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Thursday, July 31, 2003
Resources of the Week 1) Video Search Keyword Search Video from PBS, View It Online More and more spoken word material is becoming searchable. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) not only offers television programming throughout the U.S. but also has a website that provides additional resources for each program. Included on the PBS site are several databases of archived video. Every word spoken in these video segments can be searched by keyword. Simply enter your terms, use some of the limiting options, and click search. Once you the material that interests you, click and watch the section of the program where your search terms are spoken or the entire segment. You'll need a RealAudio/Video player. That's it! There is no charge to access and use these tools. These databases were created using voice recognition technology, no human intervention. Next to every entry on a results page you can also read a text transcript of the video segment. - Not only is this material of potential value to many of you but it's also a great demonstration of this type of keyword search technology. PBS uses software from a company called Virage. This company was recently acquired by UK based, Autonomy. Finally, most of the material in each of these databases is only accessible by utilizing these specialized search tools. --- Here's a list of what's available. -- * PBS NewsHour Video Search Search segments of the program beginning in February, 2002. -- * Washington Week Video Archive This archive dates back to July 21, 2000. -- * American Field Guide Keyword search (or browse), "the sights and sounds from a wide variety of environments throughout America. We've collected over 1400 video clips that enable you to experience America's wilderness firsthand..." -- * Scientific American Frontiers Video Archive "Every episode of the series, from 1990 to the present, is available for online viewing."- -- * Nature Video Archives Search by keyword and/or program title. -- * Mathline From the site, This FREE professional development resource helps teachers quickly and easily find standards-based Mathline video clips and lesson plans on different mathematical topics and teaching techniques for grades K-12. -- * Julia Child: Lessons With the Master Chef Keyword search (you can even limit by ingredient) and view online this PBS series. -- -- 2) Canada--History Our Roots: Canada's Local Histories Online From the site, "Our Roots provides universal access to unique materials concerning the cultural and social heritage of our nation. Written by Canadians, for Canadians, these local histories represent this nation’s history from the perspective of those who helped shape it. Now available in digital format (viewable online), these resources are not only accessible from anywhere via the world wide web, but are also preserved for future generations of students, teachers and researchers." Material can be accessed by keyword or browsed by title, author or subject. An advanced search interface allows you to use Boolean connectors and search the full-text of each document. Content is in English and French.
Privacy--Databases Two Pieces of Library and Database Related Legislation Introduced in U.S. Congress 1) Feingold Introduces Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act From the announcement, "...legislation is aimed at protecting the privacy of law-abiding Americans by limiting the ability of the FBI to obtain library, bookstore, medical, and financial records and other sensitive personal information under the USA PATRIOT Act. Feingold's legislation would place reasonable limits on the FBI's access to this information by requiring the FBI to show how the information it is seeking relates to a suspected terrorist or spy before the information can be obtained." --- --- 2) Oregon Senator Introduces Citizens’ Protection in Federal Databases Act of 2003 Bill From the news release, "Currently, there are no comprehensive privacy laws regulating the federal government’s access to, or use of, public and private databases. The Wyden proposal would require the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Treasury, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations to provide to Congress a detailed report explaining the use of databases for law enforcement or intelligence purposes." See Also: Full-Text of the Legislation (via EPIC) See Also: From the EPIC website, FBI documents (pdf) obtained by EPIC show that Bureau use of private databases increased by 9600 percent over a ten-year period. The FBI document begins with the words, "In the beginning there was Lexis-Nexis......"
Business Intelligence Source: Strategy + Business Full-Text article, "How to Win the Information Battle — Lessons from a Modern War" From the article, Business leaders can learn a lot from how the military manages the flow of real-time information. The article is also available as a pdf file.
Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items) Librarianship * "Changes for Collection Development & Reference Librarians: Looking into the 21st Century" by Katina Strauch and Tom Gilson, Librarians at the College of Charleston - * "Virtual Reference: guiding readers to resources" by Dr Stephen Bury, Head of European & American Collections at The British Library Note: Both of these articles appear in the July issue of xrefer's reference update. -- Patriot Act Source: AP "Librarians Chafe Under USA Patriot Act" Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Web Search--AltaVista Changes and Other Happenings at AltaVista All sorts of stuff going on at AV. The big question about how Yahoo will utilize the Overture technology (AV and ATW) and programming talent is to be determined. Nevertheless, it's good to see the AV team continuing to improve their product. --- * AV has dropped using a Moreover news feed for their wonderful AV News database. They're now using their own crawler to gather material from about 4000 sources. * The AV News database now contains over 10,000,000 archived urls back to May, 2001. This means that you'll likely find material beyond the 2/4 week limit that you often see with other news search tools. These urls are checked on a regular basis to see that they still link to available material. Make sure to use the pull-down option to access this content. * AV's Prisma, a tool that helps refine your search, is now available with AV News. * AV is now using the ODP (Open Directory Project) as its web directory. Wouldn't it be great if a major engine would also license content from a non-commercial source like the LII, InfoMine, or AcademicInfo where quality of entries really matters? They also provide very useful annotations. * You'll see a few changes on results pages including the elimination of the sponsored ad links that often appear along the right margin of a results page. AltaVista Prisma "refine your search" choices will move to this location. * Look for AltaVista and AllTheWeb to begin using an "integrated back end" (the best of each engines capabilities) and the same underlying database sometime this Fall. However, both AV and ATW will remain online with each site potentially offering different search capabilities. * Look for another AV announcement in the next two weeks.
Online Content Source: News.Com More About KeepMedia Last week I included a story and some comments about this new fee-based consumer service selling full-text content from about 140 periodicals and newspapers. The article linked above is an interview with KeepMedia's co-founder Louis Borders. In the past week many other articles have been written about this new company but I haven't seen one that mentioned that libraries offer remote access for FREE to THOUSANDS of newspapers and magazines. I'm starting to wonder if KeepMedia has any idea of what many libraries offer. Once again an illustration of the services (not just databases) that libraries offer being of the radar of some people. Make sure to read this interview. See Also: The KeepMedia site is now online. A 'media pass' (full-text access to about 140 magazines and newspapers) costs $4.95/month.
Web Search--Google Source: The Globe and Mail "Sees all, knows all: Is it God or Google?" The Globe and Mail's science editor shares his thoughts the NY Times ran an article with a similar headline a few weeks ago. I had a few comments shortly after it ran. You can review them if you like. Perhaps a few folks from the Toronto area should let Mr. Strauss know that it's not all online, often search engines other that Google give high quality results, and other resources (electronic, print, and human) exist that can give you an answermore quickly than Google (don't forget web engine info quality issues). I wonder if he's aware of what's accessible to him via the library at the paper and to readers of the Globe and Mail from the Toronto Public Library and other Canadian libraries?
Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items) Semantic Web Source: TechNewsWorld "The Future of Human Knowledge: The Semantic Web" -- Information Science The July Issue of Ariadne is Now Online Articles include: * Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs * Mapping the JISC IE service landscape * eBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning * The RoMEO Project: Protecting metadata in an open access environment -- Library Technology New, ebrary Is Providing (Free) Full-Text Access to an Archive of the Advanced Technology Libraries Newsletter Online archive of material back to 2/2002. Learn more about the arrangement here. -- Conferences Registration for the Access 2003 Conference is Now Open The conference is set to take place in Vancouver, B.C., October 1-4. Tim Bray from Antarti.ca will be the keynote speaker.
Industry Briefs Westlaw Now Offering Access to Thomson's Delphion Patent Database -- Cleveland Public Library Selects SIRSI
Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items) -- Government Documents--Canada--Database Federal Publication Locator Service The Federal Publication Locator Service provides you access to: * Bibliographic records of Canadian Federal Government Publications in the National Library of Canada Catalogue (a subset of the AMICUS database). * Canadian Library Locations information for titles held in the National Library Catalogue. * Access to electronic Canadian Federal Government Publications. See Also: Direct to Federal Publication Locator Service 'Basic Search' Interface -- Cellular Phones--United States Consumer Resources Source: Consumer Reports/TeleBright.Com Cellular Telephone Comparison Tool From the site, Currently cellular plan comparisons are available here for the top 70 Markets. Coverage may extend beyond the boundaries of a city limit, so if you live in or near one of the cities we encourage you to enter your zip code and do a search. -- Accounting Industry--United States Source: GAO New Full-Text Report, Public Accounting Firms: Mandated Study on Consolidation and Competition This 147 page report contains numerous charts/tables, an analysis of Big 4 Firms’, and an Arthur Andersen case study. -- Postage Stamps--United States Source: National Postal Museum/Smithsonian Institution New Online Exhibit, Art of the Stamp This is a web version of an exhibit that opened at the National Postal Museum here in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. The exhibit, "showcases over 100 original pieces of stamp illustrations featured over the past 50 years." Click on the artwork link to view each stamp and learn its history. Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Professional Reading Shelf Metadata Source: RLG Presentations: "Ready to Wear: Metadata Standards to Suit Your Project" The forum was held in New York City on May 12-13, 2003. The forum included presentations by the following people. All presentations are online. * Tony Gill, ARTstor * Sherman Clarke, New York University * Merrilee Proffitt, RLG * John Perkins, CIMI * Günter Waibel, RLG * Ronald J. Murray, Library of Congress * Steven Abrams, Harvard University * Robin Dale, RLG
Web Search--Microsoft Source: IDG News Service "Microsoft Takes Sides on Search" From the article, Microsoft believes Web search can be done much better than any search engine does it today. "Our research indicates that only 30 percent to 40 percent of the Web is indexed and that people's questions [to search engines] go unanswered half the time," [Lisa Gurry, group product manager for MSN] Gurry said. See Also: ResourceShelfPLUS Compilation of MS Search Related Patents and Publications
Librarians--Profiles Source: Lexington Herald-Leader Meet Mary Molinaro, Director of the William T. Young Library The Young Library is located at the University of Kentucky. From the article, The William T. Young Library has 1.2 million of the 3 million volumes in all of UK's libraries. "One of our jobs is helping students realize they won't find all the information they need if they only do a Google search. We try to help students learn to combine the world of electronic information with the incredibly large and valuable world of books and other print resources."
Public Libraries--United States Source: NY Daily News "Library in crisis has its hand out" A report on the financial crisis at the New York Public Library.
Library Organizations Scholarly Publishing New Web Site, Information Access Alliance From the announcement, The Information Access Alliance, a coalition of six leading library organizations in North America, has published a white paper that examines the impact of mergers among scholarly and legal publishers and calls for a new standard of antitrust review of merger transactions in this industry by antitrust enforcement agencies. See Also: Direct to Information Access Alliance Web Site See Also: Direct to White Paper, Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis
Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) Intellectual Property--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: IP Law & Business Who Protects IP America, 2003 Three charts are included in the article: 1) Who Protects IP America 2) Top IP Firms/Firms That Prosecuted the Best Patents in 2002 -- Maritime Trade--United States--Statistics Source: BTS New, Full-Text Report, Maritime Trade & Transportation 2002 -- GPO Access--Training Materials Source: GPO Government Printing Office Updates Training Manual Direct to Full-Text Manual (2.13MB) ||| STAT-USA appendix Monday, July 28, 2003
Libraries--United States First Co-Managed City/University Library in Nation Opens Its Doors August 1 The $177.5 million Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library will be both a public library (San Jose Public Library) and San Jose State's University Library. It is the first library in the nation to be funded, managed and operated by a city and a major university. See Also: Take a Virtual Tour of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
Citation Analysis Source: ISI 1) Library & Information Science: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 1998-2002 2) Journals Ranked by Impact: Business
Natural Language Searching Question Answering Software The National Library of Medicine Invites You To "Ask Cosmo" Cosmo is a new natural language, question answering, "virtual representative" from the NLM. From the announcement, The National Library of Medicine (NLM) receives hundreds of e-mailed questions each day on its customer service line. Because many of them are simple and asked numerous times each day, NLM decided to develop software that would answer these queries and thus free up customer service representatives and reference librarians to answer more complex questions...Cosmo is familiar with hundreds of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Based on software from NativeMinds, Cosmo is online 24x7. See Also: Other Virtual Reps Using NativeMinds Software
Archives Source: Toronto Star "The electronic genie" From the article, There is a story that neatly summarizes the challenges archivists face as they grapple with the digital revolution. In 1986, the British Broadcasting Corporation created the Domesday Book Mark II, an electronic version of the original record of English lands that was written at the instigation of William the Conqueror in 1086. The BBC's version contained 25,000 maps, 50,000 pictures, 60 minutes of video and millions of words. It cost 2.5 million pounds to create. Only 17 years after its creation, the Domesday Book Mark II can't be read. The BBC computers used for the project no longer work and the disks on which it was stored are not readable by other computer systems. But the 917-year-old original is still available to researchers in London's Public Records Office. Welcome to the archivist's digital dilemma. For as much as some local archivists and librarians admit they must embrace the e-revolution, they are not comfortable with it in its present state.
Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents History Source: Harvard University Law School Library New, Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection From the site, The Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). These documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity. To preserve the contents of these documents -- which are now too fragile to be handled -- and to provide expanded access to this material, the Library has begun a digital project to create and present images or full-text versions of its Nuremberg documents on the Internet, along with analytical information about each document and general information about the trials. See Also: A List of What Material is Currently Available
Information Industry--LexisNexis Source: Information Today NewsBreaks "LexisNexis Nearing Completion on a New Platform" Marydee Ojala offers more info about two stories we've mentioned in the past couple of weeks. 1) LexisNexis To Adopt Single Technology Platform (7/22) 2) FAST Signs Deal with LexisNexis (7/16)
Librarians Source: International Herald Tribune/NYT "How a librarian saved Basra's treasured books" From the article, "Alia Muhammad Baker's house is full of books. There are books in stacks, books in the cupboards, books bundled into flour sacks like lumpy aid rations. Books fill an old refrigerator. Pull aside a window curtain, and there is no view, just more books...All told, Baker says, the books number about 30,000. And then there are the periodicals. These books are fugitives, and Baker, a 50-year-old librarian in stout shoes, is the engineer of their underground railroad. As British forces stormed Basra in early April, she spirited the volumes out of the city's Central Library, over a two-meter (7-foot) wall, to the backroom of a restaurant and later into trucks to carry them to her home. Even friends and library employees have been enlisted as caretakers for the troves of books she rescued. The books constitute about 70 percent - all there was time to save - of what was the library's collection.
Professional Reading Shelf Libraries and Librarians The August Issue of Walt Crawford's "Cites and Insights" is Now Online Sunday, July 27, 2003
Access to Information--United States Freedom of Information Act Source: GCN "Lamberth finds EPA in contempt for e-document purge" From the article, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth this week held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt for destroying electronic documents in violation of a court order issued as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The contempt charge appeared to have little practical impact, but Lamberth did rule yesterday that the agency must pay legal expenses of the Landmark Legal Foundation of Herndon, Va., the plaintiff in the FOIA and contempt proceedings...The court found that EPA officials had reformatted PC hard drives, erased and reused e-mail backup tapes, and deleted e-mails that potentially could have held information deemed relevant to Landmark’s FOIA request. The legal foundation had sought records about environmental regulations that EPA officials reportedly sought to rush into effect before the Bush administration took office in 2001.
Library Organizations--United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Names a New Chairperson From the announcement, President George W. Bush has named historian Joan R. Challinor Chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). Dr. Challinor succeeds Martha B. Gould, whose term on the Commission expired July 19, 2003. Dr. Challinor, a resident of Washington, DC, was appointed to her current term on the Commission by President Bill Clinton in 2000; she was first appointed to the Commission in 1995.
Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Education--United States-Statistics Condition of Education - Now Web Enabled With 2003 Numbers The Condition of Education web site is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education for 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000. For each indicator there are links to the supporting documents (charts, tables, standard error tables, and supplemental notes). You can also download the indicator and corresponding supporting materials in PDF format. Some indicators may have been updated since they first appeared in print. Saturday, July 26, 2003
Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items) Portals Source: JISC/PORTAL Project New Full-Text Report, "Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals" Overview ||| Direct to Full-Text ||| Other Deliverables See Also: "Institutional Portals: A Review of Outputs" (Literature Review) -- Libraries Conference Presentations and Papers: 2nd European Library Seminar/3rd Gabriel Seminar The conference took place last month is Lisbon, Portugal. Here are the titles of a just a few of the presentations: * Metadata Development in The European Library * Digital Preservation at the KB - From a safe place to permanent access * Digital collection in the National Library of Russia: organization and development * InterParty Project Friday, July 25, 2003
Digitization Projects Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii's Law Library Microform Consortium Digitizes Content From the article, For 27 years the Kaneohe-based nonprofit Law Library Microform Consortium has transferred volumes of law books onto microfiche. Some 91,000 volumes, in fact. In partnership with the University of Hawaii, Wayne State University Law School and the University of Michigan, it is now putting the volumes online. LLMC-Digital's goal of 100 million online pages will make it the biggest digital law library, according to Executive Director Jerry Dupont. It will continue to offer microfiche copies...So far just over two-thirds of American law schools have signed up for the new online library, as have 15 large mainland law firms...The beta-test site is open for free at www.llmc.com but after Sept. 1 the subscriber-only site will replace it..."Librarians like the fact that with the technology we're adapting, the first thing they get is the actual picture of the original book." Most users know exactly what it is they are looking for, although the data will be searchable, Dupont said. Thanks to S.C. for the news tip.
Web Search--Ask Jeeves Source: Forbes Butler Fired! Ask Jeeves to Remove His Image from Advertising Fine, the butler will no longer be seen in Ask.Com advertising. At one time I was very anti-Jeeves. It did have a well deserved bad reputation. However, in the past two years, particularly after Jeeves acquired the Teoma technology, searching with Ask Jeeves and Teoma have seen major improvements. The problem is that many people have failed to take a look. Perhaps removing the Mr. Jeeves drawing from advertising will help. It can't hurt. However, what would really help is for many people to realize that more than one web engine can produce quality results. Here's a sentence that appeared in a Forbes article about Google a few months ago. "Even Google's engineers admit Fast and Teoma deliver results comparable to theirs." -Forbes, May 26, 2003
Scholarly Publishing Open Access Movement Source: LJ/SPARC A Q&A With Peter Suber From the interview with our friend Peter, Longtime Earlham College Professor of Philosophy Peter Suber has become a well-regarded and popular voice in scholarly communication since first launching his Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter. Now, with the FOS Newsletter reborn under the auspices of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) as the SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN), Suber is devoting his full energies to the future of scholarly communication. See Also: Don't Forget to Also Visit Suber's Free Online Scholarship Weblog.
Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Foundations--United States--Statistics Source: Foundation Center Highlights From The Foundation Center Yearbook This four page pdf includes several charts and graphs. Info about purchasing the full-text document is also provided.
Briefly An Interview with Overture's CEO, Ted Meisel (via Marketwatch.Com) Included in the this q & a interview are Meisel's comments about what MSN might be up to. Registration required (free) to read this interview. Thursday, July 24, 2003
Web Search--Hotbot Changes To the Underlying Engines at Hotbot Hotbot, a tool that allows you to easily search four web engines and then easily move between result sets has made a few changes to its underlying engines. Hotbot is not a meta-engine where result sets are merged together. When the "new" Hotbot launched in December you were able to search the AllTheWeb, Inktomi, Google, and Teoma. Here is a list of what you'll now find. * Inktomi is now labeled as Hotbot * Lycos (Same database as AllTheWeb) * Ask Jeeves replaces Teoma (This is basically a name change since both use the same database). * Google remains * Related Searches are available at the top of each results page. You'll see the same choices with Google, Hotbot, and Lycos. Ask Jeeves offers different choices. * Spell Check is Now Available (Using spell check technology from each engine). See Also: ResourceShelf's Hotbot Overview from December 15, 2002
Resources of the Week - News International Security Country News and Reports From the Overseas Advisory Safety Council On The Overseas Advisory Safety Council (OSAC) web site you learn that the organization "was established in 1985 by the U.S. Department of State to foster the exchange of security related information between the U.S. Government and American private sector operating abroad. Administered by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, OSAC has developed into an enormously successful joint venture for effective security cooperation". The web site is home to numerous resources aimed at those with an interest in international security. Included on the site is a calendar of "significant dates and dates to watch" around the world. - OSAC Public Newsletters are worthy of a special mention. Three newsletters are available and could be of value to people in business, the news industry, and other fields. 1) Daily News "…a daily compilation of global news, to include cyber crime and terrorism. It is automatically generated every morning at 0830 EST and delivered via email…" The Daily News and an archive of past issues is also available on the OSAC web site 2) Executive Alerts "…timely information on various subjects. This deliverable is written by the OSAC Executive staff for the purpose of distributing needed information." 3) Report Updates "…information based on your region of interest. As new Web Reports are added to our site, they are delivered to you via email based on your region of interest." Regions include: South and Central Asia, Europe, The Americas and Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific. Reports are also available and searchable (back to 1986) on the web site. They can be found (by type) under the “Web Reports” section near the top of the page. Reports categories: * Safety and Security * White Collar Crime * Crime and Safety Reports * Warden Reports "Messages issued from an Embassy to the U.S. Citizen population regarding the local security situation." * Foreign Press Reports * Homeland Security Events * Country Council Reports --- --- Product Searching Amazon Light 2.0 It seems like every time you search the Amazon result pages are full of more 'stuff' including advertising links. Amazon Lite (first mentioned on ResourceShelf about a year ago) helps get you to book, cd's, or other listings easily and quickly and then provides a clean and uncluttered entry page for each item. Since the beginning of this year, Alan Taylor, Amazon Light's creator, has been developing a beta version of Amazon Light 2.0. Btw, Amazon Light's original interface and functionality still work perfectly. - Version 2.0 offers you the chance to search books, music, dvd's, and nine other categories of merchandise. It also offers you a chance to browse by categories (left column). The rest of the main page is made up of a search box (upper left), a 'list' box, (upper right column) where you'll find the items you've selected for possible purchase, a “history box”, listing queries from your current visit and a "recent search" box that offers a "mini-copy" of your search results once you click on an item. Entry pages for books, cd's, dvd's, and other products, are clean and uncluttered. An entry page for a book contains title, author, ISBN, image of the book cover, related items, and a couple of customer reviews (if available). A direct link for that item on the Amazon.Com site is also provided on each entry page. Demo both interfaces and see which one works best for you. Note: Amazon Lite is part of Amazon's affiliate program. See Also: Amazon Light UK and Amazon Light DE are also available. See Also: DVD New and Future Releases Calendar
CIPA Source: ALA FCC CIPA Order This new document analyzes today's order and also provides links to the primary docs. From the ALA site, On July 23, 2003 the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted an order that updates regulations pertaining to the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) for libraries. This order was adopted to reflect the recent Supreme Court decision in American Library Association Inc. v. United States issued on June 23, 2003.
Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items) Librarianship Source: Free Pint Full-Text, Interview with Cindy Hill, President, Special Libraries Association Cindy was interviewed at SLA 2003 by Free Pint's Annabel Colley. -- Information Science Now Available, Full-Text, August/September '03 Issue Bulletin of the of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Articles include: * "Knowledge Compass: Opening Windows, Punching Holes in Stovepipes, Forming Communities, Connecting People to People" * "Metadata Use in the Commercial Banking Industry" * "What Do You Do With It Now That You Have It? The Impact of Web Weather and Climate Information" * "Records and Information Management Perspectives Part 2: Access to Public Information" * "Farmers' Access to Agricultural Information in Nigeria" * "Guarding the Borders or Blocking the Way? IAs to be Banned!" -- Librarianship Now Available Online, Full-Text, July '03 Issue, Journal of the Medical Librarian Association Articles include: * "Developing an academic medical library core journal collection in the (almost) post-print era: the Florida State University College of Medicine Medical Library experience" * "Information-seeking behavior in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM): an online survey of faculty at a health sciences campus" * "Benchmarking information needs and use in the Tennessee public health community" * "The role of the academic medical center library in training public librarians" * Book Review: Attracting, Educating, and Serving Remote Users Through the Web * Book Review: Teaching Technology -- Databases--PsycINFO Now Available, PsycINFO News Summer 2003 Articles include: * "New Gray Literature Database" * "New Material from "Cover to Cover" Journals"
Web Search--AllTheWeb AllTheWeb Indexing Excel Spreadsheets and Powerpoint Slides It appears that AllTheWeb is now providing access to Excel and Powerpoint material. You can limit to these formats by using filetype:excel and filetype:powerpoint. ATW already provides access to Adobe Acrobat , MS Word, and Macromedia Flash material.
Briefly "Georgia Plans an Utterly Virtual Encyclopedia" (via The NY Times) See Also: Learn More via the Georgia Humanities Council
Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents Documents in the News Terrorism--United States Source: U.S. Congress/GPO Full-Text (Public Report), Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 -- Legal Resources New, Legal Research in a Nutshell Links "...websites discussed or mentioned in Morris L. Cohen & Kent C. Olson, Legal Research in a Nutshell, 8th ed. This compilation is available at no charge to all web users. Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Web Search--Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves Releases List of "Smart Answer" Shortcuts In April Ask.Com went live with a new look and a few new features. One of them is called Smart Answers. This service offers you the chance to type in a word or two and get an answer directly on a search results page. For some searches cases a search box and direct link to specialized database is embedded directly into the results list. Since Smart Answers was introduced an official list of the keywords to activate Smart Answers was not available. Today, Ask.Com provided ResourceShelf with a complete list of Smart Answer triggers. In some cases you can save a few keystrokes by removing words like what, of, for, the, etc. -Search Weather (beta) What is the weather in Paris? (Note: Weather "city name" also works.) -Search Pictures Pictures of Mountains (Pictures mountains also works) -Search News News about George W. Bush - -Local search tools -Zip code (beta) 90210 Zip code for Silver Spring -Country maps tool Map of Sri Lanka -Driving directions tool Driving directions - Popular content shortcuts: -Baby names Baby names -Software downloads Download Ad-Aware -Movies Movie times Music downloads Download MP3 -Song lyrics Song lyrics -Oscars History of the Oscars Who won best actor in 1997? -Recipes Recipes for soup - Reference tools -Holidays When is Labor Day? -Capitals What is the capital of South Africa? What is the capital of Vermont? -Translation tool How do I say thank you in Spanish? -Dictionary look-up tool What does serendipity mean? -Science fair Science fair projects -Thesaurus Synonym (term) Value of pi Value of pi -Acronyms and Abbreviations What does NBA stand for?
Web Organization and Searching Source: Research/Penn State The Work of Lee Giles Read about the important and interesting work of Lee Giles at Penn State University. From the article, Lee Giles is not much interested in surfing. Mining and extraction are terms more to his liking. Giles, the David Reese professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State, has devoted his career to finding better ways to get at information, to wring the most out of it, to marshal it efficiently. A few key passages follow. Make sure to read the entire article. - + The Web exists as a distributed sort of information base, Giles says, with typical understatement. Un-regulated, decentralized, the work of tens of millions of disparate authors, and constantly growing at an ever-accelerating rate, the Web is no easy object to take the measure of. Yet characterizing the Web, understanding its parameters and its behavior, was the first thing Giles set about doing. Whats there, how it is connected, how it changes, who uses it, why they use it the more you know about these things, the more efficiently youre able to use it, he says. - + In another study, published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he and his co-authors challenge the widely held notion that the competition for attention on the Web is purely winner-take-all, i.e., that new sites on the Web are more likely to attach themselves to sites that already have many links, insuring that a small number of established sites will always receive a disproportionate share of Web traffic. While this preferential behavior does accurately describe the Web as a whole, Giles and his co-authors write, it varies significantly by the type of site considered. Thus, while a new newspaper or entertainment site might find it difficult competing with similar sites that are already popular, university sites and the pages of individual scientists exhibit a more egalitarian link growth. The behavior is more complicated than had been thought, Giles says. - + But automatic engines have their limitations, too. For one thing, most current crawlers are unable to recognize spam, which in this context means unreliable information. In the unregulated environment of the Web, Giles says, people claiming to be what theyre not is an ongoing problem. - + A more praccompletelytion [to completley personalized search tool], at least in the short term, is what Giles calls the niche search engine, designed specifically to meet the needs of a group of people with similar interests: employees of a company, say, or members of a profession. By limiting its crawling to a specific subject area, the niche engine can burrow deeper, providing more consistently useful information. A prime example is CiteSeer [aka ResearchIndex], a tool that Giles and Steve Lawrence created for the field of computer and information science. . Note: We completely agree with Dr. Giles. Those of you who read ResourceShelf on a regular basis know that we try hard to provide info about useful specialized and 'niche' search tools. ---- ---- See Also: eBizSearch Another niche search tool that Giles has developed. It focuses on materials about electronic business. eBizSearch was a Resource of the Week when it was officially launched in January, 2003. -- See Also: Direct to Lee Giles Home Page Plenty of interesting reading here.
Online Archives Source: USA Today $4.95/Month or Access To Archives of 150 Magazines or Another Reason to Forget the Library An article about KeepMedia.Com, a new company that Louis Borders is starting. This is the same Mr. Borders who began the chain of bookstores. According to the article, "When it launches later this month, consumers will be able to pay $4.95 a month for access to the archives of 150 publications. You can also get online content from the current issue of a magazine if you buy a print subscription to that magazine. KeepMedia and the publishers will split the revenue from the fees and subscriptions." Once again a service that's selling remotely accessible access to material (and much more of it) that public, academic, and other types of libraries are offering patrons for free. Yet it's companies like KeepMedia and eLibrary that get the media coverage. Sad. -- See Also: In a recent press announcement, Patrick Spain, CEO of Alacritude (they own eLibrary) had the following comments about KeepMedia. "The KeepMedia business model is flawed. I know because I bought a company eLibrary with the same business model and we are changing it as quickly as we can. By most accounts, we are a success. We have some 40,000 subscribers who access an archive of 17 million articles from consumer, business and industry publications. If we weren't developing new products, we would be a nice, profitable little company with limited growth prospects. People, including us, who focus their long-term online business on selling a selection of content will fail. What people want is single point of access to all online content, whether free or paid, utilizing compelling tools to turn that content into useful and actionable answers for their personal or business needs." I would like to know how many of eLibrary's 40,000 subscribers are paying for content that they could get for free via a library. --- See Also: PaidContent.Org Has More (this was the first story about the company) - See Also: Those of you who don't know what I'm talking about regarding libraries offering free remotely accessible access (no need to visit the library building) to thousands of publications and other high-quality databases might want to take a look at a few examples of these services. All you need is a library card for a particular library. Contact your library to find out what you have access to. Here are five examples: NY Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, King County (Washington) Public Library, Fairfax Cty (Virginia) Public Library, Hamilton (Ontario) Public Library. School, academic, and other types of libraries also provide these services. Make sure to ask them about what's available!!!
Scholarly Publishing Source: San Jose Mercury News Another Article About The Public Library of Science From the article, This venture, called the Public Library of Science, aims to revolutionize how research findings are made public, making studies easier to find and less expensive to read. Not some late-night scheme of lab geeks, the library is the brainchild of some of the nation's most reputable scientists, funded by a $9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Its chairman is Dr. Harold Varmus, former chief of the National Institutes of Health. Thirteen Nobel-winning scientists are among its board members and supporters. Frustrated by the system used by the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature, Science and hundreds of other journals, the scientists are building the nation's first peer-reviewed electronic science journals. The journals -- one called PLoS Biology, the other PLoS Medicine -- would be free, easily accessible and efficient, said co-founder Patrick O. Brown, Stanford University School of Medicine professor of biochemistry and a leading researcher in the field of genomics. "Progress is made in science because each new step is built on what was learned before. But much of it is inaccessible,'' Brown said.
Information Industry--Vivisimo Ten Biomed Journals or Publishing Groups Now Utilizing Vivisimo Clustering Technology The Pittsburgh based company says, "ten top biomedical societies and presses have selected Vivísimo's Clustering Engine to provide categorized search results at their journal websites, which are hosted by Stanford University's HighWire Press. You'll find a complete list of the ten journals/groups in the news release. You can use Vivisimo clustering technology to "meta" search several web engines and specialized databases. See Also: Learn More About Vivisimo in this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article
Digitization Projects Source: The Daily Texan The University of Texas Makes Gutenberg Bible Available on Internet From the article, "The University's [U of Texas] Gutenberg Bible, one of five complete copies in the nation, is now available online, conveniently continuing the Bible's legacy of making print accessible to the masses. "A technological revolution made this book possible, and now another technological revolution [digital scanning] is making this possible," said Steve Wilson, the media coordinator for the Harry Ransom Center." This link will take you directly to the Digital Gutenberg. See Also: Direct to Read More About the Digitization Process See Also: AP Story About the Project
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Labor--Statistics Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Full-Text, A Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons: United States, Europe, and Asia Background Info ||| Direct to Full-Text Report -- U.S. Senate--History Digitized Material: S-1, A Recently Discovered Ledger From the Senate site, Probably the oldest book of consecutive accounts kept by government officers," noted an 1885 newspaper article, "is a time-worn volume kept in the office of General Anson G. McCook, secretary of the senate." Marked S-1, this financial ledger records nearly a century of salary and mileage payments to senators, from 1790 to 1881. McCook, recognizing the ledger's importance, had it restored and rebound in 1884. Future employees were not so careful. In the early 1960s, S-1 and nearly sixty other financial ledgers were stored in the basement of the Capitol, and then forgotten. Rediscovered in late 2002, this collection is a unique treasure of Senate history. S-1 has been digitized by the Library of Congress and is now available online. Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Public Libraries Source: The Times (N.W. Indiana)/Medill News Service "Libraries plug in to digital age" We always like pointing out mentions of libraries in the mainstream press. This brief article does a good job at highlighting some of the technology that many public libraries in the U.S. offer these days. Key Quote from the article: "It's not about books. It's not about print. It's about having the information available to the public," Frances Roehm, a Skokie (IL) librarian said. Kudos Frances, well said!!!
Citation Analysis Source: Institute for Scientific Information * Top Ten Most-Cited Countries, 1993-2003 * Computer Science & Engineering: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1998-2002
AskERIC Source: EDUPAGE/The Chronicle of Higher Education Group Works to Keep AskERIC Going An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (sub req) is summarized in EDUPAGE. From the summary, "Researchers at Syracuse University are working to preserve the popular research tool AskERIC after the Department of Education decided to stop funding for the tool...ERIC now comprises 16 clearinghouses, though the Department of Education is working to combine them into a single database. Officials at the Department of Education said the new structure will make a service such as AskERIC unnecessary. Many long-time users and operators of AskERIC disagree, however, and are working to secure funding from Syracuse and other sources to maintain AskERIC in its current form.
Information Industry--ProQuest ProQuest Launches New Version of Platform, Hello to PQNext The announcement has a complete list of PQNext's features.
Information Industry--LexisNexis LexisNexis To Adopt Single Technology Platform From the announcement, While immediate benefits of a global platform will be seen in all markets, the U.S., the company’s and the world’s largest information services market, will be the principal beneficiary of the technology. Customers who already use LexisNexis’ most sophisticated flagship products will begin to see even more incremental product benefits - with enhanced functionality and more advanced taxonomy evolving from the global platform. In addition, the platform means an improved system that will allow rapid delivery of these enhancements, as well as new content, from LexisNexis companies and licensees outside the U.S. See Also: FAST Signs Deal With LN
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items) Science and Engineering--United States--Statistics Source: National Science Foundation Full-Text Report, Science and Engineering State Profiles: 2000-2001 (NSF 03-324) This is a tabular listing of 52 one-page science and engineering (S&E) Profiles (including ones for D.C. and Puerto Rico) that summarize state-specific data on personnel and finances. Also included is a summary of all data variables' totals of all 52 states. -- Documents in the News Space Shuttle Columbia Investigation Source: NASA Just Released, Mission Management Team Transcripts (Overview and Link) Links to the transcripts are found on the NASA FOIA page. Released under Freedom of Information Act -- Patriot Act Source: U.S. DOJ, Inspector General Full-Text Report, Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act -- Vietnam Source: U.S. Department of State Just Released, “Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, volume VII, Vietnam, September 1968-January 1969” The volume is part of the Department’s ongoing program to make available the official documentary record of American foreign policy in the Foreign Relations series. Volume VII completes the coverage of the Johnson administration’s policies on the war; previous documentation on the 1964–August 1968 period was published in volumes I–VI in the 1964–1968 subseries. Summary/Announcement ||| Direct to Full-Text ||| Other Volumes
Briefly Ask Jeeves Names Berkowitz President - Meet Omid Kordestani, Google's Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations (via Time) -- Cambridge Scientific and BioOne Announce Affiliation Monday, July 21, 2003
Online Books Source: NY Times "Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books" I wonder what the netLibrary folks have to say about this one? A few comments from ebrary are included at the end of the article. From the article, Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according to several publishing executives involved."...Amazon is calling its program Look Inside the Book II, the publishers said. It would expand on a current program that lets shoppers read a table of contents, a first chapter or a few selected pages provided by the publishers of certain books. But Look Inside the Book II would let online browsers search by terms like "Caravaggio," "sans-culottes," or "Osama bin Laden," and then see a list of books mentioning the term along with the sentence that contains it. Browsers could then choose to see several pages around that citation. But to see those pages Amazon would require users to register, and it plans to limit the amount of any single book a browser can view...But Google searches only Web sites, not the contents of books, and Amazon's proposed archive might offer a more authoritative alternative source of information.
News Search--Google Google Launches Advanced News Search Interface This new advanced page allows you to limit by source (also available with source:), limit by region, limit where search terms are located (headline, url, body, limit by date), and limit by date (at this time June and July, 2003 only). Similar advanced news search features have been available at AltaVista News for some time. Also, AV offers many articles that were published beyond the one month limit at Google. AV's crawler is constantly checking to see if these 'older' urls are still live. If the answer is yes, they are still searchable. Finally, if you're interested in the most current news, I strongly suggest you take a look at NewsNow.
Digital Tracking Copyright Source: S.F. Chronicle Learn About: BayTSP From the article, BayTSP gathers information clients can use to protect their copyrights or trademarks. In effect, Ishikawa wants BayTSP to become a high-tech version of Pinkerton, the legendary detective agency that made its mark protecting presidents like Abraham Lincoln and chasing Wild West outlaws like Jesse James. "We're like an Internet private detective," said Ishikawa, 39, a native San Franciscan. See Also: Learn More via the BayTSP Web Site
Briefly LexisNexis Will Have 'Space' in New Version of Microsoft Office 2003 Products See Also: In March, ResourceShelf had news of similar arrangements from Factiva and eLibrary --- ProQuest Acquires SIRS Publishing
Weblogs Source: InfoWorld Debate flares over Weblog standards From the article, Despite the undisputed popularity and proven utility of RSS, a new standard is emerging in an attempt to lay the foundations for the Weblog's future. Originally dubbed Echo and now rechristened as Atom, the effort is described as a grassroots, vendor-neutral push to address some of the limitations of RSS. Rather than adding to the existing RSS specification, development on these issues has splintered off into a separate effort due to disagreement among community members as to the purpose and direction of RSS. The idea is to build on the foundation of RSS, according to Anil Dash , vice president of business development at Six Apart, a San Francisco-based Weblog vendor. "The reason there is a need for something else [is that] there are new types of data and richer and more complex connections we are trying to do that RSS is not meant to do," Dash said. Critics charge that the multiple versions of RSS, the number of which ranges between two and five depending on whom you talk to, are causing confusion and are hindering interoperability. "To date, people [involved with RSS] have failed to converge on one version and make the confusion go away," Antarctica's Bray said.
Information Dissemination--Canada Source: E-Content Institute "Canadian knowledge dissemination study" From the article, A group of researchers from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, l'Université de Montréal, and the University of Western Ontario are launching a two-year study of knowledge dissemination in Canada...This study will identify critical areas within the Canadian scholarly communication system that must be addressed and propose a comprehensive research strategy for knowledge dissemination in Canada.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items) Political Organizations--United States--Searchable Database Source: IRS New Searchable Database, Political Organization Disclosures You can search for and view copies of all submitted Forms 8871 and Forms 8872 (both paper and electronic filings). Thanks to TVC for the news tip. -- U.S. Congress--Lists Source: Clerk, U.S. House 1) Two New Lists from the U.S. Congress Fast Facts and List, A History [and List] of Foreign Dignitaries Who Have Addressed the U.S. Congress An 11 page .pdf file - 2) Fast Facts, The State of the Union Address A 4 page .pdf file. -- Population--United States Source: BLS New, Full-Text Report: A Profile of the Working Poor, 2001 Sunday, July 20, 2003
Web Search--Yahoo Source: News.Com Overture to a patent war? On ResourceShelfPLUS I've compiled a list many patents that Yahoo will control if/when the merger with Overture is completed. You'll also find links to Google's three patent applications. See Also: ResourceShelfPLUS also has a compilation of search related patents recently awarded to Microsoft.
Professional Reading Shelf Librarians Conference Presentation: Envision the Future Teaching Role of Law Librarians These are slides from Steve Abram's presentation at last month's AALL Annual Conference. Saturday, July 19, 2003
Internet Filters ALA Cancels Net Filtering Meeting A brief note on the ALA site reads, "The Executive Board of the American Library Association has instructed us to cancel our planned meeting on CIPA and filters for libraries, scheduled for August 14." No other reasons as to why the meeting was canceled are listed. The event was supposed to bring librarians and filter-makers together. Here's how ALA's Judith Krug 'characterized' the now canceled meeting in American Libraries, "...an opportunity to tell filter-makers how to gain “our support” by making their software’s blocking mechanisms “transparent” and adding a disabling feature to allow librarians to toggle blocking software off at the request of filter-averse adult patrons." See Also: "Libraries Cancel Meeting on Porn Filters"(via AP) From the article, ALA's immediate past president, Mitch Freedman, had raised objections to it Thursday in an internal e-mail discussion list. The order to cancel came from the group's 13-member executive board, which Freedman sits on, later in the day. "Simply, having any discussion whatsoever with the filtering companies legitimizes them, thus giving them a legitimacy that ALA has never recognized,'' Freedman wrote to fellow librarians on the ALA Council. See Also: "Library Internet filters pay off" (via The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
Federated Searching Interlibrary Loan Source: St. Petersburg Times Not Often Seen: Library Catalogs Discussed in a Newspaper The article is about the Alleycat system from the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. The writer does a nice job of explaining the system to non-librarian readers, Alleycat actually acts more like a sheepdog, herding together the multitude of programs housing the live catalogs at each library. If you cannot find an item in your home library system, you can search the virtual catalogs of more than 26 public county library systems and five academic libraries. "Each of the library systems are running different (catalog) programs and Alleycat gets them to talk to each other," explained Citrus County assistant library director Eric Head. See Also: Learn More About Alleycat
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents Health Information MEDLINEplus Adds 14 'Interactive Health Tutorials' To Collection New tutorials include smallpox, depression, hearing loss, and colon cancer. Over 100 tutorials (in Flash format) are now online. Friday, July 18, 2003
Web Search--Gigablast A Few Tweaks at Gigablast Matt Wells, Gigablast's developer and proprietor, has made a few updates to the engine. 1) "Gigablast now displays a blue bar above returned search results that do not have all of your query terms." Remember, Gigablast uses a default OR. 2) "Search results pages from the cache Gigablast lets you know how long ago it was cached by displaying a small message at the bottom of the search results page." Thanks to G.N. for the news tip.
Controlled Vocabularies Information Industry--Factiva Factiva Introduces New Taxonomy for Health Care Industry Factiva has announced the availability of a pharmaceutical and healthcare taxonomy with over 800 industry-focused terms, to help companies in those sectors organize and interpret information from both internal and external sources that are essential for making better business decisions...The new taxonomy is structured as a series of extensions to the existing Factiva Intelligent Indexing taxonomy, as used within Factiva’s business information services. Factiva’s industry, region, subject, and company codes are already available under license to help organizations easily find relevant internal and external information. See Also: Learn More About the Factiva Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Taxonomy
Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items) Information Architecture Government Information Source: Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland College Park Full-Text Research Paper, "Finding Governmental Statistical Data on the Web: Three Empirical Studies of the FedStats Topics Page" This paper was written by Irina Ceaparu and Ben Shneiderman. -- Scholarly Communication Source: SPARC/ACRL/ARL Conference Presentations: Best Practices in Campus Advocacy These presentations were given at the ALA/CLA Annual Conference. From the site, Communicating information on scholarly communication issues to campus colleagues – librarians, faculty, and administrators – is a major component of the Create Change program supported by SPARC, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication (ARL OSC). Since Create Change has been in place, a number of campuses have held major events on the scholarly communication crisis, the economics of journal publishing, and the move to digital publishing environments. These events are intended to encourage discussion that would bring about change in the scholarly communication system. The recent SPARC/ACRL Forum at ALA in Toronto featured presentations by librarians and faculty on aspects of these campus advocacy events and discussed factors that contributed to their success.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items) Television--Searchable Database Source: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Primetime Emmy Awards Database Search by nominee name, network, category, year. See Also: Official List of 2003 Nominees (Announced Yesterday) -- Distance Education--United States--Statistics Source: NCES New, Full-Text Report, Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000-2001 -- Children--United States--Statistics Source: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics New, Full-Text Report: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2003 Summary ||| Full-Text (HTML) ||| Full-Text (PDF) -- Hospitals--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: U.S. News and World Report Updated, "America's Best Hospitals, 2003" Rankings Are Online -- Housing--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census Just Released, Housing Gains: 2002-2003 The summary includes the following rankings, "States with Largest Gains in Housing Units", "States with Biggest Percentage Increases in Housing Units", and "Counties with Largest Number of Housing Units". -- Crime--United Kingdom--Statistics Source: Home Office Just Published, Full-Text Report, Crime in England and Wales 2002/2003
Librarians Source: The Times (N.W. Indiana) Meet the New Librarian of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judith Gaskell Congrats to Judith Gaskell who begins her new job here in Washington next month. You'll learn all about Ms. Gaskell in the article I've linked to. A bit more info in this story from LJ and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. See Also: Official Announcement Thursday, July 17, 2003
Web Resources of the Week Three items are included in the ROW package this week. -- 1) Metadata Source: NISO New, Full-Text, Metadata Demystified: A Guide for Publishers This publication is just online from NISO and the Sheridan Press. It was written by Amy Brand, Frank Daly, and Barbara Meyers. This online book runs 19 pages (.pdf) -- 2) Licensing--United States--Specialized Database Licensed Occupations Database This database was formerly known as LOIS. It offers "occupational licensing requirements by state, occupation or agency. This tool includes information on licenses that maybe required by law in order for you to practice a particular occupation. Information for all states, agencies, and licenses may not be included." -- 3) Media--Directories Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Compilation Newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. -- International Regional Magazine Association Directory--Travel Destination Magazines This directory and the one listed below might be especially useful in travel collections. These publications often run articles and other material that might be useful for visitors. -- City and Regional Magazine Association Directory Use the pull-down menu on the left side of the page.
Librarians Source: Seattle Times More on the Librarian Action Figure Story This article features comments from several librarians (pro and con) about the action figure. You'll also see what the doll looks like.
Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items) Health Information Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Full-Text Report, Internet Health Resources: Health searches and email have become more commonplace, but there is room for improvement in searches and overall Internet access Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text -- Scholarly Publishing Source: National Science Foundation Full-Text, The Implications of Information Technology for Scientific Journal Publishing: A Literature Review -- Web Crawlers Source: Stanford Database Group Full-Text Report, Effective Page Refresh Policies for Web Crawlers
Briefly Internet Domains...Info Briefing About the New Kids.Us Domain Set for Next Week -- Institute for Scientific Information...New Version of HighlyCited.Com Will Be Released in September HighlyCited.Com is a free searchable database from ISI. --- H.W. Wilson...Humanities Full-Text Database Adds Content
National Archives--United States Today: "The National Archives Opens Additional National Security Council Files Relating to the Nixon Presidency" The National Archives and Records Administration has announced that it will open approximately 180,000 pages of materials from the Nixon Presidential Materials Project on Thursday, July 17, 2003, beginning at 9 A.M. in Conference Room D at the National Archives at College Park..."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Elections--United States--Statistics Source: Federal Election Commission Now Available, Full-Text, Federal Elections 2002: Election Results for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives -- Money Laundering--United States--Statistics Source: NCJRS New Report, Full-Text, Money Laundering Offenders, 1994-2001 From 1994 to 2001 over 18,000 faced money laundering-related charged filed in a U.S. district court. |
