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The latest Artifact Newsletter -  a joint newsletter covering November and December 2005 is now available at:

http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/nov05.html 

Contents of the Newsletter:

- A selection of the latest web resources added by the Artifact team including the freelance Artifact cataloguers. 

- Limelight features - with the new feature for December looking at choral societies and the growth of choral singing in the 19th century...*read the full article @ http://www.artifact.ac.uk/displayfeature.php?id=78 

- Announcements, notices and forthcoming events included:

* Creative Clusters Policy News - November 2005.
*  Public Music Librarian's Meeting - IAML's Courses and Education Committee is organising the first Public Music Librarian's Meeting on Tuesday 16th May 2006.
*  Evolution and Interactivity - Live Algorithms for Music meeting  - 19th December 2005.
*  Wonderground - the 2006 DRS International Conference. Designing Interdisciplinary Discourse, Conspiring for Design Leadership - call for papers.
*  Performance Initiative Network - forthcoming GroundWork showcases. An open call showcase festival for theatre companies giving the opportunity to perform in established theatre venues in London.
*  Television from the nations and regions conference 2006 - 11th January 2006, The Lowry, Salford Quays.
*  Shostakovich Symposium, London, Sept 2006 - call for Papers.
*  JISC study into digital preservation - the AHDS are working on a JISC study into digital preservation. You may already be familiar with their survey on digital image preservation. PLEASE NOTE that this survey addresses concerns central to the preservation of digital moving images and sound.
* Journeys Across Media: Manifestations of Media Technology - JAM 2006 at the University of Reading, Friday 21 April 2006 - call for papers.
* Final call - 9th International Design Conference - DESIGN 2006 in Dubrovnik, 15-18 May 2006 - a reminder that the deadline for submitting a full paper is December 15th 2005.
*  Musical Iconography in the 21st Century: Mapping European Art for Contexts and Methods. Ravenna, Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, 7-10 June 2006.

Further details of these conferences, notices and events can be found via the links in the Artifact Newsletter @ http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/nov05.html 



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With very best wishes for a happy and peaceful Christmas. 



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