LISNews: Librarian News

Cabot writes \"A small Ottawa company is gearing up to store more than 300 years of the United States\' most precious memories in Canada\'s capital.

Cold North Wind, which digitizes newspapers so
they can be searched and viewed over the Internet,
has teamed with the National Newspaper Association
(NNA) in a deal that will see Cold North digitize
microfilmed editions of 3,600 NNA-member newspapers, bringing as many as 500 million news
pages to Internet.

Full Story \"

Charles
Davis writes \"Britain has moved a step closer
towards European
integration with the creation of a pan
continental virtual
library.

The British Library is co-ordinating a
project which will allow
users to search for and access
digital and other collections
from the European participants.

A 30-month co-operative project will
provide the
groundwork on which to build the
pan-European service.

The project unites the eight national
libraries of Finland,
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Slovenia,
Switzerland, and the UK.

The European Library (TEL) project
will be boosted with
funding of 1.2 million euros from the
European
Commission\'s Information Societies
Technology (IST)
research programme.

Detailed information on how the
project is progressing can
be found on the TEL website at
europeanlibrary
.org. \"

Lee Hadden wrties: \"Stephen S. Rosenfeld had an
intriguing editorial in the Washington
Post concerning a letter sent by a librarian at the King
Fahd National
Library in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The writer of the letter,
one S\'ud Ibn
Muhammad Al-\'Aqili, wrote about the Palestinian
Authority\'s use of children
in the current intifada. The writer notes that the Prophet
Mohammed refused
to use children below 14 years of age in his
campaigns, but the PLO does
today. The editorial is about the independent thinking of
this individual.

The original letter can be read as \"Special Dispatch
#206\" in the Middle
East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) site at: memri.org.
An interesting analysis, and an interesting comment
on library staff.\"

Congratulations Canada on completion of the first
National BeerBrary.

Canada, home of the Canadian Penguin, North
America\'s first black Prime Minister (Jean Chrétien),
and the 20 hour metric clock, has just announced the
Canadian National BeerBrary has been completed.
Tim Horton (Canadian King for some 35 years)
was on hand at the celebration in the Canadian capital,
Toronto.
Construction took over 12 years, and cost over
$356 Million Canadian \"Loonies\" (That\'s about
$285.00
US). It is estimated almost 100 Canadians lost their
lives transporting the huge 12 ton ice blocks that make
up the 125 Meter (That\'s about 10 US floors) structure
that is
now the tallest structure in Canada. Ice was used to
ensure the 25,000 different Canadian Beers would stay
chilled in the BeerBrary. Since the average temperature
in Toronto never gets above freezing (That\'s -13 C) the
ice building is expected to last until global warming
causes the ice sheet Canada was built on to melt into
the sea.

\"This is a great day for all 23 Canadian States\", said
The Head of the BeerBrary , Don Cherry, \"It moves
Canada ahead of all other countries in alcohol
preservation, ahead of even New Orleans, and
Millawaukee\" -- Read More