Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Gold Corporate Partner of IFLA, will be sponsoring the IFLA International Marketing Award for the next five years. This year's winner will be chosen by the IFLA International Marketing Award committee and will receive airfare, lodging and registration for the 2008 IFLA General Conference and Council – which is being held on August 10-14 in Quebec City, Canada – as well as a cash award of USD 1,000. Emerald will be exhibiting at the Conference and delegates are invited to meet our representatives at Stand Number 100.

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Librarianship is an inherently collaborative endeavour. This month Rachel Singer Gordon gives Library Link readers essential advice on how to successfully manage the web of relationships in which every library manager finds him or herself.

Emerald is pleased to inform our readers that Frank Scholze has won the first German Library Hi Tech Award. Selected by a jury of experts for his role in developing OPUS, the German Repository Platform deployed by more than 50 HE libraries in Germany, he will receive the €600 prize from the hands of Barbara Lison, President of BID (Bibliothek Information Deutschland), and Prof Dr Michael Seadle, Editor of Library Hi Tech and Director of the Institute of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Emerald sponsors Internet Librarian International 2008

Emerald is pleased to report that it will be a sponsor of Internet Librarian International 2008 which takes place at Novotel London West, London, UK on October 16-17 2008. The session will give librarians an opportunity to understand the impact of technological change and development on their library or information centre. David Raitt, Editor of Emerald publication, The Electronic Library, will be a co-conference chair.

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Working with the British Library, more than 50,000 articles from over 120 journals have been processed into PDF format and made available electronically for the very first time. Many of Emerald’s titles began as far back as the 1800s, and we are delighted to offer our readers a sneak preview of the very first issue of New Library World which was published in 1898.

Once again, Emerald is proud to be involved in the American Library Association's Annual Conference. Emerald will be sponsoring numerous activities at the event in Anaheim, CA, from June 26- July 2 2008, and participating in a number of key events including:

• Donation of plaque and $3,000 to the winner of the Ilene F Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award.
• Meet the editor sessions.
• Sponsorship of the reception at Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen from 18.00-22.30 on Saturday 28 June.
• Presentation of best paper awards.

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The Instituto de Empresa Business School, located in central Madrid, boasting students from over 70 countries on its Master, Doctorate and Executive Education programmes, is now inviting applications for the roles of IE University Library Director and Library Assistant on Foundation IE Business School Library.

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Emerald is delighted to continue its sponsorship of the ALA RUSA BRASS research grant for at least another 2 years. 2008 is the second year that Emerald Group Publishing Limited has donated two $5,000 cash awards to ALA members seeking support for conducting research in business librarianship.

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The notion of collaboratory is still new to the LIS field. This paper offers the opportunity to trigger a new discussion on collaboration between researchers and practitioners, and the potential of collaboratories to support new forms of collaboration (from Library Management, Vol. 29 No. 4/5).

A LIS collaboratory to bridge the research-practice gap