1807-2007: a great anniversary celebration.

Bibliographic challenges in historical context: looking back to 1982

This article comments on a paper written in 1982 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The piece describes persistent challenges faced by the cataloging community. It includes comments made during the ALCTS 50th Anniversary National Conference as a means of placing these challenges in historical context.

70th Anniversary Collection for the Microbiology Society: Microbial Genomics

In the context of the Microbiology Society's 70th anniversary celebration, Microbial Genomics (MGen) is the new baby of the Society's publishing family. Born on 15 July 2015, it is still in its infancy but already showing promising signs, and we have great hopes and expectations for the future. The journal captures a new and expanding area of research, one which is already having a major impact...

AI@50: We Are Golden!

Happy golden anniversary, artificial intelligence! AI, a field still young as sciences go, is golden in achievement and promise. The 50th anniversary of the naming of our field, at Dartmouth College in 1956, is a time for reminiscence, celebration, and prognostication. We have great successes to celebrate, while most of our failures are along the lines of achieving successful results later than...

Financial SyStem DevelopmentS anD their implicationS For the conDuct oF monetary policy

It is a great pleasure to be here in Kuala Lumpur at this celebration of Bank Negara Malaysia’s 50th Anniversary. The two central banks actually have something of a shared history. In the late 1950s, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, as Australia’s central bank was then known, seconded officers to assist with the establishment of Bank Negara. One of them, Tan Sri WH Wilcock, became Bank Negar...

Regarding Rights: An Essay Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Introduction: Locating Culture, Identity, and Human Rights Symposium in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human