UNESCO and FAO Launch Training CD-Rom [Free] on Digitisation for Librarians and Laymen
Professional Reading Shelf Digitization
Source: UNESECO/FAO UNESCO and FAO Launch Training CD-Rom [Free] on Digitisation for Librarians and Laymen
"UNESCO and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization are launching the "Digitization and Digital Libraries" module to teach librarians and laymen how to digitize documents and put them on line and create virtual libraries. The kit, available from the FAO and UNESCO free of charge, is compatible with a wide range of computers..."
-- Librarians
Source: The Stanford Report Librarian, marine biologist finds niche at Hopkins
Joe Wible has worked in libraries for more than 30 years and logged more than 1,000 dives in his life, making him perfectly suited for his job as head librarian and bibliographer at Hopkins Marine Station this, despite a salvaged sign he keeps in his office window: 'No wet suits in the library!!'"
-- Preservation--Canada
Source: Saskatoon StarPhoenix Pages for the ages: U of S prof on quest to reassemble pages of centuries-old manuscripts
"From inside a peach-coloured cardboard container, the white-gloved hands of librarian Linda Fritz gingerly lift each mounted page. Some of the aged pages are tiny -- the size of a cigarette box -- and others are long and broad."
-- Patents--Databases Information Visualization
Source: IWR STN set for a new analysis vista
"Users of the STN International online service for science and technology researchers are now being offered a new analysis and visualisation (A&V) tool, STN AnaVist. Developed jointly by Chemical Abstracts Service in the US and Germany's FIZ Karlsruhe, the software aims to give information professionals deeper insights into scientific literature and data extracted from STN databases. It will be officially released 'this summer'."
-- Government Information--United States
Public Libraries--United States
Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services Request for Proposals: National Study on User Satisfaction with Access to Government Information and Services at Public Libraries and Public Access Computing Centers
"The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is seeking proposals for a national research study on how individuals with limited access to Internet resources (those who do not have broadband access from home, work, or school; who choose to access government services and information from locations other than home, work, or school; or who do so through traditional means of access) access federal, state, and local government services and whether such users are satisfied with the access provided by public libraries and public access computing centers."
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