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- One of the central conceits of the neocon architects who drove the war on Iraq was their "domino effect" theory, which suggested that a wave of democratic revolution would sweep the region after our successful toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime. As I |
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- Emerald is providing free access to Leadership & Organization Development Journal and Performance Measurement and Metrics for the week of August 11, 2003 |
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- BioethicsWeb offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering biomedical ethics |
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- ASIDIC Fall 2003 Meeting - September 21-23, 2003 - Montreal, Quebec - Digital Content: Issues and Changes |
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- Archive Awareness Month, September 2003, is a month long promotion of celebratory events across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Local and national archives, large and small, public and private will open their doors to hold a host of special events celebrating and promoting the wealth of archival treasures |
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- FreePint Newsletter Number 142 - 7th August 2003 is now available |
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- Libricide : The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century by Rebecca Knuth - Praeger Publishers - July 2003. Examines ideologically driven and systemic destruction of books and libraries that paralleled acts of genocide in the 20th century |
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- The Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer. How well do you know your trail-blazers? This week's brain-teaser tests your knowledge of famous explorers and expeditions:1. Which famous explorer sailed round the world between 1577 and 1580 in "The Golden Hind"? |
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- LibSite has been developed specifically to enable you to manage your collection of Taylor & Francis journals more efficiently by providing information on new titles and your current subscriptions, including bibliographic changes. You will find clear instructions on how to register and activate your online subscriptions, how to download URLs and retrieve usage statistics. You can also link to Customer Services for claims, back issue and single issue orders and sample copy requests |
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- The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) support the goal of timely, sustained, and reliable open access to federally funded research and encourage broad discussion on the most effective strategies to achieve this goal. Statement dated AUgust 6, 2003 |
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- The current calendar of workshops, online and distance courses, study tours, and conferences from University of Wisconsin Madison School of Library and Information Studies. Topics include: Readers' Advisory, Children's Books, Virtual Collection Development, short courses to improve your technology skills, Organization of Information, and Metadata, as well as a first-ever librarians' trip to Washington DC |
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- Guidelines for Developing a Library Privacy Policy - prepared by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee - August 2003 |
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- The Association of Moving Image Archivists has announced that the 2004 Joint Technical Symposium will take place June 24-26, 2004 in Toronto, Canada, at the Isabel Bader Theater. Preserving the AudioVisual Heritage – Transition and Access is the theme of this 3-day event, which is expected to draw 300-400 attendees from around the world |
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- Hong Kong Library Association Newsletter - No. 64. July 2003. Libraries & SARS: Have you ever wondered how libraries coped when the SARS crisis was at its worst? |
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- Indexing the World of Information - an international conference hosted by the Australian Society of Indexers - 12-13 September 2003 - Sydney, Australia |
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- 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop - 'In Practice, Good Practice: the Future of Open Archives' - 4-5 September 2003, Bath, UK |
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- Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue 107 - August 2003 - edited by Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University |
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- Women and War - a major exhibition, the most ambitious of its kind ever mounted on this theme, telling the story of servicewomen, nurses, land girls, factory workers, secret agents, pilots and peacekeepers from the First World War to the present day - 15 October 2003 to 18 April 2004 - The Imperial War Museum, London, UK |
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- The Association of Research Libraries is offering the Online Lyceum course, Accessible Web Design, September 15-October 3, 2003 |
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- Innovative Interfaces has announced that it has joined the CrossRef organization as an affiliate member. This partnership seamlessly integrates WebBridge, a component of the MAP portal solution, with DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) and CrossRef linking to assist libraries in providing complete access to available resources |
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- Over eight hundred volumes on the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1919 have been acquired by the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, a division of the Texas A&M University Libraries. The collection comes from the estate of Donald C. Turpen, the noted Albuquerque attorney and book collector, who worked in Mexico during the 1950s. Turpen’s collection covers nearly every aspect of the Mexican Revolution, according to David Chapman, University Archivist and curator for the Cushing Library’s Texas and the Borderlands Collection |
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- The ERPANET DigiPres ePrints Service is an Open Archive set-up for the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) in conjunction with DAEDALUS to provide an ePrints preservation and access facility for the cultural and scientific heritage community |
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- The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford - The History Collections and Services - The research and teaching collections in the subject field of History are extraordinarily rich within the Bodleian Library and the University of Oxford. Altogether they amount to the most extensive of their kind for any university or higher education establishment in the British Isles, and constitute one of the world’s finest collections in this subject area |
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- A major project to produce an innovative computerised edition of the medieval Durham Liber Vitae, with full supporting scholarly material, is now underway in partnership with the British Library. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board |
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- CIT Infobits - Issue 61 - July 2003 is now available |
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- Loughborough University is currently working in partnership with Co-East on a feasibility study for developing usage models for web-based and hardware-based electronic books (e-books) in public libraries, based on a study of e-book implementation and usage in Essex libraries over a 12-month period. First quarter report |
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Open Thread (Aug 10 2003 21:58 GMT) - The floor is yours.... |
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- Let me just start by saying: I really, really dislike talking on the phone.I didn't used to.I'm pretty sure that my dislike is the result of working too many jobs in which I had to talk to people on the phone. In fact, it's probably a direct result of my last job... |
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- The Yankees bullpen was horrible today. Four different pitchers went 3 innings and allowed five earned runs, six hits and four walks. Meanwhile, Rafael Soriano and Hasegawa combined for 2 1/3 no hit innings to get the win and the... |
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- Lilian bought: 3D huis en Interieur, a sofware package of mindscape. From the map she got from the house she... |
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- Lilian bought: 3D huis en Interieur, a sofware package of mindscape. From the map she got from the house she... |
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- J was drinking some of that honestly. Its a voodoo rain series. I myself like mojo love and black magic...that's... |
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- Futurama's last episode airs tonight and you can add it to the long list of stupid decisions made by Fox. This show would have been a monster hit if they'd just put it after the Simpsons for a Groening block; instead, it's been stuck at 6PM Central, where it gets overlooked almost as often as it is preempted by football. The show has been delayed and delayed so often that their four seasons' worth of content has been spread across five seasons! Here's hoping that maybe there will be a Futurama movie someday. |
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- Futurama's last episode airs tonight and you can add it to the long list of stupid decisions made by Fox. This show would have been a monster hit if they'd just put it after the Simpsons for a Groening block; instead, it's been stuck at 6PM Central, where it gets... |
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- Do post pics when you can - and let us know |
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- Without getting into a debate about the legality or morality of |
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- PrestoPundit.com is rife with Arnie bloggings. Hat Tip: Begging to Differ and Southern Appeal.... |
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- EDUARDO S. : Vc me viu na Adriane Galisteu? Pq eu gravei uma reportagem pro programa dela... aí no dia q ia aparecer, eu assisti e não apareceu nada, para decepção das milhares de pessoas q eu mandei assitir.. |
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