Peter Scott's Library Blog

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

2012-12-03T08:41:00.005-06:00

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

2012-12-02T12:56:00.004-06:00

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

2012-12-02T12:48:00.002-06:00

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

2012-11-30T17:08:00.005-06:00

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

Routledge to publish ALIA journals beginning in 2013

2012-11-30T17:06:00.000-06:00

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

2012-11-29T07:54:00.003-06:00

#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

2012-11-29T07:32:00.000-06:00

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)

2012-11-28T09:05:00.003-06:00

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

2012-11-28T08:36:00.002-06:00

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

2012-11-28T07:17:00.005-06:00

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

2012-11-27T12:54:00.004-06:00

"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

2012-11-27T12:52:00.004-06:00

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)

2012-11-27T08:11:00.001-06:00

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'

2012-11-26T14:06:00.000-06:00

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

2012-11-26T14:02:00.003-06:00

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

2012-11-26T13:58:00.004-06:00

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

2012-11-26T06:40:00.001-06:00

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

2012-11-25T05:30:00.001-06:00

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)

2012-11-25T05:17:00.004-06:00

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)

2012-11-25T04:58:00.000-06:00

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

Edmonton Public Library hopes to put bookmobiles back on the street in 2013 (Canada)

2012-11-24T04:32:00.002-06:00

As Edmonton's Library system sets up to celebrate 100 years of operation they plan to take to the streets next year with four new libraries on wheels. The proposal to create the new digital literacy vans is contained within the City of Edmonton's budget, but the library plans to fundraise to get them on the streets. Leanne Drury Melsness, manager of the library's digital literacy initiatives, said the vans would be much more than bookmobiles, but would actual aim to bring all of what the library has to offer to the community. "They would have access to some of EPLs great content and e-content," she said. "Picture, like a pop-up Internet café, or a recording studio or a gaming kit." In addition the library hopes to be able to issue library cards from the vans and would aim to have them at local events and festivals

Publication: Effective Partnerships: Creating and Managing Dual Use Libraries for Schools and Communities

2012-11-23T13:28:00.002-06:00

Effective Partnerships: Creating and Managing Dual Use Libraries for Schools and Communities - Judith Palka, Sue Bowtell and Mike Brook - November 2012

SAGE acquires Royal Society of Medicine journals portfolio

2012-11-23T13:26:00.000-06:00

SAGE has announced a landmark agreement with the Royal Society of Medicine to acquire its journal programme. With immediate effect, 28 titles formerly published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press will be published by SAGE

Podcast: Adlestrop: railways, poetry and the myths of 1914 (UK)

2012-11-23T11:42:00.003-06:00

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas is one of the nation's favourite poems. Written in the heat of battle by an officer who was doomed not to survive the war, Adlestrop idealises the stillness of a railway station in an English country village before the First World War. This podcast will consider the literary and military career of Edward Thomas, the impact of the railways on the English countryside at the start of the 20th century and whether or not 1914 really does represent the culmination of the 'Long Edwardian Summer'. Bruno Derrick has been employed by The Public Record Office/National Archives for 23 years. He has a wide-ranging knowledge of the records of The National Archives with a particular interest in military history and military records, and in records relating to railways, canals and transport

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - November 23, 2012

2012-11-23T10:10:00.004-06:00

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Birds. "All the questions or answers in this week's brainteaser refer to a bird of some kind. So, if the question was "In Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which bird was shot by the mariner?", the answer would be "Albatross"." Answers here

1. A cygnet is the young of which bird?
2. The kiwi is used as a national emblem of which country?
3. Is a dove generally bigger or smaller than a pigeon?
4. According to a 1940 song written by Eric Maschwitz & Manning Sherwin, which bird sang in Berkeley Square?
5. What was the title of the first feature film released in 2000 by Nick Park, the English animator who created Wallace and Gromit?
6. Which jazz musician was nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird"?
7. Jack Higgins became a best-selling author with the success of which book, written in 1975 and filmed in 1976?
8. Which bird got its name from the feathers that protrude behind its head, resembling quill pens?
9. In target shooting, what bird's name is given to a shot striking the target's outermost division but one?
10. In 1914, who composed "The Lark Ascending", a romance for violin and orchestra?