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ResourceShelf Newsletter
<http://www.resourceshelf.com>
Number 244   January 19, 2006


                 ++  Thursday, January 19, 2006  ++

Resource of the Week
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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Maybe you're thinking...agriculture? Has nothing to do with me. Oh,
but you are wrong...

Agriculture--United States--Economics
  Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (ERS)
  Amber Waves

  The subtitle of this site is: "The Economics of Food, Farming,
  Natural Resources, and Rural America." It's actually an online
  magazine, published five time a year (February, April, June,
  September, and November) by the ERS. You can subscribe to the dead
  tree version (through NTIS) for $49.95 per year, or read it on the
  Internet for free. The Internet version "offers additional articles
  and data between scheduled issues," and you can sign up for e-mail
  alerts. The full Internet version is available for download in PDF
  format. An archive is available, and the site is searchable.

Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4gacr>


Professional Reading Shelf
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Factiva
  Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
  Factiva's Search 2.0 Beta is Now Live
  Paula Hane takes an in-depth look at the new beta that was released
  on Tuesday.

Dublin Core
  Metatags
  Source: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
  Dublin Core Releases New Mission Statement

RLG
  Source: RLG
   New Issue of RLG's TopShelf Is Online

+ James Michalko: Next Steps for the Open Content Alliance

+ ArchiveGrid Moving Steadily to March 2006 Launch

ERIC
  Controlled Vocabularies
  Source: Education Resources Information Center
  ERIC Launches Quarterly Thesaurus Updates

Cataloging
  Anglo American Cataloging Rules
  Source: OCLC Systems & Services (via E-LIS)
  The Future of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

  This paper was published in 2005 and was written by Norm Medeiros.
  Abstract: "This article discusses the impending update to the Anglo-
  American Cataloging Rules (AACR) and its potential impact on
  libraries and other metadata communities."

Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4gacq>


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Country Studies
  Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress

+ Updated Report: Turkey (PDF)

+ New Report: United Arab Emirates (PDF)

International Polar Year--Portal
  Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  NSF Launches New Web Portal for International Polar Year

  "The National Science Foundation (NSF) today launched a portal Web
  site to provide the general public and members of the news media
  with easy access to news releases, classroom resources, listings of
  museum and gallery exhibits, and catalogs of video and still images
  and other materials produced or supported by the federal government
  as part of the U.S. contribution to the International Polar Year
  (IPY) 2007-2008."

Change
  Source: Smithsonian Institution
  Forces of Change Portal

  "Nearly every scientific and social issue confronting us today
  involves change: climate change, ecological change, cultural change.
  What forces drive these changes? How do we - and all life on this
  planet -- adapt to change? Come and explore these ideas, experience
  our El Nino interactive, meet our scientists, and download our free
  educational lesson plans at the new Forces of Change Portal."

  See Also: NOAA Predicts Weak La Nina

Phishing
  Source: Anti-Phishing Working Group
  New Report, Phishing Activity Trends Report November, 2005

  11 pages; PDF. From a News.com article: "Phishing attacks reached a
  new high at the end of 2005 after growing steadily all year,
  according to a study published Wednesday. The number of unique e-
  mail-based fraud attacks detected in November 2005 was 16,882,
  almost double the 8,975 attacks launched in November 2004, said the
  report, published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an industry
  consortium that provides information on phishing trends."

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Search Briefs
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+ On Yahoo Recommender Systems and a Movie Recommendation Tool from
  the University of Minnesota

+ Streaming Audio on Your Phone or Device

+ Google Testing Paid Ads in Google Earth

Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4gacn>


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+ American FactFinder Database From US Census Updated With New
  Features

+ The New York Public Library's New $50 Million Bronx Library Center
  Opens to the Public

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                 ++  Wednesday, January 18, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Public Libraries--Canada
Public Libraries--United States
  Source: Counting Opinions Ltd.
  Libraries411.com: Maps "Mashup" Combines Public Library Location
  Info And More with Maps from Yahoo and Google

  Yes, it's a mashup/public library locator from Counting Opinions
  (SQUIRE) Ltd. This service combines location info (and more) about
  more than 20,000 public libraries in the US and Canada and then
  merges the data on to maps from either Google or Yahoo. Search by
  name, Zip Code or Postal Code. Maps contain location markers. Click
  on the marker to get precise location info, web url and in some
  cases hours and library size. Narrow results to central libraries,
  branch libraries, and/or bookmobiles. Results pages contain no
  advertising. To switch between Google Maps and Yahoo Maps look for
  the link near the bottom of the right column. Libraries411.com went
  live in December.

Digital Libraries
  Source: D-Lib
  The January 2006 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Online
  Articles include:

+ Folksonomies: Tidying Up Tags?
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http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/podcast.html
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+ UKWAC: Building the UK's First Public Web Archive

+ Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata
  Aggregation Services

+ The Digital Library for Earth System Education Provides
  Individualized Reports for Teachers on the Effectiveness of
  Educational Resources in Their Own Classrooms

E-books
  Source: Guardian Unlimited
  E-read all about it

  "The word, written and spoken, remains at the heart of our
  civilisation. There is every reason to want to see the printed word
  enhanced by something more in tune with current information
  technology, but until the geeky entrepreneurs of MIT, Microsoft,
  Google, Amazon and the rest can come up with something that looks
  like a book, feels like a book and behaves like a book, those who
  handle such items every day, and marvel over the magical integration
  of print, paper and binding, will probably continue to read and
  enjoy books much as Caxton and Gutenberg did."

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e-books

How to work with Google, Google Scholar,
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search2.html

BOUT E-BOOKS
Authors Guild National Writers Union Pike's Peak Writers'
Retreat Ebooks n Bytes Alliance of Artists Communities Writers.com
Writerswrite Writer's Write BookWire from R.R.Bowker
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/E-Books.asp

The netLibrary eBooks are available to county library
patrons at computer terminals in all of the libraries.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/Free-E.asp
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Academic Libraries
  Source: California Digital Library
  New Report: Shared Print: The Patron Perspective
  "Findings from a round of focus groups conducted at UCSD in November
  2005 to identify any potential barriers to adoption of a shared
  print collection by faculty and graduate students." PDF.

eGovernment--Wikis
  Semantic Web
  Source: Electronic Government (Wagner, Cheung, Rachael, Bottcher)
  Building Semantic Webs for e-government with Wiki technology (PDF;
  963 KB)

  "E-government webs are among the largest webs in existence, based on
  the size, number of users and number of information providers. Thus,
  creating a Semantic Web infrastructure to meaningfully organise e-
  government webs is highly desirable. At the same time, the
  complexity of the existing e-government implementations also
  challenges the feasibility of Semantic Web creation. We therefore
  propose the design of a two-layer semantic Wiki web, which consists
  of a content Wiki, largely identical to the traditional web and a
  semantic layer, also maintained within the Wiki, that describes
  semantic relationships. This architectural design promises several
  advantages that enable incremental growth, collaborative development
  by a large community of non-technical users and the ability to
  continually grow the content layer without the immediate overhead of
  parallel maintenance of the semantic layer. This paper explains
  current challenges to the development of a Semantic Web, identifies
  Wiki advantages, illustrates a potential solution and summarises
  major directions for further research."

Newspapers--Australia--Databases
  Source: National Library of Australia
  More of The Argus Online

  An online index to The Argus newspaper for the decade 1870-1879 has
  been published on the Library website. The Argus, the major
  Australian metropolitan daily of its time, was published in
  Melbourne from 1846 to 1957. It is the primary resource for data on
  19th century Australia, widely recognised as the general Australian
  newspaper of record for the era. The 1870-1879 index is part of La
  Trobe University's Argus Index Project and the first available in
  this form. However, others will go online as they are completed. The
  entire Ned Kelly story is contained in this index."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Money Laundering--United States
  Source: US Dept. of Treasury
  New Report, U.S. Money Laundering Threat Assessment
  "The United States Government [has] released the inter-agency U.S.
  Money Laundering Threat Assessment (MLTA), the first government-wide
  analysis of its kind, which investigates money laundering
  vulnerabilities across a spectrum of techniques used by criminals."

Earthquakes--Statistics
  Source: USGS
  Fewer Deaths than 2004, but Earthquakes Still Kill Nearly 90,000 in
  2005
  See Also: Significant Worldwide Earthquakes in 2005

Nuclear Strategy--Syria
  Source: SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
  New Country Profile: Countries of Nuclear Strategic Concern: Syria
  See Also: Additional Country Profiles Are Available

Antarctica--Web Resources
  Source: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
  Antarctica
  A collection of selected web resources. Part of the LC Portals to
  the World Project.

Maps and Charts--Marine
  NOAA Offers Free Navigational Charts on Web
  "Mariners can now get free electronic downloads of NOAA Raster
  Navigational Charts or RNCs. A raster chart is a digitally scanned
  image of a paper nautical chart used by mariners for navigation."
  Direct to database.

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Search Briefs
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+ More Instant Answers Now Available on MSN Search
  From search engines to answer engines.

+ Hot: Real Estate Industry Uses of Satellite/Aerial Imagery
  Lots of cool resources for everyone!!!

+ TV Transcripts and Still Images No Longer Part of Google Video
  Where else can you find them?

+ Results from MSN Search Added to Jux2 Tool Metasearch and Results
  Comparison Tool

Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4fywd>


Citation Reports
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Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports
  Source: ISI

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

+ Science in Scotland, 2000-04

+ The 20 most-cited countries in Economics & Business

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Geology

+ Canadian Universities: Highest Impact in Materials Science, 2000-04

+ Hot Paper in Biology

+ Hot Paper in Chemistry

See Also: Thomson Scientific Names Doctors Of The Decade, 1995-2005

"Researchers from Harvard University lead the pack in clinical
medicine research by earning the highest number of citations over the
past decade, according to a study published in the January/February
issue of Science Watch?the bi monthly newsletter published by Thomson
Scientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation. Using data from
Essential Science Indicators SM , the Science Watch study evaluated
institutions based on papers published and cited in clinical-medicine
journals indexed by Thomson Scientific (including multidisciplinary
journals such as Science and Nature)."

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+ Call For Applicants: Dialog's 2006 North American Roger K. Summit
  Scholarship

+ Hispanic Publications More Than Doubled From 1996-2006 According To
  The Standard Periodical Directory

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                  ++  Tuesday, January 17, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Web Research--Training
Source: Resource Discovery Network
English as a Second Language Virtual Training Suite Tutorial Launched

The RDN has added to the range of Virtual Training Suite Tutorial
(VTS) [web and Internet research] tutorials that it provides by
launching one specificaly designed for Learners of English as a Second
Language (ESOL).

See Also: MANY More Internet Research Tutorials are Available fromt
the VTS

Reading Clubs--Canada
  Source: Library and Archives Canada
  Report, TD Summer Reading Club 2005 Survey

"Are you interested in the results of the TD Summer Reading Club 2005
survey? Library and Archives Canada invites you to read the key
findings of the research conducted with the participating public
libraries in 11 out of the 13 provinces and territories." A PDF
version of the report is also available.

Internet Filtering--Australia
Public Libraries--Australia
  Source: ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association)
  ALIA urges the Tasmanian government to reverse its decision to
  introduce filtering software

American Library Association
  Source: ALA
  New Publication: ALA launches "AL Direct" weekly email news service
  Available free to members.

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FILTERS, CIPA, Children's Internet Protection Act...
Cookies Espionage Censorship Filtering Software Filters
Erase Hard Drive K12 Filtering Software Filter software for schools
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/filtering.html

Saudi Arabia, China Censorship and Censorware...
Internet filtering companies provides Internet-filtering software
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisisCENSORSHIP.html
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Milestones
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+ Directory of Open Access Journals Passes 2000 Journal Mark

Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4fytx>


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Congressional Research Service
  Source: CRS (via FPC and Open CRS)
  Selected New or Recently Updated CRS Reports

+ USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (H.R.3199):
  A Side-by-Side Comparison of Existing Law, H.R. 3199 (Conference),
  and H.R. 3199 (Senate Passed)

+ Federal Spending by Agency and Budget Function, FY2001-FY2005

+ U.S. and International Responses to the Global Spread of Avian Flu:
  Issues for Congress

+ Status of a Member of the House Who Has Been Indicted for or
  Convicted of a Felony

+ Authorization For Use of Military Force in Response to the 9/11
  Attacks (P.L. 107-40): Legislative History

+ U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients,
  1997-2004

+ Venue: A Legal Analysis of Where a Federal Crime May Be Tried
  All reports are PDF files.

IPO's--Statistics
  Source: Hoover's
  Hoover's IPO Scorecard Reveals Loss Of Momentum In 2005, IPOs
  Decreased By 16% For The Year

  From the news release, "196 companies went public on the major U.S.
  stock exchanges in 2005, a 16% decrease in the number of IPOs over
  2004, according to Hoover's IPO Scorecard
  (www.hoovers.com/ipo/scorecard)."

Labor--Benefits--Statistics
  Source: TowersPerrin
  New Report, Managing Global Pay and Benefits: Worldwide Total
  Remuneration

  7 pages; PDF. "Leading global companies continue to seek some broad
  measure of consistency in their approach to HR programs while making
  adjustments to account for local market practices and conditions.
  Compelling strategies have to address these challenges as they seek
  to link pay to performance, customize long-term incentives and re-
  examine benefits. Selected charts from this comprehensive report on
  remuneration practices in 26 key locations are now available."

Environment--United States
  Source: OECD
  New, OECD issues environmental report card for the US

  "A new OECD review of environmental policy in the U.S. recommends
  more efficient use of energy and water as a way to safeguard
  economic prosperity while protecting the environment and human
  health. Despite progress in some areas over the past decade, more
  effort is needed in others. The OECD recommends that the U.S. play a
  more proactive role in dealing with global environmental concerns."
  Full text of the report is fee-based. However, conclusions and
  recommendations are available (free) here (PDF).

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Briefly
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+ Executive Daily Brief (EDB) Now Available from EBSCO Publishing

+ Factiva Adds Content from The Press Association

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                  ++  Monday, January 16, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Wikipedia
  Source: Knowledge@Wharton
  Can Wikipedia Survive Its Own Success?

  "According to Eric Clemons, professor of operations and information
  management, it is foolish to take Wikipedia's definitions as gospel,
  but the site is still worth reading from time to time. Marketing
  professor Peter Fader notes that Wikipedia shows there is wisdom in
  crowds, but a better user rating system would filter out those who
  post bogus information. Joel Waldfogel, professor of business and
  public policy, agrees that much of the concern about Wikipedia is
  just a new spin on whether old media (printed encyclopedias, in this
  case) stand a chance against the new breed of instantly updatable
  online media." We were sad that the author didn't include any
  thoughts or views from the many excellent information professionals
  at Wharton or at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in the article. It would
  have made sense.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Higher Education--United States--Lists & Ranking
  Source: Kiplinger's Personal Finance
  Best Values in Public Colleges
  "Our fifth ranking of 100 schools that offer academic excellence at
  an affordable price finds a familiar name at the top of the list.
  See if your state school is a contender."

+ Tool for sorting colleges by overall rank, cost, quality measures or
  financial aid measures.

+ Methodology


Mobile Web--Weather
  Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and
  Engineering Center
  PDA Animated Weather (PAW)

  "PAW is a PDA-friendly weather web site that contains real-time
  images, graphics and text formated for display on PDA devices
  equipped with high-resolution color displays. Content, including
  composite weather radar and satellite images with graphical overlay
  of observed and predicted data, can be viewed and controlled using
  web micro-browsers standard on these units. Users select from
  predefined geographical regions and control data type, animation,
  zoom, and roam. National Weather Service Zone Forecast Products and
  Model Output Statistics are available for selected cities."

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Search Briefs
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+ Copyright Issues and Video Search

+ Tools that Optimize Web Content for Mobile Web: Google Joins
  Skweezer and IYHY

+ Loomia Offers Podcast/Vidcast Search, Personalized Recommendation
  Service Now Available for Site Developers

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                  ++  Sunday, January 15, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Optical Media--Lifespan Source: IDG News Service (via Yahoo! News) Do
  Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span? "Opinions vary on how to preserve
  data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt
  Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland, has his
  own view: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few
  years, use magnetic tapes to store all your pictures, videos and
  songs for a lifetime.... 'Many of the cheap burnable CDs available
  at discount stores have a life span of around two years,' Gerecke
  says. 'Some of the better-quality discs offer a longer life span, of
  a maximum of five years.'"

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--Databases
  Source: NewspaperARCHIVE.com
  New, MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com

  "In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and upcoming Black
  History month, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspaper pages
  about Dr. King has been released on
  MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com...The website is a free service of
  NewspaperARCHIVE.com and contains original stories about the
  Montgomery bus boycott, the 'I Have A Dream' speech, details about
  King's assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other
  headlines detailing Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and work."

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Black History Month All Year Long
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/bhm/bhm.html
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                 ++  Saturday, January 14, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Unstructured Data
Text Mining
  Source: CFO
  The Joy of Text

  "The latest generation of technology, developed by vendors flush
  with post-9/11 government investment (see 'Parsing the Text Market'
  at the end of the article), is still far from perfect. But it is
  allowing corporations with large data sets to perform important
  feats they couldn't before. 'It really is the next frontier of
  understanding in business intelligence,' says Martin Schneider, an
  analyst at The 451 Group in New York."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Maps
Cool 3D, Interactive Maps from Maps24

The post has directions on how to access. Maps are available for many
locations around the world. Make your driving directions into animated
files!

See Also: Looking for Interactive Aeronautical Charts (U.S. Only)?
Check Skyvector.com!

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                 ++  Friday, January 13, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Digital Preservation--Bibliography
  Source: Alaska State Library
  Preserving Electronic Documents and Records (PDF; 116 KB)
  Annotated bibliography covers Threats to Digital Materials, Specific
  Concerns for Archivists & Records Managers, Review Articles,
  Examples of Specific Approaches to Aspects of Digital Preservation,
  Suggested Internet Resources.

Librarians--Stress
  Source: BBC News
  Librarians 'suffer most stress'
  "Fighting fires may sound taxing, chasing criminals demanding, but a
  new study says that working in a library is the most stressful job
  of all. Librarians are the most unhappy with their workplace, often
  finding their job repetitive and unchallenging, according to
  psychologist Saqib Saddiq."

Internet--Censorship--China
  Source: BusinessWeek (via SEW Blog)
  BusinessWeek Article Offers Look at Net Censorship in China
  Must read!

User Interfaces--Research
  Source: University of Maryland
  Dissertation: Children's Interface Design For Searching And Browsing

  A PhD dissertation by Hilary Browne Hutchinson. From the abtract:
  "Elementary-age children are among the largest user groups of
  computers and the Internet, so it is important to design searching
  and browsing interfaces to support them. However, many interfaces
  for children do not consider their skills and preferences. Children
  can perform simple, single-item searches, and are also capable of
  conducting Boolean searches involving multiple search criteria.
  However, they have difficulty creating Boolean searches using
  hierarchical structures found in many interfaces. These interfaces
  often employ a sequential presentation of the category structure,
  where only one branch or facet at a time can be explored. This
  combination of structure and presentation keeps the screen from
  becoming cluttered, but requires a lot of navigation to explore
  categories in different areas and an understanding of potentially
  abstract high-level categories."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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News Media--United States
  Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism (Columbia University
  Graduate School of Journalism)
  New! The State of the News Media 2005

  From the introduction: "In the last year, some trends have become
  clearer, and some popular notions seem to us exaggerated. The year
  saw the blossoming of citizen blogs, the emergence of a major new
  news source edited entirely by computers (Google News), and both
  triumph (exposing the Abu Ghraib prison scandal) and failure
  (Memogate) for one of the TV networks. Customization, and with it
  fragmentation, reached new levels; Reason magazine even sent each
  subscriber an issue so tailored it had a satellite photo of that
  person's own home on the cover." (via DocuTicker)

Ephemera--Digitized Collections
  Source: University of Pittsburgh Digital Research Library
  Recently Released, American Left Ephemera Collection

  "The Digital Research Library released the American Left Ephemera
  Collection, which contains 125 items that reflect the personal
  collection of Richard J. Oestreicher, Associate Professor (History)
  at the University of Pittsburgh. Students enrolled in his fall 2005
  senior honors research seminar used the primary source material in
  their study of left-wing organizations in the twentieth century in
  the U.S. Digitized items include flyers, leaflets, pamphlets,
  posters, postcards, illustrations, photographs, pins, ribbons, and
  miscellaneous objects."

Labor
Minimum Wage
  Source: Catherwood Library, Cornell University
  Research Resources: What is the Minimum Wage in the U.S. and the
  various States and how does this compare to minimum wage concepts in
  Europe?
  Tools and resources to get needed answers. Part of the Catherwood
  Library "Question of the Month" series.

Automobiles--Canada--Databases
  Source: Transport Canada
  Just Updated with 2006 Data: Fuel Consumption Ratings

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Search Briefs
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+ Google Offers New Versions of Google Mini Search Appliance, Fast
  Search and NY Times Company Announce Deal

+ Microsoft Research India Demos Interactive, Multilingual Map
  Prototype

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+ Readex Announces Two New Series of Digitized Early American Newspapers

+ Non-Indexed Materials in IEEE Xplore Digital Library Now Available
  Free to All

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               ++  Thursday, January 12, 2006  ++

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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Natural Science--FAQs
  Source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  Frequently Asked Questions

  The one-line description on this simple, uncluttered page says it
  all: "Our FAQ database contains hundreds of answers to frequently
  asked questions on a wide range of natural science topics." And so
  it does. You can browse these by topic -- they're in alphabetical
  order, from aerial photographs to wildlife -- or do a simple search
  of everything by typing a keyword or phrase in the text box
  provided. There are 34 topics in all, several of which pop up
  regularly as school report assignments, e.g., Endangered Species,
  Volcanoes.

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Web Search--Google
  Source: SEW Blog
  Google Scholar Begins International Push

  Late word from Google Scholar that they now offer content in
  Portugese and Chinese (traditional and simplified) as well as
  interfaces for four countries. Gary has a post with links and more
  info in this SEW Blog post.

Reference Reviews
  Peter's Digital Reference Shelf, January 2005, Is Now Online
  Dr. Jacso (from the University of Hawaii) reviews:
  EconPapers

  "The largest open-access, partially full-text database in economics
  containing information about journal articles, working papers and
  software, and sporting online usage statistics and links to
  digitally available cited and citing references is a perfect example
  to encourage social scientists to deposit research papers in open-
  access databases."

&

GenderStats
  "Useful compilation of gender-specific statistical indicators for
  ready reference from a variety of sources, with download/export
  options for further data processing."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Legal Terms--United States--Glossary
  Source: USCourts.gov
  Updated, Legal Term Glossary
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