Library Connect

Volume 4 • Number 3
August 2006 • ISSN: 1549-3725
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Welcome

Introduction from Eduard Cohen

Features

From Tortoise Shells to Terabytes:
The National Library of China’s Digital Library Project

ScienceDirect China Collection Quick Facts

National Support Helps Nurture Knowledge Creation and Communication

Managing Vendor Relations: A Graduate Course Worth Our Time

LIS Outreach Program Offers Free Resources

Community Connections

NISO Keeps Its Eyes on Identifiers

"Search Scirus with TEK" Helps Researchers Overcome Connectivity Problems

Reed Elsevier Makes Caring a Worldwide Mission

Vietnam's HCMC General Science Library Gets a Boost

Center of Attention

Librarians Speak Up:
How does your library help users with limited English proficiency access STM information, much of which is in English?

Research Watch

The LIS International Perspective: Real, Needed and Supported

Behind the Scenes

An Exchange with Karen Hunter

Exploring Local-Language Possibilities for ScienceDirect

The New ScienceDirect: Try It, You'll Like It!

World's Premier Urology Journal Now Available on ScienceDirect

Scopus Access Through EES Helps Editors and Reviewers

On the Road

On the Road in Australia, Bulgaria, China, France, Iran, New Zealand, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the USA

Staying Connected

Ask UCD: Chris Jasek Answers Your Usability Questions

Tony McSeán Elected New CILIP Chair

Sponsored Articles Expand ScienceDirect Options

Elsevier LIS Journals Now Part of HINARI & AGORA

Iraqi Virtual Science Library Offers Helping Hand

Upcoming Events

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Upcoming Events 2006

Events listed here include:

Library Connect events
Industry events and conferences at which Elsevier will have a booth

AUGUST
3	Library Connect Seminar, Bangkok, Thailand
4	Library Connect Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20 - 23	72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, Seoul, South Korea
25	Bibliometric Seminar, Seoul, South Korea

SEPTEMBER
19 - 22	ALIA 2006 Biennial Conference, Perth, Australia
20 - 22	Austrian Library Day, Bregenz, Austria
25 - 27	Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen, Jena, Germany

OCTOBER
4 - 8	Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
8 - 11	LIANZA 2006, Wellington, New Zealand
17 - 18	Informatica Medica, Budapest, Hungary
18 - 19	Nordic Library Directors Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark
22 - 25	Chemical Information Exhibition, Nîmes, France
22 - 27	XIV Seminário Nacional de Bibliotecas Universitárias, Salvador, Brazil
23 - 25	Internet Librarian 2006, Monterey, CA, USA
24	Library Connect Seminar, Johannesburg, South Africa
26	Library Connect Seminar, Cape Town, South Africa

About Library Connect Events
Organized by Elsevier account development managers and Customer Marketing teams, Library Connect events bring together Elsevier colleagues and customers to discuss issues of concern for information professionals. Librarians play an active role in planning agendas for and giving presentations at Library Connect events, where frank discussion and sharing of ideas and experiences ensure participants get the most out of attending.