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The article presents news briefs related to the computer industries from around the world as of April 2006. Solinet is offering a series of disaster preparedness classes in each of the 10 states that constitute its region. Palinet launched its Technology Conversations podcast series. A digitization conference titled An Expedition to European Digital Cultural Heritage: Collecting. Connecting and Conserving? will be held in Salzburg, Austria.

This section presents an overview of articles featured in the February 2004 issue of "Computers in Libraries." The issue has the theme of Making Standards Understandable. In trying to understand computer industry standards, the author learned that there are not many sites/groups/texts that describe a standard in simple terms. Starting on page 18, a set of a dozen primers on standards have been provided. There are two features for the month: One will give the readers a deeper understanding of Open Uniform Resource Locator and the other will elicit a deeper appreciation of bibliographic holdings standards.