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FindNews: Reference - 5/9/2008 7:48:08 AM sentient: capable of perceiving by the senses.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/8/2008 4:42:38 PM The May/June 2008 EDUCAUSE Review is now available online. It features Brad Wheeler on the need for providing answers that are good enough and quick enough in the Era of Certitude; John Windhausen Jr.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/8/2008 6:36:34 AM At CARET, we're proud that the Learning Landscape Project has been highlighted in a recent report on widening participation in higher education, from the Von Hügel Institute at St
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FindNews: Reference - 5/8/2008 6:24:59 AM The Evaluation Group at CARET has been looking at and experimenting with MIT's Simile toolkit, as one (relatively user-friendly) way to use semantic tools for data representation and exploration.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/8/2008 5:53:36 AM Last Tuesday, I was privileged to attend the WiSETI Annual Lecture, given by Prof. Christine Davies at Robinson College, Cambridge, and sponsored by Schlumberger. WiSETI, the Women in
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FindNews: Reference - 5/8/2008 5:22:25 AM moiety: a half; a small part.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/7/2008 5:10:36 PM 2008 Top-Ten IT Issues in Higher EducationEDUCAUSE has published the results of the 2008 Current Issues Survey, which gathered responses from 589 primary representatives of EDUCAUSE member
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FindNews: Reference - 5/7/2008 11:10:48 AM The interactive database component of the Core Data Service has been updated with 2007 data from nearly 990 institutions. This year’s participants can now view and compare their survey
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FindNews: Reference - 5/6/2008 1:48:46 PM amalgam: an alloy of mercury with other metals; also, a mixture.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/5/2008 8:00:01 PM The following titles and book reviews were gathered as an activity for National Library Week 2008. Submitted by legislators and legislative staff, the reviews were not altered except to edit for
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FindNews: Reference - 5/5/2008 11:32:55 AM fustian: pompous or pretentious language.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/3/2008 12:46:48 PM [From Too many topics, too little time. » Cultural Informatics] Cultural Informatics is the application and understandings of information technology in the broadest senses of cultures and cultural
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FindNews: Reference - 5/3/2008 7:19:37 AM sub rosa: secretly; privately; confidentially.
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FindNews: Reference - 5/2/2008 6:18:28 PM halcyon: peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
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National Library of Scotland - 5/2/2008 8:50:00 AM
On the shortlist for this year's Callum Macdonald Memorial Award are five titles published in Scotland and one in England. Our competition for poetry pamphlet publishing attracts high-quality entries each year. Two titles this year come from Fife, one of them from Kirkcaldy. Last year Kirkcaldy publishers took the winner and runner-up prizes. The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 7 May. Read more in our Callum Macdonald Memorial Award press release.
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National Library of Scotland - 5/2/2008 8:50:00 AM
Social networking in the 19th and 21st centuries is the focus of doctoral research due to start later this year. PhD candidates are eligible for the research post, which is being funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The successful candidate will compare the content of family blogs and websites with the social network revealed in a collection of 19th-century correspondence at the National Library of Scotland. He/she will work closely with the Harden/Allan collection, but will also search other NLS sources. The funding award comes from the AHRC's 'Beyond Text' programme. It was made jointly to NLS and Glasgow University's Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute (HATII). This is the latest collaborative award we have obtained for doctoral research to be carried out using our collections. For more information about the research doctorate visit the Glasgow University website. The closing date for applications is 30 May.
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National Library of Scotland - 5/2/2008 8:50:00 AM
Some of the first drawings made of places in Scotland are now online more than 300 years after they were produced. In 'Slezer's Scotland' we provide the complete first edition of 'Theatrum Scotiae'. This volume of engravings of towns, castles and palaces was produced and published in 1693 by a military engineer. It was the first time that Scotland had been portrayed in pictures. John Slezer made his initial drawings as part of a military survey. The activities of the figures he added to his drawings illustrate various aspects of rural life and the pastimes and interests of the Scottish nobility. Our web feature includes the text that the Geographer Royal at the time, Sir Robert Sibbald, wrote for Slezer's book. There are also a few engravings Slezer planned to use in a follow-up work. All the digitised views are zoomable, so you can examine them in close detail. Where relevant we have supplied a link to our Scottish town plans.
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National Library of Scotland - 4/4/2008 4:45:00 AM
The latest exhibition at the National Library of Scotland tells the story of how comic books have 'grown up'.
'Local Heroes: The Art of the Graphic Novel' uses material from NLS collections to illustrate the influence that Scottish writers and artists have had in this area, from 'The Broons' to 'Batman'. The free exhibition runs from 4 April to 1 June and is open daily. Two of the internationally acclaimed veterans of the graphic novel give a talk next week at the National Library of Scotland. Cam Kennedy and Alan Grant are renowned for their work on '2000AD' - the comic that gave the world Judge Dredd - and 'Batman'. Recently they collaborated on the graphic novel versions of 'Kidnapped' and 'Jekyll and Hyde'. The complete, original artwork from 'Kidnapped'is on display in the new exhibition, and the duo will give an illustrated talk on Wednesday 9 April. For details of the talk and the exhibition, go to our events page.
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National Library of Scotland - 4/4/2008 4:45:00 AM
Scotland's oldest printed book with a date is on show today exactly 500 years after it was produced. On 4 April 1508, 'The Complaint of the Black Knight' came off a printing press in Edinburgh. John Lydgate's poem was produced by Scotland's first printers, Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar. It is the earliest surviving dated book printed in Scotland. Our copy is the only one known. We are exhibiting the book in our George IV Bridge Building today (10.00-17.00) in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Scottish printing. It will make another rare outing from our collections in the summer, when it will be a highlight of our exhibition on the Scottish printed word. As one of the 'Chepman and Myllar prints', 'The Complaint of the Black Knight' is also included in a new web feature we have launched today. The Spread of Scottish Printing tracks the geographical progress of printing in Scotland between 1508 and 1900. You can read the full text of an early item printed on the first press in 33 different Scottish printing towns. Other printing anniversary events taking place this week include the opening of exhibitions in Dundee, Glasgow and Kilmarnock. This morning a plaque will be unveiled in Edinburgh's Cowgate near the site of Chepman and Myllar's printing works. To see the full list of events in 2008, visit www.500yearsofprinting.org. For more on the anniversary, see our 500 years of Scottish printing media release.
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National Library of Scotland - 3/20/2008 10:45:00 AM
The John Murray Archive exhibition at the National Library of Scotland has won a major UK award for lighting. At last week's Lighting Design Awards, NLS won in the Public Buildings category. Others shortlisted included the V and A in London. The award recognises the success of the 21st technology used to bring 19th-century stories to life. Sophisticated lighting responds to visitors in the exhibition. Each of the 11 display cases lights up as visitors approach, with spotlights illuminating specific items when people are reading them. This helps prevent potential damage to manuscripts by prolonged exposure to light. Glasgow based designer Nich Smith created the interactive and carefully controlled lighting scheme. Judges commented that it plays 'a pivotal role in evoking atmosphere and drama in an exhibition of manuscripts and private letters.' For further details, see the lighting award press release.
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