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regards
Shirley

Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2008

http://www.dhsi.org/blog
The Corpus MCVF : from the Middle Ages to the New World
Geoffrey Rockwell – Tools Across the Lifecycle of Research: Reflections on an Experiment
Michael Eberle-Sinatra – Synergies: the Changing Face of Digital Humanities in Canada
Lisa Snyder – The World’s Columbian Exposition: a Real-Time Visual Simulation Model Currently Under Construction by [...]

Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing Division

In February it was announced that Pam Gatenby would act in the position of Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing Division until the end of May, following the departure of Tony Boston to a position at the Bureau of Meteorology.
The Director-General of the National Library of Australia (Jan Fullerton) has now [...]

Australian ePortfolio Project

http://www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au/
The Australian ePortfolio Project consortium is led by Associate Professor Gillian Hallam (QUT).
A Project Steering Committee has been established, including representatives of the project partners:

Professor David Gardiner – Chair (QUT)
Professor Tom Cochrane (QUT)
Professor Richard James (The University of Melbourne)
Professor Grant Harman (The University of New England)
Professor Sandra Wills (University of Wollongong)
Mr Rob Ward [...]

being digital at home school community

being digital at home school community-national survey 15 & 16 yr olds
There was an interesting article in yesterday’s Sunday Age (p 16 – News Extra) promoting the 2020 Kevin Rudd Summit and next generation of thinkers.

In this section was a Monash Uni. study and findings titled – “Being Digital in [...]

Working with the Facebook generation

http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala08mw/
Saturday, January 12, 2008
4:00 – 6:00PM
Philadelphia, PA
Appreciating, if not understanding, student perspectives on information sharing and access to research will advance library outreach programs. Librarians and students have the power to build valuable bridges of collaboration and guide the larger academic community to reshape scholarly communication.
Tech-savvy students, who live and breathe information sharing, are critical [...]

Cites & Insights 8:4, April 2008

http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i4.pdf
The 28-page issue is PDF as usual (or not as usual–I’m now using Word 2007 and Microsoft’s free PDF-output download), but HTML separates are available from the C&I homepage at http://citesandinsights.info/
The issue includes:
* Bibs & Blather – a very short introduction to the issue and what got left out.
* Library Access to Scholarship – Harvard [...]

Lecture Series on Scholarly Publishing Issues

http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/weblogs/scomm/2008/03/lecture_series_on_scholarly_pu.html 
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries have made available in online video a series of lectures (Authors’ Rights and Wrongs) that focus on scholarly publishing and related issues. The videos include among others:

Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age: Reflections on Why Copyright Law Must Change
Copyright Law and Your Academic Work
Panel on [...]

Oa database for structural biology

http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Proteopedia is a new OA database for “making structural biology clearer for chemists and biologists by linking textual content to 3D structures”. (Thanks to Peter Murray-Rust.) (Source: Open Access News)

OA collection of Audubon illustrations

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/ 
The University of Pittsburgh library on March 3 released an OA collection of bird illustrations by John James Audubon. Audubon is the noted naturalist for whom the Audubon Society is named. The illustrations are from Birds of America and Ornithological Biography