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Government of Canada Web Archive launched

"The Library and Archives of Canada Act received Royal Assent on April 22, 2004. For the purposes of preservation it allows Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to collect a representative sample of Canadian websites. To meet its new mandate, LAC began to harvest the web domain of the Federal Government of Canada starting in December 2005. As resources permit, this harvesting activity will be undertaken on a semi-annual basis. The website data which is harvested is stored in the Government of Canada Web Archive (GC WA). Client access to the content of the GC WA is provided through searching by keyword, by department name, and by URL. It is also possible to search by specific format type, e.g. .pdf. At the time of its launch in Fall 2007, approximately 100 million digital objects (over 4 terabytes) of archived Federal Government website data was made accessible via the LAC website"

The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship seeks reviewers

The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship is seeking reviewers for upcoming issues

'Just do it!' urges Lynne Brindley

Watch highlights from Lynne Brindley's plenary session at the CILIP Umbrella conference 2007. Lynne talks about the challenges facing the profession and changes that social media and web 2.0 brings. She addresses the opportunities, urges her fellow professionals to embrace new ways of using technology and to 'just do it!'

The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile

"On 21 November 2007, the British Library publishes a facsimile of one of its greatest treasures, the much loved 14th century Holkham Bible picture book. This beautifully illustrated manuscript has been faithfully recreated in full colour and is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Michelle Brown, leading expert on illuminated manuscripts"

Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries 2008 Conference

Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries 2008 Conference: The Explosion of E-Resources - February 25-26, 2008, London, UK

Register of Preservation Surrogates Review Survey

"As part of an initiative to promote the use of surrogates as a preservation tool, the British Library is reviewing the Register of Preservation Surrogates. This is a union catalogue whose records relate to preservation standard surrogates of printed books (monographs and serials) which are available for reproduction through the holding institution. The principal surrogate format is microform (film and fiche) and there are currently over 21,000 records in the database. Your views and opinions about the present and future use and/or relevance of such a database are keenly sought and would be greatly appreciated. The survey is in the form of an anonymous online survey, which takes only about 5 minutes to complete"

The Digital Text Community forum

"The Digital Text Community forum is for serious, in-depth discussion and information exchange, technical and non-technical, of the digitization of 'paper' publications, such as books, periodicals, etc. The focus is heavily on public domain texts (the co-founders' general interest), but not limited to that. (Note this group does not promote nor encourage unauthorized digitization of copyrighted works.)"

Launch of Women and Education digitization initiative

The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, in conjunction with the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg Archives and the Service d'archives de la Société historique de Saint-Boniface (SASHSB), have announced the launch of its most recent digitization initiative: Women and Education

Course: Library of Congress subject headings

This one-day course provides a background to the origin and evolution of the Library of Congress format, with exercises in building simple and complex subject headings, the significance of pattern headings and using LCSH in MARC 21 bibliographic format - 23 January 2008 - London, UK

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review

Palgrave Macmillan and the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association) announce collaboration to publish The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review as of 2008

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2collab from Elsevier

"2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resources - such as blogs, websites, research articles, and more. Then, in private or public groups you can decide to share your bookmarks with others - stimulating debate and discussion. Members of groups can evaluate these resources (by rating bookmarks, tagging and adding comments), or add their own bookmarks. You can browse public groups and bookmarks, but must register (your name and email address) to access the full functionality – such as creating groups, adding comments, and adding bookmarks." 2collab is a free service from Elsevier, initiated by a collaboration between Scopus and ScienceDirect

British Museum collection database

British Museum collection database, when complete, will contain a record of every object in the Museum collection. This is the first release and contains records for the collection of two-dimensional works (almost entirely drawings, prints and paintings) from all over the world. New records and images are being added every week as work on the database continues

2008 New York Book Festival call for entries

The 2008 New York Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program celebrating books that deserve greater recognition from the world's publishing capital. The 2008 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children's books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, comics/'zines, e-books, poetry, wild card, unpublished stories, science fiction, horror, photography/art, romance and biography/autobiography works

Lloyd's List unveils ePaper

Lloyd's List has unveiled ePaper, a fully featured digital edition, available to subscribers and new readers on a 'pay as you go'. The ePaper replicates the newspaper pages, allowing subscribers to get the same experience as readers of the newspaper edition. But it also offers additional functionality, including the ability to email and print stories and to save them to a clippings folder, enabling readers to compile their own limited archive of Lloyd's List content

Oxford Journals "My Account"

With Oxford Journals "My Account", the new online registration service, you can now access free sample copies of over 200 academic journals all in one convenient place

The Scitation Library Service Center

The Scitation Library Service Center, from The American Institute of Physics, provides librarians with the tools they need to administer the online journals to which they subscribe

University of Wisconsin Press Journals Online

University of Wisconsin Press has announced the launch of the University of Wisconsin Press Journals Online. The journals are currently available on a free trial basis until January 16, 2008

Springer titles to be preserved by Portico

Portico has announced the signing of an agreement with Springer to preserve 824 titles from its online journals collection. Additional journals published with partner societies and other third parties will be incorporated into the agreement over time