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Things like PhD thesis only go to the BL though.

No, at the National Library for Wales we get the theses from the universites in Wales:

http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4653

So they don't get everything from the UK (I'm not sure what Scotland does, they have their own National Library).

We've started harvesting e-theses from university repositories as part of the ETHOS project (see link in the url above), the BL will however harvest them on from us (subject to agreement with the originating uni), so they'll get a more complete collection of those.

ps - the BL should have a copy of all material covered by Legal Deposit, but even they have a 'reminder' office that has to chase up publishers, but they have it a lot easier than the rest of us Legal Deposit libraries, who have to put in a claim for each item.

I thought this article on World War II was interesting.

To repeat one passage: "Nuisances such as blackouts and the rationing of food and clothes were trivial in comparison to the loss of life. Therefore, it was essential to think positively and to make the most of any diversions available to help them forget about the war, even if only for a short while."

I think everyone needs an outlet. You or I might think it's kind of pointless, but perhaps it brightens someone's day to be simply part of something goofy and yet important to them.

I've been working at the National Library of Wales developing an LTSP based system for our new Readers Room. We had decided to replace the old full WinNT desktops with LTSP stations served off a 1u Intel Xeon Server running Redhat 9 (for the trial system). I'm currently in the process of setting up the servers for the deployment version (Redhat Advanced Server on the same hardware).
I personally found the LTSP for Libraries HowTo very useful, after reading it and a day's worth of work in it - our system happily serves Firefox to the terminals.
You should bear in mind though that serving applications like Office to each terminal will mean quite a lot of your bandwidth being taken up. If its running on the same physical network as the rest of your machines (which it *really* shoudn't be imho) then your staff are going to start complaining.
As for security concerns... provided the terminals arent served with an XTerm and you restrict the user logged in only to their home directory, firewall off the server and isolate it from the rest of your network (consider sticking it on a seperate V-LAN to the rest of your network) and keep the machine up to date. Then it will most likely be as safe as any other machine on your network.

Bryn

There is a style of cartoon drawing (Illingworth) that would probably have you suspended from high school if you were to draw anything similar

Leslie Illingworth's original cartoon collection is in the National Library of Wales. The entire collection has been digitized and will be launched shortly on the Library's digital mirror.

There is a style of cartoon drawing (Illingworth) that would probably have you suspended from high school if you were to draw anything similar

Leslie Illingworth's original cartoon collection is in the National Library of Wales. The entire collection has been digitized and will be launched shortly on the Library's digital mirror.

Or you could just register the copyright and use the existing institution

Excellent advice, but it doesn't work for those of us outside the US. Here in the UK (and AFAIK the rest of the EU) copyright resides with the creator, but there is no place of registration.

The registration road is one that the US followed many years ago, and it provides an excellent degree of legal protection. But the history of copyright law in the UK has tended towards an "If you wrote it then it's yours, now can you prove it?" model, and proving it is a difficult thing to do nowadays if you publish an original work on the net.

Here we have no national registry of claims of copyright as a matter of public record. Maybe the EU should move towards this model (although I deeply distrust any approach that would actually require registration).

Of course registering every cvs checkin is going to get expensive :)

Hmm... strictly speaking, every copyrighted work should be deposited with the Briitish Library, Bodleian Library (Oxford), Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, Library of Trinity College Dublin and the National Library of Wales. Hope their CVS servers are up to scratch ;-)

http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp

(the JS doesn't seem to work on Moz - go to here for first page.

There's a whole lot of digitized early books and manuscripts out there. For one thing, there are no copyright issues, and they can often be the biggest hurdle in a digitization project. Check out some of our digitized material.

Get your bloody mitts off!
Wales needs vowels!