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Thursday, February 28, 2002
Good Day from 22 Degrees North Latitude/85 Degrees West Longitude We're Heading To New Orleans Aboard Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas Information Access Source: Managing Information Survey of Company Directors Shows Company Information is Poorly Organised More material for your statistics and "why we need information professionals" files. From the article, "According to findings released today of a survey of 1,050 senior IT directors, companies are not effectively utilising the amount of information available to them - either from internal or external resources such as market reports, industry studies, email, competitive data, customer surveys and sales figures. More than two thirds of the survey respondents identified the problem as simply "not being able to find the relevant information". Note: This survey was funded by Inxight a provider of information management and organization software. See Also: Inxight's Press Release Announcing The Findings Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Financial Services Industry--United States Source: Insurance Information Institute/Financial Services Roundtable 2002 Financial Services Factbook Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Good Day from Grand Cayman B.W.I. Information Visualization Internet Mapping Source: Information Highways Interview, "UpClose: Tim Bray Mapping the Web" From the interview, "Tim Bray sure has left his mark on the field, especially in Web technology. As a 20-year veteran and pioneer in the software industry, Bray is widely known as an expert on searching and retrieving information. Years before the Web went public, he developed the first search engine software for a Canadian company called Open Text, of which Tim is a co-founder. He then went on to co-write the XML standard, which is transforming the way information is presented and categorized on the Web." Bray is currently the CEO of Antarti.ca See Also: Use Antarti.Ca To Demo A New GUI of PubMed See Also: The Antarti.Ca/Map.Net Demo of the Open Directory Project Information Access Source: IDG.Net "New York Pulls Sensitive Data from State's Web Sites" From the article, "New York Gov. George Pataki has ordered a statewide scrub of government agency Web sites to remove sensitive information that might help terrorists plan and carry out attacks on the state's critical infrastructure." Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Crime--United States--Statistics Source: BJS Full Text Report: Age Patterns in Violent Victimization, 1976-2000 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text - Agriculture Source: GAO Full-Text Report: Mad Cow Disease: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts GAO-02-183, January 25. Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Good Day from Cozumel, Mexico Scholarly Publishing "ARL Endorses Budapest Open Access Initiative" The news release contains links to ARL "positions and principals" on other scholarly communication issues. See Also: Full-Text, Budapest Open Access Initiative WHOIS Database Source: NY Times "The Murky Debate Over an Internet Address Database" From the article, "..., how much information should be made available to the public about the individuals and businesses that have registered more than 35 million Web addresses (or domain names, as they are known in the trade)? What restrictions, if any, should be placed on who has access to this data?" Thanks To G.T. for the news tip. Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents - Higher Education--United States R&D--United States--Statistics Source: NSF Full-Text Report, Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2000 - British Library--Digital Collection Source: Reuters First Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" Set For Digitization From the article, "The first edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", worth 4.6 million pounds, has been hauled from the British Library vaults to be digitised and put online. Technicians sporting satellite-strength cameras began photographing the rare 15th century tome in a windowless room in London on Monday. Their 1,300 high-resolution images will then be put on the Internet. The British Library has already digitised two copies of the Gutenberg bible, printed in 1455 and available on the Internet at http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp. - Digital Collections Industry--United States--Image Collections Source: Indiana University Digital Library Program U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection From the site, "...more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana held by the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest." Digital Collections Periodicals--LIFE LIFE Magazine Cover Collection Database Search by date or keyword to access and view LIFE covers from 1936 to 1972. Monday, February 25, 2002
Good Morning From Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas Best Practices Source: GAO New: GAO Best Practices Resources Material is organized in three categories: 1) Best Practices Reviews Identify "...identify other public and private sector organizations that are widely recognized for major improvements in their performace in a specific area, such as financial management. The processes, practices, and systems identified in these leading organizations are referred to as best practices and provide a model for other organizations with similar functions and/or missions." 2) Comparative Benchmarking Products , "...compare the processes or practices of a government agency with best practices for similar processes of leading organizations." 3) Best Practices Methodology Sunday, February 24, 2002
Magazines--United States Source: Magazines Publisher Association List: New & Noted Magazines 2001, January-December Saturday, February 23, 2002
Essential Web Reference Tools Hooray! The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences is Back Online Librarian, web research pioneer, author, and founder of one of the Net's essential reference tools has announced that The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences (aka Acadlists, Kovacs' Directory, Directory of Academic discussion lists) is back on the web and ready for searching. Thanks Diane! Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) - In the News Full-Text Document: GAO Lawsuit Against VP Cheney Over National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG) Information Full-Text of complaint filed by the GAO. 25 pages. pdf. (via FindLaw) See Also: GAO Press Release See Also: Related Resources From GAO Comptroller General -- Business--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Fortune America's Most Admired Companies, 2002 This is the 20th anniversary of the list. - Political Parties--United States--Statistics Source: FEC Full-Text Files: 2 Major U.S. Political Parties, Financial Activity Friday, February 22, 2002
Web Search--AltaVista Source: SearchDay AltaVista's Interface Makeover C.S reports on an AV tweak/facelift. Now, let's hope AV can get back to frequent recrawls and database updates. Since AV's software is fully capable of handling many formats, perhaps they could also toss in access to .pdf materials. Note: AltaVista News Search, powered by a feed from Moreover DOES NOT ALLOW the use of boolean connectors (and, or, "and not"), the proximity opeartor "near", or any of the other AV "special search terms" (e.g. title: text: ). According to spokesperson at AV, these features will be available sometime during the upcoming summer. The + and - signs work with AV News Search. Information Quality--Web Databases Soruce: Newsbytes "U.S. Nursing Home Info Web Site Flawed - Report" From the article, "A government Web site promising detailed information on the performance of U.S. nursing homes failed to disclose more than 25,000 documented violations of federal health standards, according to a congressional report released on Thursday." See Also: Direct to Full-Text of the Committe on Government Reform Report (U.S. House) See Also: Letter From Congressmen To Medicare Administrator See Also: Direct to "Complaint Violation Search Database" "In conjunction with the preparation of the new report, the minority staff of the a House Committee on Government Reform at the request of Rep. Waxman and Sen. Grassley - created this searchable database with information about violations found during complaint investigations to provide a more complete picture of the quality of care provided by nursing homes in the United States." See Also: Direct to Nursing Home Compare Database See Also: I.Q.: Information Quality (Resources via The Virtual Chase) Scholarly Communication "ARL Endorses Budapest Open Access Initiative" The news release contains links to ARL (Association of Research Libraries) "positions and principals" on other scholarly communication issues. See Also: Full-Text, Budapest Open Access Initiative Thursday, February 21, 2002
Lecture Hall "Google is Not an Anomaly: A Blueprint for Inventing and Building Innovative and Successful User-Centric Products" A Presentation by Google's Co-Founder Larry Page To CS547 (Human-Computer Interaction Seminar) at Stanford. Lecture Overview and Page's Bio ||| View the Presentation (Streaming Video via MS Media Player) Page gave this presentation on January 11, 2002. Thanks to Webmaster World for the tip. Database of the Week Seminars Invisible Web The Seminar Information Service Database Find information about, "over 360,000 live, in-person seminars, classes, workshops, corporate training events and conferences listed annually...". The database can be searched or browsed by category. Make sure to take a look at the robust "advanced search" interface. Data available for the U.S. and several international locations. Btw, Seminar Info Services also licenses this database to Peterson's. However, the Peterson's interface doesn't have many limitings options AND does not contain international data. A good example of how a single database can have different interfaces/usability depending on how/where you access it. See Also: ShawGuides (Educational Travel and Creative Career Programs) Unabridged access to these well-known reference tools. Interview Source: The Guardian An Interview with Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle In addition to being the founder of the Internet Archive, Kahle is also the co-founder of Alexa Internet and inventor of the WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), an early Internet search tool. See Also: Brewster Kahle's 1997 Scientific American article, "Archiving the Internet" See Also: "Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action" (by Lyman and Kahle, D-Lib, 1998) See Also: Brewster Kahle's Bio from the Alexa Internet Site E-Books Libraries Source: New York Times "In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries" From Lisa Guernsey's article, "Eletronic book publishing may be on the skids, but digital book collections continue to grow at libraries. In the next few months, library patrons at Yale's and Stanford's university libraries, as well as some libraries in Northern California, may be surprised to find that their electronic catalogs offer links to digital books. The universities and the Peninsula Library System, a consortium of 34 public and community college libraries in San Mateo County, have decided to jump into the e-book arena." Libraries--Canada Books--Canada "$9.6 Million for Canadian Authors" From the announcement, "A total of 13,269 Canadian writers, translators and illustrators across Canada will receive payments amounting to more than $9.65 million this week, thanks to the Public Lending Right (PLR) Commission. The PLR Commission, set up in 1986, makes payments to Canadian authors for the presence of their books in public and university libraries...PLR payments are determined by sampling the holdings of a representative number of libraries. There is a per-author maximum each year - this year, 414 authors are receiving the maximum payment of $3,675." Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) American Memory Project American History--Digitization Projects New Collection: "Suffering under a Great Injustice”: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar From the site, "Suffering under a Great Injustice”: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar features 209 photographic prints and 241 original negatives taken by Adams in 1943 of Japanese Americans who were relocated from their homes during World War II and interned in the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California." - Let Others Know About This Service Source: Christian Science Monitor "Putting Books Online for the Visually Disabled" From the article, "Imagine spending hours tediously scanning hundreds of pages and converting them to a special digital file every time you wanted to read the latest bestseller. (Not to mention the cost of the scanner itself.) Until now, many who are visually impaired have resorted to just that. Less than 5 percent of books are available in Braille or audiotape formats, by some estimates. But Benetech, a Silicon Valley nonprofit technology developer, has come up with Bookshare.org, a book-swapping website that brings more than 10,000 books to people with visual disabilities." Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Professional Reading Shelf The February Issue (Vol. 8 No. 2) of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Selected Articles: "Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Progress Report and Workplan for 2002" "Digital Collections of Real World Objects" "The MusArt Music-Retrieval System: An Overview" Online Industry--Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Bibliographic Databases CSA Introduces 2 New Engineering Databases CSA Civil Engineering Abstracts and CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts are two new bibliographic databases from CSA. News Brief Google Begins New Advertising Program From the press announcement, "Google's unbiased search results continue to be produced through a fully automated process and are unaffected by payment." Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (7 Items) - Travel--Directories OAG's "Travel Tools" "Travel Tools", a portion of OAG web site, consists of a very comprehensive directory of airports and airlines from around the world. The "Travel Tools" section also provides a very useful "Destination Information" tool. Within two clicks you'll find basic directory information for most countries (time zones, calling info, currency, public holidays, etc.) If airport information is available you'll find a link to access airport phone numbers, a list of carriers, and info on services available at that airport. OAG is a well-known and respected name in travel information. - Higher Education--United States--Statistics Source: National Center for Education Statistics Full-Text Report: Study of College Costs and Prices, 1988-89 to 1997-98 Summary and Full-Text - United Nations Source: GAO Full-Text Report, U.N. Peacekeeping: Estimated U.S. Contributions, Fiscal Years 1996-2001 - Small Business--United States--Statistics Source: SBA Full-Text Report: Small Business Share of Econonmic Growth Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text 51 pages .pdf - Vehicles--Enviroment Energy Industry Source: House of Commons Library (U.K.) Full-Text Report: Alternative Vehicle Fuels 66 pages .pdf -- Copyright--United States Source: U.S. Copyright Office Full-Text Proposals: Recommendations Regarding the Webcasting of Music Background via Bloomberg.Com - Scholarly Publishing Full-Text: Budapest Open Access Initiative See Also: "George Soros Gives $3 Million to New Open Access Initiative" (via Information Today NewsBreaks) Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Copyright--United States "Court to Decide on Web Copyrights" From the AP article, "The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to intervene in a fight over copyrights, deciding whether Congress has sided too heavily with writers and other inventors. The outcome will determine when hundreds of thousands of books, songs and movies will be freely available on the Internet or in digital libraries." See Also: "Supreme Court Will Hear Copyright Case Affecting Online Resources" (via The Chronicle of Higher Education) See Also: Extensive Background and Full-Text Documents via Berkman Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard Univ. See Also: Background/Resources/Documents re: Eldred v. Ashcroft See Also: Full-Text of Brief Filed by the Internet Archive (Thanks LISNews.Com) See Also: Listen (RealAudio), Charlie Rose Interviews Lawrence Lessig (1/4/02) See Also: Listen (RealAudio), Lawrence Lessig on NPR's "On the Media" Info Industry--OCLC New Informational Site for WorldCat, The World's Largest Bibliographic Database This site includes several pages of interesting WorldCat statistics. For example, as of 2/4/02 WorldCat contained 46,724,443 unique bibliographic records with about 84% of them being for books. Web Search--Ask Jeeves Web Search--iLOR Source: SearchDay "iLOR Dumps Google for Ask Jeeves/Teoma" Chris Sherman breaks the news of iLOR's change from providing results from Google to providing results from Ask Jeeves. He writes, "Run a search on iLOR and you see the same set of results you'd get from searching Ask's Direct Hit database(though iLOR plans to switch to the Teoma database as soon as Ask allows it). These results are ranked by popularity, as measured both by how many people visited a page and how much time was spent viewing it." See Also: Read iLOR's Official Announcement See Also: "Ask Jeeves Completes Integration of Teoma Results" Online Industry--Dialog Dialog Unveils New Product Aimed at Small Business Market, DialogPRO Dialog PRO (Predictable Research Online) will be a fee-based service with fixed monthly fees providing unlimited search and retrieval capabilities. From the news release, "A subscriber's fixed monthly subscription is based on the individual source selections the subscriber chooses. All DialogPRO accounts are available for flat fee subscriptions. (Certain restrictions, based on client revenue size, apply.) Additional content materials not included in a subscription may be searched and retrieved on a transactional basis." See Also: DialogSelect, Open-Access, Pay-Per-View Searching and title lists are free. Pay (via credit card) to access full-text. New and Updated Reports from the Congressional Research Service It's time for another look at a selection of new and or updated reports from the CRS. To access these full-text reports(.pdf) head to this page from Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) or this page Rep. Mark Green (R-WI). Then, select/click the appropriate category and scroll to the report. Here are a few selected new or recently updated reports. CRS Issue Briefs *IB87020 Campaign Financing (Updated 2/14/02) *IB10012 Intelligence Issues for Congress (Updated 2/4/02) *IB93033 Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy (Updated 2/11/02) *IB94049 Iraq-U.S. Confrontation (Updated 1/18/02) *IB10068 Major Tax Issues in the 107th Congress (Updated 2/14/02) *IB94041 Pakistan-U.S. Relations (Updated 2/14/02) *IB95112 Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Updated 1/31/02) - CRS Short Reports *RS21115 Enron Bankruptcy and Employer Stock in Retirement Plans (Updated 2/6/02) *RS21135 Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues (Updated 2/14/02) *98-53 Salaries of Federal Officials: A Fact Sheet (Updated 1/7/02) - CRS Long Reports *RL30153 Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation (Updated 2/6/02) *RL31270 Internet Statistics: Explanation and Sources (Updated 2/6/02) *RL31119 Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 2002 Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) Business--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Selling Power Selling Power 500 This list provides info on U.S. sales force size, number of global employees, and annual sales. You'll need to register (free). - Investment Banking--Lists & Rankings Source: First Call Merrill Lynch Named Most-Read Brokerage Firm Worldwide in 2001 and 4Q01 -- American Memory Project American History--Digitization Projects Roundup: New Collections Added to LC's American Memory Project 5 new collections from AMP. 1) The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress 2) Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 3) Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887 4) Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 5) The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1870-1925 Monday, February 18, 2002
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Population--United States Source: U.S. Census Full-Text Report: The Population Profile of the United States: 2000 (Internet Release) Summary/Fast Facts ||| Direct to Full-Text From the summary, "The Census Bureau has been producing the Population Profile since 1974," said report editor and senior author Judith Waldrop, "andthroughout its history, generally, it has been issued only biennially and in printed form. In an attempt to make these data available to the public on a more frequent basis without increasing costs, the report will now be issued annually, with both a printed report and an Internet version every two years and an Internet-only version the other years. This is the first Internet-only version." -- Scholarly Publishing--Directory Source: Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division/Association of American Publishers PSP Glossary The Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the AAP offers this useful web directory, they call it a glossary, of key groups involved in many aspects of scholarly publishing. Material can be browsed by organization type (e.g. "Associations/Advocacy", Libraries, US Government/Judicial, International, etc.) or by Issue (e.g. Copyright, Cybercrime, Document Delivery, Privacy, etc.) Each entry contains a short blurb about the organization and a direct link to the group's web site. Professional Reading Shelf National Library of Australia "Towards a National Infrastructure for Access to Australia's Documentary Information Resources in Electronic Formats: Strategic Developments at the National Library of Australia" From the abstract, "The National Library of Australia is undertaking a wide range of practical and research activities to facilitate the tasks of collecting, preserving and making available Australian electronic resources, and is collaborating with other institutions in endeavours which advance these aims. The objective is to ensure that these resources are accessible by both current and future generations of Australians. This paper outlines the National Library's strategies and key activities with regard to Australian Electronic Resources, and highlights key technical challenges to be overcome." Sunday, February 17, 2002
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Public Libraries--Directory--United States Source: National Center for Education Statistics New Features: Public Library Search Tool From the site, "The search results for public library information in "Search for Schools, Colleges and Libraries" has added many exciting new features. Results now include graphs with trend results for key figures, and also per capita statistics. This information is available for over 9,000 central public library outlets." - Colleges and Universities--Directory--United States Source: National Center for Education Statistics Updated Data: IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line Database with information on over 9,000 U.S. colleges and universities was recently updated with price information for 2001 and degree information for the 2000-2001 school year. Saturday, February 16, 2002
Professional Reading Shelf Scholarly Publishing Source: Learned Publishing "Getting it! The Added Value of Helping Users Find Information" From the abstract, "This paper focuses on the evolving role of secondary publishers within the changing models of web-assisted information provision." Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Philanthropy--United States--Statistics Source: Foundation Center "Highlights from the Foundation Center's Financial Giving Trends, 2002" 4 pages .pdf Friday, February 15, 2002
Special Libraries Association Roberta Schaffer To Leave SLA Executive Director Post From the announcement, "Roberta I. Shaffer, Executive Director of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) has announced that she will leave the Association effective February 22, 2002. On her decision to leave SLA, Shaffer commented, “The Special Libraries Association will continue its course as the leading professional association for information professionals. The Board of Directors and I share the same vision for the future of the Association and the profession. However, we are not in sync in terms of the pace of change. I have enjoyed my time working with the Board, staff and members. I am confident that the Association will achieve its goals in the new century and meet the needs of a new generation of information professionals.” Shaffer was appointed to the executive director position in April of 2001. Digital Reference Source: LJ "Digital Reference: Too Little, Too Slowly" From the article, "Digital reference—e-mail, chat reference, voice-over IP—is still in its experimental stage, according to Joe Janes, professor at the University of Washington's School of Information. "It's been marginal and marginalized. We build it but don't tell anyone. Then we wonder why no one uses it." Libraries must support digital reference and start focusing on it as a core service." Web Search--AltaVista AltaVista Changes "Simple Search" Default Operator Greg Notess reports that AV's "Simple Search" default operator has changed from OR to AND. Like all things AV some exceptions exist. You can find all the details in this report. Notess also informs us that changes are on the horizon for AV's "Search Assistant" feature. Web Search--Google New Zealand Version of Google Online Another entry on the expanding list of localized interfaces. Although no limit to .nz is available (yet?) you can limit to only English language material from the home page. Thanks to the National Business Review for the tip. Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Holocaust--Digitization Projects Source: The British Library "Voices of the Holocaust" From the site, "'Voices of the Holocaust is a unique resource, the first to offer pupils and teachers access to powerful and moving recordings of Holocaust survivors. The recordings, created by the British Library National Sound Archive for its Oral History Programme, all feature the voices of survivors who came to live in Britain and comprise one of Europe's largest collections of survivor testimonies." See Also: "Holocaust Site Open to Broadband Users" From the article, "A Steven Spielberg-backed foundation [Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation] launched a Web site Thursday designed as a high-speed gateway into its vast catalog of testimonies from Holocaust survivors." To access, select the "Enhanced" option on this web page. - Abraham Lincoln--Collection and Online Exhibit Source: McGill University Lincoln North: The Joseph N. Nathanson Collection of Lincolnia This catalog and online exhibit is the the largest collection of Lincolnia outside the United States. From the intro page, "This site is comprised of two sections: the collection and a virtual exhibit. In the case of the collection, students and researchers can now search the bibliographic records of Nathanson Lincoln pamphlet collection and selected images of title pages. (At the present time the monographs, the prints and the other items in the collection are being catalogued and the catalogue and selected images will be made available in May 2002.)" Thursday, February 14, 2002
Web Search Source: News.Com Statistics File: "Web Surfers Snubbing Search Engines" You can access additional info about this story via a Web Side Story press release. From the news release, "Since the early days of the Internet, search engines and Web links have played an important part in shuttling surfers from site to site. That trend appears to be on the decline in both the US and overseas, although the percentages can vary between countries." While these numbers say something about user behavior, the statistics are focused on, as many popular web statistics are, utilizing the web as an e-commerce/marketing tool and not as a research tool. Nevertheless, this news illustrates a twist on the law of library science that states "save the time of the reader." Perhaps this law should be amended to "save the time of the reader AND electronic information user." (: Academic Libraries Information Access Post 9/11 Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education "An Order to Destroy a CD-ROM Raises Concerns Among University Librarians" From the article, "College librarians who were forced by the federal government to destroy copies of a CD-ROM put out by the United States Geological Survey say destruction of the disks raises concerns about intellectual freedom." Online Information Industry--Hoover's Online Information Industry--LexisNexis Hoover's Online Customers To Gain Pay-Per-Use Access to the Directory of Corporate Affiliations P-P-U access is also available at Bizlinkage.Com. Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items) - Surgeon General of the United States--Reports New Site: Reports of the Surgeon General This site from the National Library of Medicine provides access to "some 70 reports" (full-text) issued by the Surgeon General from 1964-2001. -- Canada--Archives Full Text Report: National Archives of Canada Annual Review 2000 - 2001 34 pages .pdf -- Presidents of the United States--Bill Clinton Source: GPO Now Available: The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton -- 2000-2002 -- Digital Information Source: HBS Working Knowledge "Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear" This is an excerpt from is from Bryan Bergeron's book, Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die. Stories in the News--Resources Milosevic Trial JURIST: The Legal Education Network Milosevic Trial Guide Not only does this resource provide access to a large number of articles and other releated resources but is also provides access to a live stream of the trial. See Also: News Brief Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Announcement IMLS Awards $149,014,000 Million in Federal Grants for Essential Library Services Cool Tool Shelf PDF To HTML Conversion Tool Simple enter the url of a .pdf file. and this tool will convert the file to an html document. An e-mail conversion tools is also available. Thanks to Rory Litwin's Library Juice for the tip. Note: Remember that IF the .pdf file has been crawled by the Google, an html version is also available. Google also converts other file formats (.xls, .doc, .ppt, etc.) to html. available Wednesday, February 13, 2002
EDGAR Databases SEDAR Databases SEC Info (SECInfo.Com) Is Back Online We've learned that SEC Info, a provider of real-time EDGAR and SEDAR (Canadian filings) is back online. This is exciting news. Thanks to TVC Alert for the news tip. Online Info Industry--Dialog Dialog Adds Linking Tool for e-Journals From the news release, "[Dialog] has added the ability for users of its Dialog® service to link seamlessly -- and without cost -- to the full texts of more than 8,000 scientific, medical and technical e-Journals published by more than 40 leading scientific publishers and information aggregators. The e-Journals available for seamless access are mostly peer-reviewed scientific, medical and technical journals serving specialized audiences. Among the leading publishers and aggregators making their e-Journals available for immediate linking are Ebsco Online, John Wiley & Sons, Science Direct, SwetsNet and Information Quest." Online Information--Wiley InterScience Source: Managing Information Wiley InterScience Adds New Service From the article, "ArticleSelect, a feature launched last year that allows Wiley InterScience's Enhanced Access License customers to purchase individual journal articles not covered by their subscription, has now been extended to include OnlineBooks chapters." See Also: Direct to the Wiley Press Release Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items) UNESCO--Databases Invisible Web New Site: Common Access Point to 120 UNESCO Databases and Other Info Sources Now Available From the announcement, "A common access point to 120 bibliographic, referral (directories, projects, etc.) and factual databases produced by UNESCO in its areas of competence is now online. The new website service entitled "Information Sources" gives also access to 57 online and offline information services of the Organization's Headquarter and in its field offices." See Also: Direct to the New UNESCO Information Sources Compilation -- Central Intelligance Agency--History Source: CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence Full-Text Document, Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution In addition to the narrative this source contains copies of 19 documents key to the CIA's history. -- Demographics--United States Source: U.S. Census Full Text Report, The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2000 Summary/Highlights ||| Direct to Full-Text 12 pages .pdf -- Africa Digital Collections--Invisible Web Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent Produced by the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A large database of images and sounds. Most of the material found below the top-level page resides on the Invisible Web. Discovered via Yahoo POTW. -- Stories in the News--Resources British Telecom Suing Prodigy Alleging It Owns Hyperlink Patent Full-Text: Complaint Filed By BT Full-Text: Patent (via USPTO) Story About Law Suit (via BBC) ***News Briefs (2 Items)*** Source: FEC News Release SEC Proposes New Disclosure Regulations - Source: FTC News Release The Federal Trade Commission Wants Your Spam This link also contains links to several FTC filings re: spam Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Web Search--Lycos Something New From Lycos: Side Search This might be a useful time saving and navigation tool. Now, each Lycos result has a second link labeled "Fast Forward". Clicking on this link will divide your browser into two windows. The left window has simple links to 10 hits below the number hit you select. So, if you select hit 41, the box will have links to hits 41-50. The box on the right side of the screen contains the complete page of the "hit" you've selected. In essence, SideSearch allows you to browse a list of search results without having to navigate from the results list to the desired page and then back again. Side Search works with IE and Netscape. You must have javascript enabled. When I tested SideSearch using Opera it didn't work properly. See Also: Both Vivisimo's "Preview" feature and WiseNut's "Sneak-a-Peek" feature allow you to view complete web pages inside a search results list. See Also: "Speed Searching with Lycos Fast Forward" (via SearchDay 2/14/02) See Also: "Lycos Enhances Advanced Search" (via SearchDay 1/16/02) Librarianship--Demographics Source: ARL Video Presentation: "Generational Change in Librarianship" From the site. "A 32-minute video by Stanley Wilder on the age-demographic shift in ARL librarians." You'll need Windows Media Player installed to watch the presentation. See Also: "New Roles: A Librarian by Any Name" (via LJ 2/1/02) Information Access Post 9/11 Source: Computerworld Web Sites Seen As Terrorist Aids "A major financial institution this week will receive a report outlining the extent to which its Web site exposes it to potential attacks by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization and other terrorists. The audit, produced by security consulting firm Stroz Associates LLC, is one of the first of its kind in the private sector. It marks a growing trend by companies in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to assess whether content on their Web sites increases their risk of being targeted by terrorist organizations. The amount of sensitive data uncovered by Stroz Associates at various corporate Web sites is startling, said Eric Friedberg, managing director at the New York-based firm and a former computer crime coordinator at the U.S. Department of Justice." See Also: "Official: Terrorists used Internet to get Info on Potential Targets" (via Computerworld 2/13/02) Online Information Industry--Dialog Source: Searcher "Dialog Pricing Redux: Déjà Vu All Over Again" Mary Ellen Bates provides a comprehensive review. Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Resource Discovery The U.K.'s Resource Discovery Network Premieres Training Page This is highly useful material for all web users and web trainers from around the World. The RDN describes itself as "..a free Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community." The training page contains links to a new workbook that is designed to introduce users to some of the services of the RDN. The workbook contains practical tasks and exercises and can be used to support a hands on workshop or can be used by individuals for self-paced learning. It also contains quizzes, tips and hints, as well as scenarios designed to suggest ways in which the RDN can be used practically to support learning and teaching." Additionally, the training page, "includes links to to subject-specific training materials from RDN hubs and the Virtual Training Suite, copies of RDN and Virtual Training Suite posters and flyers, and a Powerpoint presentation designed to support user education sessions in colleges and universities." - Film Industry--Academy Awards Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Resources for 74th Academy Awards 1) Press Kit/Fact Sheets Includes 22 fact sheets on various topics. All are .pdf files. 2) Complete List of Official Nominations (pdf) ||| Nominations Press Kit/Fact Sheets 2) 74th Academy Awards Timeline 3) "Reminder List of Eligible Releases for Distinguished Achievements During 2001" 4) The "Official Rules" Monday, February 11, 2002
Enterprise Search Source: Reuters Google Introduces Enterprise "Search Appliance" From the article, "...Google joins a number of companies including Verity Inc, Ask Jeeves Inc and CMGI Inc's AltaVista that are also selling enterprise software. What makes Google different is that it is selling search hardware and software, all contained in a slim device it calls the Google Search Appliance, which businesses can install behind their own corporate firewalls and program to scan whichever documents they wish...The product comes in two versions; one that sells for $20,000 and scales to search up to 150,000 documents and a more powerful version for $250,000, which Google says can scan "millions and millions" of documents." See Also: Learn More About the "Search Appliance" Direct from Google Information Industry--Ebrary Information Industry--Elsevier Elsevier Announces Agreement with Ebrary From the annoucement, "Elsevier Science, Science & Technology Division has agreed to make authoritative book titles available through ebrary's multiple online channels including libraries, institutions and other online organizations." Libraries--Funding Source: Library Journal "Bush Budget Promises Modest Increase for Libraries" From the article, "The Presidential budget for FY2003 has been released, and funds library services at $181.7 million, a seeming increase of over $13 million over the FY2002 figure. However, the increase is much more modest, since that $13 million includes $10 million previously announced to fund the new initiative to recruit 21st Century Librarians." See Also: "Bush Budget Axes NCLIS" (via LJ) Web Search Source: E-Commerce Times "Life After Free: Search Engines Seek Cold, Hard Cash" Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items) - Philanthropy--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy America's Most Generous Donors, 2001 This article includes several lists and a useful interactive database. - U.S. Congress--Directory New Edition Available Online: The Congressional Directory, 107 Congress The new cannot be browsed at the current time. From the announcement, "The Congressional Directory is the official directory of the U.S. Congress, prepared by the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP). It presents short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district, and additional data, such as committee memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers. It also lists officials of the courts, military establishments, and other Federal departments and agencies, including D.C.government officials, governors of states and territories, foreign diplomats, and members of the press, radio, and television galleries." - Health--Children--United States--Survey Source: National Center for Health Statistics New Edition: National Survey of Early Childhood Health - Divorce--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census New Full-Text Report: Number, Timing and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 1996 Summary/Fast Facts ||| Direct to Full-Text Report -- Criminal Justics--United States Source: BJS Full-Text Report: Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States, 1999 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Sunday, February 10, 2002
Academic Libraries Source: S.F. Chronicle "A New Chapter for Libraries: Preference for Online Research Has its Price" From the article, "Academic libraries were once hushed, austere temples dedicated to study and research. No more." Also, from the article, "Librarians have traditionally served as gatekeepers, running quality control on resource materials. But most students turn to the Internet first, plugging searches into Google and reeling in information that may be unreliable or downright wrong." Thanks to LISNEWS.Com for the news tip. Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Winter Olympics 2002 Reminder: I'm continuing to compile the Winter Olympics 2002: Ready Reference Resources page. Saturday, February 09, 2002
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) -- Telecommunications--Statistics--United States Source: FCC Full-Text Report: Report on High-Speed and Advanced Telecommunications Services (3rd Report) Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text - Tourism--United States--Statistics Source: ITA Full-Text: Worst Decline in the History of International Arrivals for the United States See Also: Detailed Analysis See Also: Table, Top Forty International Markets Jan.-Aug., Sep, Jan.-Sep. 2001 See Also: Table, Arrivals from All Countries Jan.-Aug., Sep, Jan.-Sep. 2001 Friday, February 08, 2002
Natural Language Processing--Experimental Projects Summarization Software Source: Online Journalism Review NewsBlaster from Columbia University NewsBlaster is an experimental prototype that uses natural language processing and other AI software to automatically generate text summaries. These summaries are built from content gathered using 13 web-based news sources including the Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, others. Officially, the site is described as an, "automatic system for event tracking and summarization". See Also: Direct to the NewsBlaster Demo -- Humanities Computing--Canada Text Analysis Souce: Chronicle of Higher Education Canadian Universities Will Create an Online Portal for Studying Texts "Scholars at six Canadian universities will create an online portal for researchers in that nation -- and perhaps around the world -- who study electronic texts.The Text Analysis Portal for Research will offer access to databases of electronic texts and software for studying them. In addition, each of the six participating universities will create laboratories equipped with scanners, computers, and other hardware and software that scholars could use to study texts." See Also: Direct to the Text Analysis Portal for Research Academic Libraries Source: The Batallion 2/7/02 (Texas A&M University) Collection Development: Playboy in the Academic Library This is not a new issue in the library world. The lead of the story reads, "Partly funded by student fees, Playboy magazine is available to students and any member of the community who purchases Sterling C. Evans Library cards for themselves and their children." Also from the article, "The current periodicals section of the Evans library contains magazines and journals that enhance and relate to areas of student and faculty's research and studies. For nearly 30 years, Playboy magazine has been included in this collection, said Charles Gilreath, Evans' associate university librarian for advanced studies...Gilreath stressed that the library's collection of periodicals reflects the needs and interests of students, staff and faculty. "A large academic library will have a large variety of periodicals," he said. See Also: "Students 'checking out' Playboy, Playgirl at Stanford" (via UWire 10/14/01) Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Poverty--Statistics--Database Source: World Bank DAPeR: Data for the Analysis for Poverty Reduction Country data, create tables. Material can be downloaded into Excel format. -- Philanthropy Research Fundraising Research FAQ File From the Foundation Center This FAQ was built by the Center's Online Librarian service. If you have a question that's not part of the FAQ, you might want to ask your question to the Online Librarian team. Since 1998 the Online Librarian has answered over 37,000 queries. Thursday, February 07, 2002
Cool Shareware Shelf (2 Items) Here are a couple pieces of shareware that could save you some time, aggravation, and money. 1) NetSnippets (IE Only) You can quickly and easily (drag and drop) save, annotate, and organize some or all the content (text, images) from web pages or other Windows programs (Word, Outlook, etc). Material is saved with original fonts, layout, point sizes, etc. Embedded hotlinks are live. One click to grab all images from a site. Free 30 day trial, $19.95 to unlock. See Also: An All-Time Fave That We Mentioned Last August, SurfSaver (for IE and Netscape) Surfsaver allows you to save an entire page(s) to your hard drive, useful. Once saved, you're able to keyword search the full-text of all saved pages along with a few basic index fields, awesome. Limited Version: Free, Pro Version: $29.95. - It's Free! An Award Winning Word Processor 2) AbiWord (for Windows) It's not as complete as Word but this is one very robust word processor that's available for free. Here's a short review from PC World. Image Search--Copyright Issues "Search Engine's Display of Copyright Photos Ruled Infringement" From the AP story, "An Internet search engine violated a professional photographer's copyright by displaying full-sized images of his work through ``inline linking,'' a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that small, low-quality thumbnail images were covered by the ``fair use'' provision of the Copyright Act, but reversed a lower court opinion that found the display of larger high-quality images also was protected. The appeals court sent the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to determine damages and the need for an injunction against the search engine company, Arriba Soft Corp., now known as Ditto.com." See Also: Read the Full-Text of the Opinion (via 9th Circuit Court of Appeals) Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Entries) Online Information Industry--OCLC Bibliographic Databases FirstSearch Database of the Month for February: Free Access to OCLC's ArticleFirst Database The trial allows you to search the ArticleFirst database containg the tables of contents from over 12,000 journals using the FirstSearch interface. Coverage begins in 1990. ArticleFirst is updated daily. To access click on the "Try it now" button located on the left side of the page (blue box). - Bibliographic Databases--Latin America More than 100 Bibliographic Databases Now Online Through the UNESCO Supported LATINO Project From the announcement, "The Colima University in Mexico and UNESCO have now launched the online version of the LATINO project of bibliographic databases of Latin America and the Caribbean area. The portal gathers 114 data bases with bibliographic descriptions from libraries of institutions in 14 countries of the region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Data from Spain are also available." See Also: Direct to the LATINO Bibliographic Database Site (In Spanish) - Demographics--United States Foreign Born Population--United States Source: U.S. Census Full-Text: Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000 Summary/Highlights ||| Direct to Full-Text Wednesday, February 06, 2002
Research Libraries Scholarly Communication Source: SPARC New Research Library Organization Announced: International Scholarly Communications Alliance From the announcement, "Eight of the world's principal research library organizations today announced the establishment of the International Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA). The ISCA, an initiative of research library associations in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong SAR, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, is an action-oriented global network that will collaborate with scholars and publishers to establish equitable access to scholarly and research publications...The ISCA - whose members represent over 600 research libraries worldwide - will engage in a series of activities that focus the scholarly publishing process on the primary goals of the academic research community, advancing the discovery of new knowledge and facilitating its dissemination." Internet--Gopher Source: Search Day Life on The Net Pre Web: Happy Birthday to Gopher Chris Sherman reports on Gopher's tenth birthday. Business Research--Germany Source: Free Pint "Business Information in Germany" David Scrimgeour writes about several resources necessary to conduct business research about Germany and German companies. Film--Database Source: AP Learn About: The Internet Movie Database From the article, "IMDb's founder and top editor, Col Needham, 35, lives in Bristol, England, where he manages the site from nearly 4,800 miles away. He started the site in 1990 because he watched so many hundreds of movies each year that he lost track of the one's he'd already seen. "I'd rent a new one and after 15 minutes say, 'Wait ... I've already seen this,'" said Needham, a former computer programmer. "So I put together my little database to save me wasting time at the video store." Web Search--Google Source: Reuters Everybody Wants To Work At Google They get about 600 resumes per day. See Also: Computer programming type? How about entering the First Annual Google Programming Contest? Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items) - Demographics--United States Demographics--International Source: U.S. Census New Full-Text Report: The United States in International Context Summary/Fast Facts ||| Direct to Full-Text - Economy--United States Source: Council of Economic Advisers New Edition: Economic Report of the President, 2002 Direct to Full-Text ||| Search and Previous Editions 441 pages .pdf - Job Search--Canada--Directory Learning--Canada--Directory Source: Human Resources Development Canada/Jobboom Canada Top 100 Internet Sites for Learning and Employment - Health Care--Canada Full Text: Interim Report of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada - British Monarchy Source: Golden Jubilee Office Selected Resources: Queen's Golden Jubilee Facts and Figures About the Queen ||| About Prince Phillip (Both lists are very comprehensive) Queen's Golden Jubilee Programme Events Calendar/Regional Events Advanced Search Additional Events and Tours News Briefs U.S. Dept of Interior and U.K. 1901 Census Sites Remain Offline Tuesday, February 05, 2002
Fast Facts The World Almanac February Newsletter is Now Available Info on February events, birthdays, holidays, and more. You'll also find a January 2002 chronology. This update is available for free. Web Search--Google Source: Boston Globe The Boston Globe Chats With Google's CEO Eric Schmidt As you'll read, Schmidt sees Google being the one search solution mechanism for all information. In responding to a question about the future of Google, Schmidt says, "So the obvious questions is: Where does Google go from here? And the answer is ... search. Let me give you an example: Are all the world's governments' documents online? Can you search all the government records of all the countries in which you're an international correspondent? No. Wouldn't your life be more effective, wouldn't information transfer be better, if all the information was online? Absolutely. What about all those premium services? I'm thinking of, like, the LexisNexis types. Wouldn't it be nice if some of that information were online and available in an integrated form? Maybe you'd have to pay for it in some way, we haven't figured it out yet. ... The mission of the company is [retrieving] all of the world's information. It's not all the world's information currently available on the Web, it's all of the world's information. So what I do is I sit down every day and I think about, `What information do I need to get through the day and why isn't it on Google?' And, you know, you just lop one [thing] off after another." Professional Reading Shelf Information Industry--OCLC Full-Text: OCLC Annual Report, 2000-2001 72 pages .pdf Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) - Highway--Statistics--United States Source: Federal Highway Administration Full-Text, New Edition: Highway Statistics 2000 - Agriculture--Thesaurus Controlled Vocabularies Source: National Library of Agriculture Updated: NAL Agricultural Thesaurus Monday, February 04, 2002
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) - United States Government--2003 Budget Full-Text: Budget of the United States, FY 2003 and Supporting Documents - Education--United States--Statistics Source: The Education Trust Ed Watch Interactive State & National Data Site From the site, "...data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college. Through this site, users can select, access and compare the state and national data that form the core of Ed Watch reporting." See Also: Addtional resources including statistical summaries for all 50 states - Women-Owned Business--United States--Statistics Source: Center for Women's Business Research Women-Owned Businesses in 2002: Trends in the US and Top Metro Areas Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Minority Women-Owned Businesses in the United States, 2002 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text - Advertising--United States Streaming Media: Watch All of This Years Super Bowl Ads All 59 commercials are available for you to watch on the web. Digital Collections (2 Items) War Posters Source: University of Minnesota A Summons To Comradeship: World War I and World War II Posters From the site, "A new project, commencing in Fall of 2001. Approximately 100 posters from both World Wars are online. By October 2003, this database will contain more than 6,000 images." See Also: Read about the project in this Minneapolis Star-Tribune article. - Canada Source: Canada's Digital Collections Seven New Collections From Canada's Digital Collections Now Online Sunday, February 03, 2002
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Philanthropy--E-Mail Alerts New From The Foundation Center: Research Update E-Mail Alert From an e-mail message, "...updates about new research findings by e-mail!...a fast and convenient way to keep up to date on the Foundation Center's latest research on U.S. foundations and their giving." Saturday, February 02, 2002
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents - Documents in the News--Enron Crisis Full-Text: The Powers Report (via Houston Chronicle) Powers Report (via the NY Times) Note: The report is a 10MB .pdf file. - Newsmakers--Interviews--Streaming Media Access an Archive of Charlie Rose Show Interviews The Charlie Rose Show airs nightly on public television here in the U.S. Rose conducts interviews with newsmakers, business leaders, authors, educators, politicians, and entertainers. This archive (audio only) provides streaming coverage of content back to October 29, 2001. Here are just a few examples of the interviews you'll find in the archive: Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Arthur Levitt (1/28/01) Former Disney President Mike Ovitz (1/23/01) Filmmaker Ridley Scott (1/15/02) Author Lawrence Lessig (1/4/02) Film Director Ron Howard (12/28/01) NY Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.(12/11/01) Columnist William Safire (10/28/01) AOL Time Warner's Stephen Case (10/27/01) Intel's Andrew Grove (10/15/01) Iranian President Khatami (10/9/01) Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (10/2/01) Friday, February 01, 2002
Information Industry--CQ Information Industry--LexisNexis Strategic Alliance Report: Today, CQ & LexisNexis From the announcement, "Congressional Quarterly, Inc. and LexisNexis Group today announced a strategic alliance whereby LexisNexis, the leading global provider of authoritative legal and business research information, will become the exclusive distribution partner for CQ's premier content on Congress, politics and public policy...In addition to being available through LexisNexis, this CQ content will continue to be distributed electronically through CQ.com OnCongress...As part of the arrangement, LexisNexis announced that it will discontinue its own legislative tracking service, called LexisNexis Political Universe." See Also: "LexisNexis to Distribute Congressional Quarterly Content" (via Information Today) Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Tobacco Control New: Legacy Tobacco Documents Library From the announcement, "The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management today released on the internet the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, a collection of more than 20 million previously secret documents from tobacco industry files. The documents represent the world's largest public digital collection maintained by a library." Thanks to S.C. for the news tip. - Trade Statistics--Canada--Database Invisible Web Source: Industry Canada Update: New From the Canadian Trade Data Online Database From a recently received e-mail: 1) Trade data by industry is now available on a NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) basis. Industry level data by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) codes are still available for historical purposes, but are no longer regularly updated. 2) With respect to trade data by product, 4 digit level HS (Harmonized System) data have now been added to supplement the 2 and 6 digit level data previously available. Data found in this dbase is supplied by Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau. Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items) U.S. Government--Databases Source: Searcher "Digital Government: Digital Tools for the Electronic Dissemination of Government Information" Reviews of FirstGov and American FactFinder by Laura Gordon-Murnane. - Opinion Web Search--Google Source: Searcher "Google: (v.)..." Barbara Quint discusses Google from a "parts of speech" angle. - Library of Congress Classification--History Source: NewBreed Librarian A Reference Librarian's Take on Library of Congress Classification A very interesting and informative article for all librarians. It was written by Robin Paynter, a reference librarian at the University of Oregon. A Special Section: Lists & Rankings (2 Items) Public Libraries--United Kingdom--Lists & Rankings Source: The Guardian Books Being Borrowed From the Library: U.K. From the site, "The annual PLR figures listing the most popular authors and books in public libraries across the UK last year have just been released..." See Also: Related Article and Background Via (The Guardian) - Books--Lists & Rankings Music--Lists & Rankings DVD's--Lists & Rankings Movers & Shakers: What's Hot at Amazon.Com "The Movers & Shakers index identifies--by product group--the biggest gainers in sales rank at Amazon.com in the past 24 hours." The lists are updated hourly. |
