ResourceShelf Newsletter 211 5th May, 2005
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ResourceShelf Newsletter Number 211 5th May, 2005
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Gary Price
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++ Thursday, May 5th, 2005 ++
Resource of the Week
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by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
It's not news that Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in
the U.S. Certainly, the business community has recognized this trend.
According to our Resource of the Week, "In the next decade, the U.S.
Hispanic market will be a $1.5 trillion market." Not surprisingly,
data about the Latino market is a hot commodity these days. Read on
and learn about a new site that supplies plenty of it.
Hispanic Americans--Marketing Data
Source: American Family Insurance, the City of St. Paul, the James
J. Hill Reference Library, Aguilar Productions, and
Latinocreative.com
HispanSource.org
HispanSource bills itself as "your one-stop source for credible,
objective, and relevant information on the U.S. Hispanic/Latino
market. The information sources featured in HispanSource have been
chosen by the top experts in Hispanic marketing and practical
business information." Once you register, everything here is free.
(Although if you need professional help, fee-based research services
are available from the Hill Library, a private business research
library in St. Paul, MN.)
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Professional Reading Shelf
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School Libraries--Canada
Source: CBC
School libraries underfunded: StatsCan
"Poorly funded and understaffed school libraries are strikes against
learning in the information age, said a Statistics Canada report
released on Wednesday. Most Canadian schools have libraries, but few
have full-time librarians or enough money each year to buy more than
the equivalent of one set of encyclopedias, the report said." You
can read the full text (PDF) of the report here. A summary is also
available.
Semantic Web
Source: JISC
New Report, Semantic Web Technologies
"This TechWatch report provides an introduction to the Semantic Web?
the vision, programme and technologies, but also explains where we
currently are in its development and what the likely impact will be
on education in areas such as information management and discovery
tools, digital libraries, supporting Web-based interaction, and e-
learning."
Information Industy--Swets
Source: Information World Review
Interview: Swets CEO Arie Jongejan
"Former Elsevier boss Arie Jongejan, now installed as CEO at Swets,
gives his first interview with IWR after taking over."
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhmw>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Languages--Atlas
Source: UNESCO
Now Available Online, Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in
Danger of Disappearing
"After two print editions of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's
Languages in Danger of Disappering (1996 and 2001), the information
collected on a large number of endangered languages in all parts of
the world is now available online starting with the map of the
African continent."
Life Sciences
Health Sciences
Source: BIOME
New on the BIOME Gateway: "Hot Topics"
From a newsletter: BIOME, the RDN's [Resource Discovery Network]
free information source for health, medicine and life sciences, have
launched a 'Hot Topics' section in response to user demand. The "Hot
Topics" are useful for those seeking inspiration for project work,
possible ideas for essay themes, or simply as a quick route into
subjects of interest."
Work--United States
Work--Europe
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
New Report, Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So
Different?
74 pages; PDF. "Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in
working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The
average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average
40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than
Americans?
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Search Briefs
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New Software from Google Attempts To Accelerate Your Browser
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dggk>
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MUSIC And COPYRIGHT LAW
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How much do you understand about what you can download
and use in the classroom. Do you know what fair use is?
Find out the issues, ethics and procedures
File Sharing is Not Theft
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++ Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
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Professional Organizations
Source: ALA
Leslie Burger Elected President of ALA
Taxonomy--Legal
Source: Modern Practice (FindLaw)
Developing a Global Law Firm Taxonomy, Inside-Out
"A good taxonomy can help us organize and manage information
effectively. In a business built on a foundation of classification,
storage and retrieval of documents, improving our lawyers' access to
know-how and work product with an agreeable global taxonomy can help
a firm best use its knowledge. A global taxonomy sets the foundation
for knowledge management in a law firm."
Desktop Search
Source: University of Wisconsin--E-Business Consortium
New Report, Benchmarking Desktop Search
15 pages; PDF. A look at 12 desktop search tools. Copernic Desktop
Search takes top honors.
Library Associations
Source: International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions
IFLA Needs Your Contributions to Build the "Success Stories Database"
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnc>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Federal Courts--United States
Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
New, A Journalist's Guide to the Federal Courts
Pollution--Canada
Source: Natural Resources Canada
Canadian Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse
"...an online database and comprehensive resource that provides
Canadians with the information they need to put pollution prevention
into practice. Use the keyword search or sector search options to
access 1563 pollution prevention resources..."
Higher Education--United States--Statistics
R&D--United States--Statistics
Source: National Science Foundation
Two New Statistical Reports from the National Science Foundation
1) Academic Institutional Profiles: 2002
Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports
Source: ISI
+ Science in France, 2000-2004
+ Performing Arts: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 1999-2003
+ Microbiology: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1999-2003
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnd>
Search Briefs
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+ Searching for a Good Book
Note: A new article by some guy named Gary Price. (-: A look at
Amazon's Search Inside the Book, Google Print (you'll read about a
way to limit your search to only Google Print material), and many
other services including NetLibrary and ebrary.
+ Web News Aggregator NewsNow Crosses 20,000 Sources Mark
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4dhne>
Briefly
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+ More RSS For Factiva, Deal With NewsGator Announced
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4dhnf>
++ Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
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Health Information
Libraries
Source: NCLIS
New Report, Libraries and Health Communication: Model Programs in
Health Information Provided by Libraries Throughout the Nation
Reference--Reviews
The May 2005 Edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf is Now Online
This month Dr. J reviews:
New York Times Book Review Archive
"More than 16,000 free reviews from the newspaper that used to be
the most respected daily publication. While the book review section
has had its own share of criticism in recent years, its importance
in making or breaking a book has remained intact. The rich content
is easily browsable, but the search function could stand
improvements."
RedLightGreen
Glad to read that Dr. Jacso is also a big fan of this ResourceShelf
favorite. He writes, "I had already chosen this special union
catalog as one of my picks at its debut eight months ago. In the
meantime, it got larger, better and more appealing by virtue of its
streamlined design; smart and elegant solution for checking the
availability in your local library; and the ability to generate
bibliographies in Turabian, MLA, APA or Chicago style. It could be
even more appealing by including the number of libraries that hold
the books and offer this, as well as the number of editions, as sort
criteria."
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhng>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Vietnam War
Declassified Documents--United States
Source: National Intelligence Council/CIA (via DocuTicker)
Just Released: Estimative Products on Vietnam, 1948-1975
"This collection of declassified estimative products is the first
such release by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of documents
exclusively on the Vietnam war and is one of the largest such
releases to date. Of the 174 documents that comprise the collection,
38 appear at least in part on this site as selected Vietnam NIEs,
and all are on a companion compact disk in their entirety."
United States Citizens
Source:CRS (via FAS)
New CRS Report, Detention of U.S. Citizens
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Search Briefs (via SEW Blog)
+ A Look at a Few Seattle Area Search Companies
+ Newsfilter.com: News Search Engine From Snap.com
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnj>
++ Monday, May 2nd, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
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Digital Libraries
Source: FCW
NSF to fund digital government [and libraries]
"The National Science Foundation's Information and Intelligent
Systems Division plans to award up to $12 million in grants for
basic research related to digital government, universal access and
digital libraries in fiscal 2006...Grants would also be offered for
research on technical and policy issues related to information
retrieval systems, computer vision or other technologies used in
large digital libraries and archives."
Public Libraries--Internet
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Libraries search for ways to meet Internet demand
"Public libraries have always operated on the democratic principle
that all Americans should have equal access to public information,
with librarians serving as expert guides to the labyrinth of
reference materials. But the Internet's emergence as a mainstay of
modern life has forced the profession to rethink its role." Says one
librarian quoted in the article, "Signing people up for computers is
not what I got my master's to do."
Libraries and Librarians
Issue 43 of Ariadne Was Just Released
Articles include:
+ Opening up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery
+ Trust in Global Virtual Teams
+ Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet (Web Resources)
+ Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnk>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Computer Security
Source: SANS Institute
Just Released, The Most Critical New Vulnerabilities Discovered or
Patched During the First Quarter of 2005
Business--Georgia--Lists & Rankings
Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta's Top 100 Private Companies
Benefits--United States--Databases
Source: U.S. Department of Labor
GovBenefits.gov Expands; Spanish Language Version of Site Now
Available From GCN, "GovBenefits.gov today celebrated its third year
by adding more than 600 programs from federal, state and local
governments and announcing the ability of other agencies to develop
their own benefits portals." You can find GovBenefits.gov in Spanish
here.
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnm>
Search Briefs
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Cool and Useful! Clusty and Indeed.com Offer Service to Cluster Job
Search Listings from More than 500 Sites
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnn>
Briefly
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Nstein Technologies signs agreement with ProQuest
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnp>
++ Sunday, May 1st, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
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Government Documents--United States
Source: Chicago Tribune
Librarians worry important information is being lost
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4dhnq>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Intellectual Property Rights
Source: U.S. Trade Representative
2005 Special 301 Report (PDF; 217 KB)
"The 2005 'Special 301' annual review examines in detail the
adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights (IPR)
protection in 90 countries. Based on a lengthy process of
information-gathering and analysis, the United States Trade
Representative (USTR) has identified 52 countries that are
designated in the categories of Priority Foreign Country, Section
306 Monitoring, Priority Watch List, or Watch List. The Special 301
Report reflects the Administration's resolve to take consistently
strong actions under the Special 301 provisions of the Trade Act."
(via DocuTicker)
National Parks--History
Source: National Park Service
National Park Service Online Books
"The National Park Service manages a vast library of research
reports covering all aspects of the history, culture, anthropology,
archeology and natural resources in our national parks. The NPS
Online Book series contains the full text of some of this research,
both recent studies and many that are out-of-print. This effort to
make such studies easily accessible to the public has only just
started and will grow as more titles are placed online."
Alphabetical, by place name.
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++ Saturday, April 30th, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
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Libraries--Budget Issues
Source: Dallas Morning News
Libraries smarting from cutbacks
" In the last 18 months, the nation's public libraries have seen
their budgets cut by $111.2 million -- as much as 50 percent in some
states -- the result of struggling economies and reductions in state
financing, according to American Library Association figures. The
cuts have forced layoffs, reduced operating hours and put many
libraries at risk of closing."
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhns>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Factbooks
Source: CIA
2005 CIA World Factbook Released Online
From the news release, "Although this reference site provides
information as of 1 January 2005, it will be updated biweekly
throughout the year to provide wide-ranging and hard-to-locate
information about the background, geography, people, government,
economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational
issues for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe...
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4dhnt>
++ Friday, April 29th, 2005 ++
Professional Reading Shelf
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Conferences--Canada
Metadata
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada Announces Canadian Metadata Forum 2005
The theme of this year's Forum (September 27 and 28, 2005 in Ottawa)
is: Metadata: A Reality Check.
Archives--United Kingdom
Digitization Projects--United Kingdom--Audio
Source: JISC
Interview with Crispin Jewitt, Head of Sound Archive at the British
Library
OAIster
Federated Searching
Open Archives Initiative
Metadata
Source: Research Information
Looking for pearls: An Interview with Kat Hagerdorn from OAIster
"It can be hard to find all the relevant material online when there
is so much available. The OAIster project of the University of
Michigan in the USA provides a solution by harvesting the
information that is hidden in over 400 institutions around the
world. Katerina Hagerdorn, metadata harvesting librarian for the
project, describes what this means."
Library Organizations
Source: American Library Association
Recently Released, 2003-2004 ALA Annual Report
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhnw>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Terrorism--Chronology
Source: National Counterterrorism Center (via Federation of American
Scientists)
A Chronology of Significant International Terrorism for 2004
(PDF;2.8 MB)
IT Contractors--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: INPUT
2005 INPUT Federal IT 150
"...a ranked listing of the top 150 federal IT contractors by fiscal
year 2004 (FY04) information technology spending as defined by
INPUT."
Wiretaps--United States--Statistics
Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Just Released, 2004 Wiretap Report
"A total of 1,710 applications for wiretaps of wire, oral or
electronic communications were authorized by federal and state
judges in 2004, an increase of 19 percent over 2003."
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Briefly
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Factiva Adds Online Content From Guardian Unlimited Web Site
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4dhny>
++ Thursday, April 28th, 2005 ++
Resource of the Week
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by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
We know you like content-rich sites because we like content-rich
sites. And for the American history researcher, we have something very
cool this week.
U.S. History
Source: Houghton Mifflin
Reader's Companion to American History
What's here? The full text of several American history books.
Containing full-text, signed articles. Available titles are:
+ Reader's Companion to American History
+ Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
+ Reader's Companion to Military History
+ Encyclopedia of North American Indians
+ Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia
+ Civil War Battlefield Guide
+ Great American History Fact-Finder
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4dhpa>
Professional Reading Shelf
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Electronic Records
Source: ICA
Just Released, Electronic Records: A Workbook for Archivists (ICA
Study 16) now available!
"This eagerly awaited manual on records in electronic systems,
including networked environments, is available free of charge for
download from ICA's Web site (Download Center)."
Controlled Vocabularies
Source: NISO
Just Released, NISO Z39.19-200x Guidelines for the Construction,
Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
"The just-released revision of NISO's classic Thesaurus Standard is
an essential and useful reference for anyone engaged in building and
maintenance taxonomies and thesauri. You are invited to preview the
draft of Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of
Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies NISO Z39.19-200x."
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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Judges--United States--Federal Courts
Source: US Courts
Newly Posted: History of Federal Judgeships
"A history of federal judgeships page, which includes the number of
appointments made by each president dating back to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, is now available."
U.S. History--Databases
Genealogy--Databases
Source: NARA
New File Added to Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System: List of
Ships that Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine,
1846-1851
"These records contain ship names, ports of embarkation, arrival
dates, and the number of passengers on the ship. This file is a
companion to the Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File."
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