The White House Releases: “Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime."

The White House has just released its new “Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nsc/transnational-crime
the PDF version is available at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011-strategy-combat-transnational-organized-crime.pdf
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The press release http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/25/new-strategy-comhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifbat-evolving-threat and webcast are also available from the White House site. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

For more information on the strategy and its implementation is available as follows:

A White House Fact Sheet on the Strategy http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/fact-sheet-strategyhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif-combat-transnational-organized-crime

A Treasury Fact Sheet on the Executive Order http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1255.aspx

An Assessment of the Threat to U.S. National Security Posed by Transnational Organized Crime http://review.dni.gov/nic/NIC_toc.html

Source:
Greta E. Marlatt
Outreach & Collection Development Manager Homeland Security Digital Library Content Team Manager Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School
411 Dyer Rd
Monterey, CA 93943
phone: 831-656-3500
fax: 831-656-2842
DSN: 756
email: gmarlatt@nps.edu OR gmarlatt@nps.navy.mil
http://www.nps.edu/library/
https://www.hsdl.org

National Electronic Sound depository (of Russian Federation) Project

National Electronic Sound depository (of Russian Federation) Project


National Electronic Sound depository (of Russian Federation) Project
The goals of this important project are
1. The creation of a national center for digitization, storage and access to the sound heritage of the peoples of Russia, its inclusion in the scientific, cultural and educational revolution of the country and around the world on the basis of modern information technologies;
2. To create a distributed structure NEZD based on Russian and international sound archives;
3. To complete scientific description of the sound collection and adherence to digitized archival materials and documents, information about time and place of recording, or expeditions, bibliographic information and related materials.
It allows its user to access sound recordings in various languages of Russian Federation such as Sakha, Buriat, etc.
The resource can be accessed here: http://nezd.ru/

IFLA Asia and Oceania Section Newsletter

 IFLA Asia and Oceania Section Newsletter Issue 23:1, June 2011 is now available at http://www.ifla.org/files/asia-and-oceania/newsletters/NLB%20IFLA%20Newsletter_A4_190711.pdf

Please send comments/ feedback to Keat Fong (keatfong@nlb.gov.sg) or me (Petrina_ANG@nlb.gov.sg).

Source: Petrina ANG (Ms)
Deputy Editor, IFLA Asia and Oceania Section Newsletter
IFLA Regional Office for Asia and Oceania

New Issue of D-Lib Magazine Published

The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.  This month, D-Lib features the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives web site.
The articles include:
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era
Article by Michalis Gerolimos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece and Rania Konsta, Ionian University, Corfu

Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator
Article by Robert A. Schrier, Syracuse University

Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository
Article by Chenying Li, Mingjie Han, Chongyang Hong, Yan Wang, Yanqing Xu and Chunning Cheng, China Agricultural University Library

Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives
Article by Cynthia Tobar, City University of New York

The conference reports are:
Report on the 2011 Inaugural United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) Conference
Conference Report by James RW MacDonald, University of Northern British Columbia
Open Repositories 2011: Community Meet-up in the "Live Music Capital of the World"
Conference Report by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace

D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations:
UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England
http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/
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http://dlib.anu.edu.au/
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Germany
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/
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BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal
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(If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later.  There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.)
Source:
Bonnie Wilson
D-Lib Magazine

Liladhar Pendse's Planned Presentation at AERI 2011

Copy of “Colonial era newspapers as repositories as social, cultural and political memories of the subaltern.” on Prezi

An open-access visual resource (an online library of Azerbaijan’s historical photographs) is launched.

An online library of fascinating Azerbaijani photographs, http://www.fotobank.az launched. The non-commercial project is targeted at historians and researchers but is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in Azerbaijani history.
The library has over 5,000 photographs, most of them from four main collections: the archives of Narmin Tahirzade, the photo archive of Adalat Tahirzade, the Institute of Manuscripts and photos from private family collections.
The material from Azerbaijan's Institute of Manuscripts is also included. It includes collections of rare photographs belonging to Salman Mumtaz (1884-1941) and collections from prominent figures in Azerbaijani literature and the arts.
Photographs from all three major collections have been chosen by professional researchers and are accompanied by information about their history and the people and places shown.
The site's founder is Aziz Elkhanoglu, while its editor-in-chief is Gunel Rajabova and other editors are Elchin Aliyev and Ilhama Nasirova. The site's content can be accessed here.