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Vanderbilt to Digitize TV News Archive
Vanderbilt University announced that it will digitally
preserve more than 30,000 videotaped hours of television
news programming through a grant awarded to the Vanderbilt
Television News Archive by the National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH). The $281,154 grant will fund
a 2-year project to transfer programming—recorded
by the archive and dating back to 1968—from three-quarter-inch
U-Matic videotape to MPEG-2 digital video.
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is unique
in its collection of complete news broadcasts of all
the major networks, which includes the advertising
as well as the news content. "We reproduce the cultural
experience that people had in their living rooms when
the newscasts first aired," said Marshall Breeding,
library technology officer at Vanderbilt and columnist
for Computers in Libraries.
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive works in close
partnership with the Library of Congress, which will
be the permanent repository of the digital content.
Source: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 615/322-7311;
http://www.vanderbilt.edu. Special Libraries Association Is Relocating
The Special Libraries Association reported plans
to relocate its global headquarters from Washington,
D.C., to a 15,000-square-foot facility in Virginia,
effective May 89, 2004. The new address will
be 331 So. Patrick St., Alexandria, VA, 22314.
Source: Special Libraries Association, Alexandria,
VA, 202/234-4700; http://www.sla.org.
Endeavor Extends Global Footprint
Expanding its library services across Europe, Latin
America, and Asia, Endeavor Information Systems opened
new offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; and Singapore. The offices will complement
the company's existing operations in Melbourne, London,
and Des Plaines, Ill., which focus on the Australia/New
Zealand, U.K./Europe, and North American markets, respectively.
Source: Endeavor Information Systems, Des Plaines,
IL, 847/296-2200; http://www.endinfosys.com. EBSCO Reaches Pay-Per-View Milestone
EBSCO announced that the EBSCOhost Electronic
Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced now includes more than
1 million pay-per-view articles. The milestone is attributed
in large part to the continual growth of the portfolio
of Taylor & Francis titles and the recent addition
of Springer-Verlag journals.
Source: EBSCO Information Services, Birmingham, AL,
205/991-6600; http://www.ebsco.com.
IMLS Plans Health Index Survey
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced that it will release the Heritage Health
Index questionnaire to 16,000 archives, historical
societies, libraries, museums, and scientific organizations
nationwide in July. This survey of the condition and
preservation needs of collections will—for the
first time—produce a national picture of the state
of artistic, historic, and scientific collections held
by the full range of institutions that care for them.
The Heritage Health Index will provide baseline information
to guide future preservation planning and programs
and target urgent needs for increased funding. The
results and recommendations that come out of the Index
will be publicized and given to key national and state
policy makers.
The Heritage Health Index is administered by Heritage
Preservation in partnership with IMLS. Major funding
for the project comes from IMLS and the Getty Grant
Program. Additional support comes from the Bay Foundation,
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Peck Stacpoole Foundation,
and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services,
Washington, DC, 202/606-8536; http://www.imls.gov. Your Digital Library ARTstor Opens Digital Library
ARTstor, a nonprofit initiative founded by The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, announced that its Digital Library
will be available to nonprofit educational and cultural
institutions in the U.S., starting this summer. The
ARTstor Digital Library includes digital images and
related data, the tools to make active use of those
images, and an online environment intended to balance
the interests of users with those of content providers.
ARTstor's Charter Collection will contain approximately
300,000 digital images of visual material from different
cultures and disciplines; it is expected to grow by
a half-million images by summer 2006. ARTstor was established
with the mission to use digital technology to enhance
scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and
associated fields.
Source: ARTstor, New York, 212/838-8400; http://www.artstor.org. Thomson Gale Offers Free MARC Records
MARC records for Literature Resource Center's most-studied
authors are now available from Thomson Gale for free
download to library OPACs. The records for the 2,600
most-studied authors contain InfoMarks that allow libraries
to securely deliver copyright-cleared information to
patrons through a cut-and-paste methodology.
To download the Literature Resource Center most-studied
authors MARC records, access http://www.gale.com, click
on "Title Lists," click on "MARC 856 and ASCII Records
with InfoMarks," navigate to Literature Resource Center,
and download the MARC records and upload them into
your catalog.
Source: Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, MI, 800/877-4253;
http://www.gale.com. netLibrary Launches eBook of the Month
OCLC announced the start of its netLibrary divison's
eBook of the Month campaign. The project will provide
participating libraries and their patrons with access
to contemporary best-sellers at no charge. Each month,
netLibrary, together with leading publishers, will
select a new featured title and provide unlimited access
to the eBook through the home pages of the more than
8,700 public, academic, and special libraries that
offer netLibrary eBooks. In many cases, the selected
titles will support industrywide literacy and awareness
initiatives, such as Women's History Month and National
Poetry Month.
Source: OCLC, Inc., Dublin, OH, 800/848-5878, 614/764-6000;
http://www.oclc.org. PARTNERSHIPS EMI Signs with Classical International
EMI and Classical International announced a licensing
agreement to provide EMI Classics recordings to libraries
via the Classical Music Library service. Under the
agreement, recordings from EMI Classics will be made
available for streaming to libraries that subscribe
to Classical Music Library. The EMI recordings will
increase the size of the Classical Music Library collection
to more than 30,000 tracks in the first phase of the
project. This is the first agreement to offer digital
recordings from a major record label to libraries.
Source: Classical International, Ltd., New York,
800/859-9306; http://www.classical.com.
EBSCO and Sirsi Simplify Serials Invoicing
EBSCO Information Services announced that it is partnering
with Sirsi to provide the invoice data and format specifications
that allow libraries using the Sirsi Unicorn Library
Management System to receive and load X12 serials invoices
from EBSCO. An interface between the two systems allows
X12 invoice files to be transmitted to the customer
via FTP and to be loaded by the library directly into
the Sirsi Unicorn system. EBSCO regional offices can
provide information on the new service.
Source: EBSCO Information Services, Birmingham, AL,
205/991-6600; http://www.ebsco.com. NEW/ENHANCED DATABASES Elsevier Launches Scopus Trials
Elsevier announced the final testing and user trials
of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, the
full-text linking abstracting-and-indexing (A&I)
database. A full commercial release is expected in
the fourth quarter of 2004.
Scopus is the result of a 2-year collaboration with
librarians and researchers at more than 20 institutions.
Elsevier claims that it features the biggest A&I
database of scientific literature ever assembled, covering
titles from more than 4,000 STM publishers. In addition,
Scopus has the ability to search the scientific Web
using the science-only Internet search engine, Scirus.
Source: Elsevier, Inc., San Diego, 619/231-6616;
http://www.news.scopus.com.
Dialog Launches New Aerobase Database
Dialog announced the release of a new database containing
scientific and technical research related to the global
aerospace industry. The new Aerobase database includes
references, abstracts, and controlled-vocabulary indexing
of scientific and technical journal articles, preprints,
conference proceedings, books, theses, and unpublished
literature related to the aerospace and aeronautical
industries and dating back to 1999. At its launch,
the database contained more than 20,000 documents;
more will be added monthly. The first additions will
include international journals and conference literature.
Source: The Dialog Corporation, Cary, NC, 800/334-2564;
http://www.dialog.com. EBSCO Adds Features to LinkSource
EBSCO announced that LinkSource now offers several
new features, including more customization options,
an expanded knowledgebase of more than 550 database
definitions and 100 link templates, and automatic processing
of A-to-Z export files. Additional new features include
the ability to prioritize access to full-text content,
the option to take the end user directly to the article
if full text is included on the LinkSource menu, additional
customization of the LinkSource menu, the ability to
customize text messages to be displayed when an end
user follows a link to full text, additional functions
to support linking based on a second criterion if the
first is not met, and access to the citation manager.
Source: EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich, MA, 800/653-2726;
http://www.ebsco.com. FIZ Karlsruhe Adds Patent Database
FIZ Karlsruhe loaded FRANCEPAT on STN International,
adding more than 1 million records of French patents
and patent applications published by the Institut National
de la Propriété Industrielle, as well
as 400,700 images, to STN's existing French patent
data. Updated weekly, the new database comprises all
patents published in France since 1966, special pharmaceutical
patents published from 1961 through 1978, and Complementary
Protection Certificates from 1969 to present. All records
are in French, but English descriptors are available
for records from 1987 onward.
Source: FIZ Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 011-49-7247-808-555;
http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de. Dialog Provides CBS MarketWatch Content
Dialog announced that real-time financial and business
news and analysis produced by CBS MarketWatch is now
available through four of its services: Dialog NewsRoom,
Dialog NewsEdge, Dialog NewsEdge Live, and NewsEdge
Insight. The CBS MarketWatch content includes a daily
news feed of MarketPulse Bulletins, detailed reports
on publicly traded companies, and columns and features
covering topics such as breaking market news and personal
finance topics. Approximately 1,000 business and financial
news items from CBS MarketWatch are added to the Dialog
services every business day. Most are available on
a 15-minute delayed basis; Dialog customers may opt
for real-time delivery at an additional charge. An
archive of CBS MarketWatch articles and reports dating
back to 1997 is available through Dialog NewsRoom.
Source: The Dialog Corporation, Cary, NC, 800/334-2564;
http://www.dialog.com. Dekker Debuts Nanotechnology Resources
Marcel Dekker announced the release of the Dekker
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in
five print volumes and as an online database. The
encyclopedia covers innovations in the nanosciences,
including materials, devices, and system architectures;
the properties, performance, and engineering of materials
on the nanometer scale; new tools and methods for
simulation, computation, measurement, and imaging;
and the fundamental principles, theories, and methodologies
of nanosystem design. A purchase includes quarterly
updates, links to bibliographic citations, full-color
illustrations, and customized content views for the
life of the edition.
Source: Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 212/696-9000;
http://www.dekker.com. EBSCO Adds Columbia Granger Poetry
EBSCO announced the availability of the Columbia
Granger Poetry Database on EBSCOhost. The database,
first published in 1904 and now in its 12th edition,
contains more than 400,000 poem citations and more
than 50,000 full-text poems. It also includes bibliographic
information for more than 1,800 anthologies, 1,100
commentaries, and 500 comprehensive biographies, as
well as a glossary of detailed definitions for more
than 200 poetry-specific terms.
Source: EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich, MA, 800/653-2726;
http://www.ebsco.com.
Thomson Gale Adds New Database Features
Thomson Gale announced updates and additions to the
online databases Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center,
Custom Journals (including InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy
and Military and Intelligence Database), and What Do
I Read Next?
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, an online tool
that explores social issues for high school and undergraduate
students, adds three new features. The updates include
nearly 200 biographies of activists and reformers related
to social issues, cross-searches against a customer's
Student Resource Center subscription, and improved
statistical reporting for Opposing Viewpoints Resource
Center and the Opposing Viewpoints/Student Resource
Center cross-search.
Two new databases have been created from the Custom
Journals interface: InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy
and Military and Intelligence Database. Both feature
a Journal Search, Table of Contents display of Journal
Search results, and a new e-mail format (Z39.80) allowing
users to incorporate material into bibliographic management
packages.
The readers' advisory tool, What Do I Read Next?,
now includes more than 100,000 highly recommended fiction
and nonfiction titles for adults, young adults, and
children; more than 60,000 plot summaries; award information
from 562 major book and literary awards; 1,109 series
entries; and 1,062 recommended reading lists.
Source: Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, MI, 800/877-4253;
http://www.gale.com.
USEFUL TOOLS Dialog Expands eLinks
Dialog announced that it has expanded its Dialog
eLinks service to streamline access from its Dialog
and Dialog DataStar services to a subscribing organization's
collection of electronic journals and other research
documents. The services' previous linking tools have
now been combined into a single offering with additional
functions. The new features include an upgraded common
subscription manager interface and improved capabilities
for searching and locating journal titles, adding journal
subscriptions by volume and issue, accommodating partial-year
subscriptions, and managing multiple subscription ranges
for a journal title. Additional enhancements include
the ability to link via the OpenURL Framework, improved
capability to upload and download subscription information
from spreadsheets, and new usage tracking and reporting
tools.
Dialog also announced that it has added 32 databases
to the roster of those enabled with Dialog eLinks,
increasing the number of Dialog databases with e-linking
to 60. A total of 147 publishers now make their materials
available for linking, representing more than 11,200
journals, conference proceedings, and other research
sources.
Source: The Dialog Corporation, Cary, NC, 800/334-2564;
http://www.dialog.com.
Dialog Offers Free Cost Recovery
Dialog introduced Dialog BillBack, a free, Internet-based
cost-recovery service that leverages Dialog's Profound
and NewsRoom services to monitor online research billing
and to generate usage reports for client invoicing
and internal budgeting. The BillBack service will be
available for Dialog's updated Intelliscope, Company
Profiles, and NewsEdge services, slated to debut later
this year.
Source: The Dialog Corporation, Cary, NC, 800/334-2564;
http://www.dialog.com. Library of Congress Adds AACR2 to Cataloging Tool
The Library of Congress announced an agreement that
will add the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules,
2nd edition (AACR2) (http://www.aacr2.org) to the
Web edition of Cataloger's Desktop, the cataloging
tool from LOC's Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS)
(http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop). The agreement was
signed by representatives of the Library of Congress
and the American Library Association, on behalf of
the co-publishers of AACR—the American Library
Association, the Canadian Library Association, and
the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals. AACR2 has been in the CD-ROM version
of Cataloger's Desktop for many years.
Source: Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 202/707-5000;
http://www.loc.gov. MS Task Pane Offers West Legal Directory
FindLaw announced that Microsoft has incorporated
the West Legal Directory of lawyers and law firms into
its new research task pane. The feature allows customers
to search for information and import it into their
work directly from Microsoft Office 2003 applications
such as Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and
Word. The link gives Office 2003 users desktop access
to contact information for more than 1 million attorneys
and law firms, searchable by practice area and jurisdiction.
Source: FindLaw, Mountain View, CA, 650/940-4300;
http://www.findlaw.com. EBSCO Offers Electronic Journals Service Site in
French
EBSCO Information Services introduced a French-language
version of its EBSCOhost Electronic Journals
Service administrative Web site. French translation
is now available for both the EBSCOhost Electronic
Journals Service and the EJS Enhanced service.
Source: EBSCO Information Services, Birmingham, AL,
205/991-6600; http://www.ebsco.com.
Innovative Interfaces Streams Movie Trailers
Innovative Interfaces announced that Millennium library
patrons can now view streaming movie trailers for videocassettes
and DVDs in their library's collection directly through
the Web OPAC. Using the Web-linking feature of WebBridge
and a Video Detective subscription, libraries can configure
WebBridge to link to the movie archive through title
and ISBN number. Patrons searching for films such as Casablanca will
see a WebBridge dialog box leading to a 2-minute Casablanca trailer.
Video Detective offers 15,000 trailers and handles
all of the encoding, hosting, data matching, updating,
and streaming.
Source: Innovative Interfaces, Inc., Emeryville,
CA, 510/655-6200; http://www.iii.com. Factiva Launches Its New iWorker Search Platform
Factiva unveiled its iWorker Search Technology, a
new product platform that joins Factiva's collection
of global news and business information with its algorithm-based
search capabilities. The system matches simple keyword
searches to filtering technology embedded within Factiva's
proprietary taxonomy, which streamlines and personalizes
results through application of company, region, industry,
language, and subject codes. The new platform will
be available in the company's Factiva.com, Factiva.com
Individual Subscription, Factiva Search Module, and
Factiva Search Module in Microsoft Office 2003 offerings.
Source: Factiva, New York, 609/627-2000; http://www.factiva.com. NEWLY CERTIFIED Libramation Products SIP2-Certified by Sirsi
Sirsi announced that Libramation is the newest hardware
vendor to successfully complete the Sirsi SIP2 Certification
Program.
Libramation's self-check unit, Mark 3 Easy-Check, and the company's return-and-sort
combination of ACT-R and ACT-S are fully integrated with Sirsi products to
authenticate patron and circulation databases. Mark 3 Easy-Check allows patrons
to check out materials themselves, access their accounts, review materials
presently borrowed, and renew lending periods. ACT-R and ACT-S allow patrons
to independently return materials, automatically updating circulation data
and reactivating security strips. Libramation (http://www.libramation.com) is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with a satellite office in Oakland,
Calif.
Source: Sirsi Corp., St. Louis, 800/325-0888; http://www.sirsi.com. EBSCO Earns Ariba Ready Status for Online Transactions
EBSCO Information Services announced that it has
become the first book vendor to successfully complete
the requirements for the Ariba Ready designation for
online transactions with buyers. EBSCO MarketPlace,
EBSCO's Web-based service, has been developed for the
Ariba Supplier Network. EBSCO supports Ariba PunchOut,
allowing customers to directly access the MarketPlace
service from the Ariba Buyer application. EBSCO MarketPlace
offers a catalog of more than 84,000 journals and millions
of book titles for the corporate market.
Source: EBSCO Information Services, Birmingham, AL,
205/991-6600; http://www.ebsco.com.
Bibliotheca RFID Wins SIP2 Certification from Sirsi
Sirsi announced that Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems
is the newest software vendor to complete the Sirsi
SIP2 Certification program. The company's BiblioChip
RFID Library Media Management and Security System integrates
with the Sirsi patron database for authentication and
account information. Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems
(http://www.bibliotheca-rfid.com) is a spin-off of
Lucatron Electronics of Switzerland, a manufacturer
of electronic article surveillance equipment for use
in preventing shoplifting.
Source: Sirsi Corp., St. Louis, 800/325-0888; http://www.sirsi.com. CONTENT/LINKING AGREEMENTS ISI Adds Gems & Gemology Journal to Databases
The Gemological Institute of America announced that
its quarterly journal, Gems & Gemology,
has been accepted into the database of the Institute
for Scientific Information (ISI). The journal will
be included in ISI's Current Contents Physical, Chemical & Earth
Sciences; Science Citation Index Expanded, including
the Web of Science; and ISI's current awareness alerting
services. The placements begin with last year's Spring
issue (Vol. 39, No. 1). Gems & Gemology is
the first, and only, gemological journal to be included
in the ISI database.
Source: Gemological Institute of America, Carlsbad,
CA, 800/421-7250; http://www.gia.edu. ABC-CLIO Links with OUP
ABC-CLIO announced that it now links its abstracting-and-indexing
databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History
and Life, to online journals from Oxford University
Press (OUP). As a result of the agreement, ABC-CLIO
history database users will be able to search article
titles and abstracts from any OUP journals online,
including The English Historical Review, Past & Present,
and Early Music. Users subscribing to any OUP
online journals will have direct links to the full-text
articles.
ABC-CLIO also links with JSTOR, Project Muse, History
Cooperative, and H-Net, as well as with a number of
free online journals.
Source: ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, 800/368-6868;
http://www.abc-clio.com. AUTOMATION
EOS Launches EOS.Web Express
EOS International announced the release of EOS.Web
Express, an entry-level member of the EOS.Web integrated
library automation solution product family. EOS.Web
Express, a Web-based ILS solution for small to midsize
special libraries, is built on Microsoft .NET technology,
the SQL relational database, and the Convera RetrievalWare
search engine. The scalable, modular system can be
upgraded to EOS.Web Enterprise, a full-featured Web-based
ILS that contains additional functionality for large
libraries. The EOS.Web Express package includes software
modules for cataloging, circulation, serials, acquisitions,
Web OPAC, and Z39.50. The Web-based applications are
available through browser-enabled workstations. A library
can install the product as an in-house Web-based solution
running on a local network server or contact the EOS
e-Library Service global data center to host it.
EOS also announced the expansion of its Client Care
Program with service and support technologies, including
SupportNet, a client support Web site.
Source: EOS International, Carlsbad, CA, 800/876-5484;
http://www.eosintl.com. NEW BOOKS ALA Covers Digital Resource Preservation
ALA Editions published Protecting Your Library's
Digital Sources: The Essential Guide to Planning
and Preservation (Miriam B. Kahn, ISBN: 0-8389-0873-X,
$40). The book advises library systems administrators
on securing digital resources and developing short-
and long-term disaster response guidelines for worst-case
scenarios such as floods, fires, hacks, and computer
crashes.
It addresses disaster response for hardware and physical storage media as well
as network- and institution-level recovery prioritization. The guide underscores
its recommendations through four case studies, provides contact points for
organizations researching electronic records preservation solutions, and directs
readers to companies that protect or help cope with the loss of digital materials.
It also includes checklists for recording contingency planning information
such as emergency remote access routines, network configurations, backup storage
locations, hardware and software inventories, and manual circulation procedures.
Source: ALA Editions, Chicago, 312/280-1537; http://www.ala.org/editions.
Linworth Ships K-12 Media Center Accessibility Guide
Linworth Publishing has released Assistive Technology:
An Introductory Guide for K-12 Library Media Specialists (Janet
Hopkins, ISBN: 1-58683-138-0, $39.95), which offers
tips for making school library media centers accessible
to students with learning disabilities or visual,
hearing, or mobility impairments. Meant to help media
specialists create inclusive K-12 education and library
services, the manual discusses new assistive tech
tools on the market as well as accessibility features
already built into Windows, Mac, and UNIX operating
systems. It details issues such as assistive technology
funding and grant writing, legal considerations,
library and computer system accessibility needs,
and software and portable technology options. The
handbook also points educators to online courses
and discussion groups, certification programs, and
accessibility initiatives and services available
on the Web.
Source: Linworth Publishing, Inc., Worthington, OH,
614/436-7107; http://www.linworth.com.
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