AHRC-British Library Collaborative PhD: Archiving the Games

The University of Central Lancashire and the British Library are advertising an AHRC-funded PhD opportuntity. The project title is 'Archiving the Games: collecting, storing and disseminating the London 2012 knowledge legacy'.

Summary information about this is available at: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/prospective_students/research_studentships.php#rs1204

More detailed information is available at: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/prospective_students/files/RS1204_Description_and_Specification.docx

I think it sounds like a really fascinating opportunity - especially after the success of the Olympic and Paralympic games.

Charleston Conference Proceedings go Open Access

The Charleston Conference, one of the major conferences for library practitioners and researchers working on collection development and management topics, has now made the proceedings from its last three conferences freely accessible online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/

I'm quite excited about this - I gave a paper there last year, which I wrote up for the proceedings and which you can access here.

Print and e-book copies of last year's proceedings are also available for purchase from Purdue University Press: http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/charleston-conference-proceedings-2011