Live bedbugs found in Vancouver library books (Canada)

Bedbugs are being found in library books across the Lower Mainland, leading librarians to trash books and close branches in a bid to stop the bugs from spreading. The discovery earlier this week of live bugs in a book borrowed from the Mount Pleasant branch of the Vancouver Public Library was the latest in a string of similar incidents. The discovery came shortly after the closure of libraries in New Westminster and Burnaby for their infestations

Indiana University Bloomington Media Preservation Initiative

The Indiana University Bloomington Media Preservation Initiative announces the launch of a new blog. The media preservation blog is designed for those who have read the Indiana reports - Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation and the Media Preservation Survey - and want to follow our progress as we continue to develop and implement strategies and solutions for our campus. It may be of interest to universities and other organizations with archival audio, video, or film holdings

EUscreen

EUscreen is a Best Practice Network funded within the eContentplus programme of the European Commission and started as a three-year project in October 2009. EUscreen provides standardised access to over 30,000 items of programme content and complementary contextual information through one freely accessible online portal

Future Science Group launche new series of eBook collections under the Future Medicine imprint

The Future Science Group has launched a new series of eBook collections under the Future Medicine imprint. FSG publishes more than fifty journal titles, including the Expert Review series. In the first instance, fifty eBooks are being released onto the market through late 2011 and in the first quarter of 2012, covering topical issues in clinical and biomedical sciences. The eBook series includes an oncology collection of more than 20 titles, featuring a sub-collection on targeted therapies that addresses clinically important disease areas such as lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers. Other collection topics include Immunology, Cardiology, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, and Respiratory Medicine. Each eBook is edited by a key opinion leader, with contributions from renowned scientists and clinicians from around the globe

National Library of Scotland Bill published

The Scottish Government has published legislation today which will update the powers and functions of the National Library of Scotland. The National Library of Scotland Bill seeks to strengthen the role of NLS in safeguarding and sharing knowledge for current and future generations

Library and Archives Canada launches the Canadian Feature Film Index and recognizes UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

In order to mark the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, Library and Archives Canada has launched the Canadian Feature Film Index database. This is one component of how LAC wishes to acknowledge this international day of recognition of audiovisual documents and their importance in society's evolution. The Canadian Feature Film Index, created as a printed index in 1972, is now available as an online database. This research tool provides information on over 4,300 Canadian feature films produced from 1913 to 2009. Selected entries include images of movie posters from LAC's holdings. Additions to the database will include entries for post-2009 films. Funding of this project was received through the Preservation and Access Component of the Canadian Feature Film Policy which is administered by Canadian Heritage

Webinars: "Intellectual Freedom across the Globe"

During November 2011, OIF and the IFLA Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression are offering a series of online learning opportunities focused on intellectual freedom issues in an international context. Topics to be covered include issues regarding religion and libraries; comics, manga and graphic novels in libraries; and access to health and sexuality information in the developing world

New on LLRX.com: Law Periodical Publishing Practices and Trends

Law librarian, criminal defense attorney and prolific author Ken Strutin brings into focus how electronic access to scholarly information is impacting library collection policies as well as professional publication formats, and as a result, how a new legal research environment is developing. Ken's article provides a selected collection of resources about the law review publishing process, emerging trends in the information cycle, and practical guides for developing an article and getting it to press

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - October 28, 2011

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Pop Albums. "This week's brainteaser is about albums of popular music. Can you say which group or artist released these albums in the years indicated?" Answers here.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
2. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
3. Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) and Sticky Fingers (1971)
4. Pop (1997) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
5. Aladdin Sane (1973) and Heroes (1977)
6. Californication (1999) and Stadium Arcadium (2006)
7. The College Dropout (2004) and Graduation (2007)
8. Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
9. Heart of Stone (1989) and Believe (1998)
10. Such Sweet Thunder (1957)

Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle

Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, announces the release of Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle, an online collection of romantic-era literature previously unavailable in electronic format. Romanticism Redefined contains over 120,000 pages of primary texts from London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, as well as another 10,000 pages comprising the only complete digital version of The Wordsworth Circle, a quarterly international academic journal for the study of English Romantic literature, culture and society

Webinar: Measuring the Outcome and Value of Libraries

Libraries provide many types of value to their constituents, but measuring that value is a challenge. The IMLS LibValue project, led by Carol Tenopir, brings together a national team of academic librarians and researchers to study multiple measures for multiple services and collections in academic libraries. In this webinar, Carol will describe the LibValue academic libraries project and discuss methods for measuring outcomes and value in all types of libraries - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

SAGE begins publishing Learning Disability Quarterly

SAGE will continue its partnership with the Hammill Institute on Disabilities by publishing another of their titles named Learning Disability Quarterly beginning this August. The addition of LDQ brings the Institute's total number of journals with SAGE to 15 titles

The Journal of the Medical Library Association - Volume 99(4) October 2011

The Journal of the Medical Library Association - Volume 99(4) October 2011 - is now available online

Israel's National Library displays early Islamic texts

Starting this week, visitors to Israel's National Library will be able to view rare Islamic manuscripts from the library's collection, including two early Qurans from the ninth century C.E., just 200 years after the first Quran was written

Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access (UK)

The Royal Society has announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available

Louisiana Libraries sign statewide licensing agreement with Credo Reference

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and the State Library of Louisiana have signed a new statewide agreement to partner with Credo Reference in their efforts to promote information literacy and research effectiveness. Both organizations are pleased to announce this joint effort to support library users across the state

Dorset's Manorial Documents Register now available online (UK)

Following a four year project run by volunteers at the Dorset History Centre and supported by The National Archives, the Dorset section of the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) has been made available online. The Manorial Documents Register records information on Dorset's manorial records from over 400 manors, held at over 50 different locations, some in publicly accessible institutions and others still in private ownership. The Dorset project benefits researchers worldwide, enabling them to search for manorial records by manor, parish, type of record or by date, and to identify relevant records online for the first time for this county

New titles in PubMed Central

Journal of Community Genetics

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

BMJ Open

Journal of Dentistry (Tehran, Iran)

ISRN Dentistry

ISRN Gastroenterology

International Journal of Hepatology

Advances in Preventive Medicine

Advances in Orthopedics

Nursing Research and Practice

ISRN Nursing

Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters

Texas State Library and Archives Commission joins WebJunction Partner Program (USA)

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has joined the WebJunction Partner Program, which provides library staff in Texas access to courses through the WebJunction community to keep skills up-to-date and help libraries respond to current patron needs

Skeletons, English Place Names and Health Reports to go online (UK)

JISC will be investing £5.6 million in 24 projects across 30 universities and cultural heritage organisations to bring selected archives out of the vaults and onto computer screens, specifically with the aim of creating resources for wide educational use. These archives will be publicly accessible too which means citizens scientists, school pupils and the general public will benefit as well as historians, medics and biologists in this growing UK collection of digital resources for research, teaching and learning

Director of U.S. Copyright Office announces priorities, special projects for next two years

Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante has made public her office's priorities and special projects through October, 2013. The paper articulates 17 priorities in the areas of copyright policy and administrative practice, as well as 10 new projects designed to improve the quality and efficiency of the U.S. Copyright Office's services in the 21st century

CARL E-Lert # 443 (Canada)

CARL E-Lert # 443, October 21 2011 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: Grand opening of the library of the future / Copyright Debate Hits the House of Commons: Opposition Won't Support C-11 Due to Digital Locks / CANARIE Supports Arctic Research - CANARIE Appuie la recherche dans l’arctique / Research for the masses / Whatever happened to the Digital Economy Act? / À qui appartiennent nos gènes?

CARL E-Lert # 442 (Canada)

CARL E-Lert # 442, October 14 2011 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: Harper Government Invests in Research Excellence at Canadian Post Secondary Institutions Creating Jobs of the Future US intelligence wants to predict human behavior with 'data eye in the sky' Canadian universities must reform or perish Digital Public Library of America planning initiative to hold public plenary meeting in Washington, DC on October 21, 2011 Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers

Book Grocer: 26 October - 1 November 2011

Book Grocer: 26 October - 1 November 2011 - The week ahead in literary London from the Londonist blog. #books #London

FreePint Newsletter 337

FreePint Newsletter 337 - 27 October 2011 now available

AASL 15th National Conference & Exhibition (USA)

AASL 15th National Conference & Exhibition - October 27-30 - Minneapolis, USA

IMLS announces the 2011 National Medal for Museum and Library Service recipients (USA)

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has selected five libraries and five museums to receive the 2011 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries for extraordinary civic, educational, economic, environmental, and social contributions. Recipients must demonstrate innovative approaches to public service and community outreach

OCLC introduces the Building Bridges Speakers Series

Join OCLC, host Chrystie Hill, WebJunction's Director of Community Services, and guest speakers for a series of four free webinars designed to inspire and engage public libraries on topics of vital interest. Each program in the series will offer practical advice on issues that are top-of-mind in public libraries

Digital Preservation, SPEC Kit 325, Published by ARL

The Association of Research Libraries has published Digital Preservation, SPEC Kit 325, which explores the strategies that ARL member institutions use to protect evolving research collections and examines the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders. The survey asked ARL libraries about their digital content, their strategies for preserving that content, and the staff, time, and funding they currently devote to digital preservation. It also asked each responding library to compare its digital preservation activities of three years ago to current activities and project three years into the future. In addition, to better understand the roles of research libraries in the emergent field of digital curation, the survey sought to identify issues that are and are not being addressed through current practices and policies

Richmond upon Thames Literature Festival (UK)

Richmond upon Thames Literature Festival - 3-27 November, 2011 - UK

Podcast: English burial and cemetery records online and on film (UK National Archives)

This talk gives an overview of online sources for English burial and cemetery records, including which of the major London cemeteries have online records. Both free and pay-for-view websites, and all parts of the country are covered, though is not possible to include all online sources. The resources for cemetery and burial records available on microfilm at the London Family History Centre are also highlighted. Sharon Hintze is Director of the London Family History Centre in South Kensington. She is a frequent speaker and occasional writer on family history

University of Calgary - grand opening of the Taylor Family Digital Library

The University of Calgary held the grand opening of the Taylor Family Digital Library Thursday, October 20 at a ceremony attended by Calgary philanthropists Don and Ruth Taylor; Alberta Premier Alison Redford; Member of Parliament Blake Richards; and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. The new state-of-the-art learning and research centre is a model for the 21st century library, and an important new gathering place for students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader Calgary community. The building opened to students and faculty the first week of September, and is already the new heart of the University of Calgary campus

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #172

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #172. "This week's episode features an interview with Jessamyn West as well as some miscellaneous news items. Gary Crawford of USDA's production team for PSAs is also heard again after a short absence" Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come

School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come - Ebook By Kristin Fontichiaro - A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors. Edited by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. Foreword by R. David Lankes. Photographs by Diane Cordell

Star Books: Occupy London protest inspires improvised library

It must surely be the UK's most unusual place to borrow books. At a time when the nation's library service faces death by a thousand cuts, the ramshackle collection of wobbly shelves, picnic tables and old chairs that form the Occupy Library amid the anti-capitalism protesters' camp in the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, is something to be behold - eccentric, chaotic, but with its heart in the right place

17 more Open Access (OA) Journals with TOC RSS feeds added to JournalTOCs, the free journal current awareness service

Roddy MacLeod has added 17 more Open Access journals to JournalTOCs, where you can find the latest Tables of Contents from over 17,000 scholarly journals, including over 2,500 Open Access journals

Philip Pullman declares war against 'stupidity' of library closures (UK)

Philip Pullman backs library campaigners and blasts Brent council for saying that closing half of its libraries would help it fulfil 'exciting plans to improve libraries'

Harold Pinter's forgotten sketch rediscovered after more than 50 years

Surprise find at British Library is the script of 'Umbrellas', part of a 1960 revue performed only once at the Nottingham Playhouse

New Canadian Library Association Executive Council elected

CLA Members have cast their ballots in the first elections under the new structure for CLA governance. There were five positions being contested: Vice-President/President-Elect, Treasurer and three Councillors-at-Large.

Pilar Martinez has been elected CLA Vice-President/President-Elect. Pilar is the Executive Director, Public Services, at Edmonton Public Library.

Mary-Jo Romaniuk has been elected to the office of CLA Treasurer. Mary-Jo is the Chief Librarian (Acting) at the University of Alberta.

Three new Councillors-at-Large have been elected: Jennifer Evans and Karen Hildebrandt for two year terms, and John Tooth for a one-year term. Jennifer is the Director of the Nova Scotia Provincial Library. Karen is the Access Services Coordinator at Concordia University College of Alberta. John is the Coodinator (Chief Librarian) in the Instructional Resources Unit, Manitoba Education.

Karen Adams will continue as CLA President for 2012. All newly elected members of Executive Council will join her on Executive Council when they assume their positions on 1 January 2012.

Maney Publishing marks Open Access Week with open content

Open Access Week, now in its fifth year, runs from 24-30 October 2011. It is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access. "Open Access" to information is the free, immediate, online access to scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need. This is also a great opportunity for Maney and other publishers to discuss and review new directions in scholarly communication. To coincide with Open Access Week, Maney will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from 24 October until 4 November. During this period we will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to use and re-use as and when you need via ingenta

NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter - October 2011

NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter - Volume 4, Number 4, October 15, 2011 is now available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, USA

Digital Public Library of America and Europeana announce collaboration

Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world's cultural heritage available to a large part of the world's population. The Digital Public Library of America, which will provide access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives in the United States, announced today that it will design its technical structure in a way to promote interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and archives of Europe

Survey: Use of Cloud Computing by Libraries

Primary Research Group is conducting a survey of current and expected use of cloud computing by libraries. The survey is open to the libraries of all nations. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report generated from the survey; participants are listed but responses are confidential. We define cloud computing as the following: computing-related services hosted or delivered as a real time service over the internet. Often but not always cloud services replace functions or software that would have been hosted on an end users own servers. You may participate in this survey if you are not a current user of such services since we nonetheless want to know your intentions and impressions

TWIL #57: Lee Rainie and John Seely Brown

TWIL #57: Lee Rainie and John Seely Brown - This week we come from California where Internet Librarians takes place. We talk to the keynote speakers Lee Rainie and John Seely Brown about the process of knowledge aquisition, networked objects, librarians as data analists and much more

CARL E-Lert # 441 (Canada)

CARL E-Lert # 441, October 7 2011 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: The Writers Union of Canada, U.K. society representing 50,000 book authors, along with Norwegian, and Swedish writers' unions, join literary property rights suit against HathiTrust and five U.S. universities / ITHAKA –Sustainable Scholarship / University research essential to Canadas prosperity - La recherche universitaire : essentielle à la prospérité du Canada

CARL E-Lert # 440 (Canada)

CARL E-Lert # 440, September 30 2011 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) applauds the government for recognizing education as a fair dealing purpose in its latest version of the Copyright Modernization Act / L'Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) a salué la reconnaissance de fins pédagogiques comme utilisation équitable d'une oeuvre, dans la plus récente version de la Loi sur la modernisation dudroit d'auteur / Tories vow to push through copyright overhaul as written / National Science Foundation taps Carolina researchers to develop national data infrastructure / U-M Library Orphan Works Project undaunted by lawsuit / Virtual museum to showcase Rideau Canal

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - October 21, 2011

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Black. "Here is another of our brainteasers about particular colours. This time every question is about people or things that are called "black"" Answers here.

1. What name is given to the national rugby union team of New Zealand?
2. Name the 1997 hit comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as government agents trying to prevent the public learning that America is playing host to a variety of aliens.
3. Which British rock group had a hit single in 1966 with "Paint it Black"?
4. Which geographical feature is bounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania?
5. Which 1877 novel by Anna Sewell describes the experiences of a horse under many different owners?
6. What name was given to the great epidemic of plague, mainly the bubonic variant, that ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century?
7. Which heavy metal band that made its debut record in 1970 contained Terry "Geezer" Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and John "Ozzy" Osbourne.
8. Which organization was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, seeking liberation for American blacks?
9. What nickname, derived from the colours of their uniforms, was given to a special auxiliary force of the Royal Irish Constabulary formed from British ex-soldiers and in action in Ireland March 1920-December 1921?
10. In South Africa, what was the Black Sash?

E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography - Version 1

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. writes: The E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. The scope of this brief selective bibliography is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general. It does not include conference papers, digital media works (such as MP3 files), e-mail messages, interviews, letters to the editor, news articles, presentation slides or transcripts, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings. Most sources have been published from 2007 through October 18, 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2007 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works, such as e-prints and open access articles. If such versions are unavailable, italicized links to the publisher's description are provided

Panjab 1947: a heart divided (UK National Archives)

The UK National Archives has launched a new online exhibition, Panjab 1947: a heart divided, to showcase the powerful personal stories of four Panjabi elders whose lives were changed forever by the division of their homeland in 1947

Thomson Reuters to provide Web of Knowledge to 322 institutions across the Republic of Kazakhstan

Thomson Reuters has announced a three-year national agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan's National Center for Scientific and Technical Information, that will bring Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge™ to 322 academic, research and government institutions across the country

Podcast: The untold story of women in the Crimean War (UK)

Florence Nightingale was not the only woman in the Crimea - a misnomer in itself as she spent most of the war at the British hospital at Scutari, 300 miles away from the Crimea. Here, Helen Rappaport sheds new light on the many unsung women who followed the British army on campaign - the last time they were allowed to do so. This was the first war in which women were officially organised as nurses, and Helen describes the work of some of the heroic nurses on Nightingale's staff, and their French and Russian counterparts. Then there are the extraordinary exploits of the maverick Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole who came back a national heroine, and officers' wives such as Fanny Duberly, French cantinières, and lady tourists who went to the Crimea to see things for themselves. Helen Rappaport studied Russian at Leeds University before turning her hand to writing. Helen has written a number of historical books and biographies, including No Place for Ladies: the Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (2007), Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs (2008) and Conspirator: Lenin in Exile (2009). Her latest venture is the Victorian true-crime story Beautiful for Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer

Shout About School Libraries and Schools Library Services (UK)

From October 2011 to late 2012 CILIP is running a joint campaign with the Association of Senior Children's and Education Librarians, and the School Library Association. The overall aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the value of school libraries and Schools Library Services to their communities (at both primary and secondary school level) amongst key stakeholders including government, head teachers, school governors and parents

More databases and collections added to WorldCat Local

OCLC has added more databases and signed agreements with leading publishers and other providers to add more content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 865 million items

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #171

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #171. "Although an interview was promised, a pro forma episode is presented instead that mentions BeagleBoard and PandaBoard as well as how to contact the production crew" Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

EMEA Regional Council Third Annual Meeting - 2012 Birmingham, United Kingdom

On 28 and 29 February 2012 OCLC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) will hold its Member Meeting in the Town Hall and Council House in the city of Birmingham, UK. The title of this year's meeting, 'Developing a New Blend of Library,' has been chosen to reflect how libraries and other cultural heritage organisations are blending physical and digital 'space' to reach out to their communities with new types of service. This is fittingly set against the backdrop of construction work on what will be Birmingham's splendid new central library - and a 'Virtual Library of Birmingham' already exists to support and complement the physical building

Library Campaign Conference (UK)

On 22 October 2011 the Library Campaign in association with Voices for the Library will be hosting a conference for library user groups. It will be a chance for users to compare notes, find out more about the issues confronting them and produce some proposals for future action both locally and nationally. Philip Pullman has agreed to speak and there will also be contributions from some of the campaigns that are making news. There will be also be lots of opportunities to network and to discuss the issues in small groups

literati by CREDO

literati by CREDO brings together essential components of successful and effective research: technology, content, tools and services to help eliminate the hurdles of discovery, education and assessment, collaboration, classroom integration and library promotion. literati by CREDO will be available in January 2012

British Library launches new Medieval and Renaissance images app

In conjunction with their exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, the British Library has created a Royal Manuscripts app for Apple iPad and iPhone users, which features over 500 images from 58 manuscripts in their collection. The app is available for download at a cost of just £1.49 for the iPhone and £2.99 for the iPad, until November 2011

SPARC enews/October 2011

SPARC enews/October 2011: a bimonthly newsletter features the latest SPARC activities, an industry roundup, upcoming workshops and events, as well as articles related to developments in scholarly communication

Canadian Library Support Staff Day

Canadian Library Support Staff Day is October 21, 2011

ACRL to offer scholarly communication institute

ACRL is offering a full-day institute on scholarly communication in conjunction with the 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting held January 20-24, 2012 in Dallas. Registration is now open, with an early-bird deadline of December 2, 2011

Wiley announces new agreement with JISC Collections

Wiley-Blackwell and JISC Collections have concluded a new three year NESLi2 agreement for the higher education and further education communities in the UK. This agreement offers libraries access to more than 1,500 journals on Wiley Online Library

Eugene O'Neill play acquired by Yale University

A play by US author Eugene O'Neill that was feared to be lost has been acquired by a Yale University library. The one-act play, titled Exorcism, is based on the Nobel Prize-winning author's suicide attempt when he was in his mid-twenties. It premiered in New York City in 1920, but O'Neill later called back the script and destroyed all the copies. But one copy was found in the papers of the writer Philip Yordan, who apparently received it as a gift. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, which already has a collection of O'Neill's papers, said it bought the faded, slightly discoloured typescript for an undisclosed amount

Arctic Convoys, 1941-45 (UK)

The National Maritime Museum marks the 70th anniversary of the first Allied Arctic convoys to Russia with a free exhibition telling the story of this gruelling campaign, said to have been described by Winston Churchill as 'the worst journey in the world.' Arctic Convoys 1941–1945 includes contemporary photographs, paintings by war artists and clothing worn by sailors. Some of the striking images featured in the exhibition have never been on display before

DigCurV newsletter - October 2011 - Issue 1

The Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe has announced the first issue of the DigCurV newsletter, 'Ahead of the CurV.' The newsletter is one of the ways in which the project is reaching out to people working in the library, museum, archive and cultural activities sector with an interest or involvement in digital curation, digital preservation and training

NISO Webinar: New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional Online Catalogs

NISO Webinar: New Discovery Tools: Moving Beyond Traditional Online Catalogs - November 9, 2011 - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

Updated: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974

Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press has announced the addition of over 8,000 new pages and more than 1,000 new sources to its collection, The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974

Book Grocer: 19-25 October 2011

Book Grocer: 19-25 October 2011 - The week ahead in literary London from the Londonist blog. #books #London

Oracle buys Endeca

Oracle has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Pew Research Center announces new research initiative to study the changing role of public libraries and library users in the digital age

The Pew Research Center has announced plans to study how the role of public libraries is changing in the digital age and how library patrons' needs and expectations are shifting. The new research is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a 3-year, $1.4 million investment and will be conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Above the Fold - September 12, 2011

Above the Fold is a Web-based newsletter published by OCLC Research. It has been developed to serve a broad international readership from libraries, archives and museums - September 12 2011 - Vol. 4, No. 32 now available

Leading Brazilian mathematical research institute and society expand their cooperation with Springer

Springer, the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and the Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (SBM) have announced an agreement for the publication of six Selected Works of outstanding Brazilian mathematicians. The first volume, Selected Works of Manfredo do Carmo, is scheduled to appear in 2012. The subsequent five titles will be dedicated to the outstanding work of Leopoldo Nachbin, Djairo de Figueiredo, Ricardo Mañé, Maurício Peixoto and Jacob Palis

Julian Barnes wins Man Booker Prize 2011

Julian Barnes has been named the winner of this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Sense of an Ending, published by Jonathan Cape. London-based Barnes has been the bookies' favourite to win since the shortlist announcement on 6 September. The source of the description of the prize as 'posh bingo', Barnes has been shortlisted three times in the past for Arthur and George (2005), England, England (1998) and Flaubert's Parrot (1984)

The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre

The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre is the first reference work embracing both rural and urban modes of Indian theatre spanning its entire history of over 2000 years. Now accessible online for the first time as part of Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf, this comprehensive title consists of 750 entries encompassing forms and personalities across India geographically and historically, in twenty-two languages, according to their contribution to the tradition. In keeping with the highest standards of international reference publishing, the editor has compiled and edited this material from 63 contributors. The theatre defined here spans not just conventional proscenium drama, and devotional and secular rural performing genres, but also musical forms such as Kirtan, dance theatre such as Kathakali, and oral narrative such as Katha Kalakshepam, all of which contain theatres' most fundamental element

Video: Authors use Saskatoon Public Library (Canada)

Authors talk about how they use the Saskatoon Public Library system:

WorldCat Local adds availability on brief results, more local, more mobile and more content

The latest enhancements for WorldCat Local includes availability on brief results, Local Holdings Record searching, article links and branch information for mobile views and more

Saskatchewan Library Week 2011 (Canada)

The theme for the 2011 Saskatchewan Library Week is Read Local. Eating local produce and buying local merchandise have recently become a national trend, so why not try reading local as well? Saskatchewan libraries have unique collections relating to all things Saskatchewan, from local authors, artists, and athletes, to local history and genealogy - October 17-24, 2011

Learning on Screen Awards 2012

The Learning on Screen Awards celebrate and reward excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research. The Awards are open to broadcast, non-broadcast and multimedia entries, from broadcasters, production companies, education providers and museum personnel, amongst others. Postgraduate, undergraduate and further education students can also enter via the Student Production Awards categories

Open Access Week 2011

Open Access Week 2011 is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research - October 24-30, 2011

Academic Video Online - Alexander Street Press

Libraries with access to Alexander Street Press video collections can cross-search all of them in one place, with the new Academic Video Online platform. The new video cross-search tool is free to users of Alexander Street video

SUNCAT User Satisfaction Survey 2011-12 (UK)

Last year we asked you about your use of SUNCAT. We thank all of you who responded to this survey, the results have fed back into the service. This year we are asking some slightly different questions and value any responses we receive so that we can continue to evaluate and develop SUNCAT to meet our users' needs and expectations

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

proyecto, progreso, arquitectura

Journal of Diabetes Mellitus

Encuentro

Iranian Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases

Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry

Journal of Quantum Information Science

Open Journal of Acoustics

Open Journal of Internal Medicine

Open Journal of Soil Science

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #170

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #170. "This week's initial episode brings a look at happenings on LISWire and LISEvents while also remarking upon a recent thread on SERIALST." Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 17, No. 5, October 17, 2011

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 17, No. 5, October 17, 2011 is now available. Contents:

# Global Witness
# International Committee of the Red Cross
# WRAP: Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production

UKSG E-Resources for Further Education: Manchester

UKSG E-Resources for Further Education: Manchester - 8 December 2011 - This seminar will address the issues and practicalities of providing and managing effective high quality e-resources collections within Further Education libraries. There will be opportunities to hear best practice case studies in managing e-resources with a particular focus on marketing techniques and strategies from current practitioners in colleges, as well as learning the latest about JISC's eBooks for FE project and the opportunities offered by the Library catalogue and other discovery tools

Survey of Private LOCKSS Networks in UK Academic Libraries

EDINA is carrying out a survey to understand community demand and requirements for setting up a UK Private LOCKSS Network. This activity follows interest expressed at the UK LOCKSS Alliance meeting held in York on 10th May 2011

Toronto Council must reject devastating cuts proposed by City Librarian (Canada)

City Council should reject a sweeping menu of service cuts proposed by Jane Pyper, the chief bureaucrat at the Toronto Public Library, because it will significantly diminish service and undermine what has been widely recognized as one of the best library systems in the world, according to the Toronto Public Library Workers Union. The proposed cuts, which in 2012 would amount to more than 10% of the TPL's current budget, will be considered on Monday by the Library Board, the majority of whose members were recently hand-picked by Mayor Ford. Ultimately, the proposed cuts must be accepted or rejected by City Council - CNW

Pearson and Google launch OpenClass

Pearson has teamed up with Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with advanced social networking and community-building, and an open architecture that allows instructors to import whatever material they want, from e-books to YouTube videos

British Library's Historic Ethnographic Recordings receives UNESCO accolade

UNESCO has officially recognised The British Library's Historic Ethnographic Recordings as a collection of global significance and outstanding universal value. UNESCO's International Advisory Committee has agreed to include The Historic Ethnographic Recordings in their Memory of the World International Register - akin to the list of World Heritage Sites for documents and archives

TWIL #56: Jan Holmquist

TWIL #56: Jan Holmquist - Libraries as booksellers, gamification and library innovation from Denmark with Jan Holmquist

Celebrating the bicentenary of the National Society (UK)

The National Society for the Promotion of the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church was founded on 16 October 1811 to promote elementary education and fund the building of schools across England and Wales. The National Society, as it was known, supported local initiatives to build church schools and over time became involved in other aspects of education - such as setting up teacher training colleges, publishing school books and providing equipment for schools

Thomson Reuters launches Westlaw Gulf

Thomson Reuters has announced that it has launched Westlaw Gulf, a new legal research service created specifically for the legal professionals in the Middle East. The new Westlaw Gulf service offers a full suite of legal research tools and an unrivaled database of legislation and cases for lawyers operating across the Gulf region. The service is built upon state-of-the-art Westlaw technology, and modeled after market leading Thomson Reuters legal information services in the United Kingdom, United States, India, Asia and South America

Nominations sought for Kilgour research award

Nominations are invited for the 2012 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. and LITA. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2011. The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to the development of information technologies, in particular research which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information or how information and data are manipulated and managed. The Kilgour award consists of $2,000 cash, an award citation and an expense paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference (airfare and two nights lodging)

EBSCO Publishing acquires Ergonomics Abstracts from Taylor & Francis

EBSCO Publishing has acquired Ergonomics Abstracts™ from Taylor & Francis. The database is focused on ergonomics and human factors. Ergonomics Abstracts provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value to academic libraries and research institutes as well as ergonomists, health and safety specialists, allied health, design professional and others

University of Miami Libraries join HathiTrust

The University of Miami has become a member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. William Walker, Dean and University Librarian, announced today that the University's HathiTrust membership will give the UM community access to an additional 2.6 million public domain books published before 1923. The volumes were primarily scanned from the collections of American and British research libraries, including The University of Michigan, Stanford, the New York Public Library, Oxford University, and Harvard, primarily as part of the Google Books Project

New version of the Home Children database (1869-1930) (Canada)

Library and Archives Canada has announced the release of a new version of the online database Home Children (1869-1930). More than 20,000 names of children, who came to Canada between 1925 and 1932, were added to the extended version. The names were extracted from passengers lists held at Library and Archives Canada

Podcast: The 1911 Census: a vision of England

The 1911 census was the 12th national census of the United Kingdom, and in many ways it represented a watershed in the history of census taking in this country - it was the first to use technology and was by far the most intrusive. The census captured a picture of society at the time before the Upstairs Downstairs world was about to be turned upside down. It records Britain's 'lost generation' - the 885,000 men who would lose their lives fighting in the war and it also adds a fascinating insight into one of the most important issues of the day - the campaign to give women the vote. In this talk, David Annal introduces the 1911 census and shows what it reveals about society at the time. Dave Annal first developed an interest in family history in the late 1970s when he began researching his own family. He became a professional family historian in 1990 and, from 1998 to 2009 was employed by The National Archives, working at the Family Records Centre and Kew. He has written a number of books including Easy Family History and, more recently with Peter Christian, Census: the Expert Guide. He was a regular columnist in Ancestors Magazine and gives regular talks on all aspects of family history research. Dave is now working as a freelance researcher

Project Information Literacy Research Report: "Balancing Act" - October 12, 2011

The paper presents findings from 560 interviews with undergraduates on 10 campuses
distributed across the US, as part of Project Information Literacy (PIL). Overall, the findings suggest that students use a "less is more" approach to manage and control all of the IT devices and information systems available to them while they are in the library during the final weeks of the term

Cesar Chavez Library expansion marks turnaround for Salinas (USA)

Six years ago, the city of Salinas faced closing its three libraries because of money shortages - a potentially huge civic embarrassment for the home of acclaimed author John Steinbeck. Now, Salinas is embarking on a $2.9million construction project - partially paid for by sales taxes approved by city voters in November 2005 to save libraries and other public services - to greatly expand Cesar Chavez Library, the city's most heavily used branch. The project, for which the City Council gave the final OK in September, will add 6,000 square feet to the existing 9,100-square-foot East Salinas library. There will be a new literacy center, new entrance, a new check-out space, a local history room for the Alisal community, a new community meeting room, new restrooms and an outdoor performance courtyard

HathiTrust Digital Library - Update on September 2011 Activities

HathiTrust Digital Library - Update on September 2011 Activities: