The NRCan Library is keeping to the cutting edge. The Geological Survey of Canada's (GSC's) 43 Educational Videos can now be viewed or downloaded from the web. Formats available are mp4 and swf. It's our way of ensuring that these important learning tools are more readily available to all.

What is more fun than sharing good food with good friends?

Sharing great web resources with great colleagues through the NRCan Library of course!

In its efforts to help build a knowledge enterprise, the NRCan Library is collecting and organising bookmarked web resources through a social bookmarking web service called del.icio.us

del.icio.us highlights include:

• ability to store, share, and access favourite bookmarks from any computer
• organization of bookmarks through tags (keywords which allow easy access to favourites)
• ability to browse and discover bookmarks other users have saved on the same or different topics

NRCan library Information Advisors have set up both English and French del.icio.us accounts and encourage staff to create individual accounts and share them with the NRCan library by adding the tags for:nrcanlibrary and for:bibliothequerncan. Submitted links will be reviewed, tags will be translated and NRCan's knowledge enterprise will continue to take shape.

The NRCan Library - Ottawa (Earth Sciences) has recently selected and compiled a number of RSS feeds and added them to their list of electronic resources. Featuring feeds in the domains of climate change, earth science, geology, cartography and general science, they are an efficient way of seeing when websites have added new content. Feeds were selected from government Web sites, scientific publishers, and authoritative news sources, among others.

If you are unfamiliar with RSS feeds and how to subscribe to them please see NRCan's "The News Room" page for further information.

The NRCan Library - Ottawa (Earth Sciences) is pleased to announce the introduction of geospatial searching to GEOSCAN, the Earth Science Sector's publications database. You can now search the database's more than 50 000 publication records using latitude and longitude. This new feature can be used alone or in combination with all existing search options, like NTS (National Topographic System) coordinates, geographical area, author, date and keyword. An added bonus is the capacity to specify how the system will search geospatially relative to the latitude and longitude range supplied - overlapping, matching, contained in, surrounding, and outside. To use this great search feature, follow the Search by latitude and longitude link on the GEOSCAN search page. A help screen is available to assist you in selecting your geospatial search strategy.

October 16, 2005: ESIC is proud to announce the launch of two Web sites celebrating the history of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and the scientists that make it great. For those interested in learning about the life of a geologist in the 19th century and some of the GSC's "rock stars", see the web site, Life of a Rock Star . If your interest is in reading historical GSC documents right from your desktop, see Written in Stone, where digitized versions of Sir William Logan's original journals and field notebooks, the early GSC annual reports and maps, and other important documents on Logan have been gathered into one virtual space. (Created in partnership with Library and Archives Canada and other institutions.)

ESIC is pleased to announce that the web site Life of a Rock Star in which ESIC collaborated, has won the first prize in the Educational category of the Museums and Web 2006.