The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, has announced the new Recipe Index Search. The search will allow anyone to locate more than 20,000 recipes included in the cookbooks currently available for purchase at the GRHC website. For example, one can locate 34 recipe titles for Knoepfla Soup and 91 recipe titles for Strudel

The August 20-27 issue of ResearchBuzz by Tara Calishain has been released

All Frocked Up: Glimpses of Cross-Dressing in Saskatchewan deals with the history of female and male impersonation, performed as entertainment in Saskatchewan. The idea arose from a project documenting drag in Saskatoon, part of an ongoing effort to preserve the history of Saskatchewan’s gay and lesbian communities. Background research led to the discovery of older traditions of 'theatrical' cross-dressing in Saskatchewan that seemed unconnected or only distantly related to more recent gay drag performances. Given the social conservatism of our traditionally agrarian province, it initially surprised us that our forebears should have been so taken with entertainments not only prohibited by the Bible, but long colored by associations with sexual aberration and misogyny - presented by The Saskatchewan Council of Archives and Archivists

Copyrightlaws.com has announced its second offering of a unique online course on Digital Licensing - September 22 2003 to November 20 2003 - Fee: US$ 99.00 - The course is designed for information professionals who wish to learn more about licensing digital and online content - such as periodicals, databases and images - without attending an in-person seminar. The target audience includes librarians, archivists, publishers, photographers, web site owners, content developers, and those in museums, educational institutions and governments

Bernie Sloan has updated his Digital Reference Services Bibliography which has more than 600 entries related to the provision of reference services involving collaboration between library user and librarian in a computer-based medium. These services can utilize various media, including e-mail, Web forms, chat, video, Web customer call center software, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), etc.

The Summer 2003 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available

Michael Millgate (author of "Thomas Hardy: A Biography" and co-editor of "The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy") has made available on-line his attempted reconstruction of Thomas Hardy's dispersed library. As he states in the introduction to his text: The aim of this project has been to reconstruct as fully as possible the contents of Thomas Hardy's library at Max Gate, his Dorchester home, at the time of his death in January 1928. In so doing it seeks to provide an accessible resource for scholars and general readers interested in the specific books that Hardy owned, in the overall character of his library, and in the somewhat melancholy story of that library's dispersal

IIGR/CNFS Documents Database - The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR), in cooperation with the Canadian Network of Federalism Studies (CNFS), maintains an online collection of government documents relating to federalism and regional and global multilevel governance. The documents are all in PDF format and cover a broad range of policy areas both in Canada and internationally

Wiley InterScience has launched its new user interface

NFAIS Humanities Roundtable 2003: Database Producers in the Humanities: Roundtable II - Sponsored by The American Theological Library Association and the The J. Paul Getty Trust - October 20, 2003 - Chicago, IL

PLoS Biology, the first journal from the Public Library of Science, has launched a website with a sneak preview of its October 2003 debut. PLoS Biology is also being archived at PubMedCentral

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the joint publication with The Sheridan Press of Metadata Demystified: A Guide for Publishers. The guide presents an overview of evolving metadata conventions in publishing, as well as related initiatives designed to standardize how metadata is structured and disseminated online. Focusing on strategic rather than technical considerations, Metadata Demystified offers insight into how book and journal publishers can streamline metadata operations in their companies and leverage metadata for added exposure in digital media including the Web

Compiled and continuously updated by the editors of Genetic Engineering News, the GEN Biotechnology Database is a feature-rich center for biotechnology information

The Music Information Retrieval Annotated Bibliography project (aka MIRBIB) has undergone some updating and housecleaning. There are now 321 records in the collection and counting. For those new to Music IR research, there is also a browsable collection of "background readings" that might prove useful

U.S. libraries of all types are invited to apply for a $5,000 Scholastic Library/Grolier National Library Week Grant for the best public awareness campaign during National Library Week (April 18-24, 2004) that promotes Equity of Access. The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing and its publishing imprint Grolier and is administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). This year's application deadline is October 20, 2003

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) and the NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure, US Geological Survey, US Dept. of the Interior) have launched the Biocomplexity Thesaurus. This free, Web-based thesaurus is a major new resource for the biocomplexity and bioinformatics communities and for the public-at-large

The Online Policy Group is discussing Bridging the Digital Divides, Equal Access to the Internet on Techsoup's Digital Divide Forum, including topics such as class-based disparity in available technology, the role race, ethnicity, and religion play in the digital divide, women and technology, the impact of Internet blocking software on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and access to technology for people with disabilities

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries has announced the relaunching/newly-revised version of Early Las Vegas, a digital exhibition using historical photographs, video and audio clips, and research collections contained in the Special Collections Department of the UNLV Libraries

Nylink Information Showcase - The Holiday Inn Syracuse/Liverpool, Syracuse, New York - October 16, 2003

Emerald is providing free access to Structural Survey and Journal of Documentation for one week starting August 26, 2003