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Focuses on the agreement entered into by Google with major libraries to digitize books in their collections and to make them available online. Details of the agreement; Universities and libraries that will be participating in the project.

This article reports that a consortium of libraries at five New York State independent colleges and universities have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development of a resource-sharing system for academic libraries throughout the state. The project, called the ConnectNY, allows the institutions to share library holdings, making the collections of all five readily available to students, faculty and staff.

Focuses on the web site where final draft of a report by Marcia Bates on improving user access to library catalog and portal information has been made available by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Metadata Enrichment Task Force. Features of the report; Contents of the report.

Describes the online exhibits available on the Library of Congress' American Memory Historical Collections Web site. Other information provided by the Web site.

Focuses on the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) publication of reports examining challenges involved in building coherent digital library collections that complement other formats. `Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources Issues and Practices,' by Timothy D. Jewell; `Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums'; `Strategies for Building Digitized Collections,' by Abby Smith.

Reports that as of January, 2001, Innovative Interfaces Inc.'s integration of netLibrary e-books is available to libraries at no charge. How the collections are available to libraries using the company's INNOPAC and Millennium systems; Features that integrate the collection, including search, previews and check-out.

Relates news briefs on digital libraries. A partnership at Cornell University with computer scientists and librarians to develop better strategies for documents and other data; The funding by the United States Department of Education of two projects at Columbia University to make South Asian resources and library collections more available through enhancement and use of the World Wide Web.

States that the papers of Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky are available at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. Reference to Tobolowsky's death in 1995; Tobolowsky's contribution to the Texas Equal Rights Amendment.

Presents information on the British Library, London, England, focusing on the improvements made to its facilities. How the `New York Times' newspaper described the building; Accomodations of the library; Type of collections available; Background information on the library.

Reports that the vast majority of Americans see public libraries as a key educational institution that should be well-supported. New American Library Association publication `America's Libraries; New Views in the '90s'; Latest available research and statistics, drawn from a variety of sources, on circulation, collections, usage, and public attitudes about libraries; Contact point for copies; Details.

Announces that several online collections from the Library of Congress are available from American Memory, a project of the National Digital Library Program. Features of the online collections; Vendor contact information.

Announces that portraits of all the United States presidents and most of the first ladies are available from the Library of Congress American Memory online collections. Brief background on American Memory; World Wide Web address.

Notes the availability of the 20th edition of Brodart's Elementary School Library Collection (ESLC) in print and CD-ROM format. Other available formats for the children's material software; Contact point and World Wide Web address.

Reports that the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program is adding three new collections of American historical information. Collection contents; Names of the three new collections; Access available through the Library's Learning Page education software; Contact points.

Declares that the 20th edition of Brodart Co.'s `The Elementary School Library Collection' (ESLC) is available for school, public, and academic libraries. Special features such as an interview with Arthur Brody, chairman of the board and a history of ESLC; Availability in print and CD-ROM versions; Contact point.

Reports that the papers of Adele Goodman Clark, a prominent figure in the Richmond and Virginia political and arts communities, have been made available for research by the Cabell Library's Special Collections and Archives at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Includes Clark's personal papers, as well as records of organizations with which Clark was actively associated during her lifetime.

Reports that the Barry Broadfoot collection is now available in the University of Manitoba Libraries' Department of Archives and Special Collections. Broadfoot as a well-known Canadian journalist and author.

The article presents several international initiatives that are making digital collections from libraries and cultural institutions available to researchers on the Internet. In September 2008, the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed to contribute materials to the U.S. Library of Congress' World Digital Library. The Wellcome Library is partnering with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to make available its collection of Egyptian and Arabic medical manuscripts. A pilot program, to be finished in late 2009 at the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library, will digitize medieval texts including early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John Wyclif's Latin to English translation of the New Testament.

The article offers updates on several digitization projects across the world. Europeana, the European Digital Library, is scheduled to become a reality in November 2008. In August 2008, the European Commission raised concerns that cultural institutions across Europe were not digitizing enough material. In a communication from the commission, allegations revealed that only one percent of archival material in the 2.5 billion book collections of Europe's libraries is available in digital form. Meanwhile, the National Library of Estonia will be canceling its plans to submit digitized materials to the Europeana project.

Announces that the Library of Congress has made its collection of Thomas Jefferson papers available online at the American Memory Web site. How the Jefferson papers include correspondence, memorandum, notes, and manuscript volumes; Consideration of how the local link resolver can link from the HLAS Online records to the Web resources.

Discusses how to create a career center in the library with available resources. Description of who the job seekers are as of August 2002; Topics of location for career materials and use of the three-year rule for thinning collections; Suggestion that libraries inform patrons about local resources, teach Internet tools, make available word processing stations, and offer job-seeking classes.

Reports on the announcement by Sagebrush Corp. of the release of a version of its library automation program, Athena v8.1. Features of the version; Add-on enhancements, including Athena WebLink, and Athena zMARC; Use of Athena Webserver v3.1 to make a library's collection available online; Abilities of users with Athena v8.1.

Details the issues discussed during the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Paper Preservation Symposium held on October 17-21, 1988. Usability of research library collections; Engineering answers to book preservation; Preservation technology choices available.

Replies to questions related to library science. Reading plans to expose elementary school students to various types of literature; Equipment and software for film collections; Resources available for libraries that want to sell or discard films. INSET: OVER TO YOU.

This article focuses on the preservation of British library newspapers that have been published during the 19th century. The British Library Newspapers Web site was created in partnership with Gale International, a part of Cengage Learning, with funding provided by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Free access will be provided to the database within the BL building and to all the Further and Higher Education communities in Great Britain. Fee-based services will be launched for the general public in 2008. The 19th-century British Library Newspapers add to a rich collection of other historical material that is already available from Cengage or has been funded by JISC.

The article reports on the plan of Springer to launch its eBook program at the American Library Association conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 21 to 24, 2006. The redesigned SpringerLink will give subscribers access to about 10,000 Springer eBooks. eBooks and eBook Series titles are available as searchable PDF documents, while eReference Works are available through HTML. Libraries can purchase a complete collection or one of the 12 topic categories. The program will also link to an OPAC system.

Presents news briefs related to libraries in Europe as of June 2006. Political leaders who supported France's call for the creation of a digital library; Response of French National Library President Jean-Noël Jeanneney to the announcement of Google that it would make books from the collections of major research libraries available online.

This article reports that netLibrary has teamed with Recorded Books LLC to create a new program for delivering audio books to libraries through the World Wide Web. Key elements of the program include an innovative pricing structure, unlimited access, the ability for patrons to download to a range of portable devices, and a technology solution that supports download via broadband or dial-up capabilities. Library users will be able to search for, preview, check out, and listen to audio books via the Internet and the netLibrary platform. They can focus their search on audio titles only or take advantage of search functionality that integrates audio titles with all electronic content their library may have in its netLibrary collection. Web-based collections of Recorded Books titles will be available for purchase through either Recorded Books or netLibrary and will be delivered via the netLibrary interface. Library patrons will be able to search for audio books just as they would for any type of electronic content in their library's netLibrary collection. In addition, libraries can view demonstrations of the program upon request, which will be formally lanced in December 2004.

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.

EBSCO Publishing has announced that, through EBSCO SmartLinks, it has made available to EBSCOhost database subscribers more than 100 million records with access to full text.EBSCO SmartLinks allows users to gain seamless access from a citation in an EBSCOhost proprietary or secondary database result list to the corresponding full text located in a variety of electronic resources. In addition to linking to the full text available within EBSCOhost databases, users may also link to their library's collection of electronic journals available through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals service and publishers that contribute to CrossRef.

knovel Corp., a Web-based reference publisher that delivers scientific and technical books and databases to engineers, scientists, and students, has released six new chemistry references from major publishers. MARC records are supplied by knovel and loaded by OCLC into WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog). The six titles added to knovel are 'International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology; knovel Critical Tables'; 'knovel Solvents--A Properties Database; Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances'; 'Smithsonian Physical Tables (ninth revised edition)'; and 'Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds.' The MARC records are accessible via WorldCat and are also available through OCLC's WorldCat Collection Sets for libraries that are interested in loading the records into their local online catalogs. Source: knovel Corp., Norwich, NY, 607/648-4770; http://www.knovel.com. .

Mentions three books available from the American Library Association Order Fulfillment. 'Directory of Test Collections in Academic, Professional, and Research Libraries,' edited by Paul G. Fehrmann and Nancy Patricia O'Brien et al; 'Managing Electronic Reserves,' edited by Jeff Rosedale et al; 'Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-On Guide,' by Elaina Norlin and CM! Winters.

Reports that Follett Software Co. has expanded the functionality of its WebCollection Plus online library collection access software to make it available for Novell NetWare v5.1 users. How the system allows for library collections to be searched from any location; Intention to bring the system into a greater number of schools; Features.

Presents a checklist of recent announcements in regards to information and library science. Conversion of thousands of manuscript collection records to machine-readable form; Acceptance of a hundred thousand dollar bequest from Ethel M. Crate to the Tulsa Library in Oklahoma; Automation project to make Vermont's public and private library collections available to every citizen in the state; Other announcements.

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 on the Library of Congress's announcement that its National Digital Library Program has made three new collections of American historical materials from primary sources available on its World Wide Web site. Evolution of the Conservative Movement, 1805-1920; Gottscho-Schleisner Photographs, 1932-1960; Theodor Horydczak Photographs, 1920-150; Features of The Learning Page.