On November 12, 2010, two of California's largest library associations will present Navigating the New: Charting the Future Together, a premier continuing education and exposition that will combine both Associations' annual event into one extravaganza. The California Library Association and the California School Library Association have formally announced this collaboration, bringing together the state's library community with a focus on both current and future trends. By combining two Annual Conferences into one event, conference attendees will have the option to participate in a wide and impressive range of professional development workshops and networking events. Additionally, it is anticipated that the combination of each Association's Exhibition will nearly double the number of exhibitors on display at the Sacramento Convention Center

"Best Practices 2010: The New Face of Value is now available in a PDF version. Best Practices is a collaborative document that is put out annually on a specific topic of interest to government libraries and includes content submitted by government librarians and community leaders with an interest in government libraries. The 2010 edition includes over 70 articles and other submissions provided by more than 60 contributors from librarians in government agencies, courts, and the military, as well as from professional association leaders, LexisNexis Consultants, and more"

"The National Archives of Ireland has made the Irish Census of 1901 available online. On the website, people will be able to view the Census and perform a variety of searches under forename, surname and county as well as more advanced searches including religion, occupation, Irish language proficiency, specified illnesses and literacy status. The website was launched in December 2007 and the entire 1911 Census has been available online since 2008. The 1911 census was prepared first because the quality of the microfilm used to digitise the images is better than the microfilm of 1901 as well as the fact that there are much more microfilm reels available for 1911 than 1901"

"Are you inspired by the powerful symbolism of the Angel of the North? Does the speed of construction of the 2012 Olympic stadiums leave you in awe? Well, consider the architectural feats of engineers, stonemasons and craftsmen of the Middle Ages who built castles, cathedrals, churches and palaces without the benefit of modern technology. The British Library's latest book, Building the Medieval World contains vibrant illustrations from medieval manuscripts depicting buildings from farmhouses to churches, and castles to a dog kennel. It explores these amazing structures and what they signified to people in the Middle Ages"

Public Libraries in Wales received the biggest percentage increase in visitors and book issues in the UK last year according to the latest figures published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

"OttoSerials, HARRASSOWITZs online management system for periodicals and standing orders, simplifies the handling of print and electronic subscriptions for libraries"

The HeinOnline Newsletter - May 2010 - Issue #5 is now available online

"Manchester Local Image Collection contains over 80,000 images of Manchester and its suburbs. The original images are mainly photographs with some prints, drawings, watercolours and postcards, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. The pictures of people, streets and buildings illustrate all aspects of the social, industrial, religious and transport history of the city. Between 1950 and 1972 the Manchester Amateur Photographic Society carried out an almost complete street by street survey of the city, showing the suburban streets before the major clearances and redevelopment during that period. The entire survey, as well as the Photographic Survey of 1892 - 1900, appears here"

"Google and the USPTO have entered into an agreement to make the following USPTO products available to the public at no charge:

* Patents (grants, applications, assignments, classification information, and maintenance fee events)
* Trademarks (grants, applications, assignments, and TTAB proceedings)

All data originated from the USPTO. Google is hosting this data unchanged, except for repackaging into zip files"

Talis Open Day: Linked Data and Libraries is the latest in the series of free Talis Platform Open days which is specify for anyone interested in understanding and applying Linked Data in the world of National, International, Cooperative, and other large libraries - 21 July 2010 - London, UK

Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - June 2010 issue is now available

Three projects have been shortlisted for this prestigious award. The winner will be announced at the new Libraries Change Lives Conference in London on 6th July. Finalists:

* HMP Edinburgh Library Partnership (The City of Edinburgh Council): A pioneering partnership with an HMS prison to create a library with a refreshed vision that would enhance prisoners' lives, both as inmates and on release

* Home from Home (London Borough of Barking and Dagenham): A project that reaches out to home-restricted people within the community to allow them access to the recreation, information and social engagement offered by the library service

* Macmillan Information and Support Service (Manchester Library & Information Service): An innovative partnership with the charity Macmillan Cancer Support, designed to deliver crucial information about cancer in a familiar community setting

The latest round up of new UK government publications this week - June 3 2010 from Intute and the LSE Library

The 2010 Miriam Braverman Memorial prize has been awarded to Kristen Hogan for her essay "Breaking Secrets in the Catalog: Proposing the Black Queer Studies Collection at the University of Texas at Austin". Ms. Hogan is currently enrolled in the Master of Science in Information Studies (MSIS) program at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. An honorable mention is given to Steven Lorenz paper "The Finer Points of Librarianship: Does a Basic Policy Impede Library Access?" Mr. Lorenz is enrolled in the MLS program at North Carolina Central University's, School of Library and Information Science

"WattJournals is a new service developed by the Heriot-Watt University Library and ICBL to give fast and easy access to the contents of over 4000 electronic journals to which the Library subscribes. WattJournals is an easy-to-use tool with 4 key purposes: finding papers as soon as they have been published, accessing the full-text of papers, saving searches for later use, and exporting citations to EndNote. WattJournals is designed specifically for Heriot-Watt, as it only searches journals to which the Library subscribes, so you can be guaranteed that any article which you find will be available to you. Once you have searched WattJournals for your topic, you are then linked from the search results to the full text of the articles you find"

Annals of Geophysics

International Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine

Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Quotidian : Dutch Journal for the Study of Everyday Life

Speleobiology Notes

El Futuro del Pasado : Revista Electrónica de Historia

CES Working Papers

Nordisk Barnehageforskning

Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR)

Journal of Cancer

Plato

"The British Library has acquired a unique medieval prayer roll that once belonged to Henry VIII and contains one of only three surviving examples of his handwriting from before his accession in 1509. It is a rare example of a late medieval prayer roll, for, unlike medieval obituary rolls (of which there are hundreds), very few prayer rolls survived the Reformation. Produced in England in the late fifteenth century, the prayer roll consists of four parchment strips sewn end to end and measures some four metres long when fully unrolled. The roll contains thirteen illuminations - images of Christ, focusing on the Passion, its Instruments and the Sacred Blood, as well as depictions of various saints and their martyrdoms. Accompanying these is a two-column text, with prayers in Latin and rubrics (religious instructions) in English. The rubrics promise that the recital of certain of the prayers will offer safety from physical danger, sickness or disease; others will shorten, by specified amounts, the agony of Purgatory, while the placing of the roll on the belly of a woman in labour will ensure a safe childbirth"

"The Rhode Island Library Association is a professional association of librarians, library staff, trustees, and library supporters whose purpose is to promote the profession of librarianship and to improve the visibility, accessibility, responsiveness and effectiveness of library and information services throughout Rhode Island"

"The Digital Agenda is Europe's strategy for a flourishing digital economy by 2020. It outlines policies and actions to maximise the benefit of the Digital Revolution for all. To achieve these goals, the Commission will work closely with national governments, concerned organisations and companies. An annual Digital Assembly will bring stakeholders together to assess progress and emerging challenges"