fruit or flowers?
7. Which British artist, born in Yorkshire in 1937 and now resident in California, was the subject of the 1974 film "A Bigger Splash"?
8. Which Austrian painter's most famous work was probably "The Kiss" in 1908?
9. Which art gallery was opened in London in 1897 on the site of the old Millbank Prison?
10. Which 16th-century Venetian painter's real name was Jacopo Robusti?

A ground-breaking JISC funded project, Newsfilm Online, has been announced. With some £2.2 million funding, JISC, the BUFVC (British Universities Film and Video Council) and ITN will be working in partnership to digitise more than 3,000 ITN news archives spanning more than 100 years. Additionally, 3,500 hours of existing British Pathe content will be licensed for use as well as over 12 million images

Landmark Libraries is a human network of librarians with extensive experience in one or more library building projects. Their concern is that, far too often, librarians themselves are not the core player in the building process

The National Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellows Program is focused on preparing emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries

Amazon.Com - has announced the launch of its latest innovation for customers, Search Inside the Book, an entirely new way for customers to find and discover books by searching the full text inside them, not just matches to author or title keywords. In collaboration with publishers, Amazon.com is enabling customers to find books at Amazon.com based on every word inside more than 120,000 books -- more than 33 million pages of searchable text. Customers can also preview the inside text of these books. Search Inside the Book is integrated into Amazon.com's standard search and includes books from all genres

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - In this Declaration, all of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research

From Aquinas to Atwood - an exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto - closes 19 December 2003. This exhibition celebrates gifts in Italian studies to the University of Toronto Library from 1890, when the original Library and its collections were destroyed by fire, to the present day, with the University’s collections fast approaching ten million books. Most of the books in the exhibition were printed between the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and are shown with some modern books, and with manuscripts, prints, and broadsides

Bilindex is a list of Spanish Subject Heading equivalents to Library of Congress Subject Heading List (LCSHL) which makes provisions, particularly within its syndetic apparatus and children's headings, to equate to the basic practicality of the Sears List and the comprehensiveness of LCSHL

The radical library: taking up the challenge - Royal College of Nursing, London - 13 November 2003 - this UKSG seminar brings together practitioners from within and beyond universities to give some real life examples of radical developments taking place now

BNB name headings and their NACO equivalents - a project to support users of British National Bibliography records in managing the migration of their catalogues to MARC 21

Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists by Fred R. Byers - this report describes in nontechnical language the various types of CDs and DVDs now in use, how they are made, and how they work. It then distills current industry knowledge about disc longevity, conditions that affect life expectancy, and how to care for optical media. The guide is amply illustrated and includes a glossary and bibliography

The Poetry Book Society has announced the Shortlist for the T S Eliot Prize 2003, to be awarded to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published in 2003

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division is offering free online access to hundreds of articles on atmospheric chemistry and current issues of publications in celebration of National Chemistry Week, October 19-25. This free access to the public will continue through October 31. ACS Publications produces more than 30 periodicals in print and online, including the flagship publications of the American Chemical Society: the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical & Engineering News

Hypertext 2004 - Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia - University of California, Santa Cruz - August 9-13, 2004

xrefer has announced that UK Machine-Readable Cataloging (MaRC) records are now available for all the titles in its xreferplus digital reference library. The service currently contains 150 titles in total, with new reference works being added on a regular basis. The inclusion of this feature in the xreferplus service comes as a response to the strong demand for it from the library community in the UK. By downloading the MARC records for each of the titles in xreferplus, subscribing libraries in the UK will now be able to integrate their xreferplus collections into their online catalogues using this common format, which provides a simple and streamlined processing system. More information about Marc records can be found at here

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 3:13 (November 2003) is now available for downloading

Speaker presentations from the recent Access 2003 conference in Vancouver are now available

Industry Canada has announced $305,000 to continue developing an initiative that will help Canadian employees earn university and college credits for workplace training. The funding will support Campus Canada, a national alliance of universities, colleges and educational organizations that is developing innovative on-line services to improve access to post-secondary learning

The purpose of the NASIG Horizon Award is to advance the serials profession by providing promising new serialists with the opportunity to accelerate their knowledge and understanding of serials by networking and interacting with a wide range of dedicated professionals working in all segments of the serials information chain. Application deadline is February 15, 2004

Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) 2003 - University of Victoria - November 14, 2003 - this is a no-fee conference

Social Science Online - a series of one-day seminars in the UK on a full range of nationally-funded Internet resources and services available in the following subjects:
Internet for Law: London, 12 November 2003
Internet for Psychology: London, 10 December 2003
Internet for Sociology: Birmingham, 16 December 2003
Internet for Economics: Bristol, 25 March 2004

CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has taken over LIBEX, the online clearing house for library and information staff looking for job exchange experience abroad. Previously run by the Thomas Parry Library in Aberystwyth, the service is now available exclusively to CILIP members

Writers from across the world are gearing up to take part in the fifth annual National Novel Writing Month, which begins on 1 November 2003

Last April, members of the public were asked to nominate their favourite work of fiction as part of BBC Two's Big Read. Nearly 140,000 people voted and The Big Read Top 100 novels were announced in May in alphabetical order. Now that list has been whittled down to the 21 most popular, based on those votes, and announced in The Big Read Top 21

Factiva Search "...is designed so that information workers spend less time searching, and more time using the information to make their best business decisions. Users conduct research on nearly 8,000 world-class global sources directly from a report or presentation they’re creating. It is a simple, integrated keyword search of Factiva content from the Research Task Pane in any Microsoft Office System application, including Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft Office OneNote 2003"

Emerald's Journals of the Week for October 20, 2003 are Integrated Manufacturing Systems and Personnel Review

Journal of the Medical Librarian Association, Volume 91 Number 4, October 2003 is now available online

The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland will be offering an online course on Virtual Reference Software Selection from November 3-14, 2003 - This interactive web-based course, featuring a high degree of individual attention, will include readings, message board discussions with peers, valuable feedback from knowledgeable instructors, and an introduction to the resources you need to make the best decision about software

The October 2003 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available

xreferplus has been shortlisted for the Besterman/McColvin medal for outstanding works of reference published in the UK, electronic category. These awards are organised and administered by CILIP, and sponsored by Nielsen Bookdata

This week the Friday brain-teaser from xrefer takes us to Africa, the second largest continent. Try these questions about African history, geography and culture, and then see how you did by visiting the answers page

1. Who became president of South Africa in 1994?
2. The Aswan High Dam is on which African river?
3. Malagasies come from which island?
4. What is the modern name for the African country that used to be called Bechuanaland?
5. What is the capital city of Ethiopia?
6. Julius Nyerere was president of which country from 1964 to 1985?
7. Does an African elephant have larger or smaller ears than an Indian elephant?
8. The Egyptian president Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, and Britain and France occupied the canal zone. In which year did this happen?
9. The Atlas Mountains stretch across three African countries. Name two of them
10. What is the nationality of the African writer Wole Soyinka?

Free Pint Newsletter 147 - 16 October 2003 - now available

Open-Access Journals by Roy Tennant, Manager, eScholarship Web & Services Design, California Digital Library - Library Journal, October 15, 2003

The November 2003 issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now available

The Professional Learning Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto presents a one-day course: Health Information Resources - November 7, 2003

A summary of the 2003 Update to AACR2, 2002 Revision has been issued for information

Swets Blackwell has announced that it is the first subscription agent member to achieve level 2 compliance with COUNTER's international e-journal usage standards. Swets has signed a formal declaration of compliance with COUNTER, an international initiative launched in March 2002 designed to serve librarians, publishers and intermediaries by facilitating the recording and exchange of online usage statistics

The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, offers visiting academic research fellowships tenable for one to twelve months each year. All awards are for a period of residence to use the AAS library's resources for research and writing. Application deadline is January 15, 2004

Call for Papers: Special issue of the Journal of Digital Information on - Information Design Models and Processes - Submission deadline is 15 December 2003

The Charlie Robinson Award honors a public library director who, over a period of seven years, has been a risk taker, an innovator and/or a change agent in a public library. The recipient should have been active in national and other professional associations and be known for developing and implementing programs which are responsive to the need of community residents. The award consists of $1,000 and a gift to the librarian. The public library director will be honored at the ALA Annual Conference. Nominations by December 1, 2003

AGORA - Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, providing access to over 400 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries

October 12-18, 2003 is Earth Science Week. This year's theme is Eyes on Planet Earth: Monitoring our Changing World

The Canadian Copyrights Database has been updated as of October 14, 2003

The October 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available

National Book Award finalists for 2003 have been announced - to be eligible for the award, a book must have been published in the United States between December 1, 2002 and November 30, 2003 and must have been written by a United States citizen

Information Research Volume 9 No 1 - October 2003 is now available