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Censorship, Text Book Publishers & The Money
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/textbookcensorship.html

Science Book Errors
Bill Bennett X Secretary of Education cashes in on education reform.
About Online Digital Curriculum
Currently a law going through the legislature that would change the
term for funding from "textbook" to "instructional materials."
President Bush's brother Neil Bush has a company.

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ResourceShelf Newsletter
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Number 213      9th May, 2005

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                  ++  Thursday, May 19th, 2005  ++


Resource of the Week
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by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

We often review sites here that have a broad range of content. This
week's choice is a niche site that runs deep. If you travel a lot, if
you're interested in aviation safety or security, if you sometimes
have a need for aviation/accident statistics...you will want to
bookmark this well-stocked fishing hole, maintained by a noted airline
safety analyst and author.

Air Travel Safety--Hub
   Source: Dr. Todd Curtis
   AirSafety.com
   While you can likely find everything that's here at some other
   location on the Internet, it would require a time-consuming
   scavenger hunt. We love "one-stop shopping" sites, and this one
   aggregates aviation safety news, statistics, fact sheets, links to
   databases and many other key resources. Click on the Recent Fatal
   Events to get a chronology a recent fatal airline accidents, with
   brief description and links to other relevant material on the site.
   To the right of that link, in the center of the page, you'll find
   links to the site's Most Requested Information," including Fatal
   Events by Airline, Fatal Events by Aircraft Model, and Fear of
   Flying Information Resources.

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Libraries--Measuring Value
   Source: Sirsi OneSource
   The Value of Libraries: Impact, Normative Data, & Influencing Funders
     A new column by Stephen Abram. "These are challenging times for
   libraries. We need to communicate our value strongly and in many
   ways. The studies and opportunities outlined above are fabulous
   initiatives. We must take our basic statistics and turn them into
   measurements, and then we must share our measurements. Raw
   statistics are just representations of effort -- something
   bureaucrats view with cost-cutting eyes. Well-chosen measurements
   can demonstrate the amazing value and impact of libraries to their
   communities, host organizations, and funders."

Copyright--United States
   Source: DigitalPreservation.gov
   Group Convenes to Study Exceptions to Copyright Law for Libraries
   and Archives
   "The Section 108 Study Group held its inaugural meeting at the
   Library of Congress on April 14-15. The goal of the group, named
   after the section of the U.S. Copyright Act that provides limited
   exceptions for libraries and archives, is to prepare findings and
   make recommendations to the Librarian of Congress by mid-2006 for
   possible alterations to the law that reflect current technologies.
   The U.S. Copyright Office will then hold public hearings before
   submitting recommendations to the U.S. Congress. This effort will
   seek to strike the appropriate balance between copyright holders and
   libraries and archives in a manner that best serves the public
   interest."

Health Information--Internet
   Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
   Health Information Online
   "Eight in ten internet users have looked online for information on
   at least one of 16 health topics, with increased interest since 2002
   in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments,
   and particular doctors and hospitals."

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Weekly RSS Round-Up
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By Steven M. Cohen, Associate Editor

A few interesting new RSS Feeds to report this week:

+ School Library Journal introduced a blog this week, titled, The SLJ
   Virtual Summit, which has a feed.

+ David King and Teri Vogel both posted information on their
   repsective blogs about a few new library RSS releases. They are:

- Hennepin County Library - Customized Events Feeds.

- Kelvin Smith Library new books and media.

- RIT feeds for new book acquisitions.

Scholarly Publishing--Citation Report
   Source: ISI
   Science in Australia, 2000-04

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Earthquakes--California--Maps
   Source: USGS
   New, Map of Daily Probability of Earthquake Shaking in California
   "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today the release of
   new public web pages that show the probability of earthquake shaking
   in the next 24 hours in California. These maps graphically
   illustrate the change in earthquake probability during aftershock
   and possible foreshock sequences. The maps are not intended to be
   used to predict an upcoming earthquake; however, based on previous
   earthquake sequences, an increase in probability will be seen before
   about half of California?s larger earthquakes. The maps are updated
   at least once an hour and are available to the public at
   http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/step/.

Elections--United Kingdom
   Source: UK House of Commons Library
   New Report, General Election 2005
   135 pages; PDF. Results and other summary info.

China
   Source: University of Pittsbugh
   Modern China Studies Web
   The Digital Research Library released the Modern China Studies Web
   site, the result of a collaborative project with the East Asian
   Library and Preservation department within the ULS. The digital
   pilot project was part of a greater effort to preserve acidic
   Chinese monographs through grant funding by the National Endowment
   for the Humanities (NEH).

Social Security Reform--United States
   Source: GAO (via DocuTicker.com)
   New from the GAO, Social Security Reform: Answers to Key Questions

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                  ++  Wednesday, May 18th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Information Retrieval
   Source: Webology
   Similarities and differences between web search procedure and
   searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems
   "This paper presents an introductory discussion about the
   commonalities and dissimilarities between Web searching procedure
   and the searching process in the previous online information
   retrieval systems including classic information retrieval systems
   and database."

Internet2
   Source: Internet2.edu/Library of Congress
   Library of Congress Joins Internet2

Government Information--United Kingdom
   Source: Kable's Goverment Computing
   Whitehall gets information unit
   A new Cabinet Office body has taken responsibility for a database
   listing official information and an online service for crown
   copyright licences. The UK government has created a new body
   responsible for coordinating standards on the use of public sector
   information, it announced on 16 May 2005. The Office of Public
   Sector Information (OPSI) has taken on past functions of HM
   Stationery Office (HMSO), becoming responsible for Whitehall's
   Information Asset Register, a database listing the government's
   information resources. It has also taken charge of an online licence
   service for crown copyright material.

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Search Briefs
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+ New Beta Release of A9 Now Available

+ Clusty Now Offering Links to Cached Copies of Pages

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Executive Education--Lists & Rankings
   Source: Financial Times
   Just Released, Rankings: International Non-Degree Executive
   Education Programmes
   Rankings for Top 50 custom programme provides and Top 45 open
   enrolment programme providers are available.

House of Commons--Canada
   Source: Library of Parliament
   New List, Members of the House of Commons 1867 to Date:
   Military Service
   A list of Senators is available here.

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Briefly
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Elsevier launches new health science eJournal and eClinics collections

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                   ++  Tuesday, May 17th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Dictionaries
   Source: OUP
   New Edition of The New Oxford American Dictionary Released, More
   than 2000 Words Added
   The folks over at Oxford University Press were kind enough to share
   with ResourceShelf this list containing all of the new entries and
   definitions.

Information Literacy
   Source: ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science
   and Technology (via C&RL News)
   Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (DRAFT)

Libraries
   Source: FirstGov.gov
   New Section on FirstGov: Libraries
   From the FirstGov newsletter, "The FirstGov.gov Reference Center has
   a new section on libraries. Check out this page to find information
   on:

+ National, federal and local libraries

+ Online library databases

+ Grants and benefits for libraries

+ and much more!"

Mobile Access to Information

+ CAS gives chemists mobile access (via IWR)

+ Mobile Access to The Wall Street Journal

Services for mobile phones, Blackberry's, MP3 players, and other
mobile devices are available.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Internet Usage--Europe--Statistics
   Source: EU
   New Report, Internet usage by individuals and enterprises 2004
   8 pages; PDF.

Images--Databases
   Source: Natural Resources Canada
   Updated, Natural Resources Canada: The Canadian Landscapes Photo
   Collection Web Site Has a New Location and a New Look

Weblogs
   Journalism
   Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project (via DocuTicker)
   New Report, Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National
   Discourse in the Fall of 2004

Hurricanes--Outlook
   Source: NOAA
   Just Released, NOAA: 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Outlook

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Search Briefs
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Gigablast Passes Two Billion Page Mark

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                   ++  Monday, May 16th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Web Resources
   Source: C&RL News
   Women's resources: Sites of interest
   New compilation of web resources by George Mason University
   librarians, Sharon Hybki Kerr and George D. Oberle III.

Professional Organizations--United Kingdom
   CILIP Launches RSS News Feed

Web--Privacy
   Source: EDUCAUSE Review
   New Article, Web Site Privacy Policies

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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U.S. Congress--Maps
   Source: National Atlas of the U.S.
   Printable Maps: Congressional Districts for the 109th Congress

+ Congressional districts for the 109th Congress

+ State and county boundaries

+ Interstate and US highways

+ Selected rivers and waterbodies

+ Major cities

"Each map is available in GIF and PDF file formats that allow you to
view and print the maps."

Country Studies
   Source: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
   Two Recently Updated Country Profiles (PDF)

+ North Korea

+ South Korea

Research Reports
   Two Recently Released Reports from the UK House of Commons Library
   (PDF)

+ The Caspian Basin, energy reserves and potential conflicts

+ The Middle East Peace Process: prospects after the Palestinian
   Presidential Elections

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                   ++  Sunday, May 15th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Health Research--Databases
   Source: NLM
   New FAQ, IndexCat Questions
   "IndexCat is a digitized version of the printed Index-Catalogue of
   the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. The content and
   coverage is the same as the printed catalog. IdexCat contains over
   4.5 million online references to over 3.7 million bibliographic
   items."

Academic Libraries
   Source: ACRL
   ACRL releases revision to classic guide to academic libraries
   "The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is proud
   to announce the publication of 'The Changing Academic Library:
   Operations, Cultures, Environments Publications in Librarianship,'
   no. 56 by John M. Budd. The new release, a revision of Budd's 'The
   Academic Library: Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation,' has
   been completely updated and revised to reflect the dynamic states of
   higher education and academic libraries. It presents a critical
   examination of major issues confronting colleges and universities
   and the unique challenges that their libraries face."

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Search Briefs
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View News Video on the Web

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Briefly
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+ W3C Plans Easier Mobile Web Access (via NewsFactor)

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Reminder
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Don't Forget to Visit DocuTicker Today!
<http://www.docuticker.com>

Docuticker is a daily update from the ResourceShelf team with direct
links to new reports from government agencies, ngo's, think tanks, and
other groups.


                  ++  Saturday, May 14th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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   Source: New York Times
   College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age
   "Students attending the University of Texas at Austin will find
   something missing from the undergraduate library this fall. Books.
   By mid-July, the university says, almost all of the library's 90,000
   volumes will be dispersed to other university collections to clear
   space for a 24-hour electronic information commons, a fast-spreading
   phenomenon that is transforming research and study on campuses
   around the country."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Cancer
   Source: Amercian Cancer Society
   New Online Tool, Great American Health Check
   "This new online tool, launched this week by experts at the American
   Cancer Society, is aimed at increasing awareness about the
   importance of early cancer detection and to encourage people to get
   tested."

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Search Briefs
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All of Yahoo's RSS Feeds in One Location

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                   ++  Friday, May 13th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Academic Libraries--Resource Sharing
   Source: Kansas City Star
   Budget cuts hit library book sharing
   "The trickle-down effect of state budget cuts means Missouri
   colleges and universities will have to spend more to ensure their
   students can check out books from other institutions. The budget
   passed last week by legislators eliminates the entire $650,000 state
   subsidy for the Missouri Bibliographic Information User System,
   which allows students to quickly get books from elsewhere when they
   are not available at their own libraries."

Digital Libraries
   Source: University of Maryland
   New Technical Report, Evaluating A Cross-Cultural Children's Online
   Book Community: Sociability, Usability, And Cultural Exchange

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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U.S. Courts--Maps
   Each Judicial Circuit, District Defined in Newly Posted Map
   "A new map delineates each of the 12 regional judicial circuits and
   94 judicial districts within them. Clicking on the map will lead you
   to the web sites of the federal courts in a particular circuit or
   district." PDF version also available.

Labor--United States--Statistics
   Source: BLS
   New Edition, Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2005 Edition)

Energy--Alaska
   Source: USGS
   New Reports, New USGS Oil & Gas Assessment of Central North Slope,
   Alaska

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                  ++  Thursday, May 12th, 2005  ++


Resource of the Week
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By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

Business--United States
   Yahoo Finance Adds New Service for Business Researchers
   It's that time of the year again for corporations -- annual
   shareholder meeting season. Which means corporate governance is a
   key topic. And our Resource of the Week is a new feature offered by
   Yahoo! Finance: corporate governance ratings from Institutional
   Shareholder Services, Inc. The ratings -- available for more than
   7,500 publicly traded companies around the world (including 5,500
   U.S. companies) -- are now part of the company profiles on Yahoo!
   Finance.

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Competitive Intelligence
   Source: Free Pint
   New Article, Analysing corporate websites for competitive
   intelligence

Information Seeking Behavior
   Source: Outsell Now
   Knowledge Workers: The Thrill Is Gone
   "(P)eople who use the Internet in their jobs are starting to tire of
   going directly to the open Web. Just 67 percent say they go to the
   open Web for the information they need for the job, compared to 79
   percent in 2001. They are increasingly more likely to rely on
   corporate intranets, colleagues, libraries, and other
   intermediaries." From survey: HotTopics: 2001 vs. 2005: Research
   Study Reveals Dramatic Changes Among Information Consumers,
   available for purchase.

Scholarly Publishing--United Kingdom
   Open Access
   Source: The Guardian
   UK PubMed Central: Medical researchers bankroll innovative online
   database
   "Some of Britain's leading medical research funders have banded
   together to finance the country's most comprehensive online
   repository of medical knowledge. The multimillion-pound UK PubMed
   Central project is a big boost to proponents of open access to
   scientific research. It will enable academic researchers to post
   papers published either online or in subscription-based scientific
   journals, on a single searchable database which anybody can access
   free."

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Digital Preservation--United Kingdom
   Source: UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC)
   New, UK web archive -- now online
   A new web archiving project, national in scope, from the UK. From
   the news release, "Developed by the UK Web Archiving Consortium
   (UKWAC) the archive is aimed at the broad research community and
   marks the first systematic attempt to create an archive of social,
   historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK
   domain...UKWAC -- comprising The British Library, Joint Information
   Systems Committee of the Higher and Further Education Councils
   (JISC), The National Archives, The National Library of Wales, the
   National Library of Scotland and the Wellcome Trust are working
   together to address these issues and share responsibility for
   collecting web based material."

Fast Facts:

+ Browse by Topic or Search (Searching Metadata/Cataloging)

+ UKWAC Has Been Archiving Material for Six Months

+ Archive Currently Current Contains 299 Titles and 1090 Web Sites

+ 84 GB of Archived Data So Far

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Business--Europe--Lists & Rankings
   Source: Red Herring
   Information Technology: Top 100 Most Promising Private Companies
   in Europe

Forced Labor--Statistics
   Source: ILO (via DocuTicker.com)
   Just Released, A global alliance against forced labour
   "At least 12.3 million people are trapped in forced labour around
   the world, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in a new study
   released today. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia called forced
   labour "a social evil which has no place in the modern world." The
   new report, entitled "A global alliance against forced labour" (Note
   1), says that nearly 10 million people are exploited through forced
   labour in the private economy, rather than imposed directly by
   states. Of these, the study estimates a minimum of 2.4 million to be
   victims of human trafficking. The report also provides the first
   global estimate of the profits generated by the exploitation of
   trafficked women, children and men - US$ 32 billion each year, or an
   average of US$ 13,000 from every single trafficked forced labourer.

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