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Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question:

For the second year running JISC is sponsoring an award which will showcase the most innovative and potentially far-reaching ICT initiatives across the UK. The award, one of the Times Higher’s 2008 Awards, will ‘recognise and reward an institutional ICT initiative which has demonstrated an innovative and strategic use of ICT in support of the goals of that institution.’

*Digital Humanities Observatory*

Funded under PRTLI 4, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and its partners in
the Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium (HSIS) will build a
joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of
humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. The
key infrastructural element of the

An interesting article by Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison opening the JCMC Special Theme Issue on “Social Network Sites”.

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An interesting article by Jeremy Douglass.

Here is the abstract:

The January/February 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.

This issue contains five articles, a workshop report, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.