New White Paper on Special Libraries’ Recession Survival Strategies

Whitepaper  |  newsbreaks.infotoday.com | Jun 15, 2009

J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc. (www.jjkeller.com), a provider of regulatory compliance information on HR, safety, and transportation issues, announced the availability of a new, free white paper, "Economic Impact: How Information Professionals Are Coping With Change.

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/New-White-Paper-on-Special-Libraries-Recession-Survival-Strategies-54672.asp

Book Reviews - BookPage.com

BookPage is a monthly book review distributed nationwide by more than 2,000 bookstores and libraries. Ask your local bookstore or library for the current print edition of BookPage.

http://www.bookpage.com/

OXFORD ONLINE - Oxford University Press - Library Journal Industry Leaders

Resource  |  libraryjournal.firstlightera.com

Online resource service for libraries including encyclopedia of popular art & music

http://libraryjournal.firstlightera.com/EN/Microsites/1/Oxford+University+Press/OXFORDONLINE

Kenney DSS Webcast Now Available [OCLC]

Resource  |  www.oclc.org | Sep 30, 2009

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 30 September 2009—Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, spoke at OCLC on 23 September 2009. A recording of her presentation and the discussion that followed, including audio, video and slides, is now available as a streaming webcast.

http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2009-09-30.htm

Grants & Nonprofit Info Center

Arizona Guide to Grants, Foundation Directory Online, & Foundation Grants To Individuals Online. Available at all library locations & the library's WiFi network! Read more...

http://www.library.pima.gov/grants/

Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences, Three-Volume Set - Elsevier

Review  |  www.elsevier.com

Reviews "The editors have done a fine job of keeping the language scientific enough to make this valuable for working scientists, providing abundant data, digrams of genes important in applied plant biology, and technical measurements, while keeping the text clear and simple...

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookreview.newsroom/673632/review?navopenmenu=0

Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper

Whitepaper  |  connect.educause.edu | Mar 6, 2008

The paper describes four large-scale projectsGoogle Book Search, Microsoft Live Search Books, Open Content Alliance, and the Million Book Projectand their digitization strategies. It then discusses a range of issues affecting the stewardship of the digital collections they create:

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/PreservationintheAgeofLar/46357

Finding Periodical Articles on History - Harvard College Library

This guide is intended to help Harvard students and faculty find periodical articles for historical studies. The HOLLIS Catalog does not include periodical articles. Articles are found via periodical indexes.

http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/history/periodicals/

Grades 5-12 - Book Reviews - School Library Journal

Review  |  www.schoollibraryjournal.com

The latest reviews of fiction and nonfiction titles--including novels, historical fiction, and curriculum related content--for middle school and high school audiences from School Library Journal.

https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/community/Grade+5+and+Up/47067.html

Reviews of newspapers on the Kindle

Review  |  www.teleread.org | Sep 27, 2009

Amazon Kindle Review has a compilation of reviews of the various newspapers that can be displayed on the Kindle. If you are a newspaper reader you might want

http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/26/reviews-of-newspapers-on-the-kindle/