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Tuesday, 10th May 2005

New Article by Elizabeth Liddy: Metadata: A Promising Solution

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Federal Libraries--Awards
Source: Library of Congress/Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC)
FLICC Announces Awards For Federal Librarianship
"The Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) has announced the winners of its national awards for federal librarianship to recognize the many innovative ways that federal libraries, librarians and library technicians fulfill the information demands of government, business and scholarly communities and the American public."
+ 2004 Federal Library/Information Center of the Year:
-- Large Library/Information Center Category (with a staff of 11 or more federal and/or contract employees): The Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
-- Small Library/Information Center Category (with a staff of 10 or fewer federal and/or contract employees): The Edwards Air Force Base Library, Air Force Material Command, Edwards Air Force Base, ca
+ 2004 Federal Librarian of the Year: Barbara D. Wrinkle, chief of the Air Force Libraries Branch at the Air Force Library and Information System
+ 2004 Federal Library Technician of the Year: Mary Alice B. Mendez, library technician at the Defense Language Institute --English Language Center Library at Lackland Air Force Base, TX
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Metadata
Source: EDUCAUSE Review
Metadata: A Promising Solution
A new article by Professor Elizabeth Liddy.
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Academic Libraries
Library Marketing
Source: BYU News Net (Brigham Young University)
Manager educates library patrons
Call him a library communications guru. Call him a manager of communications and public relations. Just don't call him a librarian. Call him Mike Hooper, communications manager for the Harold B. Lee Library. His is the difficult task of ensuring library patrons know and utilize the multitude of resources offered there."
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Digital Preservation
Source: FCW
Clinton tapes face destruction
"Historians worry that the wording of the destruction notice is too vague, but NARA says all the data will be preserved, including notes and metadata."
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PATRIOT Act
Source: Department of Justice
New: Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, concerning "Section 1001 of the USA Patriot Act"
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Cataloging
Source: CRL
Via the Center for Reserch Libraries Web Site
"For a second consecutive year the Center earned the top spot for contributing the most original records to Worldcat - 5/9/05
Hats off to the Center's cataloging staff for producing more than 130,950 catalog records in 2004, including 106,496 for the Center's foreign dissertations collection. Of the total records produced, 63,549 were original to WorldCat."
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Health Information--United States
Source: NLM
NLM expands Go Local
"NLM has expanded MedlinePlus Go Local coverage to include the states of Indiana and Massachusetts. Patients, families, and friends from those states join residents of North Carolina and Missouri in being able to link from MedlinePlus health information to local health services."

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