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"SURE campaign of National Library Board, Singapore The pictures here show some of the items that the National Library Board, Singapore have created around their S.U.R.E. campaign. SURE stands for Source, Understand, Research, Evaluate. You can see that it includes bags, ruler, water bottle, pens, notebook (with the SURE mantra on each page) and there is also a silver SURE umbrella."

"La réunion annuelle des membres d'EURIG s'est tenue fin septembre à Stockholm, jolie petite ville impeccable, où même les éléments d'architecture authentiquement très anciens ont l'air d'avoir été exécutés avec un soin minutieux dans les années 1980. Nous étions reçus à la Bibliothèque royale, Kungliga biblioteket, et gratifiés à de fréquents intervalles de carrés de pain de mie avec des choses dessus (à manger). On prendra connaissance du compte-rendu de la réunion, dressé par Françoise Leresche (BnF), sur la page du site RDA en France consacrée aux travaux internationaux relatifs au RDA. Cette réunion d'EURIG était la première depuis l'entrée en vigueur du RDA comme code de catalogage dans un certain nombre de bibliothèques d'envergure, parmi lesquelles la LC [Library of Congress] et la BL [British Library]. Trop tôt sans doute pour un premier bilan (qui n'était d'ailleurs pas à l'ordre du jour)."

"At long last, the weather is warming up, allowing for long walks, open windows, and (of course) the return of reading outside. But there's yet another pleasure that you may not have tried - browsing for books outside! After the jump, you'll find a selection of libraries and bookstores from all around the world that say "phooey" to the rain and operate in the open air, perfect for those bookworms who prefer gentle breezes to that typical bookstore musk. Nothing against the musk, but it just doesn't get much more glorious than picking out a new book in front of a warm summer sunset. Click through to check out 20 wonderful outdoor book depositories, and add any of your missing favorites in the comments."

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"In 2004 the scholarly publisher Elsevier made a written submission to the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee. Elsevier asserted that the traditional model used to publish research papers - where readers, and institutions like libraries, pay the costs of producing scholarly journals through subscriptions - "ensures high quality, independent peer review and prevents commercial interests from influencing decisions to publish.""

"Skosify is a tool that can be used to convert vocabularies expressed as RDFS and OWL into SKOS. It can also be used to improve, enrich and validate existing SKOS vocabularies. See GettingStarted in the wiki for documentation. An online version of the tool is available, which can be used to perform validation and correction. The online version does not yet support all the options available in Skosify. The current version of Skosify, version 1.0, was released on 14 January 2014. See the release announcement and release notes. You can download the file using the Downloads tab. You can also get a copy of the most recent code from the Subversion repository. Use the Issues tab to report problems or request enhancements. Skosify has originally been developed in the FinnONTO projects at the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) at Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland. The code is open source and available under a permissive MIT-style license. Current development is ongoing at the National Library of Finland. For publications and contact information, see the home page of Skosify at the SeCo website."

"I was recently contacted by one of my alma maters about my masters thesis. The school required deposit (in duplicate) with the Library as part of the application for graduation, but luckily by this time they were accepting (perhaps enforcing - who wants to manage all those bound theses?) submission of an electronic copy on CD-R. This was the second time in 10 years that someone had written to me about my thesis. Pretty awesome for a Humanities masters thesis, so I was starting to feel awfully big-headed."

"Le Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques lance une "Bibliothèque Mathématique Audiovisuelle", une plateforme évoluée construite sur un corpus de conférences données par des mathématiciens du monde entier lors de leur passage au CIRM.  Cette plateforme apporte toutes les fonctionnalités d'une recherche documentaire de haut niveau sur une base de films catalogués et enrichis. "

"A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation on archiving commemorative African fabrics, through the course of which I learned about the University of Wisconsin's Digital Collections Center. As a historian-in-training and digital archive enthusiast, I became immediately intrigued by all the resources and projects described by Melissa McLimans, a digital librarian who works with the Center and helped digitally archive the fabric. After the talk, I decided to reach out to Melissa via e-mail to learn more about the UW Digital Collections Center. I also spoke with the Center's resident audio expert, Steven Dast. I do work for the Oral History Review, after all."