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Friday, 29th April 2005

Interview with Crispin Jewitt, Head of Sound Archive at the British Library

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Conferences--Canada
Metadata
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada Announces Canadian Metadata Forum 2005
The theme of this year's Forum (September 27 and 28, 2005 in Ottawa) is: Metadata: A Reality Check.
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Archives--United Kingdom
Digitization Projects--United Kingdom--Audio
Source: JISC
Interview with Crispin Jewitt, Head of Sound Archive at the British Library
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Libraries--PATRIOT Act
Source: Reuters
Congress Pressed to Renew Library-Search Powers
See Also: Comments from ALA President
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Digital Archives
Source: Center for Research Libraries
Center for Research Libraries Awarded Mellon Founcation Grant for Certification of Digital Archives
"The Center has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop the processes and activities required to audit and certify digital archives."
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OAIster
Federated Searching
Open Archives Initiative
Metadata
Source: Research Information
Looking for pearls: An Interview with Kat Hagerdorn from OAIster
"It can be hard to find all the relevant material online when there is so much available. The OAIster project of the University of Michigan in the USA provides a solution by harvesting the information that is hidden in over 400 institutions around the world. Katerina Hagerdorn, metadata harvesting librarian for the project, describes what this means."
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Library Organizations
Source: American Library Association
Recently Released, 2003-2004 ALA Annual Report

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