What digital natives want from their library

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Celebrating the Open Access Week

These links will be useful for celebrating the Open Access Week. DOAJ (http://www.doaj.org/) is now over 7,000 journals, and still adding more than 4 titles per day. The Electronic Journals Library (http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en) now lists more than 30,000 titles that are freely available. OpenDOAR (http://www.opendoar.org/) now lists more than 2,000 repositories, and the BASE (http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/index.php) search [...]

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Science.gov services

Science.gov (http://www.science.gov/index.html) was launched in December 2002. It searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information (http://www.science.gov/searchdbs.html) including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov/participatingagencies.html). While this isn’t a site designed for kids, their [...]

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security launches “Study in the States” website

On September 16, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton announced the launch of the new Study in the States website, which aims at ” [streamlining] the international student visa process for foreign students seeking to study in the United States,” according to the DHS website.   [...]

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Mathematics in Movies

Mathematics in Movieshttp://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html is a website developed by Oliver Knill, a Harvard Mathematics professor. Mathematics in Movies is a collection of video clips from popular movies and television shows in which references to mathematics are made.  

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Window on America Centers at the conference on English Language Education

On October 6, 2011, Kyiv IRC ran a session on Window on America (American Corners) Program at the U.S. Government Interagency Conference on English Language Education held in Kyiv. ECA’s American Corner Liaison Peter Samson briefed the participants on the American Corners program worldwide. A dozen of conference participants received information on Window on America [...]

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The U.S. Department of State’s Coordinator for the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) Dawn L. McCall Opens “Window on America” center at the Kerch V.Belinsky City Library

On Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. marking All-Ukrainian Library Day and the 155th anniversary of the Library, Coordinator Dawn McCall and Mayor of Kerch Mr.Osadchy opened the new Window on America Center (WOA) in Kerch. Read more: http://ukraine.usembassy.gov/mccall-kerch.html  

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Conference “Electronic Books and Resources: Challenges and Possibilities for Libraries” in Lviv

On September 14-17, 2011, Kyiv IRC conducted a conference “Electronic Books and Resources: Challenges and Possibilities for Libraries” for 58 Window on America (WOA) Heads and Library Directors in Lviv. This conference was an integral part of the International Book Fair “Lviv Book Forum.” The conference’s mission was twofold: to reinforce the importance of partnerships, [...]

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