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Web Search--Google Google Acquires Kaltix A few months ago ResourceShelf was one of the first sites to report on Kaltix, a company started by Stanford students to "commercialize personal web search technologies." Today, news that the company has been acquired by another company that came out of Stanford, Google. Today's announcement contained no information about how much Google paid for Kaltix or they plan on using the technology. Larry Page said in a news release, "Kaltix is working on a number of compelling search technologies, and Google is the ideal vehicle for the continued development of these advancements." See Also: Additional Background in this 7/13/03 ResourceShelf Post See Also: An August, 2003 News.Com article About Kaltix
PubMed OLDMEDLINE Citations Now Available on PubMed ResourceShelf ran an item a couple of weeks ago that OLDMEDLINE citations would soon become accessible via PubMed. Word today from NLM that this material is now searchable via PubMed. Over 1.5 million citations are available. The citations were originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1953 through 1965.
Higher Education--Open Access Source: News.Com MIT's OpenCourseWare Initiative Officially Launches, Complete Access Materials for 500 Classes From the article, "One year after the launch of its pilot program, MIT on Monday night quietly published everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos for 500 courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative, an ambitious project it hopes will spark a Web-based revolution in the way universities share information...The institute doesn't expect to publish materials for its full complement of classes until 2007, when it expects to have between 1,800 and 2,000 offerings. In addition to a syllabus, lecture notes and course videos, institute faculty have published problem sets, past exams and completed student projects. The readings list available for each course could be extremely useful to the researcher. Early word of the OCW project was posted on ResourceShelf in April, 2001. An advanced search page allows content to be limited to 5 fields (Title, Description, Author/Contributor, Keywords) or by course section (e.g. Syllabus, Lecture Notes, Readings, etc.) See Also: Direct to the MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative See Also: Those of you who would like to stay current with the newest materials being added to the OCW will want to sign-up for their monthly newsletter. See Also: BBC Online Report About OCW (9/1/03)
Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items) Internet2--Middleware Source: OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series Seminar: "The Golden Age of Plywood" A seminar presented on September 19, 2003 by Dr. Ken Klingenstein, Director, of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative. From the abstract, "The emergence of middleware infrastructures in higher education, and tools that allow consistent campus implementations to support inter-institutional collaborations. The talk will reference successes to date and identify interesting issues that the progress has uncovered, such as internationalization, managing privacy, accommodating large scale distributed learning communities, and the automation of intuitive concepts." Abstract ||| Download Audio of Presentation (MP3) -- Database Legislation--United States Intellectual Property Source: U.S. House of Representatives Prepared Testimony: “Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act of 2003” The hearing took place last week in DC. * View the Entire Hearing Online * Statement Of Congressman John D. Dingell, Ranking Member Committee On Energy And Commerce * Witness List * David Carson, General Counsel, Copyright Office of the United States * Thomas Donohue, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chamber of Commerce * Keith Kupferschmid, Vice President, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement Software & Information Industry Association on behalf of the Coalition Against Database Piracy * William Wulf, National Academy of Engineering and Vice Chairman
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items) Weather--Canada Source: Environment Canada New Fast Facts Database of Canadian Weather Rankings Environment Canada online today with a neat little database that provides weather rankings for major cities in Canada. 72 different categories (windiest city, most rainy days, most dry days, most snow days, etc.) View by city or category. Rankings were derived from 30 years of data. Additional info is available in this news release. -- Traffic--United States--Statistics Source: Texas Transportation Institute Released Today, 2003 Urban Mobility Report All Materials ||| Summary ||| Direct Links to Key Charts/Tables ||| Full-Text of Report See Also: Background Article From AP -- Health Insurance--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census New, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2002 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Report -- Health Statistics--Russia Source: NCHS New, Full-Text Report, Vital and Health Statistics: Russian Federation and United States, Selected Years 1985-2000 With An Overview of Russian Mortality in the 1990s -- Environmental Education Source: EPA New Web Site for High School Students: High School Environmental Center From the description, A team of EPA environmental educators created the High School Environmental Center to help students find good environmental information--not just on EPA’s Web site, but on other reliable sites as well. The team used guidelines developed by the North American Association for Environmental Education to ensure that the materials included were truly educational.
Briefly (3 Items) H.W. Wilson Will Add 25 Titles to the Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text -- Biology's new online archive (via The Scientist) -- Opera announces strategic licensing agreement with Adobe Monday, September 29, 2003
California State Library Source: The New York Times "Preserving Ephemera of Recall Campaign" From the article, For the 135 candidates running to replace Gov. Gray Davis, $3,500 and 65 signatures got them a spot on the Oct. 7 recall ballot and a place in California history. With just over a week before the election, their campaign bumper stickers, buttons, Web sites and in one case thong underwear are becoming treasured artifacts. Researchers, archivists and historians holed up in museum offices and library basements across the state — people who normally think in terms of years not days — are scurrying to preserve the stuff of this election. Confronted with both an abbreviated timeline and an astonishing number of candidates, the task of collecting what they call the ephemera of the recall is proving daunting. Gary Kurutz, the curator of special collections at the California State Library, has taken to roaming the streets of Sacramento on his lunch breaks to scavenge for campaign memorabilia from rallies and events. Signs once taped to telephone polls or posters strewn on sidewalks are now enshrined in the library's permanent collection.
Information Industry--xrefer xrefer releases xreferplus Version 2.0 This UK based company offering high quality full-text reference content continues rolling along with version 2.0 of it's subscription based xreferplus product. Included in this new release is "Reference Mapper" that allows the user to visualize the relationships of various search results. A public demo of the "Reference Mapper" is available. The company also announced that they've increased the number of titles available via xreferplus by over 80% in 2003. Recent additions include The Bridgeman Art Library Archive, Webster's New World™ Computer Dictionary, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary and The Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. xreferplus is a product sold to many libraries and other information centers. I wish they would release a version that would be available to the individual online researcher.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Patents--United States--Databases Documents in Trademark Disputes Can Now Be Accessed Online Today, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) unveiled TTABVue, a system that allows users to view images of documents relating to trademark disputes on the Internet. TTABVue includes images of most documents filed since January 2003. Some earlier records covering the period June 2001 to January 2003 also are available. -- U.S. Department of Defense--Research Projects Source: DARPA Full-Text, DARPA Fact File: A Compendium of DARPA Programs Short summaries of selected DARPA programs, intended as a ready reference for those interested in DARPA’s research portfolio.
Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items) Internet Resources The October Issue of Roddy MacLeod's Internet Resources Newsletter is Now Available Included in this month's issue are some positive comments about a web based news tool called Bloglines. -- Libraries Source: The Oracle USF [University of South Florida] assists foreign university's library From the article, While USF is accustomed to the technology of electronic reserves, a detailed online library catalog, the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia is not quite as lucky. They do not have a digital library. No remote access information. No E-Reserve. No organization. Locating a journal in the Ethiopian university's library is close to impossible. That was until a USF student named Hashim Ahmed approached librarian Todd Chavez with an idea. Ahmed wanted to create a system of organizing and cataloging the library system at Addis Ababa University so the students could have the same advantages as USF, Chavez said. Sunday, September 28, 2003
The Internet Archive The UK Central Government Web Archive Now Online The UK Central Government Web Archive is a selective collection of UK Government websites, archived from August 2003, which has been collected by the Internet Archive on behalf of the National Archives of the United Kingdom.... "A recent study suggested that there are currently approximately 2,500 separate UK Government websites. This project is being undertaken as part of the ongoing development of a web archiving strategy by the National Archives. 51 websites have been carefully chosen as a representative sample of the entire UK Government web domain, and have been selected in accordance with criteria designed to reflect the overall functions of government. A number of departments and agencies were then chosen which are representative of each of these functions. This provides a broad cross-section across UK Central Government. The websites are harvested at varying intervals, to provide the flexibility to respond to changing circumstances. Initially, 10 websites are harvested every week, and the remaining 41 are harvested every six months." See Also: UK Central Government Web Archive FAQ
Libraries and Librarians--United States Source: The New York Times "Subversive Reading" From the article, Ashcroft versus the librarians is something else -- one of those spectacles that manage, like book bannings in suburban schools or the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, to glamorize reading and make it seem to be, as it sometimes and in some places actually is, a high-stakes activity. Suddenly, your unprepossessing branch library -- a low-slung 60's building, perhaps, and not in the greatest repair -- looms as an epic battleground of ideas. I love my local library, with its notice board shingled with leaflets for every possible community activity, its shelving carts teeming with random piles of books I'd never discover on my own, even its faithful cadre of old men with rattling coughs reading back issues of Popular Mechanics. I am not used to thinking of it, however, as a place of vivid political drama. Truth be told, it's a bit of a sad case, recently forced, by budget cuts, to close on Fridays. See Also: "Ashcroft Declassifies Some Patriot Act Records" Saturday, September 27, 2003
Cool! ResourceShelf Gets a Mention in Forbes! It's the seventh item listed in the current "Informer" column and has the headline "Did Zach Have an Intern". Here's the August, 2003 ResourceShelf posting that Forbes writes about.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) United States--History Source: Library of Congress New Digital Collection from American Memory, American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 From the site, "...comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites. " -- Business Schools--Lists & Rankings Source: Forbes New, Forbes Releases Best Business Schools List
Professional Reading Shelf Professional Organizations--Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals The October Issue of CILIP's Library + Information Update Are Now Online The following articles are available (full-text) at no charge via the web site: 1) Whatever happened to the library schools "John Feather explores the implications of seismic changes over the last 15 years in higher education. Do we need to re-engineer the relationship between LIS departments and the profession?" 2) "A Fanfare for music" "A new report on music services was published in July, and found much to celebrate. But, despite groundbreaking collaborative projects and pockets of excellence, music still has more than its fair share of difficulties..." 3) "A new kind of worker" A look at info literacy projects in the corporate world. 4) Phil Bradley's Internet Q&A The full-text of Phil's monthly column.
Data Mining--U.S. Government Source: Secrecy News (FAS) U.S. Congress "Terminates" Total Information Awareness Project From the article, "In the culmination of a festering public controversy, Congress this week eliminated all funding for the Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) data-mining program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and shut down the DARPA Information Awareness Office..."
Briefly EBSCO Launches New EBSCOhost Services 1) Personalization Options Available With 'My EBSCOhost' 2) Index Browsing Now Available on EBSCOhost Databases Friday, September 26, 2003
Librarians and Libraries Source: Associated Press AP: "Librarians Do Slightly Better Than Google" What a sad headline that we know to be incorrect. In its June issue D-Lib (and linked from ResourceShelf) ran an article about Google Answers (Google's fee-based answering service) as compared to results received with the assistance of a librarian. Results of that study have made it into the mainstream press. Unfortunately, the story focuses on the fact that according to the study, results from Google Answers were about as good as those from a librarians. My point in posting this story is not to argue about the quality of Google Answers service, of web search, or the quality of what was a small exploratory study. That's another matter. I'm posting it because the headline and story are more examples of how the public continues to be fed material that libraries and librarians offer services and have skills no better than what's available from Google or any other web engine. Yes, this AP story is brief as is the original study, but it continues to weaken the value of our profession as it's perceived by the public. What are we, as a profession, doing to change this?
Libraries and Librarians Starts 10/1/03: National Medical Librarians Month This annual event, now in its seventh year is sponsored by the Medical Library Association. This year's theme is "Surf Smart".
Briefly LexisNexis Makes Company Dossier Database Available to Academic Market In other LN news, the company announced they plan to will build a new computing center in Springfield, Ohio -- President Signs Bill Reauthorizing Museum and Library Services Act
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items) Aviation--History Source: Library Of Congress Just Released, The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress From the site, The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Included in the collection are correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives. Material can be searched or browsed by series. -- Arms Sales--United States Source: Congressional Research Service New, Full-Text Report, Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1995-2002 -- Poverty--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census Just Released (2 Reports), Poverty in the United States: 2002 & Income in the United States: 2002 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text (Poverty) ||| Direct to Full-Text (Income) See Also: Supplemental Measures of Material Well- Being: Expenditures, Consumption, and Poverty: 1998 and 2001 -- Transportation--United States--Statistics Source: BTS Just Released, Full-Text, Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2001 This report provides the most comprehensive overview of U.S. transportation. -- Science and Engineering--United States--Statistics Source: National Science Foundation New, Full-Text, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2002
News Search--Google An Interview With Krishna Bhahrat, Developer of Google News Yes, Google News is useful and Krishna is one highly intelligent individual and a very nice guy but other news search tools and aggregators exist. I continue to be more than impressed with results from the Rocket News Desktop application. You can try it free for a month. Also, the Rocket News web site another favorite, continues to improve. On a very regular basis I find material using both of these tools that I don't see via Google or other news engines. Also, another favorite news source, NewsNow just passed the 12,000 source mark. That's more than triple the number of sources included in the Google News crawl. Thursday, September 25, 2003
Resources of the Week This week 5 entries that under the broad heading of science. -- Science--Ready Reference Source: PSI Gate (Physical Sciences Information Gateway) Science Timelines Timelines for Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Materials, and Physics. It's also possible to view all timelines combined onto a single web page. Timelines can also be searched by keyword and date. -- Meteorology/Weather Source: World Meteorological Organization World Weather Information Service From the site, This pilot web site presents OFFICIAL weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological Services (NMSs) worldwide...By 19 September 2003, 997 cities from 153 WMO Members have their climatological data presented in this web site. 87 Members also supply weather forecasts for 824 cities. Direct links to all member websites are also available. See Also: World Weather Forecasts (via Meteorological Service of Canada) -- Astronomy Heavens-Above You specify your location in latitude/longitude (or select your town from the worldwide database), and you get a customized page that shows you what's overhead -- satellites, planets, constellations, comets, solar flares...even the position of the International Space Station. Link contribution and annotation by SDK. -- Seismology Source: National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) NEIC Earthquake Database Search From the site, This data base provides information on earthquakes from 2100 B.C. to the present. The data base contains earthquakes with known magnitude values between 0.1 and 9.9. See Also: List of Significant World-wide Earthquakes:"Magnitudes of Significant Earthquakes" (via USGS) -- Conservation Source: IUCN Species Survival Commission The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Basic and advanced search interfaces available. Keyword searchable. Searches can be focused by region, country and other criteria. See Also: NatureServe Explorer From the site, "...source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items) Telemarketing--United States--Fact Facts Telephones--United States--Fast Facts Source: U.S. Census New, Facts and Stats About Telemarketing and Telephones in the U.S. -- Clinical Trials--United Kingdom Source: NHS New Database, NHS Trusts Clinical Trials Register Current Controlled Trials Ltd is pleased to announce the launch of the NHS Trusts Clinical Trials Register. The NHS Trusts Clinical Trials Register can be accessed via the metaRegister of Controlled Trials. Users need to register in order to have access to the metaRegister, but registration and access is free. -- Digitization Projects--Canada Newspapers--Canada New, Searchable Online Archive: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War From an announcement, In partnership with the Department of Canadian Heritage's Canadian Culture Online Program, the Canadian War Museum today announced the launch of a fully searchable online archive containing articles from the Hamilton Spectator's clippings morgue. Featuring more than 144,000 articles, Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War offers Internet surfers an incomparable look at the Second World War through the eyes of newspaper reports published at the time...The Hamilton Spectator originally donated its Second World War archive to the Government of Canada for research purposes in 1952. In 1998, the Department of National Defence transferred the collection to the Canadian War Museum. Along with articles published by the Hamilton Spectator, the archive contains clippings from other Canadian newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Telegram, Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Tribune and Ottawa Citizen. It also contains articles from such publications as the Financial Post, Canadian Business and international newspapers such as the New York Times. Digitized clippings are available as pdf files. -- Labor--United States--Statistics Source: BLS New Online: Create Customized Maps (U.S. Unemployment Rates)
Web Search--Gigablast Source: SearchDay An Interview With Gigablast's Developer and Sole Proprietor, Matt Wells Chris Sherman has published an interview I did with Matt on his SearchDay site. See Also: Gigablast Now Supporting the Use of Geo Sensitive Meta Tags See Also: Even More New Document Formats Become Searchable at Gigablast
Internet Search Source: The Wall Street Journal Amazon Gets into the Shopping Search Biz (Full-Text of Article Available to Non-Subscribers) From the article, Amazon.com Inc. has quietly established a beachhead in Silicon Valley to develop its own Web-search technology, a plan that could pit it more directly against Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in an emerging battle over who controls the major paths to online merchants...A9 says its software will be aimed specifically at online shoppers, NOT users who want to perform general search requests for things such as sports statistics or news. A9 declined to provide many details on how its technology will work, but said it will present products found on Amazon in an "egalitarian" fashion with products found on other Web sites. It's also worth noting (it's not mentioned in the article) that like Google with Google Catalogs, Amazon has been experimenting with optical character recognition (ocr) search technology via its Amazon Restaurants database. This service utilizes ocr to allow the searcher full-text/keyword search access to hundreds of restaurant menus. Wednesday, September 24, 2003
OCLC Dewey Decimal Classification Their Side of the Story: OCLC Posts Announcement Concerning Law Suit Against NY City Hotel From the announcement, "OCLC is disappointed that legal action had to be taken against The Library Hotel. This is an unusual event for OCLC. However, trademark law imposes affirmative obligations on trademark owners to protect their trademarks, or risk losing all rights in those marks through legal abandonment. We felt that abandoning our rights in the Dewey trademarks was an unacceptable result for the OCLC membership. OCLC attempted to avoid litigation by repeatedly requesting attribution of our ownership of the Dewey marks from The Library Hotel. They have refused to do so. Unfortunately, that refusal left us with no other recourse than to file a legal complaint."
Libraries--Grants Institute of Museum and Library Services Announces $13.7 Million in Grants to Advance Leadership & Innovation From the announcement, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal funds for the nation's museums and libraries, today announced grants in five categories that advance leadership and innovation. Over $13 million ($13,758,471) is awarded to 49 museum and libraries throughout the nation. The recipients will match the awards with an additional $14,384,885. You can find a complete list of grant recipients organized by state or category (library or museum) on this page. See Also: $1.7 Million to Support Library Service in Native American Communities
Public Libraries--Canada Source: Montreal Gazette "Libraries hit hard by budget cuts" From the article...Municipal libraries across the island are feeling the pinch as Quebec retools its funding rules, and librarians don’t mind letting people know who is responsible...Montreal libraries have seen their purchasing power cut by one-third as a result of a new funding formula adopted in 2002 by the former Parti Québécois government.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items) Education--Statistics Source: NCES Just Launched, International Education Indicators Website From the site, This site provides indicators compiled from NCES international publications and is organized by the following subject areas: Context of Education; Preprimary and Primary Education; Secondary Education; Higher Education; and, Education and the Labor Force. The indicators include comparisons between the United States and other industrialized nations with large economies - particularly those that are viewed as our major economic competitors, for example, the Group of Eight (G8) countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NCES will continually update the indicators as new data becomes available. -- World Cultures--Bibliography Source: U.S. Dept. Of State Full-Text: "Cultural Bibliography" Focusing on cross-cultural resources including books and videotapes. 19 pages. See Also: Bibliography of Protocol Resources -- Tourism--United Kingdom Source: House of Commons Library, United Kingdom New, Full-Text Report, Tourism 39 pages pdf. Numerous statistics. -- Taxes--United Kingdom Source: House of Commons Library Full-Text, The Burden of Taxation 34 page (pdf) research report. -- Real Estate--United Kingdom--Webliography Source Free Pint Full-Text: "Real Estate Sources on the Web" -- Government Web Sites--United States Source: Taubman Center for Public Policy/Brown University New Report: State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2003 Annual analysis of federal and state government web sites. Summary ||| Full-Text ||| PDF
Professional Reading Shelf Digital Libraries The September Issue of CIDL (Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries News) is Now Online Includes several articles about metadata usage. Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Web Search--Google Google Launches Geographic Location Search Demo Another entry onto the Google Labs page. This new demo allows you enter your search terms and then enter an address, zip code, or city and state to help focus your results. It was two weeks ago when Overture placed a demo online that looked very similar. Unfortunately, Overture has taken the demo offline. A silly thing to do. This is yet another example of how Google wins. Beta tests and demos offer users not only "things" to try but also something to talk about. Having people try, test, and talk is a very effective way of marketing web search. Other companies should be doing this. -- In May Overture/AllTheWeb launched a calculator/converter option. A few weeks ago Google began offering this service. Yes, Google's calculator is a bit more robust. It also doesn't require a special syntax to use it. In other words you can utilize natural language and the answer is posted directly on the results page. Fine. However, this is not all that unique. Ask Jeeves has been offering "Smart Search" for several months. It places answers on results pages not just links. For example, when you search for the winner of the 1972 Academy Award for Best Actor, note the answer at the top of the results page. Heck, AltaVista has offered a similar service (Shortcuts) with direct links to specialized information services for more than 18 months. -- Nevertheless, it's Google that gets all of the press for being so innovative. Unfortunately many people have forgotten that other tools are still vital, useful, and also doing innovative things. -- Finally, Google states in a news release that the location search feature is one of the first of its kind. One of the first maybe but not a new idea in web search. Northern Light offered a geographic search option over three years ago. Here's what that interface looked like and how the company described it. Lasoo was another product that also offered geo searching. Here's a 2001 article about this product from Search Engine Watch. See Also: Learn About MetaCarta's "Geographic Text Search" Technology
Privacy Source: FindLaw Report from U.S. DOD Contractor: Airline Passenger Data (Re: JetBlue) A great deal of press has been given to JetBlue Airlines giving passenger record information to a DOD contractor. The contractor JetBlue gave the data to is named Torch Systems. Here is a link to a report by the contractor about the use of the airline passenger data. Note: The source for this link was the "Featured Documents" section of the well-known and respected FindLaw site.
Web Search-Yahoo Yahoo "Officially" Introduces Shopping Engine This service has been in beta mode since April. The service was called "Product Search" but has been incorporated into Yahoo Shopping. From the article, The technology to search the Web and pull together product information was largely built on the software Yahoo picked up when it acquired Inktomi, [Rob] Solomon [the general manager of Yahoo Shopping] said. Yahoo will also test software for personalized product recommendation that will let users set attributes of a potential product category -- say, digital cameras -- that are most important to them, with Yahoo's technology then deciding which product is the best fit. From the news release, Yahoo! Product Search is a new search engine that utilizes algorithmic search technology to extract results from multiple sources, including: * Yahoo!'s existing database of more than 17,000 merchants and millions of products currently part of the Yahoo! Shopping platform; a new database of merchants and products that have established direct feeds into * Yahoo! Product Search through Yahoo!'s new Product Submit program; and merchants and products identified through advanced crawling capabilities. See Also: Chris Sherman with a Detailed Look at Yahoo Shopping See Also: Dealtime Relaunches as Shopping.com (via SearchDay, 9/22/03) See Also: New Features Added To Froogle (9/8/03) See Also: Kelkoo is a Shopping Search Tool (Similar Look to Yahoo and Froogle) Aimed at a European Audience
OCLC Dewey Decimal Classification Source: The New York Times Where Did Dewey File Those Law Books? More on OCLC suing The Library Hotel in New York City. Even if OCLC wins the case once again libraries and librarians suffer from negative publicity. A real shame when the exact opposite type of marketing and pub is needed and OCLC, being a large library organization, should be leading the charge. IMHO, OCLC should be working with the hotel to promote the role of libraries and librarians as opposed to suing them. UPDATE (9/24) OCLC Posts Their Side of the Story in News Release See Also: Trademark Registration for DDC in USPTO Database (Registation #0755548) See Also: Full-Text of Complaint (Thanks to beSpacific for the link) See Also: Forest Press/OCLC Sue NY City Hotel Over Use of Dewey Decimal Classification (9/21/03)
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items) Government Documents--United States Source: Documents and Law Libraries, University of Illinois StateList: The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists "This site provides links to state publication checklists and shipping lists that are currently available on the Internet from 32 states." Link contributed by SDK. See Also: State Bibliographies From the Government Documents Special Interest Section, American Association of Law Libraries -- Government--Canada Source: Library of Parliament Full-Text, How Canadians Govern Themselves, 5th Edition -- Population--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census Full-Text, Moving, Moving, Moving, Geographical Mobility: 1995 to 2000 Summary ||| Full-Text "About 120 million (46 percent) of the nation's population that was 5 years old and over in 2000 lived in a different home than they did in 1995." -- Foundations--United States--Statistics Source: Foundation Center 1) Highlights from the The PRI (program-related investments) Directory (2003 Edition ) Includes a list of the Top 56 largest PRI providers. -- 2) Highlights, Foundation Staffing -- Business--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Working Mother Released Today, The 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers List-2003 Background articles and additional lists available here (Top 10, Best in Class).
Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items) Publishing Source: Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers Upcoming Event: How Online Usage Statistics Impact your Organization: The Librarian and Publisher Perspective Those of you in and around New York City might be interested in attending this three hour seminar on October 28, 2003. -- Image Searching Metadata Source: Stanford Database Group Research Report, From Where to What: Metadata Sharing for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates From the abstract, We describe LOCALE, a system that allows cooperating information systems to share labels for photographs. Participating photographs are enhanced with a geographic location stamp -- the latitude and longitude where the photograph was taken.
Briefly (2 Items) Major Donation [$1.7 Million] to Enable UC Santa Barbara Libraries to Produce Discography of Victor Records -- Michigan's TLN (The Library Network) Signs With SIRSI (via ManagingInformation.Com) TLN is a consortium of 64 public libraries. Monday, September 22, 2003
Information Industry--Factiva Information Industry--IBM Source: InfoToday NewsBreak More on WebFountain from Factiva and IBM Last Thursday we featured several items about Factiva's announcement that they will use IBM's WebFountain data mining software in a new products. A very interesting move and one to watch. Today, Barbara Quint offers more detail in her IT NewsBreak. BQ asks if WebFountain might be the next big thing. See Also: More From ResourceShelf (9/18/03)
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items) Campaign Disclosure--United States Source: California Voter Foundation, the Center for Governmental Studies and the UCLA School of Law New, Full-Text Report, Grading State Disclosure From the announcement, The Campaign Disclosure Project evaluated four areas of campaign finance disclosure: state campaign disclosure laws, which set the disclosure requirements about what campaign data must be publicly disclosed; electronic filing programs, which enable states to publish accurate, timely and comprehensive data online; the degree to which the public can access campaign finance information; and the usability of state disclosure web sites. -- Information Technology--Lists & Rankings Source: Information Week New, 2003 Information Week 500 "...of the nation's largest and most innovative companies." Numerous background articles and a company comparison tool. See Also: Direct to Complete List ||| Also Available as a PDF -- Contractors--United States--Lists & Rankings Retail--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Retail Traffic Top Retail Contractors "Retail Traffic's 2003 Top Contractors rankings are based on retail square feet built in the past year, and the total amount of space currently under construction." Link contributed by SDK. See also: Top 50 Retail Property Owners 2003 See Also: Top 50 Retail Property Managers 2003 -- Population--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census New, County Population Estimates Highlights ||| Highlights (Race and Ethnicity News Release) ||| Tables -- New, Highlights (Growth of School-Age Population by County) -- Hispanics--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Census Fact Sheet About Hispanics in the U.S. (Hispanic Heritage Month 2003) -- Health -- Tutorials Source: National Cancer Institute Science Behind the News Detailed educational tutorials covering cancer; estrogen receptors, tamoxifen, and raloxifene; gene testing; the immune system; cancer genome anatomy project (CGAP); nanodevices and cancer; single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and cancer.
Banned Books Source: ALA Banned Books Week 2003 Banned Books Week runs through next Saturday. 1) The Most Frequently Challenged Books for 2002 2) The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2001 3) The Most Frequently Challenged Authors of 2002 See Also: Additional BBW Materials From ALA
Citation Analysis--Lists & Rankings Scholarly Publishing Source: ISI • Top 10 Cited Journals (in all fields), 2002 • Norwegian Science, 1998-2002 • Science in Sweden, 1998-2002 • Chemistry: Most-Cited Institutions, 1993-2003
Professional Reading Shelf Source: FreePint Full-Text article, "Tips on Negotiating Licences for Electronic Products" 10 tips from Paul Pedley. Sunday, September 21, 2003
OCLC Dewey Decimal Classification Source: AP Forest Press/OCLC Sue NY City Hotel Over Use of Dewey Decimal Classification We report, you decide. From the article, The Library Hotel, which overlooks the New York Public Library, is divided according to the classification system, with each floor dedicated to one of Dewey's 10 categories. Room 700.003 includes books on the performing arts, for example, while room 800.001 has a collection of erotic literature. In the lawsuit filed last week, lawyers for the Online Computer Library Center said the organization acquired the rights to the system in 1988 when it bought Forest Press, which published Dewey Decimal updates. The center charges libraries that use the system at least $500 per year. See Also: Forest Press Began Publishing DDC in 1911. In 1988 FP became a division of OCLC. UPDATE (9/24) OCLC Posts Their Side of the Story in News Release
Briefly (2 Items( Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Database Moving to ProQuest Interface -- National Library of the Netherlands and BioMed Central agree to open access archive Saturday, September 20, 2003
Web Search--Gigablast Gigablast Now Supporting the Use of Geo Sensitive Meta Tags Matt Wells, Gigablast's sole proprietor, is on a tear lately adding new features. This page explains how these meta tags work. Wells also reports that he's planning on to "significantly" improve the Gigablast update cycle and double the size of the index in the next few months. Great news!!!
Web Search--Google Source: ChillingEffects.Org Sharman Networks (KaZaA) File Another DMCA Complaint Report With Google You can read about the first complaint in this article from News.Com
Dissertations--Lists & Rankings ProQuest Publishes List of the Best-Selling Dissertations of 2002 As many of you know, ProQuest (formerly UMI) is the proprietor of Dissertation Abstracts International, the largest database of this type of content in the world with bibliographic information dating as far back as 1861. ProQuest also sells individual copies of dissertations via their Dissertation Express service. They have about one million titles available. ProQuest Information and Learning Best Selling Dissertations of 2002 1. The uncivil war: Irregular warfare in the Upper South, 1861--1865 (Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia) by Mackey, Robert Russell;, PhD TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 2000, 468 pages 2. Using culturally relevant literature and discourse to support literacy learning among 'at-risk' English-language learners by Herrero, Elba Alicia;, PhD STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, 1999, 162 pages 3. The problem of 'world order' when the world is your village versus your globe by Tanner, George Lewis, PhD UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, 1996, 345 pages 4. Assessing knowledge management initiative successes as a function of organizational culture by Ribiere, Vincent Michel;, DSc THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2001, 158 pages 5. The Coos and Coquille: A Northwest Coast historical anthropology (Oregon) by Tveskov, Mark Axel;, PhD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2000, 537 pages 6. An analysis of the political and economic viability of community health centers: Implications for their future by Reynolds, David A. V.;, DrPH UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 1999, 147 pages 7. Factors affecting retention of customers who are users of computerized applications on the Internet: The case of online banking by Vatanasombut, Banphot;, PhD THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2001, 115 pages The relationships between emotional intelligence, personality, critical thinking ability and organizational leadership performance at upper levels of management by Murensky, Catherine Lynn;, PhD GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, 2000, 152 pages 8. Sharing knowledge through a knowledge management system: The relative effectiveness of formal control and organizational support by Marks, Peter Vincent, Jr.;, PhD UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2001, 146 pages An empirical study of factors affecting successful implementation of knowledge management by Choi, Yong Suk;, PhD THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2000, 140 pages 9. A roadmap for successful e-business by Chuang, Ming-Ling;, PhD FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2001, 159 pages Transformational leadership: A cross-cultural study of the moderating effects of culture on perceived leader behaviors by Sosa-Fey, Josephine;, DBA NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, 2001, 160 pages 10. Management control and the Balanced Scorecard: An empirical test of causal relations by Malina, Mary Ann;, PhD UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2001, 111 pages
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) Trademarks Source: WIPO New, Full-Text Document, "Making a Mark: An Introduction to Trademarks for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" 19 pages .pdf. -- Privacy--Canada Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's (OPC) Just Released, Full-Text, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's (OPC) 2002-2003 Annual Report Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text -- Firearms--United States--Statistics Source: BJS New Report, Background Checks for Firearm Transfer, 2002 Friday, September 19, 2003
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) Real Estate--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Forbes/DataQuick New, The Most Expensive ZIP Codes The list is based on median home prices. Uses data from 2002. This article has additional background. -- Wealth--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Forbes The Forbes 400, 2003 23rd annual. The 400 wealthiest citizens of the U.S. -- Business--Lists & Rankings Source: Business Week The e.biz 25 Profiles of 25 e-biz leaders. Eric Schmidt from Google and Terry Semel from Yahoo are on the list.
Web Search--Google Source: Reuters "Microsoft Throwing Its Weight Behind Web Search" Nothing all that new in the article. It discusses what we've read about numerous times, Microsoft is getting "more" into search. No specific dates as to when their new projects will go live. Key quotes, "The decision to build or buy came down to our ability to innovate. Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the platform," he added, a clear sign that Microsoft thinks it can only beat Google if it owns the technology...Search engines are doing a good job but not a perfect job," said Koenigsbauer, adding most search results today "don't deliver the results people are looking for." --Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN Internet portal. The article also mentions that Microsoft will continue its relationship with Overture and Inktomi for the "medium-term". See Also: If you would like to take a look at some of Microsoft's search related patents, this page from ResourceShelf Extra contains a list. Thursday, September 18, 2003
Web Resources of the Week Two entries for you this week! WHOIS Databases Source: The Information Advisor Full-Text Article: "Knock, Knock! Whois There...To Help Researchers" Once again ResourceShelf is delighted to provide access (free) to a full-text article from Bob Berkman's highly respected subscription based, Information Advisor newsletter. This article offers several search strategies and offers info about several WHOIS databases. Bob's pick for the best free WHOIS service (for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us domains) is what we also recommend, www.whois.sc. The article also lists other services that offer info for other domains. Btw, Bob Berkman is also the author of a forthcoming book from Information Today titled, The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources. Bob has informed us that if you decide to subscribe to The Information Advisor (access to the article linked above is completely free) between now and October 30th he will also send you a copy of his new book at no extra charge as soon as it's published. Simply add the word "ResourceShelf" to the comments line on the order form. See Also: Two Full-Text Articles from The Information Adviser That ResourceShelf Has Made Available in the Past 1) "Digging for Data on Subsidiaries" 2) "Searching for Company Data" -- Legal Research Legal Pathfinders New Resource, Law Scout Takes to the Web This "just announced" resource is the work of law librarian and law professor, Paul Richert, at the University of Akron Law School. It uses software from the Internet Scout Project's Portal Toolkit. Law Scout provides access (direct links) to pathfinders from law schools and other institutions. New material is being added on a regular basis. More information and a few caveats can be found in the announcement section at the top of the site. Kudos to Paul on a job well done. This site and the materials it provides access to has the potential to save you a great deal of time when doing legal research. See Also: Direct to Law Scout See Also: Richert's Original List of Pathfinders (by Source) Remains Available
Information Industry--Factiva Information Industry--IBM Factiva Announces It Will License WebFountain Text Mining Software from IBM Big news in the info industry. WebFountain is IBM's text mining software ResourceShelf ran plenty of background on in August. Forbes published the following quote, "The company has high hopes for Web Fountain, which was originally developed for a record company. The technology reads and understands text, and uses natural language to make correlations between words. Unlike traditional search, Web Fountain searches everything on the Web, including chat rooms, when set to that parameter." Again, much more background in the August post. Here are a few key points from the announcement. * Factiva is the first company to license IBM's WebFountain. * Factiva's first application on the WebFountain platform will track corporate reputation, offering an external view of a company's reputation by analyzing information from a comprehensive collection of Factiva sources, Internet pages and newsgroups. The resulting analysis will be presented in a report that clearly shows the information in context, providing a view on relevant business issues, showing new industry trends, and exposing relationships. In other words the product will take both open web content and Factiva's licensed content, analyze it, and deliver it in report form. From the sounds of it this means answers NOT just links to potential answers. * Will be on-demand service offered by Factiva and IBM consultants. * More on Factiva's use of WebFountain next week. See Also: Background About WebFountain in this August Post on ResourceShelf
Reference Tools--Spanish Language Jacso Introduces Another PolySearch Tool: Search Multiple Spanish Language Reference Tools with PolyBuscadores It was about three weeks ago when we had news about Jacso's PolySearch Dictionaries tool that allows the user to simultaneously search up to 20 web-based English language dictionaries. Today, yet another release from Dr. Jacso. Hola to PolyBuscador! Peter tells us that 15 open access (free) and 5 subscription-based ready reference sources are available including the Enciclopedia Universal and the Collins Concise Spanish-English-Spanish dictionary. To access: 1) Go to http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/ 2) Select the PolyBuscadores link at the top of the page 3) Select the Dictionarios and Enciclopedias Link (You'll also see what other modules Peter is working on) 4) Select the Resources You Want to Search, Enter Your Query, Click Search. 5) Make sure to review the help page that includes info about the use of diacritics. See Also: "Jacso Unveils Tool To Search Multiple Dictionaries Simultaneously"
Patriot Act Source: New York Times "Ashcroft Declassifies Some Patriot Act Records" From the article, Under pressure from lawmakers and civil rights groups over the Justice Department's antiterrorism initiatives, Attorney General John Ashcroft reversed course today and agreed to declassify data showing how often federal agents had demanded records from libraries and other institutions...Department officials said that in the next several days they would make public data showing how often agents had examined library records, business documents, computer data and other material in investigations. Section 215 of the antiterrorism act , which gave the department expanded authority to demand such records, has drawn strong objections from many librarians, civil rights advocates and community groups who say it gives the government too much power to spy on private activities of Americans....Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the [ALA's] association's Washington office, said, "I think the Justice Department was taken by surprise by the negative reaction that his attack on librarians had." See Also: "Ashcroft: U.S. to declassify library data" (via AP)
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Technology--Lists & Rankings Source: Technology Review (Free Registration Required) Full-Text: The TR 100, 2003 The Top 100 innovators (35 and under) in the fields of computing, biotech and medicine, Internet and nanotech as determined by a panel of judges. -- Workplace--Statistics--United States Source: BLS National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 2002 Summary ||| Full-Text 15 pages .pdf. Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Enterprise Search FAST Search & Transfer Lands Major Investment Banking Firm as a Client A blurb from the Oslo Stock Exchange web site announces that Goldman Sachs has signed with FAST to use their Data Search software "across multiple applications within the enterprise." See Also: FAST Also Announces New Customer in Health Care Industry
Info Industry--ProQuest All Ready To Go: ProQuest Adds The Los Angeles Times to Its Historical Newspaper Collection Word from Ann Arbor that the digitization of The LA Times from 1881-1922 is complete. When the entire project is finished access through 1984 will be available. From the announcement, The Los Angeles Times archive is being developed as part of the company's ProQuest Historical Newspapers project, which was initiated in 2001 to bring the historically valuable content of newspapers to digital form. Many of the nation's top newspapers are part of the project: Digital backfiles of The New York Times (1851-1999), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1985), The Washington Post (1877-1987) and The Christian Science Monitor (1908-1990) are already available from ProQuest to educational institutions and libraries around the world. The collection offers ready access to the complete run of each newspaper in full-page image format, starting from its very first issue.
Internet Domains Web Searching Source: SearchDay "VeriSign's New Site Finder Redirects Bad Domain Traffic" Danny Sullivan writes, VeriSign is now resolving requests for non-existent .COM and .NET domains to an error page that features a search engine that it operates called Site Finder, a move that's quickly raised controversy. Previously, such bad requests would have resulted in an error that in turn would be handled in different ways by various browsers. See Also: "VeriSign redirects error pages" (via ZD Net) -- (UPDATED 9/20) Verisign Sued Over SiteFinder From the article, "An Internet search company has sued VeriSign Inc. over a widely criticized service that sends Web users to a VeriSign search page after entering a nonexistent Web address (see story). Popular Enterprises LLC in Orlando, operator of the Netster.com search site, is seeking an injunction barring VeriSign from running the Site Finder as well as damages of up to $100 million, it said in a statement yesterday."
Congressional Research Service A Selected List of Recently Updated Congressional Research Service Reports -- * Campaign Financing Updated, 9/4/03 * Global Climate Change Updated, 9/8/03 --- The following reports are available on the web but cannot be linked to. To access: 1) Go to this page from U.S. Cong. Christopher Shays 2) Select the section(s) where reports are listed and scroll to each report. Read online, save and/or print the pdf file. Issue Briefs * Endangered Species: Difficult Choices Updated, 9/12/03 * North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program Updated 8/27/03 Short Reports * Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Seaports: Threat and Response Updated 8/13/03 Long Reports * Cloning: A Select Chronology, 1997-2003 Updated 8/19/03 * Commemorative Observances: A Chronological List Updated 8/21/03 * E-Commerce Statistics: Explanation and Sources Updated 6/4/03 * Executive and Independent Agency Publications: Where to Get Official Documents Updated 8/1/03 * Federal Aid to Libraries: The Library Services and Technology Act Updated 8/18/03 * Importing Prescription Drugs Updated 8/19/03 * Remedies Available to Victims of Identity Theft 9/12/03
Information Quality--Health Source: Sydney Morning News "Online health sites a worldwide worry" From the article, Getting medical information from the internet could be a health hazard, according to a study by a Melbourne researcher. Holly Cardamone, a Melbourne communications consultant and qualified nurse, found that most websites with health information failed to meet basic standards, some were commercially driven and others could mislead patients. Cardamone checked the top 100 sites returned on the Yahoo! search engine in the categories of breast cancer, diabetes and depression. She found that only a minority conformed to an international standard on how information should be given. See Also: "Internet Marketing of Herbal Products" (via Journal of the American Library Association) Abstract only.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items) Information Technology--Lists and Rankings Source: CRN Full-Text, Special Report: 25 Innovators CRN's first-ever 25 Innovators list, which features the hands-on technical gurus and product visionaries behind some of this year's most talked-about technologies. Basic bio information is provided for each person. Dave Winer of Userland fame along with Sergey Brin & Larry Page of Google made the list. -- Broadband Access to the Internet-- Statistics Source: ITU Number of global broadband subscribers grows 72% in 2002 The full-text of this report is not available online (copies available for journalists) but the summary might be of value to you. According to this report, the number of worldwide broadband subscribers grew some 72% in 2002. The country with the highest broadband penetration rate is the Republic of Korea, where there are about 21 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants. Hong Kong (China) ranks second (15 per hundred), and Canada ranks third (11 per hundred). -- Web Resources for the Visually Impaired--United Kingdom New Web Directory: Reveal-The Database of Accessible Resources From the site, Reveal is an information resource where you will be able to: * Find books in Braille and moon, audio books and digital talking books, tactile diagrams and more * Find who produces, loans or sells accessible material * Find out about the different accessible formats * Follow links to other sources of information and best practice -- Constitution--United States--Index Source: GPO New, The Constitution of the United States of America as Amended, Unratified Amendments, Analytical Index (House Document 108-95) 85 pages .pdf. Also online, The Constitution of the United States of America, Pocket Edition (House Document 108-96) -- Treaties--United States Source: U.S. Department of State Now Available, Treaties in Force - 2003 Index A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force as of January 1, 2003
Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items) Public Libraries--United States Source: ALA Washington Office Electronic Newsline Museum And Library Services Act On Its Way To The President From the e-letter, On September 16, H.R. 13, reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act passed the House in its final version and will be on its way to the President for signature. The legislation reauthorizes the Museum and Library Services Act to the year 2009; increases the base amount of the formula distribution to states in LSTA, sets the authorization level for library programs for FY 2004 at $232 million, and creates an evaluation process. -- Public Libraries--United Kingdom Source: Resource Full-Text Report, Framework for the Future: Libraries, Learning and Information in the Next Decade News Release |||Summary ||| Full-Text ||| Pamphlet -- Book Reviews Source: Slate.Com Book Report The general public is introduced to four tools librarians have been using for many years. Article discusses "the big four of book industry trade journals": Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Booklist. Link contributed by SDK. Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Access to Information Source: OMB Watch Administration Gains New Power to Withold 'Sensitive' Information On A Somewhat Related Note: "Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law" (via New York Times)
Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items) Libraries--Fast Facts Source: OCLC New, Full-Text Report, Libraries: How they stack up From a synopsis, Five times more people visit U.S. public libraries each year than attend sporting events. Each day, libraries circulate nearly 4 times as many items as Amazon ships—and about the same number as FedEx ships in a day. Annual purchases by U.S. libraries exceed U.S spending on videos, athletic footware and bars and taverns. Libraries: How they stack up provides a snapshot of the impact of libraries and some comparisons of library activities to other sectors, professions and destinations in the worldwide economy. Some interesting numbers but little about what librarians offer in terms of value to the patron. Also, saying that libraries in the U.S. have more cardholders than Amazon has customers means little, especially for the non-librarian. The real questions are how often do people use these library cards? Do they find what they're looking for? Did they get the help they need? Are they aware of the wide variety of services the library offers? Do they know the library is a place to go for answers? How many cardholders and non-cardholders know that library services reach beyond the four walls of the building? That trained people are available to help them? Why haven't cardholders used their cards lately? -- Digital Libraries The September, 2003 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Online Articles Include: * "The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving" * "Generation of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards" * "The Digital Preservation of e-Prints" * "Aggregate Record Management in Three Clicks" * Conference Report: Report on the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2003 -- Libraries and Librarians The October Issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is Now Online Included in Walt's newsletter is another complete chapter from his new book, First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession. The chapter is titled, "Hiding Behind PowerPoint".
Briefly R.R. Bowker Acquires Simba Info Inc. From PRIMEDIA - Library of Congress Gets New Financial Management System (via GCN) -- Merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Kluwer Academic Publishers to begin spring 2004
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items) Digital Piracy Source: AT&T Labs Full-Text Report, Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process "Many movies are showing up on file sharing networks shortly after, and in some cases prior to, theatrical release. It has been argued that the availability of unauthorized copies directly affects theater attendance and DVD sales, and hence represents a major financial threat to the movie industry. Our research attempts to determine the source of unauthorized copies by studying the availability and characteristics of recent popular movies in file sharing networks." This study finds that most copies of pirated movies that show up on file sharing P2P networks get there via so-called "Hollywood insiders." See Also: Full Text of Study (via researcher Lori Cranor 's website) . -- Antiterrorism -- Glossaries Source: Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, Security Engineering Division, Antiterrorism Program Antiterrorism and Force Protection: Glossary of Terms Alphabetical listing of terms and their definitions, from "access control" to "weapons of mass destruction tactic." See also: Terrorism/WMD Preparedness Glossary (New Mexico Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Working Group) Monday, September 15, 2003
Information Industry--Lists & Rankings Reed Elsevier Passes Thomson In Outsell's Market Share Rankings The following news brief comes from Outsell, a well-known market research firm specializing in the information industry. The complete report is fee-based. Thanks to D.C. for giving ResourceShelf the opportunity to reprint this brief. -- BURLINGAME, Calif., September 15, 2003 - Information giant Reed Elsevier has passed its rival, Thomson Corp., in Outsell, Inc.'s annual Information Content (IC) Industry market size, share, and forecast study. Reed Elsevier moved from third to second pl |
