span xmlns=''pspan style='font-family:Garamond; font-size:12pt'The Future of Information Sciencesbr/INFuture2009: "Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing"br/4-6 November 2009, Zagreb, Croatiabr/a target='_blank' href='http://infoz.ffzg.hr/INFuture'http://infoz.ffzg.hr/INFuture/abr/br/CALL FOR PAPERSbr/br/Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia is organizing 2nd international conference on basic research and applications of leading advances in the field of information science related to digital resources and knowledge sharing

I find this quote interesting:br /br /Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographerbr /br /I think Samuel Johnson was a bit off here.

span xmlns=''pPlease join in August as thea href='http://www.loc.gov/flicc/' FLICC/a Human Resources Working Group hosts thebr //pp2009 Job Fair for Librarians and Information Professionals.br //pp br / /ppJob Fair for Info Professionals: Wednesday, August 26, 2009; 9:00am - 2:00 pm; Library of Congress - Madison Building (Mumford, West Dining Room) Washington, DCbr //ppbr / /ppPresentation Topics will include:br //pp - Resume Writing and Interview Techniques br //pp - Federal Librarianship/Careers br //pp - USAJobs Application Process

span xmlns=''pJune 29, 2009br/br/Following is a brief summary of the new consortial acquisitions by California Digital Library Programbr/a href='http://www.cdlib.org/'CDL/a Acquisitions in FY 2008/2009br/br/Archivision Digital Research Library - 28,000 images of art, architecture, gardens, parks and historic or contemporary sites from all over the world. The Visual Resources group has requested Archivision as their #1 priority for a number of years.

span xmlns=''pspan style='font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt'CALL FOR PROPOSALSbr/2009 Ex Libris MID-ATLANTIC USERS GROUP MEETINGbr/November 5-6, 2009br/SUNY Binghamton Universitybr/Binghamton, NYbr/br/The Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic Users Group (EMA) will meet this year at SUNYbr/Binghamton in New York State on November 5-6, 2009. We have a traditionbr/of providing an excellent program to our participants along with anbr/opportunity to network with your Ex Libris colleagues.

Fellow Swedish-to-English translator a href="www.scandinaviantranslations.org"Andy Bell/a has started a sort of a href="http://translationandlanguage.ning.com/"joint blog/a, which he terms "watercooler," for translators. You have to sign in, but it's free and there's some good information and networking possibilities there.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26093079-2277650694614032118?l=brave-new-words.blogspot.com'//div

span xmlns=''pRussia Online, Inc. is proud to announce the first North American edition of Ruslan Russian 1 textbook and workbook (beginner's level). The Ruslan series, first published in the UK, is the leading textbook for the communicative approach to teaching Russian in the United Kingdom. Ruslan has been published in translation in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden. Previously available only as an import, this course has been revised and edited to meet North American academic standards.

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