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ResourceShelf Newsletter
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Number 239 December 1, 2005


                 ++  Thursday, December 1, 2005  ++


Resource of the Week
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Web 2.0
An intro from Shirl and this week Gary also offers a short list of a few Web
2.0 type cool tools you might want to check out.

Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <a>



Professional Reading Shelf
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Technolgy Trends in Libraries
Source: LITA
Now Available, Listen Online: Annual 2005 Top Tech Trends program Now
Available via RealAudio)
This program took place at the ALA 2005 Annual Conference in Chicago. Talk
about an all-star panel!!! "This program features our ongoing roundtable
discussion about trends and advances in library technology by a panel of
LITA technology experts. The panelists will describe changes and advances in
technology that say see having an impact on the library world, and suggest
what libraries might do to to take advantage of these trends."
The panel included:
+ Tom Wilson
+ Andrew Pace
+ Roy Tennant
+ Karen Schneider
+ Eric Lease Morgan
+ Marshall Breeding
+ Milton Wolf
+ Joan Frye Williams
+ Clifford Lynch
+ Sarah Houghton
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Intranets
Enterprise Search
Source: SearchTools.com
Recent Presentations by Enterprise Search Expert, Avi Rappaport
Great content and reading!!! Well done, Avi and thanks for sharing.
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Patents--Search--United States
Source: USPTO
New,USPTO Publishes Patent Search Templates
"The Department of Commerce?s United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) is building a library of search templates for use by applicants,
patent practitioners and patent examiners to assist them in finding
evidence, known as prior art, to help determine if an invention is
patentable. Similar to a library card catalog, the search templates will
direct searchers to information on relevant fields of search, databases and
scientific journals considered germane to particular technologies and
inventions. The search templates will aid in more thorough prior art
searches, which should result in better quality patents."
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Web Search--Clusty
Source: SEW Blog
Clusty Launches Japanese Version of Its Metasearch and Dynamic Clustering
Service
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Internet Resources
Source: IRN
The December 2005 Issue of The Internet Resources Newsletter is Now Online
Numerous links to quality resources and news from Roddy MacLeod.
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Wikipedia
Source: USA Today
A false Wikipedia 'biography'
An interesting read. Of course, popular/in the news topics are going to be
checked, rechecked, and checked some more for content. But what about less
popular material that still might be of research value to someone. How often
is this material reviewed for mistakes, spam, etc?
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Government Secrecy
Source: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (via Federation of American
Scientists
NGA to Go Forward with Proposal to Remove Aeronautical Data from Public Access

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Libraries--Australia
Source: National Library of Australia
From Australia's Great Libraries: National Treasures
A web version of an exhibit that opens on December 3rd.
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Maps--South Africa
Online mapping for South Africa
"After 18 months of development, the system delivers user-friendly directory
and direction search options, an intuitive route-generating application for
departure-to-destination routing, embedded directory information on South
African business and points of interest, streets and companies searchable by
name, easy view and print options, full-screen zoom mode and seven-day
weather forecast for most towns in South Africa."
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Corporate Income Taxes
Source: CBO
New Report, Corporate Income Tax Rates: International Comparisons
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Freight--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: BTS
Top 10 U.S. International Freight Gateways, Ranked By Value of Shipments: 2004

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Search Briefs
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+ Keyword Searching of Podcasts Using a Variety of Tools
+ Yahoo Now Default Search Engine on Asian Versions of Firefox 1.5
+ Answers.com Now Embedded into Firefox 1.5 Search Toolbar

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Briefly
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FAST extends enterprise search leadership position with industry?s most
comprehensive platform support; FAST joins Sun Partner Advantage Program

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                 ++  Wednesday, November 30, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Books--Canada--Lists & Rankings
Source: Literature of Canada (LRC)
LRC Unveils The 100 Most Important Canadian Books Ever Written
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Preservation
OCLC
RLG
PREMIS, A Joint OCLC-RLG Working Group, wins 2005 Digital Preservation Award
"The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) working
group, jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, is an international set of more
than 30 experts from libraries, museums, archives, government, and the
private sector. In May 2005, PREMIS released its 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 includes in a single document the PREMIS working group's final
report, the dictionary, and a series of examples illustrating use of the
dictionary. The report, data dictionary, and examples can also be accessed."
--
Serial Prices
Source: Swets
Serials Price Increase Report #2
"Our Serials Price Increase Report is a service for customers that aims to
provide a survey of annual serial price increases and a budgeting tool for
libraries. The Report is updated and published monthly, this year from
October, with the final report appearing in January." Direct to
Report.-----------------

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Digital Divide
Source: Orbicom
The Digital Divide Guide to Digital Opportunities: Measuring Infostates for
Development
Country by country reports. 252 pages; PDF.
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Philanthropy--United States--Statistics
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
New Data Memo, 13 million Americans made donations online after Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita
Direct to complete report. (PDF)
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Poverty--United States--Statistics
Source: US Census
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): 2003
"of population and poverty for school districts, as well as income and
poverty estimates for states and counties. Included are estimates of the
number of poor children ages 5 to 17 in the nation?s 15,000 school districts."
--
Iraq
Terrorism
Source: Congressional Research Service (via FPC)
New, Combating Terrorism: The Challenge of Measuring Effectiveness
See Also: Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq: Effects and Countermeasures
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Hurricanes--Statistitcs
Source: NOAA/NHS
Noteworthy Records Of The 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Additional charts here.
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HIV/AIDS
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
World AIDS Day 2005 Resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation
This year, the theme of World AIDS Day on December 1, is ?Keep the Promise,?
which seeks to focus public attention of fulfilling commitments in the fight
against HIV/AIDS. In recognition of World AIDS Day, the Kaiser Family
Foundation has several new and updated resources, including: a new Kaiser
Public Opinion Spotlight, updated fact sheets on the epidemic globally and
in the U.S., a webcast of the United Nations event in New York City, updated
information from the CDC on statehealthfacts.org, country-specific data on
GlobalHealthReporting.org, and a timeline of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Search Briefs
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+ New Search Shortcuts from Yahoo
+ Microsoft Testing Its Own 'Google Base' (via eWeek)

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Briefly
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+ New Fee-Based Service Covers UK Politics: Politics Today
From The Press Association. Includes, "searchable access to the BBC's live
and archived coverage of the Houses of Parliament."
+ Firefox 1.5 Officially Released
+ Dialog Announces 2005 International InfoStar Winners
+ New Data Mining And Visualization Tool From Thomson Scientific

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                  ++  Tuesday, November 29, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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+ Live Blog Coverage of the Online Information Conference in London, UK
Thanks to the InfoToday Blog.
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Google Library Project
Source: SEW Blog
Legal Issues for Google Library Project in Europe
The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google
digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book
digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be precise) facing some
legal obstacles in Europe. Here it is in a nutshell, direct from the article:
"Google has acknowledged that it cannot digitise copyright material from
European libraries, according to the Association of Learned and Professional
Society Publishers (ALPSP)"
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Information Industry--Elsevier
Source: IWR
Elsevier restructures and lays off 30 staff
"Scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher Elsevier is restructuring
itself, and will see 30 redundancies. The review of working practices will
see the creation of five new business units, and aims to improve customer
relationships between the publisher and its users."
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Public Libraries--Theft
Source: Library Journal
Low-tech Responses Stem Major Thefts at MI Library
"Given that the library didn't want to require staffers to handle the media,
staffers adopted two solutions. One is to use a piece of laminate to cover
the tag that had been peeling off. Also, the library started using permanent
ink to identify the discs as library materials, and placing a 15-item limit
on checkouts. The 4000 discs lost represent about one-sixth of the library's
24,000-item collection of CDs and DVDs. Thefts have since plummeted."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Digitization Projects--Imagery
Source: LC
1 Million Digitized Images Now Available Online from The Library of Congress
"One searchable digitized collection from LC that you should know about is a
catalog of imagery from the The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
Division. As of today, more than 1 million digitized images are available
via the catalog. Access to the catalog is free." More info about "What's
New" at the Prints & Photographs Division here.
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Employers--Database
Source: Working America
Job Tracker
"Find out which companies in your area are exporting jobs, endangering
workers' health or involved in cases of violations of workers' rights under
the National Labor Relations Act. The database contains information on more
than 60,000 companies nationwide." Search by zip code, state, company,
industry.
Sources and Data
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Spam--Filters
Source: FTC
New, Email Address Harvesting and the Effectiveness of Anti-Spam Filters
"According to a new study released today by the Federal Trade Commission,
spammers continue to harvest email addresses from public areas of the
Internet, but Internet Service Providers? anti-spam technologies can block
the vast majority of spam sent to these email addresses. The FTC staff
report also found that consumers who must post their e-mail addresses on the
Internet can prevent them from being harvested by using a technique known as
'masking.'" Direct to Full Text Report (PDF)
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Gardens--Literature--Online Exhibition
Source: The British Library
Online Gallery: The Writer in the Garden
"Enter a world of real and imaginary gardens portrayed by writers through
the ages. See how gardens have inspired authors and how authors in their
turn have shaped notions of the garden. This website, which is associated
with a previous British Library exhibition, looks briefly at some of the
ideas associated with the garden, from the middle ages to the present day.
Using the work of poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, designers and
scientists it explores the interrelationship between writers, writing and
gardens."
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Weblogs--Corporations
Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere?
"Bloggers have damaged a number of companies, but it's time to think of the
blog as your friend. Skillful blogging can boost your company's credibility
and help it connect with customers."

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Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports
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+ Science in England, 2000-04
See Also: 10-Year Country Rankings for England
+ Science in Denmark, 2000-04
+ Australian Universities: Highest Impact in Chemistry, 2000-04
+ Communication: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 2000-04
+ Psychology: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04

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Search Briefs
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+ Gollum and Other Wikipedia Search Tools
+ UK: 192.com Directory Adds Genealogy Services
+ Searching Via Your Camera Phone

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                  ++  Monday, November 28, 2005  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Libraries--Disabilities
Source: IFLA
Pilot Project Results: "Information Now! Enhancing Digital Access to
Learning Materials for Canadians with Perceptual Disabilities"
"The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Library, with funding
from the Office of Learning Technologies (OLT), Human Resources and Skills
Development Canada, has established a Community Learning Network which
supports blind, visually impaired, and print-disabled adult learners across
Canada as they extensively test the Library's newest format -- DAISY digital
talking books on CD." Direct to Final Report (PDF).
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Controlled Vocabularies--Standards
Source: NISO
Goal of NISO Z39.19: A Better Path to Content Management
"The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a
revised controlled vocabularies standard, Guidelines for the Construction,
Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." Abstract and
Full Text here.
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Serials--Statistics
Source: Media Daily News/Oxbridge Communications (Publisher of the National
Directory of Magazines)
+ Interior Design Publications Experience Huge Growth: More Than Double The
Number In Past Ten Years
+ Mags Shift To Lighter Fare, Away From Religion, Gay, Ethnic Themes
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World Summit of the Information Society
Source: ICA
The final official documents to the World Summit of the Information Society
are available
"These documents include references to the necessity of the long-term
preservation of the digital information and of supporting cultural
institutions including libraries, archives, and museums."
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National Archive and Records Administration
Source: NARA
Congress Approves FY 2006 Budget of $338 Million for the National Archives

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Public Policy--Resources
Source: Knowledge Quest (ALA)
Foreign Think Tanks, Part One
A new guide by Ken Umbach. From the article, "'Policy and Data Resources on
the Web' discusses think tanks and other valuable but less widely known
information and data resources, and suggests teaching strategies and
curricular applications for them."
--
Dictionaries
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
OED Word of the Day Via E-Mail
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Higher Education--United States--Statistics
Source: National Science Foundation
New, 2004 Doctorate Awards Increase in Science and Engineering Fields for
the Second Year in a Row
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Julius Caesar--Database
Source: askSam (William Shakespeare)
Free Searchable Version of Julius Caesar Now Available
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Hurricane Katrina
Source: Leadership Directories
Free, Information for Organizations Affected by Hurricane Katrina

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Briefly
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+ Thomson Scientific Launches Web Citation Index: New Scholarly Index
Directs Researchers To Valuable Content From Repositories
+ Announcing IngentaConnect Complete: New service gives libraries a
customized interface to IngentaConnect

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Search Briefs
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New Tools, Video Trials, and Services from AOL and MSN
Download hi-quality video content to your computer while your system is idle.

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Briefly
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Mobile: Students found using SMS during final exams in Australia

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Beta File (aka Things Worth Taking A Look At)
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SoonR
Note: Om Malik has an overview. We're going to test soon. Very Cool!!]
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                  ++  Sunday, November 27, 2005  ++


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Cities--Crime--Ranking
Source: Morgan Quitno Press
12th Annual Safest City Award
"The Morgan Quitno Safest City Award is based on a city's rate for six basic
crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and
motor vehicle theft. All cities of 75,000+ populations that reported crime
data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings.
In this year's survey, 369 cities were considere

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Legal Reference--Open Source
Source: Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
Wex
"Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created,
public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by
the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School. Much of the
material that appears in Wex was originally developed for the LII's 'Law
about...' pages, to which Wex is the successor."

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Search Briefs
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+ Popular Firefox Extension: Customize Google Now Has a Blog
New features, too! From their blog, "Removes image copying restrictions in
Google Book Search." Wow!

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                 ++  Saturday, November 26, 2005  ++



Professional Reading Shelf
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IFLA
Source: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Libraries the Information Society in Action
Address to Plenary World Summit on the Information Society by Alex Byrne,
President of IFLA.
From the speech, "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Television Commercials--Music
Source: Numerous contributors
Songtitle.Info: Music from TV Commercials
Ongoing listing of music used in television commercials (North America),
from 1996 (in the archives) to present. Entries include advertiser,
advertising spot, artist/composer, title (which is a live link to the
appropriate song snippet on Amazon.com), track and name of contributor.
Browse chronologically or use the Google-based search tool. Cool.

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                  ++  Friday, November 25, 2005  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
Digitisation--United Kingdom
Source: JISC
New digitisation report calls for cross-sectoral e-content strategy
From the news release, "Stuart Dempster, JISC's Digitisation programme
manager, said: "This is the first attempt from a national perspective to
stand back and look at what we have achieved over the last ten years in the
digitisation field. While the report points to the work that needs to be
done, it also highlights the importance of digitised resources to a range of
sectors, including education and research. JISC looks forward to playing its
part in taking the report's recommendations forward in collaboration with
the EU Dynamic Action Plan." Direct to Full Text Report.
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American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
New, ASIST Launches Redesigned Web Website
Included on the site is ASIS&T's New Digital Library.
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Semi-Structured Data
Source: ACM Queue
XML and Semi-Structured Data
"What role can XML play in solving the semi-structured data problem?"
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Electronic Publications
Source: ScieCom info
New Article, Electronic Publications : Access Now and in the Future
Lunden, Tomas (Date Created: 15 Nov 2005) (Sweden)
"This is a report of a seminar held on the 18th October 2005 at the Swedish
Royal Library. The seminar discussed technical, political and organisational
issues involved in the long term preservation and access to electronic
publications." (via PADI)
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Public Libraries--Books
Source: The Buffalo News
When a library closes, who gets the books?
"The rights to thousands of books are at the center of a controversy brewing
in the Town of Tonawanda. In question are about 30,000 books remaining at
the now-closed Brighton Library, one of 15 libraries shutting down by year's
end to cut expenses in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system. A
citizen group, Friends of the Brighton Library, hopes to use the Brighton
Road building as a community reading room and wants all the materials left
behind for public use. The town's Library Board, meanwhile, already has
planned a one-day book sale at Brighton, with the proceeds to benefit the
two cash-strapped libraries staying open in Tonawanda. Who should get the
books?"
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Digital Libraries
Source: JCDL
Just Released: The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Call For Papers
JCDL 2006 will take place on June 11-15, 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Taxes--Australia
Source: Parliament Library, Australia
New Report: Tax comparisons--Australia and selected countries
4 pages; PDF.
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Manufacturing--Statistics
Source: BLS
International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production
Workers in Manufacturing (2004)
15 page; PDF also available.
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Blogging--FAQ
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Bloggers' FAQ - Student Blogging
"The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from
student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school)
students, but also contains information for college students."
See Also: Legal Guide for Bloggers
Updated last week.

* Weblogs - AT ISSUE Student Blogs, School Cracks Down
* Parents need to know how to Keep Your Child Safe
* "Teens are blogging everyday, reaching an audience of millions," ... the
tools they need to blog legally, and understand how to defend their rights."
* EFF's "Legal Guide for Bloggers" is a collection of frequently asked
questions (FAQs) designed to educate bloggers about their legal rights in a
number of areas, including libel law, copyright law, and political advocacy.
The guide will help bloggers understand the basics about the laws that
affect them so they can better protect and defend their rights.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/podcast.html

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Hate Crimes--United States--Statistics
Source: FBI
Hate Crime Statistics, 2004
"Published annually since 1992, Hate Crime Statistics is the byproduct of
the joint effort between the FBI and the law enforcement agencies that
identify and report hate crimes. This partnership and, ultimately, this
publication serve as the cornerstone in raising the Nation's awareness about
the occurrence of bias-motivated offenses. The publication has also become a
statistical tool for those involved in the advocacy or the study of persons
persecuted because of their inherent traits, such as the color of their
skin, or the personal decisions they make, like what church they attend."

Hate Site Recruiting Tools
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/hate.html

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--Maps
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Open CRS)
Legislative Maps of ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)

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Briefly
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+ Translation: Elsevier and Science Press Launch Joint Translation Center in
China
+ Executive Briefing: New Publication from Harvard Business School Press and
Economist Intelligence Unit

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Beta File
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+ Filangy.com
Save pages, tag pages, cache all that you view in your browser (your
choice), and much more. All web-based, access from any computer. Very cool
and very useful!

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Odds & Ends
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+ Accessing Near Real-Time Flight Info on the Web

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                 ++  Thursday, November 24, 2005  ++


Resource of the Week
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by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

Social Sciences--Research Repository
Source: Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.
Social Science Research Network
"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of
leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of
social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research
networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages
the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing
submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research
papers around the world.... The Abstract Database contains information on
over 104,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. The Electronic
Paper collection currently contains over 76,600 downloadable electronic
documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Our users are downloading over
120,000 full text papers each month."

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Archival Materials--Databases
Get Ready for a New Free Database from RLG
We're big fans of RLG's amazing RedLightGreen bibliographic database. If
you've never visited and used this service, you should. Here's an overview
that Gary wrote for SearchDay.

Now, a post from RLG's Merrilee Proffitt "Watch this space: ArchiveGrid is
coming to town" reports than early in 2006 RLG will offer another free
database. This one named Archivegrid.org. Cool!

From the site:
ArchiveGrid will be the ultimate destination for searching through family
histories, political papers, and historical records held in archives around
the world. Hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed
nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Scholars searching
ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections,
contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies."

You can get an idea of how pages will look by clicking here then taking a
look (and click) at some of the topics covered. You can also take a look at
some prototype UI's here.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Thanksgiving Day--United States--Fast Facts
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts: Thanksgiving 2005
All sorts of numbers and stats including:
+ 256 million
The preliminary estimate of the number of turkeys raised in the United
States in 2005.
+ 998 million pounds
Total pumpkin production of major pumpkin-producing states in 2004
+ 3
Number of places in the United States named after the holiday's traditional
main course. Turkey, Texas, was the most populous.

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