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ResourceShelf Newsletter Number 233  6th October, 2005
<http://www.resourceshelf.com>

++  Thursday, September 29, 2005  ++

Resources of the Week
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by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

Variety is good, and it's been awhile since we've featured an
engineering resource here. We've mentioned GlobalSpec before on
ResourceShelf, but since it's just undergone a significant content
upgrade, we figured it would be worth taking a closer look this week.

Engineering--Hub
  Source: GlobalSpec, Inc.
  GlobalSpec

  Founded in 1996 "by engineers for engineers," GlobalSpec "has
  crawled, filtered and indexed the World Wide Web and focused solely
  on engineering-related information." It now indexess roughly 200
  million pages of technical information, including 15,500 online
  product catalogs and 199 million engineering & technical Web pages.
  A dropdown menu next to the keyword search form at the top of the
  home page allows you to limit your search in several ways -- to
  products and suppliers, service suppliers, a company by name, or the
  Engineering Web (technical and engineering-related websites), where
  you can search everything or just application notes, material
  properties, patents, standards or supplier websites. A part number
  search is in beta.

GlobalSpec recently "announced it is further expanding its content
offering to users by indexing a broad range of proprietary research
and reference content from some of the world's leading technical
publishers" -- John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the IEEE, and Knovel, among
others:

+ "The agreement between GlobalSpec and Wiley allows for the indexing
  of journals and major reference works - including technical
  encyclopedias and handbooks - with future plans for technical
  books."

+ "Through its relationship with the IEEE, GlobalSpec is currently
  indexing a proprietary feed of over one million technical documents,
  including journal articles and conference proceedings."

+ "Additionally, more than 700 interactive and keyword-rich
  engineering reference books will be indexed through GlobalSpec's
  agreement with Knovel."

Also here:

+ An extensive page of Engineering Tools & Useful Links, including
  engineering resources, engineer/technical/scientific websites, job
  sites, news sites, general reference materials, technical articles
  and more. The page is searchable.

+ A searchable database of product announcements. An advanced search
  form facilitates Boolean options or searching crhonologically or by
  product category.

+ A searchable employment database which offers Boolean options and
  dropdown menus that allow you to limit your search by geographic
  area, type of employment (e.g., fulltime, contract...), etc. Powered
  by Dice.com, a leading technical employment website.

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Reference--Reviews

The October 2005 Edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf is Now
Online

This month Dr. Jacso reviews:

+ Journal Citation Reports
  The new content enhancements of the Web version of Journal Citation
  Reports and its informative charts provide further help in selecting
  the most influential journals in subject categories. They provide
  category-wide median and aggregate impact factors, an aggregate
  immediacy index and cited half-life scores, in addition to the
  journal-level performance indicators

+ The London Review of Books
  A small but worthy open-access subset of the thousands of
  substantial reviews and commentaries of "Europe's most-read literary
  magazine" with good browsing and searching capabilities. The topical
  coverage is pleasantly eclectic and the geographic coverage is
  cosmopolitan.

Web Search
  Source: SEW Blog
  On Library Card Catalogs, OPACs, The Perfect Search & Teaching
  Searchers
  Gary shares a few thoughts.

Google--Intelligence
  Source: Federal Computer Week
  Google: Fit for intelligence work?
  "Google, developer of the popular Web search engine, is joining
  forces with federal-sector vendors to extend the company's reach
  into the defense and intelligence markets. But some experts say
  Google's system for extracting and ranking data is unfit for
  classified work."

Public Libraries-Research
  Source: IMLS
  Nearly Half a Million Dollars for University of Illinois and Pew
  Research Center Internet Investigation
  "The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services announced a
  cooperative agreement today with the University of Illinois Library
  Research Center (LRC) to investigate, in partnership with the Pew
  Internet & American Life Project, how effectively public libraries
  and community technology centers provide government information to
  people with limited access to the Internet."

Web Design
  Source: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
  Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
  "The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the
  list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005....
  Anytime you feel tempted to add a new feature or advanced technology
  to your site, first consider whether you would get a higher ROI by
  spending the resources on polishing the quality of what you already
  have. Most companies, e-commerce sites, government agencies, and
  non-profit organizations would contribute more to their website's
  business goals with better headlines than with any new technology
  (aside from a better search engine, of course)."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Leonardo Da Vinci--Database
  Source: askSam
  Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks: Free Searchable Version
  "Search and analyze the Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks. Da Vinci's
  Notebooks contain thoughts, ideas, and tips from this amazing
  thinker. The Notebooks are over 1,500 pages filled with all sorts of
  information. It's not a page-turning novel, but a fascinating
  glimpse into the mind of one of history's great figures. The text is
  extremely useful in a searchable format."

Basque History
  Source: University of Nevada, Reno
  New, The Basque Database
  "The Basque Database is now available through the University of
  Nevada, Reno
  Libraries, providing multilingual access to Basque-studies books,
  articles, chapters, dissertations, films and other materials written
  or produced after 1994. Over 2,300 articles (27%) are available in
  open-access full-text format through the database. Twenty-six "core
  journals" (17 with full text) are indexed completely while other
  journals are indexed selectively. The subject emphases are Basque
  history, language and culture. The Innovative Interfaces Inc. (III)
  platform provides Spanish and Basque interfaces, and most of the
  4,650 records for Basque-language materials and 10,000+ records for
  Spanish-language materials are enhanced with English-language
  keywords."

Movies--Databases
  Source: SEW Blog
  Pimp My Searching: Internet Movie Database
  A look at a few search tools on the IMDB that can really "power-up"
  our searching.

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Search Briefs
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+ New, RSS Tools: Tara Calishain and Her Kebberfegg

+ New Video Engine Debuts; Chat With Founder of TVEyes/Podscope

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+ ITN Film and Video Archive Launches Music Catalog

+ Scopus Assembles a Content Selection Committee

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                 ++  Wednesday, October 5, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Metadata--Copyright
  Source: First Monday
  Descriptive metadata for copyright status
  A new article by Karen Coyle. "The need to express the intellectual
  property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage
  permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of
  permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent
  in the legal copyright status of the item. Digital libraries can
  hold and provide access to many items for which copyright status is
  the sole governor of use. This article proposes a small set of
  descriptive data elements that should accompany digital materials to
  inform potential users of the copyright status of the item."

Archives--United Kingdom
  Source: JISC
  Service feature: Archives Hub goes from strength to strength
  "The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions
  of archives held in more than 140 HE and FE institutions from all
  around the UK, and forms part of the National Archives Network. The
  Archives Hub includes the institutional archives of our
  contributors, but there is far more to it than that. There are now
  over 18,000 descriptions on the Hub, and a very wide range of people
  and organisations originally created the documents in these
  archives. They include the records of shopkeepers and multinational
  corporations, the personal papers of writers and artists, memoirs of
  soldiers and nurses, and the records of churches and government
  agencies."

Open Access
  Source: SPARC/Peter Suber
  SPARC Open Access Newsletter
  Top story: The Wellcome Trust OA mandate takes effect.

Libraries
  Source: IFLA
  New Book Annoucement: The Virtual Customer: a new paradigm for
  improving customer relations in libraries and information services

National Archives--UK
  Genealogy--Databases
  Royal Naval Seamen's records now online
  "You can now search and download the service registers of more than
  500,000 seamen who joined the Royal Navy between 1853 and 1923. The
  records, held in the series ADM 188, provide a wealth of information
  for family and naval historians. Alongside a seaman´s name, age,
  place of birth, summary of their service and a list of ships on
  which they served, many of the later records (of those who joined
  after 1873) contain a description of your ancestor´s appearance.
  This includes their height, hair and eye colour, as well as any
  scars or tattoos."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
  Compensation--International--Survey
  Source: Mercer Human Resource Consulting (via DocuTicker)
  2006 Worldwide Pay Survey

  "Globally, salary increases are expected to be higher next year than
  they were in 2005, according to a survey by Mercer Human Resource
  Consulting, the world?s largest employee benefits consultancy and
  services provider. The average pay rise worldwide is expected to be
  2.4 percentage points above inflation compared to 1.9 percentage
  points this year. In the European Union (EU), pay is likely to rise
  by 2 percentage points over inflation."

Women Suffrage--United States
  Unitd States--History--Digitization Projects
  Source: Library of Congress/American Memory Project

  Just Released, Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911: From the
  collection of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller
  "Between 1897 and 1911 Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne
  Fitzhugh Miller, filled seven large scrapbooks with ephemera and
  memorabilia related to their work with women's suffrage. The
  Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a
  part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
  Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the
  Library of Congress. These scrapbooks document the activities of the
  Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in 1897,
  as well as efforts at the state, national, and international levels
  to win the vote for women. They offer a unique look at the political
  and social atmosphere of the time, as well as chronicle the efforts
  of two women who were major participants in the suffrage movement."

Education--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census
  Just Released, School Enrollment -- Social and Economic
  Characteristics of Students: October 2004

  "Latest national tabulations of the number of students in school --
  from nursery school to college -- with updated information on the
  more than 75 million people ages 3 years old and over who were in
  classroom in 2004."

Arts Education--Foundation Support
  Source: The Foundation Center
  Foundation Funding for Arts Education (PDF; 1.23 MB)
  From press release: "The first in-depth study on foundation funding
  for arts education finds that giving in this area grew faster than
  arts giving overall between 1999 and 2003. In the latter year,
  programs serving children and youth received over 40 percent of the
  $208.8 million given for arts education by the largest U.S.
  foundations." (via DocuTicker)

Cities--Livability--Lists & Rankings
  Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
  Highlights Only: Vancouver tops liveability ranking according to a
  new survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit

Workplace Safety--United States--Databases
  Source: OSHA (via The Memory Hole)
  Just Released, OSHA's Lost Workday Injury and Illness Database
  "Injury/illness rates for tens of thousands of companies identified
  by name. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration fought in
  court for two years to keep this material secret."

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Search Briefs
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+ Yahoo Blog/Feed Search Coming

+ Shopping Engine Become.com Plans Move Into Japanese Market

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                  ++  Tuesday, October 4, 2005  ++


Briefly
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+ Syndetic Solutions Introduces New Content Options for Enhancing
  Libraries' Online Catalogs

+ Nstein Technologies Inc. Announces $4.1 Million Financing

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Digital Libraries
  Source: SEW Blog
  Details about Europe's i2010 Digital Libraries Program Emerge

Digitization Projects
  Source: SEW Blog
  Project Gutenberg Founder on Digitization, ebooks and the OCA Launch

ASIST
  New, ASIST 2005 Annual Meeting Wiki

Research Projects
  Source: News Release
  'Cybertools' Project Receives $2 Million NSF Grant

  "A team of Cornell University researchers has been awarded a $2
  million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop advanced
  Web tools for social sciences research. Ultimately intended to
  assist in the detailed statistical and observational study of social
  and information networks, the project will involve a team of
  computer scientists and social scientists developing the means --
  dubbed "cybertools" -- to extract and analyze information from vast
  collections of data. The project's primary source of data will be
  the Internet Archive, which is supported by the NSF and the Library
  of Congress, among others. One of the first steps in the project,
  which is funded through 2007, will be to transfer 30 percent, or 200
  terabytes, of the massive archive to a computer server at Cornell
  for use by researchers."

Librarians--Politics
  Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
  The Loneliness of a Conservative Librarian
  "Librarians are supposed to stand for intellectual freedom,
  diversity of opinion, and providing access to materials that
  represent all points of view. How can we do that when many of us are
  intolerant of dissenting views? Allowing our profession to be a
  bastion of orthodoxy of any kind defeats our purpose." Column by
  David Durant, head of government documents and microforms at East
  Carolina University.

Libraries
  Source: Information Use Management and Policy Institute
  Gates Foundation Expands Funding for Public Libraries and the
  Internet Research

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Small Business--United States--Statistics
  Source: SBA
  Updated, FAQ About Small Business in the U.S. (PDF)
  Lots of numbers. Thanks to S.B. for the tip.

Hamlet--Database
  Source: askSam
  Hamlet by William Shakespeare -- Free Searchable Version
  "Using the askSam Web Publisher, we've put the entire text of Hamlet
  on-line in a searchable database. You can search and browse through
  the information from your Web browser." You can also download the
  search text along with an askSam viewer. (Free registration
  required.)

Computer Viruses--Lists & Rankings
  Source: Sophos
  Top Ten Viruses and Hoaxes Reported to Sophos in September 2005

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Search Briefs
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+ Keeping Yourself Out of Web And Other Databases

+ Blinkx.tv Will Now Host and Serve Your Video Content

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+ IEEE Publishes Annual Report

+ EBSCO's Electronic Journals Service Data Now Available on EBSCOhost
  Research Database Platform

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                  ++  Monday, October 3, 2005, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Digital Library
  Source: SearchDay
  The New Open Content Alliance from Yahoo and The Internet Archive
  "Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations
  announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to make
  thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely
  searchable and accessible online."

Digital Libraries
  Source: Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland
  New Research Paper: How do I Find Blue Books About Dogs? The Errors
  and Frustrations of Young Digital Library Users

  "Children are among the fastest growing groups of users of the
  Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing
  interfaces, such as those found in digital libraries, to support
  them. However, many interfaces geared toward elementary-age children
  suffer from at least one of two common problems. First, many assume
  that young users can spell, type, read, navigate, compose queries,
  and/or select small objects. Second, many assume that children
  search for books using the same criteria as adults. In fact,
  children have difficulty using and understanding traditional
  interface tools, and often employ different searching and browsing
  strategies from adults. A number of researchers have created digital
  libraries that better support young children. Our lab has also
  focused on this goal, most recently with the International
  Children's Digital Library (ICDL) project. This paper elaborates on
  the reasons why children require different searching and browsing
  tools and how interfaces that fail to recognize this lead to
  frustrating experiences. It describes how the ICDL addresses these
  issues and a study designed to investigate them further."

Web Design
  Source: Computers in Libraries
  Using Participatory Design to Improve Web Sites
  "One woman learned that the best way to improve her Web sites was to
  involve the people most likely to use them in the design. She walks
  readers through the steps of participatory design and tells how it
  differs from user-centered design."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Country Studies
  Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
  Updated, Country Profile of Thailand
  PDF.
  See Also: More Country Profiles from the FRD

Wireless Industry--United States
  Source: FCC
  Just Released, Annual Report on State of Competition in the
  Wireless Industry


Disaster Management--Information Technology
  Source: National Academies
  Just Released, Summary of a Workshop on Using Information Technology
  to Enhance Disaster Management
  "Summary of a Workshop on Using Information Technology to Enhance
  Disaster Management summarizes remarks made at a June 22-23, 2005,
  workshop in which a variety of representatives of federal, state,
  and local government agencies, private industry, and the research
  community participated."

Film Music--Lists & Rankings
  Source: American Film Institute
  New, Top 25 Film Scores of All-Time
  Also available is a list of the 250 nominated scores

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Search Briefs
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+ Ask Jeeves Smart Search Makes Basic TV Program Reference Info a
  Click Away

+ Search Tabs from Google and Yahoo

+ Trying to Find the Mobile Searcher

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                  ++  Sunday, October 2, 2005  ++


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+ GlobalSpec To Index Knovel's Virtual Engineering Library

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Libraries & Librarians
  Source: Lincoln Journal Star
  As online research grows, libraries adapt
  "With so many turning to the Internet for their information, it
  would seem the importance of libraries would be diminishing. Not so,
  said Rod Wagner, director of the Nebraska Library Commission.
  'Attendance numbers have actually gone up in the past few years,' he
  said. Rather than disappearing, libraries are adapting, Wagner said.
  'People are still using libraries for finding books and reading
  magazines and journals,' he said. 'I know from personal experience
  that when new books come out, we get on the list because people are
  looking for those things at the library. But they're also using them
  for online searching that the libraries offer and for online
  databases the libraries have that may not be available outside.'"

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REMINDER
Make Sure to Visit DocuTicker Today!
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.


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Business--Financial Information
  Source: Michelle Leder
  footnoted.org
  Weblog by the author of Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's
  True Value.
  Leder combs SEC documents for interesting info.

Hurricane Katrina
  Hurricane Rita
  Source: CBO
  The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and
  Rita: An Update, September 29, 2005

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                 ++  Saturday, October 1, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Academic Libraries--Bicycles
  Source: St. Lawrence University
  'Green Bikes' Program Under Way At SLU
  "The phrase 'check out that bike' has a whole new meaning on the St.
  Lawrence University campus. Beginning this fall, anyone with an I.D.
  that allows them to check books out of the University's libraries
  can also check out a bicycle."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Business--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census
  Just Released, Nation Adds 1 Million Self-Employed Businesses to
  Reach 18.6 Million, Census Bureau Reports
  "The number of businesses with no paid employees grew from 17.6
  million in 2002 to more than 18.6 million in 2003, a growth rate of
  5.7 percent, according to a report issued today by the U.S. Census
  Bureau. This represents the biggest rate of increase in self-
  employment since the Census Bureau began releasing such statistics
  in 1997; the rate during the 2001 to 2002 period, 3.9 percent, was
  the previous high." Full Text of report along with Excel files
  available.

Postsecondary Education--United States--Degrees Awarded
  Source: National Center for Education Statistics
  Postsecondary Institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and
  Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2003-04

  "This report presents information from the Fall 2004 Integrated
  Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) web-based data
  collection. Data were requested from nearly 6,600 postsecondary
  institutions participating in Title IV federal student financial aid
  programs. The tables in this publication present counts of
  institutions by selected institutional characteristics including
  tuition, fees, and other costs. Tables also present data on the
  number of degrees and other formal awards conferred during the
  period July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004 by Title IV postsecondary
  institutions." Full Report (PDF; 538 KB)

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                  ++  Friday, September 30, 2005  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Medical Libraries
  It's Almost Here!!! National Medical Librarians Month 2005
  Begins tomorrow!

National Libraries
  Source: ManagingInformation.com
  National Libraries Of Japan And Holland Sign Joint Operating
  Agreement
  "The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in the Netherlands has signed a
  joint operating agreement with the National Diet Library in Japan.
  The two national libraries will cooperate in several areas, such as
  digitisation and long-term digital preservation. By means of
  exchange programmes, employees of both institutions will acquire
  experience and exchange specific knowledge."

OpenURL--RFP
  Source: NISO
  OpenURL Registry RFP Released (PDF)
  "NISO is seeking to find an organization to serve as the Maintenance
  Agency for the OpenURL Registry. The scope of the work and
  obligations are detailed in a Request-for-Proposal released on July
  6. Proposals are due October 15, 2005."

Information Technology
  Source: JISC
  Understanding Advanced Display Technologies
  "The report has two main sections: the first half looks at how the
  human visual system (HVS) processes information and the relative
  success with which cathode ray tube and flat panel display
  technologies are able to match the HVS. It also looks at how and why
  'flatness' has come to dictate current technology developments and
  where this may take us in the future."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Department of Homeland Security
  Source: Inspector General/DHS (via DocuTicker)
  Just Released, Emergency Preparedness and Response Could Better
  Integrate Information Technology with Incident Response and
  Recovery, OIG-05-36, September 2005 67 pages; PDF.

Biology--Central America--Digital Collection
  Source: Smithsonian Institution, et. al.
  Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana (EBCA)
  "This digital edition of the important and out-of-print Biologia
  Centrali-Americana makes all 58 biolological volumes available.
  Descriptions of over 50,000 and images of over 18,000 species of
  animals and plants are now accessible as never before. This is the
  first step toward an extraordinary new set of electronic resources
  and knowledge tools for biodiversity studies -- the Biologia
  Centrali-Americana Centennial."

Adult Education--United States
  Source: National Center for Education Statistics
  Labor Force Participation in Formal Work-Related Education in 2000-01
  "This report uses the Adult Education Survey of the 2001 National
  Household Education Survey Program to examine the extent and nature
  of participation in work-related education among adults in the labor
  force. The report provides data on instructional providers, topics
  studied, employer support, and other employment-related inducements
  for participation." Full Report (PDF; 834 KB)

Home Networks--Windows PCs
  Source: O'Reilly and Associates
  Home Networking -- The Missing Manual: Using the Network With
  Windows Computers (PDF; 2.3 MB)

  "Surfing the Web from your newly networked computers is fun, no
  doubt. But some of the best parts of having a home network revolve
  around what's going on inside your house. You, proud network owner,
  have got your own wide world of resources waiting for you on the PCs
  sitting right within your home. The files, folders, disk drives, and
  printers -- in fact, almost anything you can attach or store inside
  any computer on your network -- can be shared among all your PCs.
  Sharing requires taking three basic steps...." Sample book chapter;
  43 pp.

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Search Briefs
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+ MSN Shopping Adds Search Refinements for Hundreds of Product
  Categories

+ Preview Some New "Save Search" Features at AOL Search

+ Broadband Adoption in U.S. Homes Continues to Increase

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+ Factiva Upgrades Mobile Capability

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                 ++  Thursday, September 29, 2005,  ++


Resource of the Week
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By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor


Natural disasters, stratospheric gas prices, a messy war in Iraq that
goes on and on, two Supreme Court nominations on the line, evolution
versus "intelligent design," privacy-threatening security breaches,
and a whole raft of other social issues creating divisiveness in
society... Is it just me, or does it seem like the number of rumors
and hoaxes flying around the Internet is reaching critical mass? My
current personal favorite? Killer dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico,
freed from a Naval research facility by the wrath of Hurricane
Katrina. Not that I really have time to go to the beach anyhow...

It's probably a good time to review some of the sites on the Web where
you can go to check this stuff out before forwarding it along to 100
of your closest friends. (And don't we all have friends like this who
are eager to "share" with us?)

+ Urban Legends Reference Pages: Always check here first, since this
  is the motherlode...and it's nicely organized, for browsing and
  searching. Links on the front page will take you to the newest and
  25 hottest urban legends. Both pages have their own RSS feeds. For
  each tale, you'll learn where it came from (if possible) whether it
  is true, false, or undetermined/ambiguous. References and links to
  related information are often included. Killer dolphins in the Gulf
  of Mexico? Probably not. But they have been trained to detect mines,
  which could be useful.

+ CIAC Hoax Pages (Hoaxbusters): This website is part of the U.S.
  Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability.
  However, the site maintainers tell us, "At CIAC, we find that we
  spend much more time de-bunking hoaxes than handling real virus and
  Trojan incidents. These pages describe some of the warnings, offers,
  and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our
  mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." You
  can browse by category (including fake virus/malicious code
  warnings) or search the archive. There's also a Full Hoax Index that
  allows you to see, on a single page, the contents of all the other
  pages on the site. Also included is a comprehensive list of links to
  other hoax sites, as well as scam/fraud information and reporting
  sites.

+ About.com Urban Legends and Folklore: You can search and browse here
  as well, but as is typical for About.com sites, the cluttered
  interface can be distracting. Below the title of each entry, on the
  right, you'll see information about the origin of the rumor/hoax,
  its status and a link to a brief analysis. Clicking on Hoax Central
  on the lefthand nav bar takes you to a collection of stuff that is
  currently floating around, including Bogus Websites (remember the
  Bonsai Kitten?) and Faux Photos (always amusing). There's a top 25
  list here as well, and an image quiz (real or fake?).

+ TruthOrFiction.com: While not as content-rich as the three sites
  mentioned above, there's a particularly good section on
  religious/spiritual rumors, including prayer requests, etc. Search
  or browse. Paid subscriptions are offered here for those who want to
  be promptly alerted to "the latest stories, eRumors, and hoaxes."

+ purportal.com ("The Bunk Stops Here"): Keyword search five different
  hoax sites from a single page -- the first three sites mentioned
  here, plus the CERT Computer Security Database and the Symantec
  (Real) Virus Encyclopedia. Well worth a bookmark. Purportal was a
  ResourceShelf "Resource of the Week" in 2004.

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Online Information
  Source: Research Information
  The October/November 2005 of Research Information is Now Online
  Articles include:

+ Language skills help text mining

+ Automation reduces the cost of archiving

+ Archive programmes gain momentum

Hurricane Katrina--Archives
  Source: SAA
  Report of Hurricane Katrina Damage Assessment
  PDF.

Used Books
  Source: AP
  Used Books Are $2 Billion Industry

Library Databases
  Source: GovTech.net
  Revamped Michigan eLibrary Brings New Tools and Information
  Resources to Residents
  "On Wednesday, the Library of Michigan and Department of History,
  Arts and Libraries (HAL) announced the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) is
  open for business with a brand new look, more user-friendly search
  and retrieval features, and a stable of information resources, all
  geared to provide Michigan residents with access to a comprehensive
  collection of information."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Civil War--United States--Maps
  Source: American Memory Project, Library of Congress
  Just Released, Confederate Army Maps Now Online

  From a news release, A collection of Civil War maps, many of which
  were used by Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall"
  Jackson, is now available online at
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/hotchkiss/.

  The maps, from the Geography and Map Division, were obtained from
  Mrs. R.E. Christian, granddaughter of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss
  (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army.' 'The
  Hotchkiss Map Collection' contains cartographic items by Hotchkiss
  (1828-1899), who made detailed battle maps, primarily of the
  Shenandoah Valley, some of which were used by Gens. Lee and Jackson
  for their combat planning and strategy. Several of the maps have
  annotations of various military officers, demonstrating their
  importance in the military campaigns. The collection also includes
  maps made or used by Hotchkiss during his postwar years, including
  maps with information about railroads, minerals and mining, geology
  and history. Most of them focus on Virginia and West Virginia, but
  also cover other states and even the world."

Joseph Stalin--Databases
  Source: Univeristy of Pittsburgh Digital Libraries
  New, Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana

  "The Digital Research Library released an image collection visually
  documenting the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The website, Stalinka:
  Digital Library of Staliniana, is the result of a two-year effort
  between the DRL and Prof. Helena Goscilo (Department of Slavic
  Languages and Literatures), Susan Corbesero (Department of History),
  and Petre Petrov (graduate student). The collection comprises 368
  visual materials and artifacts relating to Stalin: photographs,
  posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc."

Country Studies
  Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
  New, Country Profile of Thailand
  PDF.
  See Also: More Country Profiles from the FRD

Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons--Maps
  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Deadly Maps

  "The complete collection of maps from Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear,
  Biological, and Chemical Threats by Joseph Cirincione, Jon B.
  Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar is now available online. Included in
  the collection are maps that reflect the worldwide proliferation of
  nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their missile delivery
  systems. Additionally, country maps show the major nuclear
  installations, both civilian and military, in each country."

Crime Enforcement--United States--Statistics
  Source: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
  (Syracuse University)
  New, Criminal Enforcement Changes in the Bush Years Released

  "New data show significant shifts have occurred in how the federal
  government enforced the law during the Bush Administration. From FY
  2000 to FY 2004, federal prosecutions were up by over 31%. The data,
  obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act, also document
  changes in the kinds of cases being brought to court: immigration
  and weapons prosecutions are climbing while white collar crime and
  drug prosecutions are sliding. The new data go through the end of
  March 2005 (the first half of FY 2005)."

Government--Canada
  Source: Library and Archives Canada
  New Online Exhibit, By Executive Decree

Armed Forces--United Kingdom
  Source: Ministry of Defence
  Just Released, UK Defence Statistics, 2005

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**** Make sure to check out Rolly, very cool! The possibilities are
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+ Yahoo Desktop Search Out Of Beta, Gets LiveWords Contextual Search

+ Dynamically Search and Browse RSS News Headlines
**** Very interesting technology!

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+ MetaPress Announces Web Site Enhancements

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