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Wednesday, 22nd June 2005

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Information Industry--Outsell
Source: San Francisco Business Journal
Outsell: Providing targeted information from all over the map
A profile of information industry market research company. "Today, Outsell's annual revenue is approaching $7 million and growing at a 15 percent to 20 percent clip."
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Digital Information--Conferences
Source: UKOLN
1st International Digital Curation Conference
"Registration for the conference is now open. The Conference will be of interest to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data from researchers and curators through to policy makers and funders."
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Vietnamese Newspapers--Preservation
Source: Cornell University
Microfilm project preserves war-era Vietnamese newspapers
"A large collection of yellowing newsprint documenting Vietnam's war era is being archived for posterity, thanks to cooperative microfilming projects undertaken by Cornell University's Carl A. Kroch Library and other institutions.... The ongoing work is part of the Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM), established in 1970 and administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago. SEAM's holdings -- including dissertations, manuscript collections and hundreds of different historic newspapers from every country in Southeast Asia -- are available for loan to CRL member libraries and universities for research purposes."
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Public Libraries--U.S.
Source: Various
Public Library Briefs
Los Angeles: County library windfall cheered
Kansas City: KC library plans cuts in services
Bloomfield Township, Michigan: Library collections poised to stretch out
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Digital Archives
Source: Technology Review
MIT's DSpace Explained
Includes useful graphic.

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