Established in 1967, Emerald Group Publishing Limited is a UK-based publisher of management research that connects the academic world with the world of management practice. Emerald content offers a global perspective with published authors being drawn from over 145 countries.

Nylink has partnered with Emerald to offer discounts for their online journal collections, Backfiles database (over 120 journals and 68,000 articles, some dating to 1898) and eBook series collections. 

Currently, Emerald is in the process of changing the name of the online journal collections product line from Emerald Management Xtra to Emerald Management eJournals. A brochure detailing the contents and features of the collections is available at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/~proimg/PDFs/emeraldrochure.pdf. 

To celebrate the changes to Emerald Management eJournals, Emerald is giving away an HP laptop which is wireless-enabled and Vista pre-installed. For your chance to win the laptop, simply complete the following caption:

Emerald Management eJournals are………………………………………………

E-mail your caption with your name, job title, institution name and country to quiz@emeraldinsight.com.

The most original caption wins. Competition ends September 30th. 

Competition rules:

1. One laptop will be awarded to the competition winner only.
2. The winner will be notified the week commencing 30th September.
3. Full details of all competition entries and entrant’s name may be published by Emerald Group Publishing unless the entrant requests otherwise.

To learn more about all Emerald e-resources, go to http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/index.htm.

Free Journal of the Week and Free Two-Month Access to New Journals 

A good way to sample Emerald’s journal content and online features is to take advantage of the Journal of the Week feature that provides free online access to two journals (current and archived issues) each week. Check it out at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/jotw/index.htm.

And, for newly launched journals, Emerald offers free online access for two months (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/new_launch/index.htm). Available August 2009-September 2009: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, and Journal of Financial Economic Policy.

Subscribers to the Emerald Management eJournals Plus collection will automatically receive access to new and acquired titles. 

For pricing and other information, please contact Nylink at services@nylink.org or 800-342-3353.

Caryl Ward, Binghamton University Libraries, and Boaz Nadav-Manes, Cornell University Library (both universities’ libraries are Nylink members) agreed to repeat their presentations from the WorldCat Selection User Group Meeting Presentations so that OCLC could record them to post to the OCLC Web site. The recordings are now available at http://www.oclc.org/selection/overview/websessions.htm.
For more information about WorldCat Selection, please contact OCLC’s Support department by phone at 1-800-848-5800 and follow the prompts (menu selections 1-4-2-1 for FirstSearch and WorldCat.org), or by e-mail at support@oclc.org.

Tweet Deck (in beta) is a great, compact little program that helps you track twitter searches, keep current on your friends and neighbors tweets, see when your tweets have been re-tweeted or otherwise referenced, and find great new twitterers to follow. One of its nicest features, if you happen to be a twittering hydra with multiple logins, is the ability to track all of your twitter accounts in one place. More information about Tweet Deck here.

The American Association for State and Local History announced the winners of its Leadership in History Awards Program for 2008.  These awards recognize the best of the best in state and local history.  New York state winners are the Coalition of Niagara County Historical Societies for the public program, World War II Axis Prisoners of War at Fort Niagara 1944-45 and the New York State Archives for the website, Throughout the Ages

How do you recover from massive disaster? This weekend will mark the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, and the New Orleans Public Library system continues to answer that question with grace and ingenuity. Below are some notes from the long-term planning to recover and reimagine the NOPL system after Katrina, taken from a summer 2008 newsletter. Since the newsletter, the system has seen new temporary branches open and damaged buildings demolished. In June, the city saw oral presentations from three firms to design and build five branches.

When the levees broke, all of New Orleans’ thirteen public libraries were damaged, eight so badly they could not be reopened. More than 300,000 books, CDs, and other items were destroyed—nearly half the collection. The devastation was an opportunity to rebuild a better library system. Our twenty-year master plan will dramatically improve New Orleans Public Library’s facilities and operations.
By 2030, the New Orleans Public Library will boast a network of libraries to meet ambitious goals. A new Main Library will be a state-of-the-art cultural destination for residents and visitors alike. And a companion archival facility will safeguard our nationally important City Archives & Special Collections—documents more than 200 years old still at risk in underground stacks.
Building this network of libraries will require $200 million (in current 2008 dollars). When we reach our 2030 planning horizon, New Orleans will have invested $640 million in staff, operations, and buildings, elevating NOPL to a leading position among cities of similar size (Projected 2030 population:
409,000).
NOPL will be our city’s gateway to the world’s knowledge and information; it will also speak volumes to the world about our heritage, reflecting distinctive aspects of New Orleans’ culture, including jazz, food, and architecture.
The New Orleans Public Library will support the rebirth of our storm-damaged community, and like libraries everywhere, ours will foster the aspirations of every individual, and protect intellectual freedom and the democratic dreams of all.

September is Library Card Sign Up month.   ALA has a variety of resources available to help you celebrate with kids and other free resources .

“The Association for Library Service to Children, Public Awareness
Committee (PAC) wants to hear about your success! Share program ideas
and resources by adding content to the Kids! @ your library(r) Campaign
wiki at: http://wikis.ala.org/alsc/index.php/Main_Page . They would  also like to
hear if you have used resources from the Campaign tool kit. Please add
content directly to the wiki or email information to Bethany Lafferty,
PAC Member, at balaff12@yahoo.com .”

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, has posted a couple of dozen brief film clips on YouTube highlighting FDR, his wife Eleanor, and their activities during his three terms as president. There are home movies, newsreel footage, and more, some silent, some with sound. View these fascinating films here.

Attend Internet Librarian in Monterey, CA, for $279 (saving $200 off of the regular 3-day rate) by registering through Nylink (PDF).

There is also a discounted price of $169 (normally $199) on the Internet@Schools conference (October 26-27). Or attend both Internet@Schools and Internet Librarian for $279.

More information on the conference can be found on the Information Today, Inc. web site, but you must use the Nylink registration form and send it along with payment to Nylink by September 18th to take advantage of this offer.

Please see the registration form for Nylink mail or fax information.

With the warm weather finally arriving it is hard to think about fall.  But in a couple of months October will be here and it is time for American Archives Month.  Archives Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about archives and archivists.  This year’s theme is “Celebrating the American Record”.

The Society of American Archivists has a special toolkit available with ideas and information for creating your own special events to celebrate archives  month.

Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library will increase access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) database for researchers and students in sub-Saharan Africa, supported by a $1.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of the project is to strengthen the scientific foundation for agriculture research and education in sub-Saharan Africa by providing 115 institutions in 14 countries access to more than 140 key agricultural journals. More information is available online