Professional Reading Shelf
Digitisation–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
New digitisation report calls for cross-sectoral e-content strategy
From the news release, “Stuart Dempster, JISC’s Digitisation programme manager, said: “This is the first attempt from a national perspective to stand back and look at what we have achieved over the last ten years in the digitisation field. While the report points to the work that needs to be done, it also highlights the importance of digitised resources to a range of sectors, including education and research. JISC looks forward to playing its part in taking the report’s recommendations forward in collaboration with the EU Dynamic Action Plan.” Direct to Full Text Report.
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American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
New, ASIST Launches Redesigned Web Website
Included on the site is ASIS&T’s New Digital Library.
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Semi-Structured Data
Source: ACM Queue
XML and Semi-Structured Data
“What role can XML play in solving the semi-structured data problem?”
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Electronic Publications
Source: ScieCom info
New Article, Electronic Publications : Access Now and in the Future
Lunden, Tomas (Date Created: 15 Nov 2005) (Sweden)
“This is a report of a seminar held on the 18th October 2005 at the Swedish Royal Library. The seminar discussed technical, political and organisational issues involved in the long term preservation and access to electronic publications.” (via PADI)
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Public Libraries–Books
Source: The Buffalo News
When a library closes, who gets the books?
“The rights to thousands of books are at the center of a controversy brewing in the Town of Tonawanda. In question are about 30,000 books remaining at the now-closed Brighton Library, one of 15 libraries shutting down by year’s end to cut expenses in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system. A citizen group, Friends of the Brighton Library, hopes to use the Brighton Road building as a community reading room and wants all the materials left behind for public use. The town’s Library Board, meanwhile, already has planned a one-day book sale at Brighton, with the proceeds to benefit the two cash-strapped libraries staying open in Tonawanda. Who should get the books?”
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Digital Libraries
Source: JCDL
Just Released: The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Call For Papers
JCDL 2006 will take place on June 11-15, 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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