Peter Scott's Library Blog

JAMA & Archives Backfiles Collection

2009-11-28T09:23:00.001-07:00

"The American Medical Association has digitized the entire archive of JAMA & Archives journals. The JAMA & Archives Backfiles are a singularly rich, full-text digital resource that includes every issue of JAMA and the specialty Archives Journals dating back to the first issue of JAMA published in July 1883. Fully integrated into the JAMA & Archives web sites, the Backfiles deliver more than 1.7 million pages-every article, every image-into the digital age. Each article has been carefully scanned and digitally optimized, allowing readers to explore the Backfiles using sophisticated searches and a host of additional online research tools"

Royal Naval logs of exploration voyages now online

2009-11-28T07:57:00.002-07:00

"You can search and download 164 volumes of logbooks of the Royal Navy's voyages of scientific discovery, from series reference ADM 55. These volumes are the logs (navigational records) and journals (narrative accounts) of naval officers of ships engaged in exploration and surveying, which were used by the Hydrographic Office to produce charts and other data. Most of the logs were kept by naval captains, masters, lieutenants and masters' mates, although there are a few logs which were kept by boatswains or assistant surgeons. Amongst this collection of Royal Naval logs, there are a several logs which were kept by merchant ships. The records were made between 1757 and 1861, with one exception; the logs of the 'Morning' (ADM 55/163 and ADM 55/164), which were made in 1904. The main areas covered in the logs are the Pacific, the Arctic, the Antarctic, Australia, the Americas and the west coast of Africa, although China, St Helena and other places are also included. Many famous officers kept logs held in this collection, including James Cook, William Bligh and Matthew Flinders"

E-government Librarianship Scholarship Program (USA)

2009-11-28T07:46:00.000-07:00

"The Center for Library & Information Innovation in the iSchool at the University of Maryland College Park, in partnership with the Government Information Online initiative and the University of Illinois Chicago, received a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for 20 master's of library science (MLS) e-government and digital government degree scholarships. This unique program is for students interested in careers in librarianship and other information sciences as specialists in digital government information and e-government services. The program will prepare graduates to take advantage of the evolving range of e-government and digital government information services. The program is online, and will begin in fall 2010. Applications are currently being accepted. Full scholarships (20 total) are available to highly qualified applicants to the program. Applications are due by February 1, 2010"

Savvy Citizens (UK)

2009-11-28T07:08:00.002-07:00

"BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has created this Savvy Citizens microsite to help people get the most from information and information technology. Every day we deal with lots of different types of information, and if you don't know how to use it to your advantage you might miss out on services and applications that could make life easier and more enjoyable. This could mean getting access to government services, finding employment opportunities, saving money, and keeping in touch with family and friends"

Manitoba Book Awards call for submissions (Canada)

2009-11-28T06:58:00.002-07:00

Entries are now being accepted for the Manitoba Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Established in 1988, the Manitoba Book Awards celebrate Manitoba writers, publishers and books. There are 12 diverse awards categories this year. Each award will be judged by a jury of 3 people, 2 of whom will be from out of province. Short-lists will be released in the Spring. The winners will be announced at the Manitoba Book Awards gala, organized by the Manitoba Writers' Guild, on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at the centre culturel franco-manitobain (CCFM), 340, boulevard Provencher

Jorum Update - November 2009

2009-11-28T06:55:00.001-07:00

Jorum Update - November 2009 is now available

Innovations in Reference Management (UK)

2009-11-28T06:52:00.000-07:00

Innovations in Reference Management - an event to showcase and discuss innovative ideas and developments in the use of Reference/Bibliographic Management software - 14 January 2010 - Milton Keynes, UK

2009 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award winner

2009-11-28T04:08:00.001-07:00

"Duncan Hamilton has received the greatest honour in sports writing for an incredible second time, after his biography of cricketer Harold Larwood was announced as the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2009"

SAALG winter conference (UK)

2009-11-28T04:02:00.001-07:00

South Asia Archive & Library Group winter conference will be held on February 19, 2010 at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemasons' Hall, London, UK. The conference will include a tour of the Freemasons' Hall, a talk on Freemasonry in India by Archivist and Record Manager, Susan Snell, and an opportunity to view and discuss artefacts, photographs, and correspondence in their permanent collection with their museum curator and librarian

Congleton Chronicle via Exact Editions

2009-11-28T03:40:00.002-07:00

"The Cheshire-based Congleton Chronicle is one of the handful of independent newspapers left in England. It was launched in 1893 by Robert Head; the first edition of the 'Congleton Chronicle and Mid Cheshire Journal', appeared on Saturday, 14 October, 1893, price three-halfpence. Since then, the paper has only had three other editors: Robert's son Lionel, the late John Condliffe, then his son Jeremy, the current editor and MD. John led a management buy-out in 1988. The paper currently distributes 16,000 copies across south Cheshire and north Staffordshire, printing its flagship Congleton title as well as Biddulph and Sandbach editions. The paper is often described as a 'proper local newspaper', crammed full of local news, its standing in the community reflected by its four pages of letters every week" - via Exact Editions

African Banker via Exact Editions

2009-11-28T03:27:00.002-07:00

"African Banker, launched in May 2007, is a quarterly magazine dedicated to banking and finance in Africa. It covers news from the banking, finance, insurance, currency, direct and indirect financial investment sectors, as well as the stock markets and capital markets. It taps into the growing demand for information about Africa's banking and financial world, a sector which is consolidating rapidly and reshaping the future of the economy of the continent. In the trial issue Khadija Sharife explains how Africa is subtly being bled dry; Stephen Wiliams talks to Razia Khan, Standard Chartered Bank's chief economist for sub-Saharan Africa, on the global economic crisis; Omar Ben Yedder speaks to the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka; and Moin Siddiqi looks at Africa and the Credit Crunch, with a special look at Nigeria - via Exact Editions

British School at Rome Library & Archive new website

2009-11-28T02:30:00.001-07:00

"In July 2007, the Getty Foundation awarded a second generous grant to the British School at Rome Archive (BSR) to support the arrangement and description of part of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. As a result of this 2-year project, a website of the British School at Rome digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts. The majority of the digital images displayed on this website are represented by the photographs catalogued during the second Getty Foundation funded project"

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

2009-11-27T04:30:00.001-07:00

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Encyclopedic?. Is your knowledge encyclopedic? It could be, if you learnt from the Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia, which supplies the answers to all these questions. Answers here.

1. Which English screen actor made her film debut in "Heavenly Creatures" and also appeared in "Titanic" and "Hideous Kinky"?
2. Which French artist painted his last remarkable studies of water lilies at his house in Giverny before he died in 1926?
3. Who wrote the play "Uncle Vanya"?
4. Is the "flying fox" a kind of bird, bat or fox?
5. In medicine, does a vasodilator widen or narrow the blood vessels?
6. Dhaka, formerly Dacca, is the capital of which country?
7. What was the first name of the US actor Orson Welles: George, Herbert or William?
8. Who wrote the music for the operetta "La Rondine" (1917)?
9. The Yanamamo or Yanomamo people live in which continent?
10. What was the "Jarvik 7" given to Barney Clark in 1982?

Research 3.0: driving the knowledge economy (UK)

2009-11-27T04:08:00.003-07:00

"Digital technologies are rapidly changing the type of research we can tackle and the way researchers work. How will research be in future? As the key provider of the digital infrastructure for UK higher education and research, JISC is seeking answers to this question during the Research 3.0 campaign"

BioMedSearch

2009-11-27T03:47:00.001-07:00

"BioMedSearch is an enhanced version of the NIH PubMed search that combines MedLine/PubMed data with data from other sources to make the most comprehensive biomedical literature search available. BioMedSearch also provides advanced account features that allow saved searches, alerts, saving documents to portfolios, commenting on documents and portfolios, and sharing documents with other registered users. Registering for BioMedSearch is free"

Library + Information Gazette - 20 November 2009 - 10 December 2009

2009-11-27T03:43:00.001-07:00

Library + Information Gazette, the fortnightly magazine for the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, is now available online to everyone. Latest issue: 20 November 2009 - 10 December 2009

The Big Read (USA)

2009-11-27T03:36:00.001-07:00

"The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment"

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

2009-11-27T03:13:00.002-07:00

European Journal of Histochemistry

International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education

Peace and Conflict Review

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis : Gymnica

PVRI Review

Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia

Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology

Tělesná Kultura

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering

Qom University of Medical Sciences Journal

Comunicar

Journal of Pediatric Sciences

Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900

2009-11-26T11:47:00.002-07:00

"Connected Histories will create a federated search facility for a wide range of distributed electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British History. Through a combination of web crawling and the application of Natural Language Processing methodology the project will create a non-intrusive, distanced tagging of the data within those distributed sources to facilitate more sophisticated and structured searching"

BETT Awards 2010

2009-11-26T06:53:00.002-07:00

"The BETT Awards is an annual scheme that highlights exemplar digital products intended for the education marketplace. The BETT Awards is produced by Emap Connect, the organisers of the largest educational technology show in the world - BETT. The BETT Awards is made possible by working in association with Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, and BESA, the trade association representing the educational supply industry" - January 13, London, UK

The British Library improves electronic access with new DRM platform from FileOpen Systems

2009-11-26T05:43:00.000-07:00

"Responding to customer demand, the British Library, supplying over 1.6m articles every year to researchers all over the world, has added FileOpen to its choice of delivery options via its Document Supply Service. FileOpen's DRM technology will improve accessibility and extend the reach of the British Library's vast resources"

Jamaica joins the Campaign for the World's Libraries

2009-11-26T05:35:00.001-07:00

"The Library and Information Association of Jamaica recently became the newest member of the Campaign for the World’s Libraries. The Campaign for the World's Libraries was developed by the America Library Association's Campaign for America's Libraries and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to showcase the unique and vital roles played by public, school, academic and special libraries worldwide. It is based on The Campaign for America's Libraries and utilizes the @ your library® brand"

Bibliographie du Québec, 1821-1967

2009-11-26T05:33:00.000-07:00

"Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) has announced the publication of the new online version of the Bibliographie du Québec, 1821-1967. This is a retrospective national bibliography whose scope includes print monographs published or printed in Québec between 1821 and 1967, that is, prior to the effective date of the regulation on legal deposit (Règlement sur le dépôt légal) in 1968. With this tool, BAnQ aims to constitute a complete inventory of publications issued prior to 1968 within Québec's boundaries"

Ghost Voices Magazine via Exact Editions

2009-11-26T03:27:00.003-07:00

"Ghost Voices Magazine is the country's leading publication on the subject of ghosts and haunting phenomena. Brought to you by a dedicated team comprising of both believers and sceptics, Ghost Voices Magazine aims to give the reader a no-nonsense look at all things haunted. Featuring a variety of articles from folklore tales and interviews with paranormal experts through to the scientific investigation of ghostly activity, Ghost Voices Magazine appeals to all who have an interest in the paranormal. The trial issue features a look at Phantom Sounds in Folklore, Brian Haughton discusses myths and legends behind this phenomena; Leigh Banks tells us of the ghostly sightings of a woman on the holiday Isle of Ibiza; Norie Miles chats to one of Britain's youngest psychic mediums, Ross Bartlett; and ghost hunter Gill Stubbs discusses the locations were ghostly activity may occur. Regular features include Letters to a Ghost Hunter, The Parapsychologist's Chronicle, Events (up and coming), Book Reviews and much more - via Exact Editions

CARL E-Lert # 353

2009-11-25T14:18:00.001-07:00

CARL E-Lert # 353, November 27 2009, is now available from Canadian Association of Research Libraries