LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #223

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #223. "This week's program has not one but two features from the United States Department of Agriculture that may prove useful to reference librarians and selectors. In the essay we talk about the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 and how it may bode ill for the Internet not to mention that NPR reports about such as well". Previous Podcasts/Programs can be found here

JSTOR launches Access for Alumni

The new Alumni Access program is an important step in our ongoing efforts to extend access to scholarship to individuals around the world. It enables eligible higher education institutions to provide their alumni with full access to the same set of archive collection content available to current students and faculty. The launch of the Alumni Access program follows a successful 3-year pilot, which helped JSTOR and our partner libraries understand the implementation issues and develop an approach that is valuable and sustainable

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - November 30 2012

The November 30, 2012 edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers

Current Cites - November 2012

Current Cites (edited by Roy Tennant) - November 2012 is now available is now available

Routledge to publish ALIA journals beginning in 2013

Taylor & Francis Group and the Australian Library and Information Association have announced a new publishing partnership for 2013. Beginning January 1, 2013 Taylor & Francis will publish and distribute ALIA's two highly regarded journals, The Australian Library Journal and Australian Academic & Research Libraries under the Routledge imprint

#uklibchat: Innovative use of technology in libraries

#uklibchat: Innovative use of technology in libraries - 4 December, 2012 - 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm GMT

Nominations open for the 2013 CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award

Now in its 22nd year, the award organised by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals' Community, Diversity and Equality Group, highlights and rewards partnership projects that change lives, bring people together and demonstrate innovation and creativity. One of the profession's leading accolades, the award is open to all UK library and information services and could include collaborations outside of the sector. Recent winners include, North Yorkshire County Council & North Yorkshire Music Zone's 'Library Songwriters: Skipton Rewind Club', Kent Library and Archives 'Making the Difference: Opportunities for Adults with Learning Difficulties' and The City of Edinburgh's 'HMP Edinburgh Library Partnership'

Bess of Hardwick's letters at The National Archives (UK)

The correspondence of Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth, countess of Shrewsbury) will be explored in a new exhibition at The UK National Archives - Unsealed: The Letters of Bess of Hardwick

New Doncaster parish records to search at findmypast.co.uk

findmypast.co.uk has just published 543,000 new parish records for Doncaster

Springer to publish book series with the Portuguese Centro Internacional de Matemática

Springer and the Centro Internacional de Matemática of Portugal will work together to publish a new book series CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences. The first book will evolve from the international conference "Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change" which takes place in March 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference is part of the UNESCO-supported world-wide program "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013."

The Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World Newsletter - November 2012

"Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World is a free newsletter published on a regular basis by Library Archives Canada that explores and highlights issues pertaining to government and recordkeeping practices in the public and private sector. This collaborative tool was designed to help readers stay up-to-date with the latest news, events, trends, products and publications in the field of public administration and recordkeeping" - November 2012 issue now available

Yiddish goes digital

An innovative new project is seeking Yiddish-speakers to help create an archive of journals and newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two archival repositories - the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in the United States and the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom - are jointly digitizing more than 1,500 digitized pages from journals and newspapers originally written for working-class Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe

Blackheath Village library is saved by City bankers (UK)

A library closed by Lewisham Council has re-opened as a charity run community centre this week, mostly funded by £500,000 of donations from City bankers. Blackheath Village library was one of five libraries to controversially have its funding removed in 2011 as part of the council's £88m Government imposed budget cuts. As the building was leased, rather than owned by the council, it was the only library forced to vacate its premises

Free booklet 'Salvaging library and archive collections'

Knowing how to respond to water or fire damage is an essential part of emergency preparedness. This free booklet describes a range of salvage options and techniques applicable to library and archive materials and explains how to mount a salvage operation - The British Library

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 18, No. 4, November 26, 2012

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 18, No. 4, November 26, 2012 is now available. Contents:

Clarence Darrow Digital Collection
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
Reaching Critical Will

ACRL Report: Academic Libraries and Research Data Services

ACRL has released a new research report, "Academic Libraries and Research Data Services: Current Practices and Plans for the Future" to provide a baseline assessment of the current state of and future plans for research data services in academic libraries

StatsWales

StatsWales is a free-to-use service that allows you to view, manipulate, create and download tables from Welsh data

New Hampshire Historical Society works to digitize entire catalogue

Bill Dunlap, executive director of the New Hampshire Historical Society, wants to make the past easier to find. So ambitious is Dunlap's plan of digitizing the society's massive amounts of information and that of the state's smaller, local historical organizations, that he dared mention drawing young people away from reality TV. "We're going to put John Stark up against the Kardashian sisters, mano-a-mano," said Dunlap, only half kidding. "At least now we'll have a fighting chance. My predecessor once said that if you're not available on the internet, you don't exist." Following the lead of his counterpart in Maine, Dunlap is raising money for a plan to one day make digital images of everything in the museum and library. That means 31,000 museum pieces, 250,000 photos and 2 million pages of manuscripts. "It's a big undertaking," Dunlap said

Long lost diary of boy, 14, gives a snapshot of life in Fakenham in 1941 (UK)

The diary of Frederick Parker, who was evacuated to Fakenham from London, tells of his school days, his work as a part-time delivery boy for the local greengrocer and mentions national and local news events of the time. It also gives an account of the bombing of The Salvation Army Temple in Fakenham on May 7, 1941. The diary was discovered by Mr Parker's widow Joan just a few days after he died, aged 85, on New Year's Eve last year. Mrs Parker, 74, a former librarian who lives in Rochester, Kent, sent it to Fakenham Library and it was passed on to the Fakenham Community Archive group. The group has published word-for-word copies of the diary in booklets which are now on sale

New titles in PMC (PubMed Central)

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease

Indian Dermatology Online Journal

Iranian Journal of Public Health and Iranian Journal of Psychiatry

Case Reports in Genetics

Influenza Research and Treatment