"The Virtual Librarian" by Theodore Rockwell

"The Virtual Librarian, a new novel by Theodore Rockwell, is a surprising departure from the previous books of the award-winning author of "The Rickover Effect" and "Creating the New World." One of the departures is that initial promotion efforts will be carried out in "Second Life" (SL), a thriving virtual community in which ten million people buy virtual real estate, build virtual houses and businesses, pay off (real) mortgages, raise (virtual) pets and have love affairs. "Where better to find potential readers of a book on a virtual librarian?" asks Rockwell"

JISC Collections' Publisher Workshop

JISC Collections' Publisher Workshop: Meeting the challenges faced by the universities and maximising the take-up of your product - 29 November 2007 - London, UK

Veropedia

"Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited, The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information"

22nd Annual AIIP Conference

22nd Annual Association of Independent Information Professionals Conference - April 30 to May 4 2008 - Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Latanya Jenkins selected as the RUSA 2008 Emerging Leader

Latanya N. Jenkins, visiting assistant professor of Library Science, Diversity Fellow, Archives and Special Collection, Purdue University, West Lafayette (Ind.), has been selected as the 2008 Emerging Leader of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)

LingoZ

"LingoZ - an online community building the world's largest dictionary. You can look up more than 4,500,000 terms, vote for definitions, post comments or add your own terms, definitions and glossaries, and meet people from all over the globe interested in translation and language"

Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery

Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery - 7-11 April 2008, London, UK

ProQuest's Colonial State Papers now available

"ProQuest's Colonial State Papers are now available. Through a partnership with The National Archives in the UK, ProQuest is offering digital access to Colonial State Papers. Up until now, researchers wishing to study these documents in full colour have had to visit The National Archives. This exciting new project vastly improves access to these valuable hand-written materials, offering new insight into British trade, history and overseas expansion between the 16th and 18th centuries"

Communicating Astronomy with the Public

The first issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal, a free peer-reviewed journal for astronomy communicators, is online

This Week in LibraryBlogLand

This Week in LibraryBlogLand - week ending October 28, 2007

The InfoToday Blog at Internet Librarian

The InfoToday Blog is reporting on the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, California

Carnival of the Infosciences #82

Carnival of the Infosciences #82 hosted by Young Librarian. Previous Carnivals can be found here

UNESCO launches new Literacy Portal

"In support of its efforts to achieve global literacy, UNESCO has launched its new Literacy Portal. The Portal consolidates UNESCO's literacy programme and serves as a gateway to sharing information on projects and activities all around the world. The Portal aims to enhance UNESCO's coordination of Education for All (EFA), the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) and the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE), a 10-year global strategic framework for achieving UNLD goals"

LILAC 2008

LILAC 2008: The Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference will take place on March 17-19 at Liverpool John Moores University, England

The Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures

"The Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures creates a web presentation of the full content of 86 neighborhood planning surveys prepared and published by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. These reports contain descriptions of current conditions of housing stock; population trends; property turnover; public transportation; community activity. Recommendations are made for future action. The project will facilitate university and public research on Philadelphia's architectural and social environment by providing access to a body of material whose content is of current and future interest but whose printed format is ephemeral and subject to physical deterioration and loss"

First Monday - October 2007

First Monday - Volume 12, Number 10, 1 October 2007 now available

WILU 2008

The 37th Annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use will be held at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada from May 14-16, 2008

Ezclopedia

"Ezclopedia is an online, knowledge sharing website that provides a better alternative for qualified individuals to share their knowledge and provide free, reliable, trustworthy information and get the credit and revenue sharing they deserve for their sincere, knowledgeable efforts"

Germany's Library of the Year

A small, closed-to-the-public library at a prison in Münster, in west-central Germany, has received the national Library of the Year award

London Transport Museum re-opens 22 November 2007

"The London Transport Museum re-opens 22 November 2007 after a two year, GBP22 million refurbishment and redesign project. It will tell the story of the development of London, its transport systems and the people who travelled and worked on them over the last 200 years. As well as exploring the past, the new Museum will also look at future transport developments and how transport has shaped five other world cities - Delhi, New York, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. Stunning new galleries will feature original artworks and advertising posters, and explore the extraordinary design heritage of London's transport system, as well as London transport at war and the expansion of the capital through the development of the London Underground"