Framing Library Instruction: A View from Within and Without (ACRL Publications in Librarianship #61)

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New York Times Librarian Awards. Now in its sixth year, the program honors librarians from around the United States who have provided outstanding public service and have had a strong and positive impact on their nominators. This year's winners represent 17 states. Included among the 25 winners for the first time are three academic librarians. In an expansion of the program, librarians working in college and university libraries were eligible to be nominated by college students, faculty and administrators.

Nominations for the public librarian awards came from the general public. The Times received more than 1, nominations from 45 states this year. ALA President hosts national library agenda summit. Participants will help articulate key agenda items that will enhance support for improving libraries, as well as building a case for investing in libraries at the local, state and national level. Which breed of dog is also known as a "sausage dog"? What did Winston Churchill describe as his "Black dog"?

In the Northern Hemisphere, are the Dog Days the hottest or coldest days of the year? What was the name of the dog in the film "The Wizard of Oz"? What was the composer's name? A song about a dog was a hit for Big Mama Thornton in but a bigger hit for Elvis Presley in What was the song's title? Virginia Woolf's "Flush" is a fictional biography of a spaniel belonging to which 19th-century poet? The first school for training guide dogs was established after World War I in which country: France, Germany or Norway? What is a "yellow dog contract"? New digitization projects at the University of Manitoba.

This practical one day training event is designed to provide Information Professionals with an introduction on resources and services for Science - 24 April - University of Birmingham, UK. Literature Online marks its 10th anniversary in December. Collections Link is a collaboration of more than 20 U. The aim of the service is to provide a single point of access to best practice in the care and management of collections. New look for Blackwell Synergy - preview now available. Blackwell Synergy, the online journals platform from Blackwell Publishing, will soon be relaunched with a brand new design.

This redesign provides easier navigation, faster loading times, and improved access to tools for researchers. Internet Resources Newsletter - Issue Immigration to the United States, Immigration to the United States, , is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Google Librarian Newsletter December issue now available. John Llewellyn Rhys prize winner announced.

Beasts of No Nation is a first novel by Uzodinma Iweala who, at 23 years old, is one of the youngest winners of the prize for young writers, which has an upper age limit of 35 years" - The Guardian. Journal of Medical Case Reports. Journal of Medical Case Reports is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central. It will consider any original case report that expands the field of general medical knowledge. FreePint Newsletter - 7 December, - now available.

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Word of Mouth Blog Link. By adding a "blog this" link to your library web pages, you create a one-click way for bloggers to link to your site from their blog post. Maney subscription rates. The subscription rates for Maney journals are now available. Users now will be able to preview ALA Editions titles, conduct multiple searches within the books, and browse through the available pages.

Wednesday, December 06, Microsoft debuts book search tool. Live Search Books is initially restricted to only include non-copyright books scanned from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Live Search Books' "Search inside a book" feature allows users to search the full texts of scanned books. Copyrighted books will be added to the collection later, but only those submitted to Microsoft by publishers or authors. Fellowships in digital librarianship available.

Fellowships will be awarded to students who clearly articulate career interests and goals related to digital libraries and services. Ten fellows will be admitted in , and another ten in , to the MA in Library and Information Science program with digital libraries as the specialized track. EBSCO Publishing has announced that the latest version of Book Index with Reviews has been significantly expanded to include information on thousands of music and video titles. Guardian first book prize winner.

Manuscripts Matter MP3, 33 minutes, A panel of creative writers discuss the author's perspective on the archiving of their own papers; with A. CrossRef to add journals from low-income countries. CrossRef has announced that it has reached agreement with three new partners to include journals from developing countries in its linking network. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers' attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models - Issue 2.

AskCity is a search service that allows you to find Businesses, Events, and Movies for most cities in the U. Ask combines these features with a number of other helpful services, such as: ALA Library launches Web tools to access professional information. The Library of the American Library Association has announced the launch of two new Web tools to aid ALA members, librarians and library workers in accessing professional information online: Tuesday, December 05, SearchMash from Google.

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SearchMash is a new website operated by Google. Presently, there are more than items on BURA and the number is increasing every day". Two years later, that effort has resulted in a centralized, coordinated and user-focused resource to serve the teaching, learning and research needs of students, faculty and researchers at Ball State and beyond". Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: A Publisher's Perspective , becoming the first publisher to offer such a comprehensive resource to its journal editors and society partners.

The guidelines were created to provide practical advice to editors on the major ethical principles of academic publishing and to help inform the editorial policies of their journals. International Conference on Learning. The World Almanac E-Newsletter. Deadline for submission of proposals is February 28, This program is excellent for students who would like to earn an MLIS degree, but need an alternative to traditional residential programs.

This cohort will begin attending classes on May 7, Monroe Library Adult Services Award. Nominations are now being accepted for the Margaret E. Applications must be received by Friday, December 15, New for December from Facet Publishing. New for December from Facet Publishing: Libraries Without Walls 7. Libraries Without Walls 7: Saturday, December 02, Wiley launches extensive program to digitize landmark book series.

Wiley is digitizing more than volumes from at least 21 book series in their entirety over the next year. With most of the series going back to Volume 1, users can access valuable content that is no longer published in print. Karen Blakeman's Online Information presentations. Karen Blakeman's Online Information presentations are now available for download. Please note that these are the original Powerpoint slides and are not annotated. Therefore, unless you were present at the seminar the relevance of some of the screen shots may not be apparent.

Tricks and tips for better web search , Karen Blakeman. Tuesday 28th November , Thursday 30th November , This latest version of Culture. The site is also more interactive with popular links as chosen by you, cultural polls and the best of Canada's cultural blogs". American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. Edited by James M. Rippe, MD, this new bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal is the official publication of the American Lifestyle Medicine Association. The first issue will debut in January The World Almanac Blog.

Our goal here is to expand on the millions of essential facts included in The World Almanac, focusing on new or surprising facts about major topics covered in our books; deeper explanations of underreported data currently in the news; and offbeat information and Internet links about a wider range of topics than we could possibly cover in print. Our efforts will be in keeping with the hallmarks of The World Almanac itself - an American institution that millions of people have turned to for trusted facts for nearly years, and the best-selling U.

Antonio Gamoneda wins Cervantes Prize. The literary honour carries a cash prize of 90, Euros. Books - a Forbes special report. The report includes a series of articles on endurance of books, and the role technology has and will play, in their evolving future role. Teen Tech Week will be celebrated for the first time March , Name the leader of the pirates who tried to seize the treasure map in R. Stevenson's story "Treasure Island".

The pirate's flag was the Jolly Roger. What was pictured on it? Who wrote the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance"? The pirate Edward Teach is popularly remembered by what nickname? Which novel by Daphne Du Maurier was the romantic story of a young girl and her pirate lover? It was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in Barrie's "Peter Pan", which pirate was defeated by Peter in a duel and eaten by a crocodile?

As the haunt of pirates, the "Spanish Main" referred to which sea? Name the Welsh buccaneer who went to the West Indies, and was sent in as a prisoner to England on complaints of piracy but soon became a hero and was knighted in and made lieutenant governor of Jamaica. The International Information Industry Awards Library Student Journal Issue 2. Archives Hub Collections of the Month, December Their novels and short stories intimately detail the social and political conditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Ireland.

The best fiction for Christmas. Come Christmas, and the chain-store displays wear these marks of shame as badges of pride. Yet plenty of exciting and enduring books do break through the barrier of hype This article discusses how Netflix and similar services are shaping expectations about product delivery, which in turn are driving libraries to rethink how items are delivered to their customers. The guidelines take the Internet Manifesto in a new direction by moving towards a charter for users, in effect becoming a document prepared by the library community that safeguards and sets out users' rights to information on the Internet in libraries.

From the Royal Society: Submission of an article remains free. If accepted for publication, the author is given the choice to pay a fee to have their article made freely available to all". In celebration of St Andrew's Day, Ancestry. This follows the release earlier this year of the first Scottish census for Proposals are due on or before January 31, The Advocacy Institute - Midwinter This three-part program consists of message development and coalition-building techniques; a lunchtime panel discussion featuring Noted young adult author and trainer Patrick Jones on nurturing advocates through school, young adult and academic phases; and afternoon breakout sessions on topics including increasing library funding, maintaining budgets, and crisis communications" - January 19, - Seattle, Washington.

Slated for launch in the first half of , the deal will make EBL's growing list of over 40, ebook titles available to YBP's library customers around the world. Wednesday, November 29, Information: Interactions and Impact - early-bird registration. This conference is concerned with the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change in individuals, organisations, communities and society. Early-bird registration now available. The Costa Book Awards shortlist.

The Costa Book Awards shortlist has been announced. First Monday - 6 November First Monday - Volume 11, Number 11 - 6 November now available. Free access to passenger lists at Ancestry. Carnival of the Infosciences Carnival of the Infosciences 60 hosted by woodyevans. The New York Daily News reports, "President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library. DailyMed from the National Library of Medicine.

DailyMed - Provides high quality information about marketed drugs in the U. From the National Library of Medicine - Provides high quality information about marketed drugs in the U. From the National Library of Medicine. Tuesday, November 28, Springer eBook Collection webinar. Springer will be offering product presentations on the new Springer eBook Collection via a live online webinar. Xrefer was one of the first reference providers to achieve compliance of the standard since its initial publication in March Oxford Journals new agreement with the National Library of Medicine.

Oxford Journals has announced a new agreement with the National Library of Medicine that will allow all content published as open access under its Oxford Open model to be available from PubMed Central. The agreement makes it easier for authors publishing with Oxford Journals to meet the requirements of their funding bodies, including the National Institutes of Health, who request all NIH-funded content to be deposited into PubMed Central within 12 months of online publication.

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The latest addition to the SwetsWise platform, the new SwetsWise Searcher extends the offering to two versions: SwetsWise Searcher hosted version, which provides an economical federated search option for organizations that prefer off-site implementation and SwetsWise Searcher Enterprise, the existing version that is implemented locally on the customer's servers". Unforgivable Blackness, the fascinating biography of Jack Johnson, the world's first black heavyweight champion, has been announced as the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

Ward was named the winner at an awards ceremony at Waterstone's Piccadilly on November Ward's previous books include The Civil War and Jazz. IDPF introduces public forum. The International Digital Publishing Forum has created of a Web forum for public discussion of e-book standards.

Presentations from the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference: HighWire Press launches its th journal site. The Society has been publishing mathematical research papers since , now with the assistance of Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, one of HighWire's premier publishing partners. Beginning with several high-impact science and medicine journals in , we now offer an affordable and customizable online home to journals from all disciplines," said John Sack, Director of HighWire Press.

There is a new Copac interface available for testing on the experimental Copac v3. Note that the interface is still under development and not all the usual features are available. The colour of the interface will change before the live version is released. OCLC Members Council discussed the history of cooperatives and how OCLC and its member libraries share values that have strengthened each individual institution and the organization as a whole after nearly 40 years in a radically changing environment.

Following the three-day meeting, many delegates participated in an event to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Frederick G. Using Metadata to organise an online collection. Using Metadata to organise an online collection - David Bruce describes a classic information science project to filter, classify and tag the contents for three different categories of user. Monday, November 27, London: A Life in Maps. From 24 November visitors to the British Library at St Pancras will be able to see London as they have never seen it before.

The Library's major winter exhibition, London: A Life in Maps 24 November March uses historic maps, both iconic and obscure, to reveal the driving passions behind the development of the city over years. Beginning with a gold coin from depicting the walled Roman settlement of 'Londinium' and progressing through the ever larger, more detailed and spectacular depictions of the Tudor and Stuart eras, to the improvements and squalor of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries and, finally, renderings of the city's Olympic and post-Olympic future, London: A Life in Maps traces an epic visual journey.

Dawkins takes fight against religion into the classroom. Richard Dawkins, the Oxford geneticist, best-selling author and campaigning atheist, is to take his battle against God into Britain's schools after setting up a foundation to counter the religious indoctrination of young people. The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason will subsidise books, pamphlets and DVDs for teachers to fight the "educational scandal" that has seen the growth in popularity of "pseudo science" and "irrational" ideas - The Independent.

Information Today is blogging Online Information Journal Watch Oncology and Hematology summarizes important medical journal articles about a wide variety of oncology and hematology topics, including leukemia, anemia, lymphoma, thrombosis, and hemochromatosis. Information World Review to blog Online Information conference. Information World Review will be blogging live from the Online Information conference. The blog also has an RSS feed.

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An automated rating of news combined with a patented crawler enables a fully personalized news service. CAB Abstracts Plus has been released. CAB Abstracts Plus is designed to provide users with access to thousands of additional documents that are considered difficult to obtain, yet are central to a researcher's knowledge needs. These include a range of rare material from journals and conference proceedings to distribution maps of plant pests and diseases and are linked directly from the CAB Abstracts database. LibWorm is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries.

LibWorm collects updates from about RSS feeds and growing. Saturday, November 25, Coffee's on, dusty books are out at UMass library. Conte, and the works of William Butler Yeats, the W. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts has added more features: With students shunning its 28 stories and opting to conduct research by mouse click, the library is on an outreach offensive, shelving once-forbidding rules and replacing an old circulation counter with a coffee bar, where hot drinks and soda are for sale and an assortment of pastries are on display behind the counter.

Chicken wing deliveries are allowed, along with other previously banned activities, like cell phone chatter - Boston. Weblogs Compendium has a new home. Please note that the Weblogs Compendium has been moved to a new server. Please update your bookmarks. Organising Digital Information and Knowledge.

Organising Digital Information and Knowledge - This one-day course covers all modern tools for organising information, focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants the chance to construct an outline organisation of their own - 14 December - London, UK. British Book Design and Production Awards. The service is offered by the University Library. Faculty, researchers, and students associated with Bond University are invited to deposit digital materials for long-term preservation and world-wide electronic accessibility. International Journal of Digital Curation. The International Journal of Digital Curation is a new peer-reviewed journal entirely devoted to papers, articles and news items on curation of digital objects and related issues.

The journal is published in electronic form, twice a year. Which famous detective first appeared in the story "A Study in Scarlet"? Who founded the Franciscan order of friars? In which city is Karl Marx buried? In the American flag, the Stars and Stripes, how many stripes are there? Which famous Indian was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in ? What is the highest mountain in the Alps? In which country was film actor Arnold Schwarzenegger born? Who was prime minister of Britain from to ? In the Scottish city of Edinburgh, there is a memorial to a dog who watched over the grave of his master from to By what name is the dog known?

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