The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: General Knowledge. Answers here.

1. What colour does your skin turn if you have jaundice?
2. In which American city is the Golden Gate Bridge?
3. Is an acre bigger or smaller than a hectare?
4. Which pop singer starred in the films "Absolute Beginners" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth"?
5. Which two continents are connected by the Isthmus of Suez?
6. The plans for calculating engines made by British innovator Charles Babbage (1791-1871) established him as a pioneer of what?
7. "AZ" is the airline code for which airline?
8. Which composer wrote the marches "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Liberty Bell"?
9. From 1970 to 1973, Salvador Allende was president of which South American country?
10. Which writer coined the term "Cold War" in his 1945 essay "You and the Atom Bomb"?

"The Stoke Newington Literary Festival is Stoke Newington's first ever literary festival! From 4th to 6th June 2010 London's historic home to radical writers, thinkers and dissidents plays host to a diverse array of today's most interesting authors and poets. With everything from Gothic horror to comedy, poetry to sci-fi, feminism to food and drink, there's something for everyone in the event this brilliantly diverse borough has long been waiting for"

The Sarawak Library is working with six other libraries in the country under the Ubiquitous Library Pilot Project or "U-Library", which is expected to be launched in July. Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan said the pilot project would enable its members to borrow books through the Internet and have them delivered directly to their homes from the participating libraries through Pos Malaysia. The six participating libraries were the National Library, the National Institute of Public Administration (Intan) Library, and the Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang librararies, he said when winding-up the debate on his ministry at the state assembly here Wednesday

"TRAILS is the American Sociological Association Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. With over 2,700 peer-reviewed resources in more than 70 subject areas, TRAILS is the place to find fresh ideas for your classroom. It's also the perfect place to publish your own teaching and learning innovations"

The New York Public Library is partnering with HathiTrust, a shared repository of digitized content from academic and research libraries. NYPL is the 27th library to join the partnership, which was formed in 2008 and counts the Columbia University Library and the University of California's library system as fellow partners

Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts is a three-year AHRC-funded research project. It is a joint project of the University of Oxford and King’s College London

Aims and Objectives:

* To create a digital resource reuniting all the known holograph surviving manuscripts of Austen's fiction in an unprecedented virtual collection
* To provide for the first time full descriptions of, transcriptions of, analysis of, and commentary on the manuscripts in the archive, including details of erasures, handwriting, paper quality, watermarks, ink, binding structures, and any ancillary materials held with the holographs as aspects of their physical integrity or provenance
* To develop complex interlinking of the virtual collection to allow systematic comparison of the manuscripts under a number of headings representing both their intellectual and physical states

Innovative features:

* The Austen Fiction Manuscripts Project is employing advanced digital technology to reunite within a virtual collection documents unavailable for close comparison since 1845
* The Austen Fiction Manuscripts Project is establishing the advanced standards to be adopted by the TEI for encoding modern working manuscripts
* The Austen Fiction Manuscripts Project is pioneering work on encoding time (genetic features) in working manuscripts

"EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is announcing the release of ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2. This is the second of two monograph series offered by EBSCO from American Theological Library Association's (ATLA) historical monograph archives. EBSCO partnered with ATLA in 2008 to provide new collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format. ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 consists of digital versions of rare historical primary sources published from 1894 up to 1923. Including more than 14,000 titles, Series 2 is a vast collection containing over five million pages of content"

The Code4Lib Journal - Issue 9 is now available. The Code4Lib Journal exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future

Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management

International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations

Journal of Global Pharma Technology

Miranda

Nucleus

Nucleus Animalium

Plant, Soil and Environment

South African Journal of Sport Medicine

Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

Acta Biologica Cracoviensia Series Botanica

Argumentation et Analyse du Discours

International Journal of Energy and Environment

International Journal of Medical Education

Journal of Choice Modelling

Open Neuroendocrinology Journal

Credo Reference has signed an agreement to incorporate six Grey House Publishing titles into the Credo General Reference collection:

* American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present
* An African Biographical Dictionary
* From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
* Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power and Greed
* The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook
* Speakers of the House of Representatives, 1789-2009

Ian McEwan, renowned for serious literary prose, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for his novel "Solar." The prize, Britain's only award for comic fiction, celebrates the novel of the last 12 months that has best captured the comic spirit of P.G. Wodehouse.

The American Library Association is holding a video contest for Library Advocacy Day, which is scheduled for June 29, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Library Advocacy Day from ALA Washington on Vimeo.

The May 26, 2010 edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers

"Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick has won the 20th Bisto Children's Book of the Year for her picturebook There. The results of the twentieth Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards were announced 24 May 2010 at a ceremony in The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Marie-Louise was present to accept the award and was presented with a cheque for €10,000 by Senator David Norris, Sean Brett, Marketing Controller Premier Foods and Chairperson of the Judging Panel, Maire Uí Mhaicín. This is the third time that Marie-Louise has picked up this prestigious award, winning in 2001 and 2003 for her two other nominated picture books You, Me and the Big Blue Sea and Izzy and Skunk

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship - Number 61, Spring 2010 - is now available

"The University of Virginia Library has received a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year project to model how institutions can preserve and deliver rare materials that currently exist only in digital form. "Born-digital" materials include the works of contemporary writers and architects, as well as archives of current political figures and organizations. These materials are quickly becoming significant collections that require careful, planned stewardship to ensure their preservation and availability to scholars now and in the future, said Martha Sites, an associate University librarian and a principal investigator for the grant. Programmers and archivists from U.Va. are working with counterparts at Stanford and Yale universities, as well as from England's University of Hull, to create a model for digital collection management that can be easily shared among research libraries and other institutions charged with preserving rare materials"

Publishers such as Allen Lane and Paul Hamlyn revolutionised British publishing in the 20th century, turning it from a cosy club serving the elite into an industrial powerhouse. Iain Stevenson charts a century of triumph for the printed word

"Oxford University's Bodleian Libraries have announced that they had secured Planning Permission approval and Listed Building Consent from Oxford City Council for the GBP78 million restoration and renovation of the New Bodleian Library, to be reopened as the Weston Library in 2014/2015. The long-awaited project, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (WEA), has three aims: to create high quality storage for the Libraries' valuable special collections, which include the rare and unique manuscripts, books and maps that the Bodleian preserves for the international world of scholarship; to develop the Libraries' space for the support of advanced research; and to expand public access to its great treasures through new exhibition galleries and other facilities"

Registration has opened for the fourth webinar in the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC) series, Strengthening Programs through Collaboration. The webinar, "Changing Role of Libraries: Journal Hosting and Support," is scheduled for June 15, 2010, noon-1:30 p.m. EDT, and will focus on the issues that arise from publishing services. This session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn from the experiences of leaders in the field. The registration deadline is June 8, 2010