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ResourceShelf Newsletter
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Number 201
ISSN 1746-563X February 17, 2005
The ResourceShelf Newsletter is a weekly selection of content and
links from ResourceShelf. Please visit the Web site whenever you
have a free moment, to review the latest items:
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++ Thursday, February 17, 2005 ++
Resources of the Week
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By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
Presidential History--United States--Audio
Source: Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
WhiteHouseTapes.org
Here you can listen to more than 5,000 hours of White House
conversations recorded between 1940 and 1973 by six American
presidents
http://digbig.com/4cray
++ Wednesday, February 16, 3005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
Wikipedia
Source: The Harvard Crimson
Citing Riots
Harvard student and Crimson columnist, Matthew Gline, asks if the
Wikipedia and other "online sources" can be "trusted in an academic
environment."
Quick comment: I wonder if the headline writer understands the
differences between the many types of material found "on" and "via"
the web?
Digital Maps
Source: MAGERT
Historical Maps Online
"For 20 years, David Rumsey assembled a collection of more than
150,000 historical maps of the Americas and the world. Motivated by
a desire to make his private map collection a free public resource,
Rumsey then created an online map library,
http://www.davidrumsey.com/, which currently has over 10,000 high
resolution images of maps from his collection. He has also built a
suite of tools for users to experience and interpret the maps
online. These include GIS, which allows users to combine historical
maps with modern geospatial data to see change over time."
http://digbig.com/4crax
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Tape Recording Laws--United States
Source: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Can We Tape?
Chart shows "tape recording laws at a glance" for all 50 states.
Indicates whether consent of all parties is required, if there are
criminal penalities, whether statute allows for civil suits, if a
specific hidden camera law exists, and whether there are additional
penalities for disclosing or publishing information.
U.S. Military Personnel--Locator Services
Source: Embassy of the United States, London UK
Tracing Former Military Personnel In The U.S.
Science--Higher Education--Surveys
Source: The Scientist (Registration Required, Free)
Best Places To Work For Postdocs: 2005
"Each year The Scientist asks postdocs from the United States,
Canada, and Europe to reveal how they feel about their jobs, and
this year more than 3,500 answered the call."
http://digbig.com/4craw
++ Tuesday, February 15, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
Personal Information Management
Source: Seattle Times
UW ponders how to best store and retrieve electronic information
More about the Keeping Found Things Found project at the University
of Washington. We've posted about it before. Gary offers a few
comments about PIM and related "stuff" on the SEW Blog
Information Industry
The January/February Issue of Research Information is Now Available
Articles include:
+ High-tech business embraces new library technology
+ Tailoring tools -- from clothing to patents
A profile of Charles Besson, CEO of Questel Orbit
+ Mobile data could help medicine
+ Portals enable national access
Information Industry--LexisNexis
Legal Research
Source: The Virtual Chase
The Devil Is in the Details
Genie Tyburski writes about a technical "glitch" with the LN's free
service, LexisOne.
http://digbig.com/4crat
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Sir Francis Drake--Digitized Collection
Explorers
Source: Library of Congress
Voyages of Sir Frances Drake Are Subject of New Online Presentation
The LC Global Gateway is now home to the The Kraus Collection of Sir
Francis Drake. "The Kraus Collection comprises important materials
about Drake's voyages throughout the then Spanish territory of the
Americas. It consists of 60 items -- 16 manuscripts, 29 books, eight
maps and views, and seven medals and portraits. The materials range
from 1579 to 1765."
Military--United States--Statistics
Source: National Archives
Updated Database, Records About Military Goods and Services Provided
to Foreign Countries, 1950-2002
Part of the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System from NARA.
"This series, previously titled the Military Assistance Program
(MAP) series, provides information about deliveries of material or
services for participating countries. Materials include both arms
transfer and the sale or transfer of military supplies. Services
include military education of individuals from other countries both
in United States and abroad. We have recently added data from the
2002 release."
http://digbig.com/4cras
Search Briefs (via the SEW Blog)
+ Video Search: Say Hello to Annodex from Australia
+ Findory Adds Favorites
+ Google and Its Betas
http://digbig.com/4crar
++ Monday, February 14, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries--UK--Most Borrowed Books
Source: Public Lending Right (UK)
Public Lending Right Data Reveals Jacqueline Wilson Is Still the
Borrowers' Choice
"Figures released today by Public Lending Right confirm that in
2003-2004, books by children's writer Jacqueline Wilson were
borrowed over 2 million times from public libraries, thus ensuring
her place as the nation's most borrowed author for the second year
running."
See: Public Libraries' Chart Toppers, 2003-2004
Censorship--Public Libraries--Lists and Rankings
Source: ALA
Most Challenged Book List 2004
"Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War" tops the list of most
challenged books of 2004, according to the American Library
Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom."
http://digbig.com/4craq
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Art Exhibits--United States
Satellite Images
Source: Space Imaging
Just Released, Satellite Image of The Gates Project in NYC's Central
Park
"The image was taken Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, the same day that The
Gates were unfurled. At a cost of $20 Million, The Gates was
conceived by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The image shows all
of Central Park the gates geometrically placed throughout the
park...Space Imaging decided to commemorate this environmental art
exhibit by tasking its IKONOS to share its bird's eye view of the
7,500 gates with saffron-colored fabric panels. From 423 miles in
space moving over the Earth in a north-to-south orbit at 17,000 mph,
this perspective showcases the size and scope of 23-mile-long The
Gates project."
Business--United States--Lists & Rankings
Venture Capitalists
Source: Forbes
The Midas List: Top Dealmakers 2005
"The Midas List considers all technology and life sciences deals
that have gone public or been acquired in the past five years. A
candidate's rank is determined by the size and frequency of his or
her deals."
Australia
Source: House of Commons Library
Two New Research Briefs
+ Australia's Uranium after Kyoto
+ Whistleblowing in Australia--transparency, accountability -- but
above all, the truth
http://digbig.com/4cran
++ Sunday, February 13, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
NASA--Database
Source: Spaceflight Now
NASA's data could fill Library of Congress 300 times
"The largest scientific data system on the planet, the Earth
Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), is providing
users around the world with unprecedented access to huge amounts of
important information about the Earth's environment. Five years
after the launch of the flagship satellite, Terra, the current
volume of available data is 4 petabytes (4 followed by 15 zeros),
the equivalent of a DVD movie with a running time of more than 160
years or the equivalent of enough information to fill the Library of
Congress 300 times."
Rare Book Collection--Ian Fleming
Source: The Times (UK)
The Man With the Golden Library
"Fleming's own career in the book business started long before James
Bond. As a youth in 1929, almost a quarter of a century before
Casino Royale was published, he was attracted by an unlikely item in
a Mayfair bookshop window -- D. H. Lawrence's controversial volume
of poems, Pansies."
http://digbig.com/4cram
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Music and Musicians--Pronunciation
Source: WOI Radio, Iowa State University
Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians
"Pronouncing the titles of classical music and the names of
composers and performers is a daunting task for many Americans
because so many of the words are foreign to us.... This dictionary
provides some help in the form of pronunciations by a phonetic
system devised by E. Douglas Brown of the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa
State University. Many of the pronunciations in the dictionary were
derived from tape-recorded pronunciations made by foreign nationals
who were speaking their respective native languages. Prepared
primarily for the announcing staff of WOI, the dictionary has been
found useful by them and is being made freely available to others
who may find it of value. Although imperfect and far from complete,
the dictionary, with its 30,000 entries, is the most extensive of
its type now available."
http://digbig.com/4crak
Information Literacy
Source: The New York Times
Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea
From the NYT article, "Clearly, 'computer skills' are not enough. A
teacher of Scandinavian literature at Berkeley recently described
how students used the Web to research a paper on the Vikings:
'They're Berkeley students, so, of course, they have the sense to
restrict their searches to 'vikings NOT minnesota.' But they're
perfectly willing to believe a Web site that describes early Viking
settlements in Oklahoma."
http://digbig.com/4craj
++ Saturday, February 12, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
PubMed
Alert Tools
Source: NLM Technical Bulletin
New Tools for the PubMed Researcher: My NCBI Replaces the Cubby:
Includes Automatic E-mailing of Search Updates and Filters
The PubMed Cubby has been replaced by My NCBI. My NCBI features
include:
+ Saved Searches: Similar to the Cubby stored search feature, you
can save search strategies in order to generate updates -- including
automatic e-mail updates.
+ Filters: Group your retrieval by topics of interest to you. You
can also add an icon to the filters with links to resources provided
by outside organizations.
http://digbig.com/4crah
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Airport Security--United States
Source: Transportation Security Administration
Security Checkpoint Wait Times
"As a customer service initiative, TSA is providing security
checkpoint wait time information to assist travelers in planning for
their next flight. The wait times are historical so please note
actual wait time may vary depending on factors including weather
delays which result in increased passenger levels." Choose a state
from the dropdown menu, click "submit" and then choose the airport,
day of the week and time period from the next three dropdown menus.
Click "submit". You'll see average and maximum wait times over a
five-hour span for the different terminals. There's also a link to
the airport's home page.
http://digbig.com/4crag
++ Friday, February 11. 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
Librarians
Catalogers
Source: The New York Times
A Bibliophile, 3,600 Friends and a System
Soft-voiced and carefully spoken, Kathie Coblentz displays the
studious demeanor you would expect from someone who has been
cataloging materials at the New York Public Library for 36 years.
But browse her home library, which she estimates at 3,600 volumes,
and you will find a lampoon of library science's organizational
schemes.."Your system doesn't have to be logical, it just has to
work for you," said Ms. Coblentz, the author of "The New York Public
Library Guide to Organizing a Home Library" (Running Press, 2003).
Those who can't see their walls -- or floors or tabletops -- can
consider that advice encouraging."
MedlinePlus
Source: NLM
Florida Physicians to Write Prescriptions for Patient Information
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Documents in the News--September 11th
Source: National Security Archive (via DocuTicker.com)
Just Released, 9/11 Commission Staff Report on FAA Failings
Published on Web
"As a result of a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed by the
National Security Archive, the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) corrected its October 2004 blunder of
withholding the names and numbers of aviation warnings known as
Information Circulars that were widely cited and quoted in the best-
selling 9/11 Commission Report."
Health--Antidepressant Medication--Children
Source: National Institute of Mental Health
Just released: Antidepressant Medications for Children and
Adolescents: Information for Parents and Caregivers
http://digbig.com/4craf
Briefly
+ Elsevier's Scopus bags 50th licence (via IWR)
+ Thomson Reports Revenues up 9% and Earnings Per Share up 15% in 2004
http://digbig.com/4crae
++ Thursday, February 10, 2005 ++
Resources of the Week
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by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
Variety is indeed the spice of life, and we have a couple of
completely different databases for you to explore this week.
1) Postsecondary Education--Accreditation
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary
Education
Postsecondary Educational Institutions and Programs Accredited by
Accrediting Agencies and State Approval Agencies Recognized by
the U.S. Secretary of Education
"The database lists approximately 6,900 postsecondary educational
institutions and programs, each of which is accredited by an
accrediting agency or state approval agency recognized by the
U.S. Secretary of Education as a 'reliable authority as to the
quality of postsecondary education' within the meaning of the
Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA)." Click the link
at the bottom of the page that says Institutional accreditation
system, and you are off and running.
2) Disability Statistics--United States
Source: Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor
Relations, Program on Employment and Disability
Disability Statistics.org
"The DisabilityStatistics.org web site condenses several data
sources into a single, user-friendly, accessible, Internet
resource. It also provides essential background information on
key issues related to disability statistics."
http://digbig.com/4crad
Professional Reading Shelf
Television--Archives
Source: First Monday
New approaches to television archiving
"Worldwide, more than 30 million hours of unique television
programming are broadcast every year, yet only a tiny fraction of it
is preserved for future reference. Recent reductions in the cost of
storage of digital video could allow preservation of this portion of
our culture for a small fraction of the worldwide library budget,
and improvements in the distribution of online video could enable
much greater collaboration between archival institutions."
See Also: A Look at Several Video Search Tools Free and Fee
Available on the Web
Background Checks
Source: The Virtual Chase
New Research Guide, How to Conduct a Background Check
A new guide from expert researcher and librarian, Genie Tyburksi.
"Lawyers and clients use the phrase, background check, as a catchall
for many types of investigative research involving people or
companies. What are the privacy laws researchers should heed? Which
major online and offline resources are essential when you conduct a
background check? Part one of this two-part article provides an
overview of the permissible use provisions of several privacy laws,
outlines the major sources of information about people and explains
pre-search strategies for conducting background checks." Btw, Genie
and Gary will be co-presenting a pre-conference session at CIL 2005.
http://digbig.com/4crac
Web Search Briefs
New Mobile Search Service For SMS: 4info.net (via the SEW Blog)
Gary provides an intro to 4info.net, a new search tool for those of
you who have access to SMS (text messaging) on your cell phone or
mobile device.
http://digbig.com/4crab
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Satellite Images
Source: Space Imaging
Top 10 IKONOS Satellite Images for 2004
http://digbig.com/4craa
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