Professional Reading Shelf
National Libraries--New Zealand
Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa National Library Applauds New Digital Strategy
"The government's new Digital Strategy is a giant step forward for New Zealand, and will be widely celebrated by the nation's library and information community, says National Librarian Penny Carnaby. For the past two years the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa has been working closely with the Ministry of Economic Development, other central government departments and Local Government New Zealand, and consulting with the library and information sector, to develop this essential contribution to the nation's digital well-being."
-- Libraries
Source: Center for Research Libraries Spring 2005 Issue of CRL Focus is Now Online
Articles include:
+ South Asia Microform Project--a Ghazal of Historical Resources
+ Digital South Asia Library
+ A Union Catalogue for South Asia
+ DSAL' s Digital Jewel: The Institute of Indian Studies Center for Art and Archaeology Photo Archive
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Electronic Resources
Source: British Academy
Just Released, E-resources for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- A British Academy Policy Review
"Information and communications technology is having a major impact in the form of, and access to, research resources. The Academy has consulted national and representative bodies, and individual researchers, and has examined the technical and organisational issues of e-resource provision and access. Its survey and analysis leads to a series of recommendations addressed to institutions and to individual researchers."
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Information Management
Source: via E-LIS, to be published in Library Review The Nature of Information in the 21st Century: Conundrums for the Informatics Community?
"The proliferation of electronic information via the Web has witnessed the unique characteristics of information distend yet further. With such seismic developments occurring in such a short period of time, it seems prudent to once again consider the very nature of information and to assess whether this accelerated growth has implications for the work of the informatics community and our information society. The paper begins by revisiting and refreshing the unique characteristics of information via a reappraisal of the relevant literature. These characteristics are then contextualised within the New Economy and traditional economic theory. Once these unique characteristics have been examined, the author discusses how the nature of information in the 21st century presents the informatics community with new and difficult challenges." By George Macgregor, Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde (UK) Full paper (PDF; 152 KB)
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PubChem
Open Access
Source: Open Access Working Group via SPARC Support for NIH's PubChem Database
"OAWG sends letter to U.S. Representative that calls for support for an online information resource that aids biomedical research." Direct link to PubChem.
UPDATE: Chemical publisher goes after NIH
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