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Monday, 22nd March 2004

Webcast: Next Generation Reference Services

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Reference Services
Source: OCLC
Webcast: Next Generation Reference Services
"Five experts discuss next-generation reference services at the OCLC Symposium held on January 9, 2004 during ALA Midwinter. The experts are: Diane Nester Kresh, Director for Public Service Collections, Library of Congress; Susan McGlamery, Project Director, 24/7 Reference; Anne Craig, Network Director, ILLINET/OCLC Services, Illinois State Library; David Lankes, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies; and Joseph Janes, Associate Professor and Chair of Library Information Science at the Information School of the University of Washington."
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Awards
LITA Names Several Award Winners
+ 2004 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award: Eric Lease Morgan from the University Libraries of Notre Dame
+ LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award: Susan McGlamery from 24/7
+ Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology: Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
+ Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award: Jerome Yavarkovsky, Boston College
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Open Access
+ New Open Society Institute Grants Program Will Promote Open Access Publishing
+ (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths (via BioMedCentral)
"BioMed Central responds to criticisms of the Open Access publishing model."
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Wireless Libraries
Source: Government Computer News
Library of Congress Sets Wireless Course
"With little or no wireless connectivity in the three main LOC buildings, the library IT team has awarded a $2.9 million contract to EMS Technologies Inc. of Atlanta for a system to support wireless voice and data access via cell phones, personal digital assistants and notebook PCs."
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Government Libraries--United States
Source: Federal Computer Week
NIST Honored for Library Tech
"The Library of Congress' Federal Library and Information Center Committee will give awards on March 25 to federal libraries and librarians for outstanding work and technological innovations in 2003. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Research Library will be recognized as federal library of the year among libraries with 11 or more staff members or contract employees, the Library of Congress committee officials said. The Library Services Department at the Naval Medical Center, in Portsmouth, Va., will be commended as federal library of the year among libraries with 10 or fewer staff members."

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