Among the recent acquisitions of the Library of Congress is the world's largest and most spectacular private collection of original cartoon art. Assembled over the course of sixty years by J. Arthur Wood, Jr., the Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon more than doubles the Library's existing holdings in this area. A true "Gift to the Nation," it contains an estimated 36,000 works by more than 2,800 artists, and includes a comprehensive array of political cartoons, caricatures, comic strips, humor cartoons, illustrations, and animation cels. Virtually every aspect of the genre is represented by leading creators, making the Library's cartoon collections both comprehensive and unrivaled in the United States

Open Access Now - August 25 issue now available

Gateshead Council's new library web site has gone live, offering a host of innovative services online. iKnow online is a new-style UK public library website. It's aim is to encourage library users to interact with their library service and with other library users, by offering innovative information services and easy to use communication channels, including Forums, Conference Rooms and Livehelp

Submissions are sought for a special edition of Journal of Digital Information on new applications and contexts for Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS). This includes but is not restricted to novel applications and representations of KOS in advanced digital library (DL) and semantic Web environments. Submission deadline is 7 October 2003

In anticipation of the Centennial of the Journal of Biological Chemistry in 2005, all back issues now available online. The entire archive, 1905-2002, is available, searchable and free

The American Printing History Association Annual Conference - New York - 24-25 October 2003. Focuses on recent and innovative research in printing history and the book arts, work that makes use of new methods of study or interpretation, that benefits from newly available primary sources, and that treats overlooked or forgotten persons, techniques, or design elements

The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer - identify well-known people with the same first name. This time, the name is Robert - or Bob. Try to guess who they are from these descriptions, and then see how you did by visiting the answers page

1. 19th-century Scottish author who wrote "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "Treasure Island"
2. American singer, born 1941, composer of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Masters of War"
3. American actor and director, born 1937, directed the films "A River Runs Through It" and "Quiz Show"
4. 18th-century Scottish poet who wrote "Auld Lang Syne"
5. Younger brother of an American president, who served as attorney general during his brother's presidency and was assassinated in 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan
6. 19th-century English poet who wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "My Last Duchess"
7. American engineer, born 1934, who invented a synthesiser which is named after him
8. American poet (1874-1963), author of poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "The Death of a Hired Man"
9. German composer (1810-1856) who wrote "Carnaval", "Papillons" and the Spring Symphony
10. British musician, born 1945, a founder member of Soft Machine, his solo albums include "End of an Ear" and "Ruth is Stranger than Richard"

GeoLib is a research program of the Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center, which is within the the Institute of Science and Public Affairs at The Florida State University. Its mission is to improve access to digital geographic information for library planning and to apply marketing research theories in solving real-world library problems

The NEO Information Centre was established by the UK Government in response to the recommendations of the Task Force Report on potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects to provide accurate and level-headed information on Near Earth Objects to the public and media and to support the international NEO science community

Info@UK - September 2003 newsletter is now available

Selecting Electronic Products: a beginners guide - 22 October 2003, London - This workshop is designed to assist participants to develop the skills and confidence needed to select and exploit electronic information products. The course will include some practical exercises

The Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards are given for excellence in the publication of catalogs and brochures that accompany exhibitions of library and archival materials, as well as for electronic exhibitions of such materials. The judging of these catalogs, brochures, and electronic exhibitions is carried out by the Exhibition Awards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS). The announcement of the best catalogs, brochures, and electronic exhibitions selected from the pool of current Leab Award submissions will be made in the spring of 2004, to be followed by the awarding of certificates to the winning institutions at the 2004 American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida

ETD 2004: Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Distributing knowledge worldwide through better scholarly communication - June 3-5, 2004 - University of Kentucky, Lexington

Library and Archives Canada has announced the redesign of the website for Canadian Subject Headings, offering free, up-to-date access to over 6000 subject authority records in the English language, providing in-depth coverage of Canadian topics, including those recently in the news. Coverage focuses on the Canadian cultural, economic, historical, literary, political and social experience

The University libraries of Cornell, Gottingen, and Michigan have announced the first public availability of a significant body of mathematical monographs with access provided through a distributed full text search protocol. The virtual collection, comprising more than 2,000 volumes of significant historical mathematical material (nearly 600,000 pages), resides at the three separate institutions and is provided through interfaces to the three entirely different software systems

Westminster Union List of Periodicals has now been converted into a database and is searchable online

The National Preservation Office is holding a workshop for potential library and archive users of its Preservation Assessment Survey. The workshop will be held at the British Library, London. The cost will be £50 plus VAT, which includes refreshments. Lunch is not provided but participants can use the British Library's restaurant. Numbers are limited to fifteen. The workshop will cover sampling techniques, assessment methods and use of the supporting database

Palgrave Macmillan and the Berkeley Electronic Press offer a combined portfolio of 46 peer-reviewed e-journals (35 e-titles), in all territories except USA and Canada

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

Version 50 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,950 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet