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Tuesday, September 18, 2001

Library staff to help prisoners and youths - Straits Times   Comment

Report on Delhi Public Library - Times of India   Comment

Monday, August 27, 2001

Medical Dictionary Search Engines - the web tool you need if you are searching for a medical references   Comment

Librarians Serving Genealogists (LSG) - Resources for the librarian to aid in genealogy research   Comment

Tuesday, August 21, 2001

Friday, August 17, 2001

Thursday, August 16, 2001

IFLA Annual Conference - starts today in Boston   Comment

Librarians Slam Digital Copyright Ruling - TechWeb   Comment

Nation's librarians gather where it all began - Boston Globe   Comment

National Inventors' Month - More than 3,000 libraries around the country are displaying posters and banners proclaiming August as National Inventors' Month. The materials were created, printed and distributed thanks to the generosity of corporations, inventors and those who love inventors.   Comment

New York Reading Programs Show Results - VOA   Comment

Questia Media, Inc launches its version 2.0, which includes a collection of more than 60,000 full-text titles -- nearly double the size of its version 1.0 collection launched January 2001. Version 2.0 also improves Questia's tools, which enable users to personalize books by highlighting and making notes in them and to write better papers by automatically creating footnotes and bibliographies in various formats.   Comment

Johns Hopkins’ Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death? - Newsbreaks   Comment