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Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, and Inclusion, the theme of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) biennial international conference (ozk.unizd.hr/lida)--held at the University of Zadar [...]

There are more advertised positions than informatics graduates to fill them, according to Ron Larsen (University of Pittsburgh), who gave the first keynote speech, 'Seismic Shifts in Professional Librarianship,' at [...]

The emerging discipline, profession, and practice of digital curation and preservation was one of two meeting themes at the bi annual Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, held June [...]

The 'quantitative precision (of information) and its breadth of application have come at a cost,' said Terrence W. Deacon, professor of anthropology and neuroscience at the University of California-Berkeley (UC--Berkeley), [...]

A senior police official in Croatia has been invited to a conference in Belgium, a country he has never visited. What policing and criminal justice systems should he expect to [...]

The International Nuclear Information System (INIS), the world's largest database for nuclear science, is now freely available on the internet (http://inis db2.iaea.org), following a successful pilot test involving 10 member [...]

iConference 2017, the 12th annual conference of the iSchools organization, was held March 22-25, 2017, at the Wuhan University School of Information Management in conjunction with Sungkyungkwan University's Library & [...]

'Changing Information Retrieval Paradigms in the Digital Library' and 'Changes in Library Structures and Functions' were the themes at the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2003 conference, held May […]

Two similar conclusions--'Altmetrics can supplement but not substitute for citations' and 'Altmetrics should not substitute, but can complement citation data'--were representative of many presented by researchers at the Libraries in [...]

This conference addressed ethics and information services issues The third Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference was held May 23-25 at the Interuniversity Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, with a […]

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012 and the American Society for Information Science and Technology European Chapter (ASIS&T-EC) held joint conferences in June at the University of Zadar in [...]

Mass book digitization ... is causing an industrial scale revolution, effecting big changes in technology, services and use, and big changes in libraries,' according to Tefko Saracevic, a professor in [...]

As information architecture (IA) becomes a bigger part of the overall business plan in commercial organizations, the role of information architects is also moving to strategic levels. This movement was […]

Librarians are facing a new task, according to Carol C. Kuhlthau of Rutgers University in New Jersey. As the opening speaker at the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference […]

Human Information Behavior' and 'Competences for Digital Libraries' were themes of the sixth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, held May 24-27 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and May 28-29 in […]

Integrating Information Seeking and IR' and 'Information Services-Practice and Research' were the themes of the fourth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, held May 21-24 at the Inter-university Centre […]

Libraries are no longer about books,' says Helen Partridge, a professor and one of the three keynote speakers at the 5th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Library and Information Education and [...]

Tefko Saracevic, professor at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was honored with a book titled Contributions to the Creation of a […]

This year's annual Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference was held May 30-June 3 in Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia. Each year, the conference focuses on two themes: The first […]

In this article the author talks about the spring conference season which was pretty much nonexistent, and walk down memory lane with some Information and who describe their favorite conference experiences and share their thoughts on the future of in-person events. It mentions that the 1989 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada highlights of the meeting were the opening barbeque reception at the Reno Rodeo.

The article offers information on Policing OnLine Information System (POLIS), an online database created by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and available at http://polis.osce.org. It is described as a public web site that is crated for use by police officers, both active and retired, those involved in the criminal justice system, prosecutors, judges, researchers and law enforcement students and instructors. Its digital library supports police training. Among its main subject headings are border policing, crime, and human rights.

The article reviews the web site International Nuclear Information System (INIS) from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at http://inis db2.iaea.org.

Investigates whether the USS Barb (SS-220) warship under the command of Eugene B. Fluckey received operational intelligence support from the United States Naval Group China/Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACCO) to enable them to attack Japanese ships in 1945. Accounts that point to SACCO intelligence support; SACCO commander Milton E. Miles' account of the events; Coast watcher William Stewart's account.