Public Library Association - 10th National Conference - February 24-28, 2004 - Seattle, Washington

Recall is a search engine at the Internet Archive that indexes the text of over 11 billion pages. The archive has pages dating way back to 1996 through the present day

The Thomson Corporation has announced that it has acquired Techstreet, Inc., a digital content delivery company that provides full-text industry standards and specifications to engineers, researchers, and technical and information professionals worldwide. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed

A new discussion list, LIS-UKBIBS, is now available for UK cataloguers, indexers and all those interested in the application of bibliographic standards and metadata in the UK library environment. Supported on the jiscmail list service, LIS-UKBIBS has replaced the old LIS-UKMARC list

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection has launched its unique collection of 247 journals from 25 diverse publishers. The ALJC enables small and medium-sized publishers to package their journals with a single umbrella license, pricing model and delivery platform. The new online collection is the result of a unique collaboration between the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, Swets Blackwell and Extenza. Swets Blackwell has orchestrated ALJC's complex licensing and legal structure and also serves as its worldwide sales, marketing and access channel

Dialog has announced that it has bolstered its popular Dialog Company Profiles service with an improved search interface, more robust navigation features and an expanded roster of authoritative reference sources

Esquire Cover Gallery - contains 857 magazine covers, dating from 1933

The August 31, 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

Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 108 - September 2003 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University

ASSIGN News from Social Science Libraries and Projects - September 2003 now available

London's Museums Archives and Libraries have collated an events list to advertise and promote the wide range of Black History Month celebrations, events and activities taking place in the London region from October 2003 onwards. Over the past few months over 150 libraries, archives/record offices, museums, galleries and heritage sites throughout London have sent in details about forthcoming events – such as local history talks, seminars, workshops, exhibitions/displays, book/poetry readings, music and drama performances, etc. – organised to celebrate the history and cultural heritage of Britain's Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities over the centuries

The Informed Librarian Online is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 275 titles - valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters. Free subscription available.

Swets Blackwell has announced that it plans to change its company name to Swets Information Services in December 2003. The new name will be officially launched during the Online Information 2003 conference and exhibition held in London, UK on December 2 - 4 2003

The LearnAlberta.ca web site supports lifelong learning by providing quality online resources to the Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) community in Alberta. Students, teachers and parents will find multimedia learning resources that directly relate to the Alberta programs of study. LearnAlberta.ca is a safe, reliable and innovative collection of learning resources developed by Alberta Learning in consultation with stakeholders

Emerald is providing free access to Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials & Journal of Property Investment & Finance until September 7 2003

A National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel recently recommended a new Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program, which offers a chance to reformulate many processes of scientific investigation around the unique opportunities of information technology, and for libraries to contribute to scholarly activity in science and engineering research in new ways

Spectrum is a programme run by the American Library Association with the aim of providing 50 bursaries each year to people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds to study library and information science

The CAIS/ACSI conference will be held June 3-5, 2004, and is part of the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which runs from May 29 to June 5, 2004 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication - Towards a New Publishing Environment - Lund 26-28 April 2004

Last week's brain-teaser was about the largest things in the world. Now here's a quiz to test your knowledge of the smallest examples of things in various categories. Answers are here.

1. What is the world's smallest continent?
2. What is the word for the smallest unit of data which a computer system can handle?
3. Which is the smallest state of the United States?
4. What phrase is used for a grand piano of the smallest size?
5. What is the word for the smallest number of members of a committee which must be present before a meeting can be held?
6. What is the world's smallest ocean?
7. What is the word for the smallest element of the image displayed on a computer or TV screen, consisting of a single dot?
8. "MLD" is an abbreviation in medicine for the smallest quantity of a toxic substance or infectious agent that is found to be lethal. What does "MLD" stand for?
9. What is the world's smallest republic?
10. In linguistics, what is the word for the smallest unit of meaning in a language?