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Anything is possible in children's storytelling, although in England, libraries tend to use authors of children's books to attract youngsters to storytelling events. It's different in Malmo, a university city [...]

Reports the announcement of the United States Library of Congress that it has added to and expanded collections available online from its American Memory Web site. The site as a project of the National Digital Library Program; `American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920,' a collection from the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; George Washington Papers; Other materials.

Waggener Edstro (WE), the public relations firm which handles the Microsoft account, recently published a paper on visual information systems. Intended to promote Microsoft's new Interactive Home Systems, Inc. (IHS) [...]

This section offers information technology news briefs. Social networking site Facebook has introduced new features designed to give users more control over their personal information and privacy. RIM has launched its BlackBerry Playbook designed to compete with Apple's iPad. JustCite, an upgraded legal citation and search service used by more than 20,000 legal practitioners, has been launched by Justis Publishing.

The article evaluates several products including the SpringerLink service from Springer, the Thieme E-Book Library Platform from Thieme Publishing Group, and the ProQuest African American Heritage genealogy service from ProQuest.

The article evaluates the IP Manager 3.1 computer software from Thomson IP Management Services.

This section offers news briefs on new products of the information services industry as of May 2010. Safari Books Online plans to add over 700 titles to its Short Cuts category in 2010. The Web site Nature Middle East, which showcases scientific and medical research from Middle Eastern and Arabic-speaking regions, was launched by Nature Publishing Group. The databases Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide and Waters & Oceans Worldwide have been revealed by EBSCO Publishing.

Announces the launch of the LinkSolver universal link resolver from Ovid. Key features; Applications in the database library collection of Web-based content; Options available when used with the search engine of the company.

The article evaluates several products, including the Safari Bookbag of Safari Books Online, the Primo solution version 2.1 of Ex Libris Group, and the BlackBerry smartphone of AccuWeather.com.

The article presents updates on the information resources industry. Knovel Corp. and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Collections have entered a 3-year agreement that lets JISC member institutions access Knovel's engineering resources. EBSCO Information Services added Elsevier content to its collection of ebooks. Elsevier brings more than 4,000 ebooks from ScienceDirect, and 50 reference works ranging from specialist studies to broadbased encyclopedias. ProQuest's Library School Program, which gives information science students free access to ProQuest's reference tools during the school year, is now open for the 2007-2008 term.

The article evaluates several information technology products including the Annual Copyright License from Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the EBSCONET Subscription Management System from EBSCO Information Services, and the Syndetics Indexed Content Enrichment (ICE) from Syndetic Solutions.

Reports on a partnership between Sagebrush Corp. and Information Transform Inc. (ITI) to market and provide The Complete MARC Suite to school libraries. Combination of the products and services of the companies to assist librarians in maintaining library collection data; Features of the software.

Reports that ebrary, Inc. has licensed its technology to Byron Hoyt, a provider of musical resources, to make classical sheet music and educational titles available to libraries worldwide. Availability of a Spanish-language collection provided by e-Libro, a digital e-publisher in the Spanish book market; Size of the Byron Hoyt collection; Terms of the agreement, which includes that ebrary will help distribute Byron Hoyt's collection as a stand-alone database to libraries; Costs of subscriptions; Description of ebrarian for Libraries.

The article offers information on a 39th Charleston Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4–8, 2019. Topics discussed include information on efforts of Internet Archive to digitize their collections allowing the libraries to lend digital copies of their print books; challenges involving global warming, ocean pollution, food and water security; and links between print and electronic books.

Reports that Gale Group has adopted the SFX OpenURL standard, a technology which links databases to one another at the document level. Availability of SFX in Gale's InfoTrac databases; Creation of SFX by Ex Libris, a software company.

Offers information technology news briefs for July 1, 2001. Announcement of The Library Corporation that its YouSeeMore product includes streaming weather reports from AccuWeather; Mention of Follett Software Co.'s WebCollectionPlus software that enables bilingual students to find information resources more easily; Purchase of the Endeavor Information Systems' ENCompass digital organization and management tool by the University of Pennsylvania Library.

This article offers several information science products as of September 2004. Questel'Orbit announced the release of PatentExaminer, a patent portfolio management system that analyzes patents and enhances the collaboration between search engines, engineers, and patent attorneys. Cuadra Associates, Inc. introduced version 2.0 of STAR/Archives, its archives collections management system. The new version features both browser-based retrieval across collections and dynamic generation of finding aids from within the public access catalog. LexisNexis announced the second phase of its wireless delivery option for the BlackBerry platform. The company also released an enhanced version of LexisNexis Total Search. Factiva announced an agreement with Axel Springer AG, to add three leading German newspapers to Factiva's collection of 9,000 sources. Hoover's, Inc. announced the release of Hoover's Pro Premium, a new subscription-based business information service designed to help small and midsized businesses more efficiently identify sales and marketing opportunities, and achieve business goals more rapidly. Techstreet has announced new upgrades to the Techstreet Web site. With the goal of helping customers find and obtain information faster, the Techstreet Web site includes new vertical industry stores, more options for browsing industry standards, and an updated graphical user interface.

The article presents an update on several electronic publications, digital information resources, Web sites and databases as of March 2004. Yahoo! Inc. announced the launch of extensive election-related offerings to equip consumers, candidates, and political organizations for the 2004 campaign season. Nature Publishing Group has announced that Nature Japan, its Asian subsidiary, will produce a Chinese edition of Nature to be distributed exclusively in mainland China. MicroPatent LLC announced the release of its MPI-INPADOC Plus database. This enterprise-wide search, monitoring, and review tool within MicroPatent's Patent Web has nearly 50 million patent records. Dialog Corp. announced that it has enhanced the BIOSIS Previews database which is available through its Dialog and Dialog DataStar services. The company also announced that it is offering Dialog Choice, a new fixed-free enterprise pricing plan. Serials Solutions Inc. announced that it has released E-Journal Portal as part of its new E-Journal Access & Management Suite. E-Journal Portal delivers a low-maintenance e-journal management solution and includes daily data updates. SLA announced that it has launched the fourth generation of its Web site.

Presents news briefs concerning electronic publishing, as of November 2003. Addition of "The Lancet" backfiles to the ScienceDirect Service of Elsevier; Expansion of the online publishing business of Ingenta; Availability of the collection of Wright brothers papers in the online site of the Library of Congress.

Reports on the Fifth Internet Librarian International meeting held at the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham, England. Hosts for the event; Estimate on the number of delegates who attended the event; Highlights of the event.

Presents the 2002 economic predictions for information industry. Thoughts of Stephen Abram, Vice President of Corporate Development for Micromedia, Ltd./IHS Canada on technological innovations; President of Arnold Information Technology, Stephen E. Arnold, on the importance of information retrieval methods; Matt Dunie, President of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, on how to recover from the dot-com fallout; Others.

SIRSI Corp. has announced that it, along with Blue Angel Technologies, has assisted the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in implementing the first cross-domain Web application to use the […]

In separate announcements, OCLC has announced that it has finalized negotiations to merge with PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service), OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets has been enhanced to include cataloging records […]

OCLC has announced the addition of over 400 new professional and academic journals to the OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online service. In a separate announcement, OCLC reports on the I […]

The Dawson Information Services Group has announced the release of version 2.0 of its online Web-based research tool, IQ. In separate announcements, Dawson said it has reached agreements with several […]

Further evidence that copyright protection terms appear to be heading in only one direction comes from Argentina. The country's ruling party, Front for Victory, recently proposed a draft bill extending [...]

Publishers need to appreciate that the business of being an academic librarian has never been more complex. Along with all of the long-standing needs of managing an institution and a [...]

Reports that the ethnographic field collection `Voices of the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection' from the Library of Congress is available from the American Memory Program at its web site address. Contents of the collection; Reference to the documentation of the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941; Contact point for source of the collection.

Reports that editors of The Education Index, an annotated online directory created as a service of the software company, CollegeView, selected Engineering Information Incorporated's Internet home page as one of the outstanding education-related resources on the Web. Address the home page can be accessed at; Details on the home page; Information on Engineering Information Incorporated; Contact point for Engineering Information Incorporated.

Reports that 68 applications were submitted by ninety-nine institutions in the second round of the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. Who the applications are evaluated by; When award winners will be announced; Reason the Library of Congress is sponsoring the competition; Contact point for more information on the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.

Presents information on the announcement made by the International Library Systems (ILS) that it has made its Sidney Plus library automation software an open system. Features of the system; How the system operates; Benefits of the system; Contact information.

The article reports that Bowker Reed Reference Electronic Publishing has signed an agreement with NOTIS Systems Inc. to make the Books In Print database available electronically via magnetic tape through NOTIS Library Automation Systems. Customers with NOTIS MDAS or who use the Unix-based InfoBase platform, will be able to display Books In Print in the same format as their library's public access catalog. MDAS provides search capabilities, and books between the database and the library's holdings, allowing patrons to identify those items actually owned by the library. MDAS customers will be able to license Books in Print directly from Bowker Reed Reference Electronic Publishing, and obtain the loader program from NOTIS. The loader program will read monthly data updates provided on 9-track magnetic tape reels direct from Bowker, and load it into MDAS. Licensed InfoBase customers will receive pre-processed Books in Print data directly from NOTIS. In addition, full publisher information pertaining to titles found in Books in Print can be licensed from Bowker Reed Reference Electronic Publishing and accessed on both NOTIS systems in the same way.

The article reports that the Technical Library of the Tennessee Valley Authority's National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center (NFERC) in Muscle Shoals, Alabama has recently expanded information services to its customer. Library resources have grown to accommodate the changing research activities at NFERC, and today its collection includes electronic and printed sources which focus on environmental stewardship, alternative technologies, site and materials remediation, and other key environmental issues. The library is internationally recognized for its extensive holdings on fertilizer development and technology. Workstations must have four megabytes of free RAM for CD network functions, 530K of free DOS memory is required once the user is up and running on the network. Online information services include Dialog, Numerica, EPIC, OCLC, National Library of Medicine, Washington Alert, and Wilsonline. Information service personnel have also experienced some difficulty in coaxing the CD packages to run in a multiuser environment.

The article presents news briefs related to the electronic information services industry. Release 4.0 of the WLN Conspectus Software, with greatly increased collection assessment capabilities and a wide range of new features, is now available to libraries and consortia throughout the U.S. The WLN Conspectus is approved by the American Library Association and nationally recognized method for assessing both Dewey and LC classified collections. Of special interest to collection development librarians and library administrators are two powerful new data files: the Management Information File and the Collection Analysis File. Public Affairs Information Service Inc., publishers of the international public and social policy database, have announced publication of PAlS international Journals Indexed in 1991. The CRYSTMET file, a crystallographic database produced by the Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, is now available on STN. The file contains data for over 21,000 metals and intermetallic compounds that have appeared in the journal literature since 1913.

This article reports on the agreement signed by the University of North Dakota with Unisys Corp. in 1989 for the Unisys PALS Library Management system to serve libraries in a statewide network. The network will initially allow seven of the state's institutions of higher education, the Grand Forks Public Library and the North Dakota State Library to make their combined 1.7 million volume collection available to any library patron. Planned expansion will enable the system to include the records of all major public, private academic, state agency and other libraries in North Dakota.

Anniversaries often merit commemoration and perhaps none more so than those heralding the tectonic events that reshaped nations and continents. It's no surprise then that Europeana, Europe's online cultural archive, [...]

At the recent Australian Library and Information Association Conference in Sydney, Sarah Houghton-Jan, a celebrity in the librarian world, was on hand to present a keynote titled, Digital Libraries: The [...]

Someday I may no longer need to write about the Google Books settlement and can instead focus on the future of a dynamic new mechanism for universal access to an [...]

The article offers information on products for information resources and management including the eBook Religion Collection from EBSCO Information Services, Westlaw PeopleMap public records tool from Thomson Reuters, and LibLime Academic Joha 5.6 open source integrated library system (ILS) software from LibLime.

The article offers information on the Charles Darwin's handwritten drafts and personally signed pieces create an incredibly powerful impression that simply could not be achieved from looking at a digital version or even a published copy. Topics discussed include the temporary export ban was prompted by a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, run by the U.K.'s Arts Council.

Statistics released by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) reveal that mobile access to the internet is rapidly becoming the technology to watch. In mid-2008, the world's total number of mobile [...]

Yeah, I know. It's been a heck of a year and lots of bad stuff has happened. * Healthcare costs are up. * Job security is down. * Credit card [...]

The ultimate tipping point is upon us. It may even be behind us. That whooshing sound you hear is the winds of change. There are no more libraries in the [...]

Libraries in the European Union (EU) appear to have been given a dim green light to digitize books in their collections and make them available to readers on dedicated terminals. [...]

Business, Technology & Transportation Publications Added to NEXIS McGraw-Hill News, a business news service featuring detailed analysis of key events, is now available on NEXIS. Distrubted by McGraw-Hill Inc. of [...]

The article evaluates several products related to information industry including the BiblioApps from BiblioCommons; the Children's Literarture and Culture from Adam Matthew Digital; and the open+ count and open+ reserve from Bibliotheca.

Single portals that provide access to multiple data collections and integrated, international collections of diverse multimedia materials continue to receive significant funding from international bodies, as with UNdata and Europeana. [...]

As information seekers continually rely on the Web to satisfy their needs, officials at the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library (CCPL) felt that it was completely possible to meet them [...]

It's November, and that means Online Information 2006 is rapidly approaching. This major information industry event, which will be held Nov. 28-30 at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, is [...]

The many and varied institutions of Europe can present a confusing and seemingly unending array of unions, councils, commissions, committees, and parliaments. The 25-state European Union may be the best-known [...]