ResourceShelf Newsletter 214 May 26, 2005

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Number 214                                              26th May, 2005

                  ++  Thursday, May 26th, 2005  ++

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

Public Libraries--Geography--Database
   Source: Florida State University
   GeoLib
   This database -- includes the geographic locations of the roughly
   16,000 public libraries in the U.S., along with "population
   characteristics" from the 2000 Census and library use statistics
   from the National Center for Education Statistics. For first-time
   users, there's a PowerPoint tutorial. I found this somewhat
   difficult to download. (Your mileage may vary.) Fortunately, there's
   also a printable PDF tutorial (352 KB), and for visual learners with
   a fast Internet connection, a set of instructional movies (in MP4
   format). You'll need to disable your popup blocker to navigate this
   site, too.

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Digitization
   Source: UNESECO/FAO
   UNESCO and FAO Launch Training CD-Rom [Free] on Digitisation for
   Librarians and Laymen
   "UNESCO and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization are
   launching the "Digitization and Digital Libraries" module to teach
   librarians and laymen how to digitize documents and put them on line
   and create virtual libraries. The kit, available from the FAO and
   UNESCO free of charge, is compatible with a wide range of
   computers..."

Librarians
   Source: The Stanford Report
   Librarian, marine biologist finds niche at Hopkins
   Joe Wible has worked in libraries for more than 30 years and logged
   more than 1,000 dives in his life, making him perfectly suited for
   his job as head librarian and bibliographer at Hopkins Marine
   Station this, despite a salvaged sign he keeps in his office window:
   'No wet suits in the library!!'"

Preservation--Canada
   Source:Saskatoon StarPhoenix
   Pages for the ages: U of S prof on quest to reassemble pages of
   centuries-old manuscripts
   "From inside a peach-coloured cardboard container, the white-gloved
   hands of librarian Linda Fritz gingerly lift each mounted page. Some
   of the aged pages are tiny -- the size of a cigarette box -- and
   others are long and broad."

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Drugs--Canada--Canada
   Source: CBC
   Adverse drug reaction database goes online
   Health Canada is making its database of adverse drug reactions
   available to Canadians in a searchable online format..." Direct to
   Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Program (CADRMP) Adverse
   Reaction Database

Businesses--United States--Lists & Rankings
   Source: Entrepreneur and PricewaterhouseCoopers
   2005 Hot 100: The Fastest Growing New Businesses in America
   " Which companies are breaking out of the pack this year? Our Hot
   100 shows they run the gamut, from real estate and restaurants to
   staffing and spas. These companies are no more than five years old,
   but have annual sales in excess of $1 million. Read on to learn more
   about these rising stars and their success secrets."
   How the Rankings Are Compiled
   Trends and Stats From the Hot 100

Congressional Research Service
   A Selection of New/Recently Updated CRS Reports
   Source: Congressional Research Service (via FPC and National Library
   for the Environment)

+ Human Cloning

+ Gasoline Price Surge Revisited: Crude Oil and Refinery Issues

+ Genetic Testing: Scientific Background and Nondiscrimination Legislation

+ Iraq's New Security Forces: The Challenge of Sectarian and Ethnic
   Influences

+ Organization of American States: A Primer

+ Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector

+ Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection, and Early Warning Systems

+ Forest Fire Protection

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                  ++  Wednesday, May 25th, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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National Libraries--New Zealand
   Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa
   National Library Applauds New Digital Strategy
   "The government's new Digital Strategy is a giant step forward for
   New Zealand, and will be widely celebrated by the nation's library
   and information community, says National Librarian Penny Carnaby.
   For the past two years the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna
   Matauranga o Aotearoa has been working closely with the Ministry of
   Economic Development, other central government departments and Local
   Government New Zealand, and consulting with the library and
   information sector, to develop this essential contribution to the
   nation's digital well-being."

Libraries
   Source: Center for Research Libraries
   Spring 2005 Issue of CRL Focus is Now Online
   Articles include:

+ South Asia Microform Project?a Ghazal of Historical Resources

+ Digital South Asia Library

+ A Union Catalogue for South Asia

+ DSAL' s Digital Jewel: The Institute of Indian Studies Center for
   Art and Archaeology Photo Archive

Electronic Resources
   Source: British Academy
   Just Released, E-resources for Research in the Humanities and Social
   Sciences -- A British Academy Policy Review "Information and
   communications technology is having a major impact in the form of,
   and access to, research resources. The Academy has consulted
   national and representative bodies, and individual researchers, and
   has examined the technical and organisational issues of e-resource
   provision and access. Its survey and analysis leads to a series of
   recommendations addressed to institutions and to individual
   researchers."

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Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports
   Source: ISI

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Health Policy & Services

+ Pharmacology: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04

+ Top 20 institutions in Microbiology, 1994-2004

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Educational CyberPlAYGround

Admins, Parents & Teachers Learn How to Keep Your Child
Safe on the Interent -- Trouble Areas for Kids

Find out what your kids have put up online, their names,
address, pictures, what they think. This needs to be
supervised and you won't be able to keep up with
what is going on here. Chat Rooms, Blogs, Instant
Messaging, IRC, Newsgroups - they don't understand
that they they have gone public and have lost their privacy.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html

RSS NEWS FEEDS Updated Daily Area
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/news/

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Privacy
Data Breaches
   Source: PrivacyRights.org
   Two Resources

+ A Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint
   Incident

+ Index to News about ChoicePoint and Other Data Aggregators (via The
   Virtual Chase)

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Educational CyberPlayGround

NET CENSORSHIP
censorware vs. privacy & anonymity, filters,
Cyber Patrol , Net Nanny, Resources, Reports,
Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/censor.html

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Cost of Living--United States
   Source: Salary.com
   Salary.com's Salary Value Index
   "Are you living beyond your means? Is your paycheck not stretching
   far enough? Perhaps you're even having trouble finding a job. Maybe
   it's time to jump a plane to one of the cities at the top of
   Salary.com's 'Salary Value' index. We found the top (and bottom) US
   metros for building personal net worth (taking into account local
   salaries, cost of living, and unemployment relative to the national
   average). Median base pay was correlated across more than 2,500
   different benchmark jobs in our calculations. Housing costs, living
   costs, and metro unemployment/job growth figures were also used to
   rank the metro areas."
   Full list

Housing--United States--Statistics
   Source: U.S. Census
   Median Housing Values Continue to Rise, Census Bureau Reports
   "As median home values across the nation continue to rise, so has
   the proportion of homes valued at $1 million or more, according to a
   new analysis of American Community Survey (ACS) data released today
   by the U.S. Census Bureau. The national median home value in 2003
   was about $140,000, up nearly 16 percent in the last three years,
   while the percentage of ?million-dollar homes? nearly doubled (from
   0.5 percent to 1.0 percent)."
   See Also: State Rankings

+ County Rankings

+ City Rankings

   San Francisco is #1.

+ 2000-2003 Millon Dollar Home Rankings

Beaches--United States--Rankings
   Just released: America's Best Beaches 2005
   Number one on the list is Fort De Soto Park's North Beach,
   southwestern neighbor of St. Petersburg, Florida (home of your
   deputy editor).
   Press release (PDF; 48 KB)
   Photos of top ten beaches

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+ EBSCO Publishing Introduces Humanities International Complete

+ Blackwell Publishing appoints Design UK to redesign online presence

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Find Information on Security for
Teachers, Administrators, Ed. Tech, and Classroom Resources
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PARENTS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL BOARDS
do you know WHO IS COLLECTING AND SELLING selling children's information?
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DOES PODCASTING ACTUALLY MATTER?
Journalists vs. Blogger War
Podcast Information and How To AudioBlog by Phone, and RSS Instructions.
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                   ++  Tuesday, May 24th, 2005  ++


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Online Information
   Source: Emerald
   This Week ONLY: Free Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of
   Online Information Review

   Articles include:

+ Web authoring tools and meta tagging of page descriptions and
   keywords (Vol. 29. No. 2)

+ The impact of electronic information delivery on reference enquiries
   (Vol. 29. No. 2)

+ Information resources on chemistry and natural sciences in general
   (Vol 2. No. 2)

+ Google Scholar: the pros and the cons (Vol 29. No. 2)

+ A MAP for the library portal: through the labyrinth of online
   information sources (Vol 29. No. 1)

+ From the search problem through query formulation to results on the
   web (Vol 29. No. 1)

+ Knowing where they're going: statistics for online government
   document access through the OPAC (Vol 28. No. 6)

+ Date-restricted queries in web search engines (Vol 28. No. 6)

Open Access--DRM
   Source: INDICARE Monitor
   The role of digital rights management in Open Access

Electronic Records--Archiving
   Source: Federal Computer Week
   'Tomahtoes' get in the way of saving e-records
   "Historians complain about techies and archivists shouting at one
   another, but the historians do offer some solutions. Anna Kasten
   Nelson, a historian in residence at American University, suggests
   that agency IT officers devise a mechanism to separate the
   insignificant 'Where do you want to eat lunch?' e-mail messages from
   the substantive ones, such as 'Here is a draft of the legislation I
   am about to introduce.'"

Public Libraries--Censorship
   Source: New Orleans Times--Picayune
   Gay book not child's play, says lawmaker
   "Books 'containing the theme of homosexuality' and other 'age-
   inappropriate' topics should not be on public library shelves
   accessible to children, a St. Tammany Parish lawmaker said
   Thursday."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
   Gasoline Prices--United States
   Source: FuelEconomy.gov
   Compilation: Links To Gasoline Price Data For US Cities

Jet Lag--Diet
   Source: Argonne National Laboratory
   Site offers Web's most comprehensive information about Anti-Jet-Lag
   Diet

Marine Sanctuaries--Education
   Source: NOAA
   New Web Site for Educators: NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program

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Search Briefs
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All About Exalead (via SearchDay)

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+ ProQuest Plans to Digitize Chicago Defender from 1909-1975

+ New Asia-Pacific Business Database Coming in June from Bureau van
   Dijk

+ Guidestar (Non-Profit Info) Will Launch GuideStar 3.0 on June 1st

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                   ++  Monday, May 23rd, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Libraries and Librarians--Australia
   Source: ALIA
   It's Library and Information Week in Australia!

Metadata
   Digital Preservation
   Source: PREMIS Working Groups/RLG/OCLC
   PREMIS Working Group Publishes Data Dictionary for Preservation
   Metadata
   "OCLC and RLG are pleased to announce the release of a 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 is the product of the foremost
   international consensus-building effort directed at preservation
   metadata, and it is likely to become the foundation for future work
   in this area."

Scholarly Publishing
   Source: HighWire Press
   HighWire Press Database Now Providing Access to More than 900,000
   Free Full Text Articles

E-government
   Source: Federal Computer Week
   The e-gov pulse
   "The first message is Google rules, while only a handful had even
   heard of FirstGov." Steve Kelman, professor of public management at
   Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, queries his students on how
   they search for information online.

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Executive Compensation--United States
   Source: San Jose Mercury News
   New, What the Boss Makes, 2005
   Package includes direct links to printable, searchable data report
   (PDF) and list of compensation by company.

Higher Education--United States--Statistics
   University Endowments--United States--Lists & Rankings
   Source: National Association of College and University Business
   Officers
   University Endowment Rankings

+ Table: Listing of Participating Institutions By Total Market Value

Poverty--Australia
   Source: Parliament Library
   New Research Note: 2004-05 Poverty rates by electorate

Stereograph Cards
   Source: Library of Congress
   New Online Digital Collection: Stereograph Cards
   From the site, "...about 5,000 stereographs (selection from full
   collection; records being added) ca. 1860-1945, bulk 1870-1920.
   Stereo card photographs, featuring sites around the world and
   popular topics such as expositions, industry, disasters, and
   portraits of presidents."

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Search Briefs
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+ Many Publishers Not Happy With Google Library Program

Two articles published today and Gary defines Google Library and
Google Print.

UPDATE: ResourceShelf friend, Roy Tennant, shares one of his concerns
with us via email.

+ New South Africa "Only" Search Engine Available

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                   ++  Sunday, May 22nd, 2005  ++

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Privacy--Taxonomy
   Source: George Washington University Law School (Daniel J. Solove)
   A Taxonomy of Privacy
   "A new taxonomy to understand privacy violations is thus sorely
   needed. This article develops a taxonomy to identify privacy
   problems in a comprehensive and concrete manner. It endeavors to
   guide the law toward a more coherent understanding of privacy and to
   serve as a framework for the future development of the field of
   privacy law." (To be published in University of Pennsylvania Law
   Review, Vol. 154, Fall 2005; via Social Science Research Network)

Open Access--United Kingdom
   Source: JISC
   JISC signs Berlin Declaration on open access

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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LITERACY - Evolution of Language - How the Brain Works

Pedagogy Problems to Solutions

Sync Sense, Social Rhythm Research Experts
Speech, Music, Reading, & Technology
Motivation, Play, Culturally Relevant Content
Using Multiple Intelligences and different learning styles
Literacy Defined: how to read, how to write, how to use
computers, how to find and evaluate information found on the net.

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/
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Adult Literacy--Statistics
   New Issue Brief: Highlights from the 2003 International Adult
   Literacy and Lifeskills Survey
   "America's adults performed worse than their counterparts in
   Bermuda, Norway, and Switzerland, but better than those in Italy,
   according to the results of the 2003 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills
   Survey (ALL). ALL reports on the literacy and numeracy skills of
   adults ages 16-65 in six countries. A second phase of ALL, in which
   additional countries are collecting data, is currently under way."

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Search Briefs
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CiteSeer Adds and Improves Features
   CiteSeer is a wonderful specialized databases focusing on
   "scholarly" material in computer science, info tech, and related
   areas. If you've never see or used CiteSeer, MORE than worth a look.
   Also, improved OAI services.
   See Also: SmealSearch
   This service, also from the CiteSeer team, focuses on scholarly
   business material.

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                  ++  Saturday, May 21st, 2005  ++


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Public Libraries--Biometrics
   Source: AP (via Yahoo! News)
   Illinois Library Getting Fingerprint Scanners
   "The scanners -- to be installed on 130 library computers this
   summer -- will verify the identity of computer users. Library
   officials said they wanted to tighten computer access because many
   people borrow library cards and pass codes from friends or family to
   log on. The technology also will help the library implement a new
   policy that allows parents to put filters on their children's'
   accounts, officials said."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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U.S. Senate-Filibusters
   Source: Congressional Research Service
   CRS Report: Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate
   27 pages; PDF. This report was last updated on March 28, 2003.

Web Browsers--Firefox--Glossary
   Source: O'Reilly Network
   A Firefox Glossary
   "With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation made a U-turn that probably
   ensured its survival. It started focusing on users, targeting
   releases directly at them instead of at developers and hardcore
   power users. Some companies have started to switch, extension
   authors have adopted the Mozilla platform for writing their tools
   and applications, and web developers are being turned on by the high
   level of web-standards support. This glossary is by no means
   exhaustive--it is meant to be a teaser to lead you to explore more."

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New from Siderean: Turn-Key Software Offers Next-Generation Search,
Discovery, And Information Aggregation To Enterprises

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                   ++  Friday, May 20th, 2005  ++


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Libraries--Marketing
   Source: Chris Olson & Associates
   The May issue of Chris Olson's Marketing Treasures is Online
   Info from an expert about a very important topic.

National Libraries--United Kingdom--Web Sites
   Source: IWR
   British Library to modernise web platform
   "The British Library is set to modernise its web technology, by
   consolidating several existing and planned websites on to a single
   platform."

Libraries--Malaysia
   Source: The Star
   A library that's not just about books
   All about the The Kuala Lumpur Library.

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Virtual Reference
   Source: eGov Monitor
   Virtual Reference Service Launches Across the United Kingdom
   "A new era for the People's Network begins today with the launch of
   Enquire, a new 24 hour, 'live-chat' and email service. People's
   Network Enquire will deliver information to the public by providing
   online access to library and information staff across England, the
   United States and Canada. Public Libraries already deliver essential
   information services in communities all over the country. The new
   Enquire service provides an online route to the expert staff."
   Enquire is available online at www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk. Enquire is
   powered by OCLC's QuestionPoint.

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Economics--Africa--Statistics
   Source: OECD
   Just Released, Country Reports from the African Economic Outlook
   2004/2005
   Full text of report is fee-based but country reports offer facts and
   stats for 29 African nations.

Government Contracts--United States--Law
   Source: FindLaw.com
   Federal Government Contract Overview
   "Although Congress has streamlined the contracting process to reduce
   the burdens on contractors offering commercial products and
   services, any entity considering entering into a government contract
   must tread carefully. This overview is intended to provide you a
   general insight into the federal government's contracting process."

Wireless Internet Access
   Privacy
   Source: Consumer Reports
   New Report, Wi-Fi Woes

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Search Briefs
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+ Blogdigger Goes Local
   Search blog posts by geo location.

+ Google Launches Personalized Home Page

+ Accoona Now Offering Some D&B Data

+ Yahoo's New Guide to RSS for Publishers

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                  ++  Thursday, May 19th, 2005  ++


Resource of the Week
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By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

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 of 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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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."

Web Sites
   Source: U.S. Census
   Fake U.S. Census Web Site Gets Shutdown

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."

Health Information--Internet
   Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
   Health Information Online

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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)

Information Technology--North America--Lists & Rankings
   Source: Red Herring
   The Red Herring 100: Hottest Private Companies of North America

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