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NLM Long Range Plan 2006-2016 - Briefing Materials

I stumbled upon these, the NLM Long Range Plan 2006-2016 briefing materials:
fascinating

Didgeridoo

It is unfair of me to characterise life in Seaford as provincial. I see in this week's Sussex Express the following (not in their online version, as far as I can tell):
"A man was arrested for allegedly brandishing a didgeridoo at police officers. In the early hours of Friday police were called to Saltwood Road, Seaford, after a woman reported her boyfriend was becoming increasingly violent."
"When they arrived at the house, the 23 year-old man from Peacehaven produced a 5ft-long wooden pole, which it transpired was an Australian didgeridoo. He was charged with criminal damage and resisting arrest"

Cesarewitch Day

As every schoolboy knows, the Cesarewitch is amed after Tsar Alexander II, who is supposed to have come to Newmarket for the first running of the race in 1839. And speaking of things historical, there'll be a lot of sentimental money on Horatio Nelson in the Darley Dewhust Stakes. But I'm afraid I would have been on the other side at Trafalgar.
Newmarket 205: Peeress
Newmarket 235: George Washington
Newmarket 310: Alexander Goldrun
Newmarket 345: Swift Sailor
Newmarket 425: Abigail Pett

Suitability of Creative Commons for the UK Public Sector analysed in new report

Suitability of Creative Commons for the UK Public Sector analysed in new report: "

The Common Information Environment (CIE) today published the results of a study into the applicability of the international Creative Commons licenses to a range of UK public sector resources.

The study was undertaken for the CIE by Intrallect and the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property & Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh.

The report, licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution licence to encourage dissemination and reuse of the findings, is available for download, along with a comprehensive set of appendices [both PDF downloads].

The CIE members are currently considering the report's recommendations.

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(Via CIE News.)

ALPSP study of open access

The ALSP (Association of Learned Society Publishers) have released a study of Open Access:

The Facts About Open Access: A study of the financial and non-financial effects of alternative business models on scholarly journals (ISBN 978-0-907341-30-7) by Kaufman-Wills Group, LLC

Their conclusions:
1. " It is too early to tell whether Full Open Access is a viable business model ";  I think most people would agree.
2.  "Scholarly journal publishing is in an unprecedented state of flux"; incontestable.
3.  "Peer review and copy-editing may be less rigorous with Full Open Access journals"; highly controversial

Salisbury, Chepstow, York and Gowran Park

Salisbury 140: Dylan Thomas
Salisbury 210: Hunter Street
Chepstow 225: Darrias
Gowran Park 330: Strong Project
York 345: Cyclical

Lebrecht.live on libraries

This isn’t an attempt to record the whole discussion, only those parts referring to libraries. And I shall paraphrase like anything. By way of background, Norman Lebrecht (NL) introduced the discussion by saying that the aim was to discuss how soi-disant anti-elitism was damaging universities, libraries and the arts. He though it was chiefly an Anglo-American problem; the French, Germans or Russians had no such movement. He introduced the panel, Michael Bogdanov (MB), the theatre director, John Eatwell (JE), President of Queens’ Cambridge, chairman of the British Library Board and board member of the Royal Opera House, Deborah Jacobs (DJ), City Librarian of Seattle (blessed with both a superb Rem Koolhaas building and a Libraries for All programme), Frank Furedi (FF), sociologist from Kent University (in my time there the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency, but that was a long time ago), the philosopher A. C. Grayling (ACG) and the theatre director and newly appointed Director of the South Bank Jude Kelly (JK). I use initials hereafter to identify the contributors.

Librarything

I fear librarything is going to be my downfall. There are lots of things wrong with it, things that make the cataloguer in me shudder, but its also tremendously interesting. When will the British Library be a source (the Library of Congress already is)

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

430 Longchamp: Hurricane Run

Newmarket and Longchamp

Cambridgeshire day!
220 Longchamp: Ifraaj
240 Newmarket: Race for the Stars
315 Newmarket: Maid's Causeway
355 Newmarket: St Petersburg