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LET link of the week OpenAustralia.org - Hansard meets Web 2.0.

• • was launched last night. It is a collaborative, grassroots effort styled on TheyWorkForYou. in the UK.

• o    Want to know when your local Federal member speaks in the House of Representatives? Enter your postcode and then you can be notified via RSS every time they speak in Parliament, and read the text of the speech. You can even check out the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level for the readability of their speeches. Records go back to 2006.

• Next LET session: JISC and SCONUL Library Management Systems Study ; In autumn 2007, JISC and SCONUL jointly commissioned the Library Management Systems Study to undertake an evaluation and horizon scan of the library management and related systems landscape for UK Higher Education. The Horizon scan outlined in the executive summary is an interesting evaluation of the business of academic libraries in the future.

• • Mentor: Margaret Jones
  • Tuesday 24 June 1:30pm - 2:30pm in 4.007

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