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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Books--Canada--Lists & Rankings Source: Literary Review of Canada (LRC) LRC Unveils The 100 Most Important Canadian Books Ever Written Btw, many of these titles are available full text, online. -- Preservation OCLC RLG PREMIS, A Joint OCLC-RLG Working Group, wins 2005 Digital Preservation Award "The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) working group, jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, is an international set of more than 30 experts from libraries, museums, archives, government, and the private sector. In May 2005, PREMIS released its comprehensive guide to core metadata for supporting the long-term preservation of digital materials. Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group includes in a single document the PREMIS working group's final report, the dictionary, and a series of examples illustrating use of the dictionary. The report, data dictionary, and examples can also be accessed." -- Serial Prices Source: Swets Serials Price Increase Report #2 "Our Serials Price Increase Report is a service for customers that aims to provide a survey of annual serial price increases and a budgeting tool for libraries. The Report is updated and published monthly, this year from October, with the final report appearing in January." Direct to Report.
Late Breaking! New from The Internet Archive: Hurricane Katrina & Hurricane Rita Web Collection Gary has posted an overview on the SEW Blog.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Documents in the News Just Released: Iraq Source: National Security Council National Strategy for Victory in Iraq (PDF; 392 KB) "The following document articulates the broad strategy the President set forth in 2003 and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining." -- Digital Divide Source: Orbicom The Digital Divide Guide to Digital Opportunities: Measuring Infostates for Development Country by country reports. 252 pages; PDF. -- Philanthropy--United States--Statistics Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project New Data Memo, 13 million Americans made donations online after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Direct to complete report. (PDF) -- Poverty--United States--Statistics Source: US Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): 2003 "Estimates of population and poverty for school districts, as well as income and poverty estimates for states and counties. Included are estimates of the number of poor children ages 5 to 17 in the nation's 15,000 school districts." -- Iraq Terrorism Source: Congressional Research Service (via FPC) New, Combating Terrorism: The Challenge of Measuring Effectiveness See Also: Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq: Effects and Countermeasures -- Hurricanes--Statistics Source: NOAA/NHS Noteworthy Records of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season Additional charts here. -- HIV/AIDS Source: Kaiser Family Foundation World AIDS Day 2005 Resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation This year, the theme of World AIDS Day on December 1, is "Keep the Promise," which seeks to focus public attention of fulfilling commitments in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In recognition of World AIDS Day, the Kaiser Family Foundation has several new and updated resources, including a new Kaiser Public Opinion Spotlight; updated fact sheets on the epidemic globally and in the U.S.; a webcast of the United Nations event in New York City; updated information from the CDC on statehealthfacts.org; country-specific data on GlobalHealthReporting.org; and a timeline of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Search Briefs + New Search Shortcuts from Yahoo + Microsoft Testing Its Own 'Google Base' (via eWeek)
Briefly + New Fee-Based Service Covers UK Politics: Politics Today From The Press Association. Includes, "searchable access to the BBC's live and archived coverage of the Houses of Parliament." + Firefox 1.5 Officially Released + Dialog Announces 2005 International InfoStar Winners + New Data Mining And Visualization Tool From Thomson Scientific Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf + Live Blog Coverage of the Online Information Conference in London, UK Thanks to the InfoToday Blog. -- Google Library Project Source: SEW Blog Legal Issues for Google Library Project in Europe The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be precise) facing some legal obstacles in Europe. Here it is in a nutshell, direct from the article: "Google has acknowledged that it cannot digitise copyright material from European libraries, according to the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)" -- Information Industry--Elsevier Source: IWR Elsevier restructures and lays off 30 staff "Scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher Elsevier is restructuring itself, and will see 30 redundancies. The review of working practices will see the creation of five new business units, and aims to improve customer relationships between the publisher and its users." -- Public Libraries--Theft Source: Library Journal Low-tech Responses Stem Major Thefts at MI Library "Given that the library didn't want to require staffers to handle the media, staffers adopted two solutions. One is to use a piece of laminate to cover the tag that had been peeling off. Also, the library started using permanent ink to identify the discs as library materials, and placing a 15-item limit on checkouts. The 4000 discs lost represent about one-sixth of the library's 24,000-item collection of CDs and DVDs. Thefts have since plummeted."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Digitization Projects--Imagery Source: LC 1 Million Digitized Images Now Available Online from The Library of Congress "One searchable digitized collection from LC that you should know about is a catalog of imagery from The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. As of today, more than 1 million digitized images are available via the catalog. Access to the catalog is free." More info about "What's New" at the Prints & Photographs Division here. -- Employers--Database Source: Working America Job Tracker "Find out which companies in your area are exporting jobs, endangering workers' health or involved in cases of violations of workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The database contains information on more than 60,000 companies nationwide." Search by zip code, state, company, industry. Sources and Data -- Spam--Filters Source: FTC New, Email Address Harvesting and the Effectiveness of Anti-Spam Filters "According to a new study released today by the Federal Trade Commission, spammers continue to harvest email addresses from public areas of the Internet, but Internet Service Providers' anti-spam technologies can block the vast majority of spam sent to these email addresses. The FTC staff report also found that consumers who must post their e-mail addresses on the Internet can prevent them from being harvested by using a technique known as 'masking.'" Direct to Full Text Report (PDF) -- Gardens--Literature--Online Exhibition Source: The British Library Online Gallery: The Writer in the Garden "Enter a world of real and imaginary gardens portrayed by writers through the ages. See how gardens have inspired authors and how authors in their turn have shaped notions of the garden. This website, which is associated with a previous British Library exhibition, looks briefly at some of the ideas associated with the garden, from the middle ages to the present day. Using the work of poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, designers, and scientists, it explores the interrelationship between writers, writing, and gardens." -- Weblogs--Corporations Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere? "Bloggers have damaged a number of companies, but it's time to think of the blog as your friend. Skillful blogging can boost your company's credibility and help it connect with customers."
Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports + Science in England, 2000-04 See Also: 10-Year Country Rankings for England + Science in Denmark, 2000-04 + Australian Universities: Highest Impact in Chemistry, 2000-04 + Communication: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 2000-04 + Psychology: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04
Search Briefs + Gollum and Other Wikipedia Search Tools + UK: 192.com Directory Adds Genealogy Services + Searching Via Your Camera Phone Monday, November 28, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Libraries--Disabilities Source: IFLA Pilot Project Results: "Information Now! Enhancing Digital Access to Learning Materials for Canadians with Perceptual Disabilities" "The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Library, with funding from the Office of Learning Technologies (OLT), Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, has established a Community Learning Network which supports blind, visually impaired, and print-disabled adult learners across Canada as they extensively test the Library's newest format -- DAISY digital talking books on CD." Direct to Final Report (PDF). -- Controlled Vocabularies--Standards Source: NISO Goal of NISO Z39.19: A Better Path to Content Management "The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a revised controlled vocabularies standard, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." Abstract and Full Text here. -- Serials--Statistics Source: Media Daily News/Oxbridge Communications (Publisher of the National Directory of Magazines) + Interior Design Publications Experience Huge Growth: More Than Double The Number In Past Ten Years + Mags Shift To Lighter Fare, Away From Religion, Gay, Ethnic Themes -- World Summit of the Information Society Source: ICA The final official documents to the World Summit of the Information Society are available "These documents include references to the necessity of the long-term preservation of the digital information and of supporting cultural institutions including libraries, archives, and museums." -- National Archive and Records Administration Source: NARA Congress Approves FY 2006 Budget of $338 Million for the National Archives
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Public Policy--Resources Source: Knowledge Quest (ALA) Foreign Think Tanks, Part One A new guide by Ken Umbach. From the article, "'Policy and Data Resources on the Web' discusses think tanks and other valuable but less widely known information and data resources, and suggests teaching strategies and curricular applications for them." -- Dictionaries Source: Oxford English Dictionary OED Word of the Day Via E-Mail -- Higher Education--United States--Statistics Source: National Science Foundation New, 2004 Doctorate Awards Increase in Science and Engineering Fields for the Second Year in a Row -- Julius Caesar--Database Source: askSam (William Shakespeare) Free Searchable Version of Julius Caesar Now Available -- Hurricane Katrina Source: Leadership Directories Free, Information for Organizations Affected by Hurricane Katrina
Briefly + Thomson Scientific Launches Web Citation Index: New Scholarly Index Directs Researchers To Valuable Content From Repositories + Announcing IngentaConnect Complete: New service gives libraries a customized interface to IngentaConnect
Search Briefs New Tools, Video Trials, and Services from AOL and MSN Download hi-quality video content to your computer while your system is idle.
Beta File (aka Things Worth Taking A Look At) + SoonR Note: Om Malik has an overview. We're going to test soon. Very Cool!! Sunday, November 27, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Legal Reference--Open Source Source: Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute Wex "Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School. Much of the material that appears in Wex was originally developed for the LII's 'Law about...' pages, to which Wex is the successor."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Cities--Crime--Ranking Source: Morgan Quitno Press 12th Annual Safest City Award "The Morgan Quitno Safest City Award is based on a city's rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. All cities of 75,000+ populations that reported crime data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings. In this year's survey, 369 cities were considered for the award. Final 2004 statistics, released by the FBI on October 17, 2005, were used to determine the rankings." + Rankings (safest and most dangerous) + Methodology
Search Briefs + Popular Firefox Extensions: Customize Google Now Has a Blog New features, too! From their blog, "Removes image copying restrictions in Google Book Search." Wow! Saturday, November 26, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf IFLA Source: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Libraries the Information Society in Action Address to Plenary World Summit on the Information Society by Alex Byrne, President of IFLA. From the speech, "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Television Commercials--Music Source: Numerous contributors Songtitle.Info: Music from TV Commercials Ongoing listing of music used in television commercials (North America), from 1996 (in the archives) to present. Entries include advertiser, advertising spot, artist/composer, title (which is a live link to the appropriate song snippet on Amazon.com), track and name of contributor. Browse chronologically or use the Google-based search tool. Cool. Friday, November 25, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Digitisation--United Kingdom Source: JISC New digitisation report calls for cross-sectoral e-content strategy From the news release, "Stuart Dempster, JISC's Digitisation programme manager, said: "This is the first attempt from a national perspective to stand back and look at what we have achieved over the last ten years in the digitisation field. While the report points to the work that needs to be done, it also highlights the importance of digitised resources to a range of sectors, including education and research. JISC looks forward to playing its part in taking the report's recommendations forward in collaboration with the EU Dynamic Action Plan." Direct to Full Text Report. -- American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) New, ASIST Launches Redesigned Web Website Included on the site is ASIS&T's New Digital Library. -- Semi-Structured Data Source: ACM Queue XML and Semi-Structured Data "What role can XML play in solving the semi-structured data problem?" -- Electronic Publications Source: ScieCom info New Article, Electronic Publications : Access Now and in the Future Lunden, Tomas (Date Created: 15 Nov 2005) (Sweden) "This is a report of a seminar held on the 18th October 2005 at the Swedish Royal Library. The seminar discussed technical, political and organisational issues involved in the long term preservation and access to electronic publications." (via PADI) -- Public Libraries--Books Source: The Buffalo News When a library closes, who gets the books? "The rights to thousands of books are at the center of a controversy brewing in the Town of Tonawanda. In question are about 30,000 books remaining at the now-closed Brighton Library, one of 15 libraries shutting down by year's end to cut expenses in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system. A citizen group, Friends of the Brighton Library, hopes to use the Brighton Road building as a community reading room and wants all the materials left behind for public use. The town's Library Board, meanwhile, already has planned a one-day book sale at Brighton, with the proceeds to benefit the two cash-strapped libraries staying open in Tonawanda. Who should get the books?" -- Digital Libraries Source: JCDL Just Released: The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Call For Papers JCDL 2006 will take place on June 11-15, 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Taxes--Australia Source: Parliament Library, Australia New Report: Tax comparisons--Australia and selected countries 4 pages; PDF. -- Manufacturing--Statistics Source: BLS International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing (2004) 15 page; PDF also available. -- Blogging--FAQ Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation Bloggers' FAQ - Student Blogging "The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school) students, but also contains information for college students." See Also: Legal Guide for Bloggers Updated last week. -- Hate Crimes--United States--Statistics Source: FBI Hate Crime Statistics, 2004 "Published annually since 1992, Hate Crime Statistics is the byproduct of the joint effort between the FBI and the law enforcement agencies that identify and report hate crimes. This partnership and, ultimately, this publication serve as the cornerstone in raising the Nation's awareness about the occurrence of bias-motivated offenses. The publication has also become a statistical tool for those involved in the advocacy or the study of persons persecuted because of their inherent traits, such as the color of their skin, or the personal decisions they make, like what church they attend." -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--Maps Source: Congressional Research Service (via Open CRS) Legislative Maps of ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
Briefly + Translation: Elsevier and Science Press Launch Joint Translation Center in China + Executive Briefing: New Publication from Harvard Business School Press and Economist Intelligence Unit
Beta File + Filangy.com Save pages, tag pages, cache all that you view in your browser (your choice), and much more. All web-based, access from any computer. Thursday, November 24, 2005
Resource of the Week By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor When I am looking for papers and reports to put on DocuTicker, I aim for variety, and I try to include documents that most people would not otherwise see. Let me introduce you to one of my favorite fishing holes; it's been around for awhile, but there are some nifty features you might find especially useful. Social Sciences--Research Repository Source: Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.... The Abstract Database contains information on over 104,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. The Electronic Paper collection currently contains over 76,600 downloadable electronic documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Our users are downloading over 120,000 full text papers each month." Currently, the site comprises a number of sub-networks, each directed by a notable academic or group of academics: + Accounting Research Network (ARN) -- "...publishes quality research in accounting topics including financial accounting, managerial accounting and audit, tax and litigation." + Economics Research Network (ERN) -- "...publishes quality research in economics currently covering 44 subject areas." + Financial Economics Network (FEN) -- "...publishes quality research in financial economics including corporate finance, banking and financial institutions, capital markets, derivatives and real estate." + Information Systems Network (ISN) -- "...an on-line venue providing access to working papers, tables of contents of journals, and professional announcements of interest to the eBusiness and eCommerce community." + Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) -- "...publishes quality research related to law, economics, and business in 61 different subject areas." + Marketing Research Network (MKTG) -- "...an online venue providing access to working papers, tables of contents of journals, and professional announcements of interest to the Marketing community." + Negotiations Research Network (NEG) -- "...an online venue providing access to working papers and professional announcements of interest to the Negotiation and Dispute Resolution community." + Social Insurance Research Network (SIRN) -- "...publishes abstracts of research papers in all areas of social insurance: disability income and work injury compensation; health care delivery & financing; poverty, income distribution & income assistance; social security, pensions, & retirement issues; and unemployment insurance." Some of these sub-networks are also part of the Management Research Network (MRN), which "now consists of the Corporate Strategy & Business Policy Network, Information Systems & eBusiness Network, International Business Network, Management Network, Marketing Network, Negotiations & Dispute Resolution Network, Organizational Behavior Research Network, and Production & Operations Research Network." "The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 104,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 76,600 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format." SSRN works with the publishers of more than 700 scholarly journals and 140 research institutions to disseminate abstracts of forthcoming research and working papers. You can search the Abstract Database by keyword (in title, abstract or both) or author, and limit by date range via a dropdown menu. If there is an available full-text paper associated with an abstract, you can view download options by clicking on the "Document Delivery" link at the upper left part of the screen. All documents appear to be in PDF format. OK...on to the cool stuff. On the SSRN Top Downloads page, you can view the top ten "All Time Hits" (from January 2, 1997 to the present) in one column and the top ten "Recent Hits" for the past 60 days. If you want to view the top downloads in each of the specialized networks, go to the journal browse page and click the "top" icon to the right of each network name. There are several links around the site that will take you to top authors and top institutions (in terms of papers downloaded). Registration at the site is easy and free -- basically, you just enter an e-mail address. It allows you to subscribe to both free and fee-based journals. (Note: you may be associated with an organization that has an institutional account, which means you don't need an individual login and you may have access to fee-based journals.) When you're browsing through the available options, journal titles in blue are free and those in orange are fee-based. You can store papers of interest in an online "briefcase". You can also submit your own abstracts and papers. The site offers an extensive FAQ that includes information about how you can use the content you find in the database. Here's a nifty feature I like that isn't real obvious to the casual user of this site. If you're looking at an abstract and want to see other papers by a particular author, click on his or her name to bring up a page that contains a list of his or her publications ranked by order of the number of downloads. Along with contact information, you'll see a familiar orange XML button. Yes! You can subscribe to an RSS feed for that author which will let you know when he or she has submitted new papers or revised existing ones. Is this cool or what?
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Thanksgiving Day--United States--Fast Facts Source: U.S. Census Fast Facts: Thanksgiving 2005 All sorts of numbers and stats including: + 256 million The preliminary estimate of the number of turkeys raised in the United States in 2005. + 998 million pounds Total pumpkin production of major pumpkin-producing states in 2004 + 3 Number of places in the United States named after the holiday's traditional main course. Turkey, Texas, was the most populous. Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Internet Archive Open Content Alliance Source: SF Chronicle Brewster Kahle Profiled in the SF Chronicle The man behind The Internet Archive, The Wayback Machine, and the Open Content Alliance is profiled. We're proud to say that Brewster is also a ResourceShelf reader. -- Academic Libraries--Business--Wiki Source: Ohio University The Biz Wiki "The Biz Wiki is a collection of business information resources available through Ohio University Libraries. It is designed to assist business researchers in finding the best resources for their projects or topics. The Biz Wiki contains articles about business reference books, databases, websites, and other research guides. Nearly all of the resources will only be available to current members of the Ohio University community, as many of the resources are subscription databases or local reference resources. To learn more about the Biz Wiki, visit the About Biz Wiki page." -- NetLibrary--Milestones eBooks Source: OCLC NetLibrary reaches 100,000-title milestone Although eBooks seem to be getting plenty of attention these days, I sad to say that the wonderful and amazing NetLibrary continues to do great work. Congrats to everyone at OCLC and NetLibrary on the milestone. Now, if we could just get more people to know that they have access to NetLibrary materials via their local library. (-: From the announcement, "The NetLibrary platform syndicates content from more than 400 publishers and makes it available in systems serving 13,000 libraries worldwide. NetLibrary titles are all represented in WorldCat so metadata for these titles are available to all OCLC member libraries. To meet increased demand for eContent worldwide, NetLibrary continues to expand its catalog by offering a growing collection of eBooks, eAudiobooks, eJournals and subject-specific databases from leading publishers worldwide. More than 20,000 new titles have been loaded in 2005 alone."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Information Policy--United States--Glossary Source: Federation of American Scientists (Maret) (via DocuTicker.com) On Their Own Terms: A Lexicon with an Emphasis on Information-Related Terms Produced by the U.S. Federal Government (PDF; 1.3 MB) From Secrecy News: "The very words by which official secrecy policy is formulated and carried out are often obscure to the outsider. They embody a latent knowledge of statute and regulation, policy and practice that cannot be inferred from the words themselves. An excellent new publication helps "the outsider,' i.e., the ordinary citizen of the United States, to comprehend the vocabulary of government information policy, and to discover its genealogical roots in official documents. From 'access' and 'accountability' to 'Yankee White' and 'Xn,' author Susan Maret, an adjunct professor of library science at the University of Denver, provides a concise definition of terms as well as links to official sources." -- Computer Security Source: SANS Institute Just Released, The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated) - The Experts Consensus Includes the SANS Top-20 2005. -- Business--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: Forbes Recently Released, America's Largest Private Companies 2005 Sort list by: Rank | Name | State | Industry | Revenues | Employees "Though less visible than their publicly traded counterparts, private companies have plenty of clout in the U.S. economy. This year the 339 companies on our roster of closely held businesses sold a trillion dollars' worth of goods and services and employed 4 million people." -- Patents--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: USPTO USPTO Receives Record Number of Patent and Trademark Applications for 2005 "In fiscal year 2005, the Department of Commerce?s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) received a record number of patent and trademark applications. The agency received 406,302 patent applications, and 323,501 applications for trademark registration as reported in its fiscal year 2005 Performance and Accountability Report released last week...he USPTO granted 165,485 patents, including 151,079 utility (inventions), 13,395 design, and 816 plant patents. Since 1790, over seven million U.S. patents have been granted. U.S. resident inventors received 85,238 U.S. patents in fiscal year 2005. California resident inventors received the highest share (23 percent, 19,928 patents) of these patents, followed by inventors from New York (7 percent, 5,631 patents), Texas (7 percent, 5,660 patents), Michigan (5 percent, 3,907 patents), and Massachusetts (4 percent, 3,443 patents)." Direct link to annual report with more stats. -- English as a Second Language--Resources Source: Merriam Webster New, LearnersDictionary.com "Announcing Merriam-Webster's LearnersDictionary.com, a new Web site especially designed for adult and teenage non-English speakers. Along with great interactive language exercises with audio, the site offers Merriam-Webster's Learner's Word of the Day?a free service featuring easy-to-understand meanings with a focus on the practice and presentation of pronunciation"
Search Briefs + Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Search + Froogle Offers Local Shopping Feature and Other "Local" Shopping Search Sites
Briefly + Improving EDGAR: SEC Seeks Software Industry Help to Give Investors Access to Interactive Data Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Digitization Projects Source: SearchDay World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed By Library Of Congress & Google Danny Sullivan and Gary have a fact-filled post up on SearchDay. Since LC will be looking for financial partnerships from many players, you've got to wonder if other web search companies (Yahoo, MSN, AJ, FAST, Vivisimo, etc.) and info industry players (Factiva, Thomson, EBSCO, Elsevier, etc.) will also become involved in the project either financially or with other resources? The post also looks at a couple of addtional digitization projects from LC. Btw, today's announcement is yet another brilliant pr move by Google. Being the first company to partner will once again reinforce the Google brand in the minds of millions. See Also: NY Times Coverage -- Science--Web Search Source: GCN Science.gov goes 3.0 "The newest version of the Science.gov search engine uses metadata to rank results, which should give users more accurate responses to queries, according to the Science.gov Alliance. 'We're trying to plow new ground with searches among multiple databases,' said Walter Warnick, director of the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information, which hosts the Science.gov site. Warnick said the new version of the search engine makes searches for obscure terms easier, thanks to the new technology." -- Online Books Source: Information Today Books Online: The Fee versus Free Battle Begins A new "must read" article by Barbara Quint. Comment From ResourceShelf's Dale Copps responding to the following passage from Barbara's article: "As of now, Amazon does not have any plans to institute institutional access, e.g., to textbooks for a classroom of distance learning students or to librarians licensing content, but the representative expects the company to respond to all kinds of feedback from customers after the new paid access programs launch." Dale comments: "Am I the only who thinks DRM and announcements such as the above are frontal assaults on the institution of the public/academic/corporate library? If we are going to be constrained to remain in a paper world while the rest of the world goes digital, our institutions are in big trouble." -- -- Libraries--Privacy Source: The New York Times Books for Lending, Data for Taking "At the library at North Carolina State University, students and faculty will soon be able to sign up for an Internet-based service that will alert them when favorite journals are published, with links to the articles. They will also be able to create home pages with links to databases, books, journals, Web sites and other resources. The library is one of several around the country that are borrowing techniques from Amazon, Netflix and other Internet companies that keep information about their customers' purchases and preferences so they can better cater to their needs or tastes.... Yet for the libraries, privacy remains an important issue. The data such personalized programs store - information about what journals someone is reading, for example - could be sought by government agencies under laws like the USA Patriot Act." -- Social Bookmarking Source: ACM Queue Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise "Social bookmarking tools are taking off on the Web. Do they have a place within the enterprise, too?" See Also: Socially Acceptable Behavior (via ACM Queue) -- Librarians--Awards Source: Library Journal 27 Librarians Win New York Times Awards "The New York Times Librarian Awards, in its the fifth year, has honored 27 librarians. This year's winners represent 13 states, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Wyoming. Nominations from the general public were accepted from June through September and exceeded 1,200 with nominations coming from 48 states. The Times held a reception in honor of the winners on November 16, with author Alice Hoffman as guest speaker. Each winner received $2,500 and a commemorative plaque. A separate plaque featuring the winner's name and title will be sent to the library where each winner works."
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Country Studies Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress Just Updated, Country Profile of Tajakistan PDF. See Also: More Country Profiles from the FRD -- Iraq Iran Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) + Iran's Influence in Iraq + Updated: Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation -- Crime--United States--Statistics Source: NCES Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2005 -- Aviation--United States Source: BTS New, Airport-to-Airport Statute Miles "The direct airport-to-airport mileage (CFR Title 14, Part 247) is the official mileage record of the U.S. Department of Transportation."
Search Briefs + MSN Powers UK's Times Online; Ask UK Scales Back Ads + Harvard's Involvement in Google Library Project + Feedster Tests FeedRank Search Sort Option
Odds and Ends Blogs to Know About: RSS4Lib Compiled and edited by Ken Varnum, a librarian at Ginn Library at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (Go Jumbos!). Ken describes the blog as, "partly a clearinghouse for novel uses of RSS and partly a place to brainstorm new ideas." Of course, Steven Cohen's blog, Library Stuff is also a must have place to turn to for RSS news. Steven is also a Contributing Editor here at ResourceShelf.
Briefly + RLG signs Infoestratégica to distribute RLG databases throughout Latin America + Fast Search & Transfer sets out strategy to beat Google (via IWR) + EBSCO Fulfills Patient & Consumer Education Needs with Health Library Monday, November 21, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Internet Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project New Study: Search engine use shoots up in the past year and edges towards email as the primary internet application -- Open Source--Licenses Source: OSS Watch OSS Watch publishes overviews of open source software licences From the news release, "Rowan Wilson of OSS Watch might be able to help. Rowan has written a suite of briefing notes on five of the most popular licences. In straightforward language Rowan explores the history and key features of the GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Mozilla Public License (MPL), Modified BSD License (BSD), and the Apache License." -- Librarians Source: Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) The Future of Librarians in the Workforce "This is a two-year study sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) that will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade; assess the number and types of library and information science jobs that will become available in the U.S. either through retirement or new job creation; determine the skills that will be required to fill such vacancies; and recommend effective approaches to recruiting and retaining workers to fill them. The study will result in better tools for workforce planning and management, better match of demand and supply, and improved recruitment and retention of librarians. The study is led by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, Dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and includes researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)." -- Coalition for Networked Information Source: CNI Fall 2005 CNI Task Force Meeting project Briefings The meeting will take place on December 5-6, 2005, in Phoenix, AZ. -- eBooks Source: Library Journal Archived, On-Demand Version Now Available:Library Journal's URLearning Series: eBooks Take the Ivory Tower -- National Archive and Records Administration Electronic Records Source: NARA National Archives Advisory Committee for Electronic Records Archives Meets
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents HIV/AIDS Source: CDC/MMWR New Stats, New HIV Diagnoses, 33 States, 2001-2004 "In the 33 states that conducted confidential, name-based reporting between 2001-2004, a total of 157,252 people were diagnosed with HIV. For the first time ever, this national total includes data from New York State, thus providing a more representative picture of the U.S. epidemic." Direct to detailed summary. -- Real Estate--Closing Costs--Lists & Rankings Source: BankRate.com Mortgage closing costs: State rankings "Bankrate.com researchers gathered closing-cost information from 50 states and the District of Columbia. Below, ranked from most-expensive to least-expensive, are the average total closing costs charged for a mortgage, in each state. (Editor's note: Closing cost total does not include taxes, other governmental fees or escrow fees.)" See: Study reveals closing cost differences -- Internet Filtering--Tunisia Source: OpenNet Initiative New Report, Internet Filtering in Tunisia in 2005 "The Tunisian Republic implements an Internet filtering regime that aggressively targets and blocks substantial on-line material on political opposition, human rights, methods of bypassing filtering, and pornography." -- Las Vegas--Online Exhibition Source: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries Before Gaming . . . Celebrating Las Vegas' Centennial, 1905-2005 "Before Gaming. Before Hotels. Before the tourists came. Where Indians, explorers, settlers, and ranchers wandered, set down, picked up, and mostly moved on. Until the San Pedro, Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad stopped for water. Then Las Vegas was a small railroad depot-with-a-town in the desert. The earliest images of Las Vegas are from the private collections of the families who were here in 1905 or who arrived soon after: Helen Stewart, Walter Bracken, William Ferron, Ed Von Tobel, Fred and Maurine Wilson."
Odds & Ends Real-Time Traffic Reports for Major U.S. Cities via RSS These feeds are free. Subscribers to the Traffic.com service can also have personalized feeds delivered via RSS and/or mobile device. -- New, Three New Lookup Databases via MelissaData (Free) + ZIP Code Maps Displays a map with the boundary of a 5-digit ZIP Code + City Maps Displays a city or town boundary map and demographics. + Congress Maps Displays boundary maps of a congressional district and information about representative. -- Mobile: Idaho Launches Mobile State Web Portal
Briefly + Fast Signs Contract With Edmunds.Com + The Wall Street Journal Online, LexisNexis Establish Exclusive Alliance to Benefit Law Firms, Legal Practices Sunday, November 20, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Online Book Publishing--Copyright Source: Knowledge@Wharton Will the Online Book Publishing Flap Rewrite Copyright Law? "The latest frontier in the digital content revolution -- efforts by Google, Amazon and others to turn millions of books into bytes that can be accessed no matter where the reader is, sold by the page and easily searched -- could redefine copyright law and change the way knowledge is shared around the world, say experts at Wharton." See Also: Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book-"Extra" Services" See Also: ebrary: Search and Read 20,000+ Full Text Books Online See Also: Google Print Becomes Google Book Search -- Google Books Search Source: NY Times Coverage of the Google Book/Print Debate at the NY Public Library The following is a great reminder that services like Google Print are being developed to first and foremost sell books. I think most librarians realize this but if they don't the following will serve as a reminder. From the article: Mr. [Allan] Adler [a vice president for legal and governmental affairs at the Association of American Publishers]said Google's contention that its search program might somehow increase sales of books was speculation at best. "When people make inquiries using Google's search engine and they come up with references to books, they are just as likely to come to this fine institution to look up those references as they are to buy them," he said, referring to the Public Library. To which Google's Mr. Drummond [Google's general counsel] replied, "Horrors." Thanks to JB for pointing out this quote.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Colleges and Universities--Lists & Ranking Source: Inside Higher Ed The New Carnegie Classifications "The Carnegie Classifications have traditionally grouped institutions by degrees offered, so that doctoral institutions were in one group and community colleges in another, and so forth. The new classifications take a very different approach. Institutions are grouped (multiple times) based on what is taught, to whom, and in what setting. The old system -- with some revisions -- will still be used when a new list of institutional groupings is released next month. -- Academia--Professors--United States Source: Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Top U.S. Professors Honored "The Council for Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching today named four university and college professors as national winners of the 2005 U.S. Professors of the Year Award. The professors, who each receive a $5,000 prize, were selected for their outstanding commitment to teaching undergraduate students and their influence on teaching. A state Professor of the Year was also recognized in 40 states, the District of Columbia and Guam." Saturday, November 19, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf OCLC--Meetings Source: OCLC OCLC Members Council discusses opportunities to continue expanding the collaborative worldwide "OCLC has to globalize to maintain its leadership in a 'critical mass' effort such as WorldCat," said Mr. [ChewLeng] Beh, CEO, eLPEDIA, Singapore (OCLC Asia Pacific). "A multi-lingual, multi-cultural WorldCat is needed. OCLC should focus on WorldCat and enrich it with global bibliographies in order to maintain its leadership in the world of libraries..." The OCLC cooperative continues to grow worldwide," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, in his update. Mr. Jordan pointed out that there are now some 54,000 libraries in 109 countries participating in OCLC services, which is an increase of 3,400 institutions from the previous year. He noted that, in the past five years, the number of libraries participating in OCLC outside the United States has increased from 6,000 to 10,500 and the number of countries from 75 to 109." -- Digital Libraries--Science Source: National Center for Atmospheric Research Digital Libraries To Aid Teachers Affected by Hurricane Katrina "Two of the nation's leading digital science libraries will offer free online workshops on December 6 and 8 to teachers in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina at a time when textbooks and other traditional materials are in short supply. The libraries are managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) with funding from the National Science Foundation. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Program Center will hold the online workshops for science and math teachers of kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms. The goal is to familiarize the teachers with online educational materials that are freely available through the libraries and can help compensate for a scarcity of other materials." -- PATRIOT Act Source: ALA, American Libraries Senators Stall Tentative Patriot Act Deal. House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative agreement
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents National Transportation Safety Board--Databases Source: NTSB New Database, NTSB Safety Recommendations "The National Transportation Safety Board has made all of its safety recommendations available to the public on the Internet. Since 1967, the Safety Board has issued about 12,400 recommendations dealing with safety issues in aviation, rail, highway, marine and pipeline...Web site visitors can search the database using a variety of criteria, including by mode, by keyword, and by addressee. Also available is the current status of each recommendation for each recipient, as well as a PDF version of the originating recommendation letter. All NTSB safety recommendations are classified open or closed and acceptable or unacceptable based on the recommendation recipient's effort to implement the recommended changes. The recommendation database can be accessed at: www.ntsb.gov/safetyrecs. -- Information Technology Source: Morgan Stanley (via Special Issues Newsletter) New, Q3 2005 Global Technology Data Book Summary. Full report is 45 pages; PDF.
Odds & Ends Source: FirstGov New Compilation of U.S. Government Podcasts From the Air Forces to the State Dept. to NASA, Uncle Sam is podcasting! Friday, November 18, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Librarians Source: Inside Higher Ed In Praise of Librarians "My own ideal library is inconceivable without them. Buns and scowls and all, I don't care. That we need our librarians is obvious. (And evolving.) That we must value our librarians is no less so. A college or university may not in fact be no better than its own librarians. But in my experience this continues to be exactly the case, and I wish we would value more than we do both the human interaction as well as the ideal knowledge they represent." -- Science and Technology Libraries Source: ISTL The Fall 2005 of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is Now Online Articles include: + A Century of Progress? Adaptation of the Chemistry Library at the University of Chicago + And Then There Was One: Moving and Merging Three Health Science Library Collections + Changing Mission, Strengthened Focus: A New Use for the Current Periodicals Room at the University of California, Santa Cruz + Capital Improvement: One Northern Virginia Library's Support of Life-Saving Programs + Biology Article Retrieval from Various Databases: Making Good Choices with Limited Resources + Federal Repositories: Comparative Advantage in Open Access? -- Medical Libraries Source: Library Journal RX for Medical Libraries "There are now approximately 2900 hospital libraries and an estimated 4000 staffers working in them, and they are at risk. As I see it, there are four main threats to medical libraries: deprofessionalization, a failure to do outreach, a shift in the culture toward McInformation, and ongoing budget crunches. We must cope with all of these now to ensure the survival of small medical libraries and the well-being of healthcare itself." By Cheryl R. Banick, manager of the Veterans Hospital Library in Providence, RI. -- Archives--Portals Source: ICA Launching of the International Francophone Archival Portal (PIAF) "On 2005 November 17, on the occasion of the World Summit of the Information Society, the International Association of Francophone Archives is launching its International Francophone Archival Portal (PIAF). This site is intended to be a clearing house offering training and exchange of information relevant to all the archivists of the Francophone community." -- Censorship--Conferences Source: IFLA New, Presentations from the "Documenting censorship -- libraries linking past and present, and preparing for the future" now Online Aka IFLA/FAIFE Satellite meeting 11-12 August 2005
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents United States Congress--Databases Source: Library of Congress THOMAS Web Site Receives A Makeover From the news release: "Beginning today, the THOMAS congressional-information Web site (thomas.loc.gov), available free from the Library of Congress, has a new look, with features that improve site navigation and make it easier for users to quickly find the information they are looking for. The new THOMAS features include: + A revised home page to increase visual appeal. This new interface has the look and feel of several others that have recently been upgraded, such as the overall library of Congress Web site home page at www.loc.gov and American Memory, the multimedia Web site that presents more than 10 million items of American history and culture. The revised look incorporates such persistent features as consistent headers and footers, as well as "breadcrumbs" that help users easily determine the path that leads from the home page to a page they are viewing. + A left-side menu for quick access to major sections of the site. This menu provides direct links to "Bills, Resolutions," "Congressional Record," "Government Resources" and information "For Teachers," among others. The new "For Teachers" link takes educators to lesson plans, classroom activities and primary sources that have been designed and chosen by Library of Congress educational specialists. These resources are age-appropriate and have been tested and used by teachers across the country. + The ability to "browse" legislation by sponsor from the THOMAS home page. + Links in presidential nomination records to Senate hearings. + Links to related Library of Congress resources, such as the Law Library and Webcasts of public-affairs lectures and other events held at the Library. + Links to the full text of treaties from treaty records. It is also possible to search multiple Congresses simultaneously by clicking on a link from the main home page. This popular feature, available in the previous version of THOMAS, is now much easier to find on the THOMAS home page. In addition, THOMAS offers historical information on previous congressional sessions. The Library's Web specialists have made every effort to ensure that the new design is compliant with Section 508 and W3C accessibility guidelines. Older, legacy pages that the site may link to are in the process of being upgraded for compliance." -- Internet--Europe--Lists & Rankings Source: comScore Top 100 Internet properties in Europe -- Fishing--United States--Lists and Rankings Source: NOAA Top 10 Commercial Fishery Landings at Major U.S. Ports See Also: New Report: Fisheries of the United States -- 2004 -- Tourists--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (via DocuTicker) The United States Welcomes Highest Number of Travelers in History "CBP cleared 86 million arriving air passengers from abroad in the U.S. for FY 2005. This is the largest number of air passengers traveling to the U.S. in history, and also marks the first year that the number of air passengers surpassed pre-9/11 levels," the Commissioner stated in a speech to the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) in Montreal last week."
Search Briefs + Google Changes Name of Google Print to Google Book Search + Yahoo and MSN: New Patent Apps Published + Access Local Gas Prices via SMS with Synfonic + Eurekster Launches Community-Powered Search "Swickis"
Briefly + Inxight Offers Entity Clustering of Federated Search Results in New SmartDiscovery Awareness Server 5.4 + Groxis Releases Web2.0 Application for Enterprise Search Management Thursday, November 17, 2005
Resource of the Week by Shirl Kennedy ---- Word Processors--Web-Based Source: Upstartle Writely Why would anyone need a Web-based word processor? I mean, just about everyone has a word processing program of some type loaded on their computers -- quite likely, some iteration of Microsoft Word. Why would you want to go on the Internet to word-process something? Well, what if you wanted to... ...collaborate on a document with several other people and not be forced to keep shipping the thing around as e-mail attachment...or worry about which version of Word somebody has? ...publish documents online, simply and easily, and instantly invite other people to have a look? ...post a document to your blog, automatically? This week, we'd like to invite you to take a look at Writely, "which allows you to edit and publish documents online, either privately, in collaboration with specific people, or publicly on the Internet." Writely is the first product of "a Silicon Valley-based software development company started by three senior software engineers -- all with long track records in successful, mass-market, consumer software." The application is currently in beta, during which time it is free to all users. Eventually, the developers plan to introduce additional features for paying subscribers, while continuing to keep the basic service free. What you can do with Writely now: + Create and edit HTML documents -- either from scratch online, or by uploading a Word or HTML document or an image file. + Allow anyone with an e-mail address to collaborate on your document with you. + Publish a document openly, for the whole world to see -- or just to a select group of people, who will be e-mailed a password to view the document. + Automatically post the document "to any blog that supports the Blogger, metaWeblog or MovableType APIs." After you register for an account on Writely -- fast and free -- you can start working on documents immediately. During the beta period, there is no limit on total storage space for individual users; each individual document can be up to 500 KB in length, and each embedded image up to 2 MB in size. You can organize your documents by tagging them, much the way you do with photos on Flickr or e-mails in Google Mail. You can add more than one tag to a document and search by tags. And you can "star" documents that are important for some reason, so that they stand out. There are several ways to sort your list of documents. Writely's developers have put together an impressive FAQ document that tells you pretty much everything you need to know to use the application and its features...and then some. There's also a Help Center, with more detailed how-tos, as well as a set of user forums, where you can ask questions. The developers monitor the forums and chime in with advice or information about new features. And there's a weblog. Writely does not currently support all browsers, but you'll be OK if you are using: + IE 5.5+ (Windows) + Mozilla 1.4+ (Mac & Windows) + Firefox 1.0.6+ (Mac & Windows -- except for 1.5b1 on the Mac!) Right now, you'll have to disable your pop-up blocker to work with Writely, although the developers say "a future release will do DHTML dialogs instead," making this unnecessary. There are plans to support PDF and RTF formats in the future as well. Writely has been described as a sort of Wiki, with a slick front end and the ability to set permissions. It's made with Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX), the same technology that powers other dynamic Web-based applications such as Flickr, GMail and Google Maps. Note: If you're a user of Ask Jeeves Desktop Search, the latest release incorporates the ability to search Writely documents, according to the Ask Jeeves weblog.
Professional Reading Shelf Archives Source: The Internet Archive Web-archive-on-demand service for libraries launched "The web team at Internet Archive launched the public website Archive-it that allows users to create, manage and search their own web archives through a web interface. The service as been developed, in particular, for memory institutions and state archives. IA has been testing and developing the application through a pilot program which includes 13 other institutions, mainly Libraries and Archives, who are potential users of this service." -- Citation Indexing Source: Current Science Online As we may search -- Comparison of major features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar citation-base A new article (PDF) by Peter Jacso. The article is included in a tribute Dr. Eugene Garfield and 50 years of citation indexing. -- Libraries--Marketing Source: Chris Olson The November Issue of Chris Olson's Marketing Treasures Newsletter is Now Online Highlights include: + Tips for Holding Brainstorming + Blueprint for Your Library Marketing Plan + Free Articles for Library Newsletters -- Persistent URLs PDF.
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Lectures--Databases Source: Search Engine Watch Blog Speeches, Lectures, and More Added to BlinkxTV Database "As of today Blinkx is making hundreds of hours of material keyword searchable from Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Middlebury College, Columbia University, Washington State University to name just a few of the institutions. This Netimperative story has more info and some examples of the content you'll find. That's not all. Blinkx is also announcing an arrangement with the Smithsonian Institution here in DC to make some of their video content keyword searchable." Note from Gary: The CTO of Blinkx tells me in an email that it was my pestering that helped start this initiative. Cool! -- Europe--Databases Source: MLA New Database/Online Catalog: MICHAEL, A Multilingual Online Catalogue "At a conference today in Bristol, the Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council (MLA) launched MICHAEL, the multilingual online catalogue which aims to provide quick and simple access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from European countries. In future, students and researchers will be able to discover information about European digital collections that might previously have been difficult to find. The services will also support cultural tourism, the creative industries and other interests...Work on Michael began in 2004 to create an open source database for recording digital collections that can be accessed through websites in many different languages. Work is continuing on cataloguing the rich digital collections in the UK, and a European portal of digital collections from Italy, France, and the UK will be launched in 2006. As the project moves forwards, new partners will join the project from Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, and Poland. By 2007, the MICHAEL portal will be available in at least 12 European languages and give access to digital collections across Europe." -- Privatization--Database Source: The World Bank Privatization Database "This site provides information on more than 9,000 privatization transactions in developing countries from 1988 to 2003. Search transactions by country, region, or sector for a particular time period or for the entire period covered in the database." -- Legal Industry--United States--Lists & Rankings Source: National Law Journal The NLJ 250, 2005 "The National Law Journal's 28th annual survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms, the overall number of attorneys at the largest firms, 116,671, increased by 4.4 percent from the past year, compared with a 1.5 percent growth rate in 2004 and 1.6 percent in 2003." -- Canada--Digital Collections Source: Library and Archives Canada New, Cool Canada "This site highlights lots of cool people, places, inventions, events, and achievements that make Canada cool!" -- Crime--Art--Lists & Rankings Source: FBI (via DocuTicker) New, Top 10 Art Crimes
Search Briefs + Google Adds Two New Features to SMS (Text Messaging) Service + Cool Maps: Metrobot Launches Nationwide Mapping Search Engine (via All Points Blog) See Also: 2004 Article from SearchDay About Metrobot
Briefly + IEEE Xplore Digital Library Adds Tables of Content Alerts By Email and RSS Via an email: Users of this free service select which IEEE journal(s) they want to know about, then receive notification whenever a new issue is posted online, along with a link to the issue's table of contents in the IEEE Xplore digital library. In addition, all users of the IEEE Xplore digital library now have free access to non-indexed, ancillary content (often called ephemera) from IEEE publications. This includes content such as editorials and book reviews. To sign up for Table of Contents Alerts, visit any journal's listing in IEEE Xplore, or: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocalerts_signup.jsp -- + InfoUSA Expands Indian Operations, Adds Search Feature Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Professional Reading Shelf Knowledge Management Source: Baseline How Much Is Knowledge Worth? "Workers' knowledge can be a valuable asset. Some companies know how to utilize it--and some don't. Paul Strassmann lays out which are which, and why." -- Toolbars Source: NLM New Resource: NCBI Search Toolbar "The NCBI Search Toolbar is now available for download from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/toolbar/ The Toolbar is an optional addition to your Web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) that expedites searching the NCBI's resources. It also highlights search results and provides shortcuts to NCBI resources. -- Libraries Source: Info Today Libraries--The Information Society in Action "The WSIS pre-conference, Libraries--the Information Society in Action, was held Nov. 10-11 in Alexandria, Egypt. It was organized by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions in co-operation with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and was supported by several sponsors. The pre-conference presented some of the best practices from libraries around the world in the areas of health, education and training; media literacy; preserving of cultural heritage; and disaster preparedness. Several hot-button issues emerged during the event." -- Libraries Source: IFLA Full Text: Alexandria Manifesto on Libraries, the Information Society in Action -- Librarians Source: ARL ARL Recruits Subject Experts into Research Librarianship "The first institute of the ARL Academy: Careers in Academic and Research Libraries was held September 19-21, in Washington, DC and was evaluated as a success thanks to the three partner graduate schools, Library of Congress staff, and the talented and engaging Academy fellows." -- Digital Libraries Source: D-Lib The November Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Online Articles include: + What is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL + Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education: + Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Marketing Source: Ad Age Ad Age Global Marketing Report 2005 Includes list of Top 100 marketers. 53 pages; pdf. Registration required, free. -- UNESCO Source: Dag Hammarskjold Library, United Nations HQ Happy 60th Birthday to UNESCO See Also: 60 Weeks "Each week for 60 weeks they have a different theme related to UNESCO areas of interest. Thanks to Susan for the news tip. -- Internet Access--Broadband--Lists & Rankings Source: Computer Industry Almanac New List: Top 15 Countries in Broadband Subscribers -- Hurricane Katrina Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) Hurricane Katrina Recovery: Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government -- VoIP Emergency Services Source: GovTech New, FCC Launches VoIP 911 Website The Joint FCC/NARUC Task Force on VoIP 911 Enforcement has launched a new website to provide consumers, industry and state and local governments information about the rules that require certain providers of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to supply 911 emergency calling capabilities to their customers. The address is www.voip911.gov
Search Briefs + Poking at Google Base Gary takes a look at the latest offering from Google. + Search AOL Shopping Using AOL Instant Messenger + Yahoo Debuts the Shoposphere
Briefly + Federated Search: Swets Information Services Launches SwetsWise Searcher--A New Federated Search Solution Powered by Vivisimo Technology + ProQuest brings 19th Century periodicals into digital age (via IWR) Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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