Professional Reading Shelf
Librarians–Awards–Australia and New Zealand
Source: SLA (via Dialog)
SLA-Australia/New Zealand Names Nerida Hart Info Pro of the Year
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Canadian Librarian Association–Conferences
Source: CLA
Presentations and Materials from the 2005 Canadian Library Association Conference Now Online
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Digital Archives
Personal Information Management
Source: Los Angeles Times
Lean About Microsoft’s “My Life Bits” Research Project
“I think we’ve got the Memex dream down,” Gordon Bell told me when I greeted him at Microsoft Corp.’s downtown San Francisco laboratory. To technology aficionados his allusion would be instantly recognizable. “Memex” was a machine envisioned by Vannevar Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s science advisor, in a prophetic 1945 Atlantic Monthly article titled, “As We May Think.” The device was an intriguing preconception of today’s personal computer in which, as Bush wrote, “an individual stores all his books, records, and communications” for easy retrieval through a form of indexing based on the associative properties of the human mind.” Bell’s version, embodied in a system known as MyLifeBits (soon to be formally renamed “Memex”) aims at nothing less than creating a digital archive of a person’s entire life. You can learn more about MyLifeBits here.
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Digital Libraries–Conferences
Source: JCDL
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: 2006
The conference will take place in Chapel Hill next June.
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The Internet Archive
Source: The New York Times
Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit
“The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of ever-changing Web sites and collecting other multimedia artifacts. Now the nonprofit archive is on the defensive in a legal case that represents a strange turn in the debate over copyrights in the digital age.”
See Also: Gary here. I’ve posted the full text of the complaint that was filed in the lawsuit on Search Engine Watch site. For those of you who don’t know, I’m also the news editor at SEW.

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