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Classroom resources - slave songs, including stories of the people,
often passed from elders to the next generation, learn through the oral tradition.
Find 2 original Anansi Folktale E-books. Download, read, and hear each
story narrated in both American Virgin Island Creole and Standard English,
plus find out how these stories survived in tact from the original
storyteller. The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole folktale below was collected
by a Dutch anthropologist, J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, who visited the
Virgin Islands in 1923. De Josselin de Jong does not say who told him this
story. However, we do know that all of the people who told him stories
lived on St. Thomas and St. John and that they spoke both Dutch Creole and
Virgin Islands English.
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ResourceShelf Newsletter
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Number 247
February 9, 2006


                 ++  Thursday, February 9, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Literacy--Databases
  Source: Information Literacy Section/IFLA
  New, International Information Literacy Resources Directory
  "The Information Literacy Section has created this database to
  record information literacy materials from different parts of the
  world, on behalf of UNESCO."

Library Catalogues--United Kingdom
  RSS
  Source: JISC
  TOCRoSS: New JISC project will feed tables of contents into library
  catalogues

  Yes, RSS!!! A new JISC project is developing an RSS news feed
  service that will automatically feed publisher and e-journal
  information into library catalogues. Led by the publisher Emerald,
  and supported by library supplier Talis, the project will finish in
  July 2006. The University of Derby is working as the test bed and
  evaluation partner. The open source software developed by the
  TOCRoSS project will be freely available to further and higher
  education establishments, publishers, and library management systems
  developers. With TOCRoSS in place, e-journal table of content data
  will be fed automatically into library catalogues without the need
  for cataloguing, classification or data entry. This will improve the
  accuracy of records, save time for library staff and deliver a more
  integrated service to library users." More info here.

Academic Libraries--United Kingdom
  Source: IWR
  Oxford libraries 'may lose up to 200 jobs'
  "Oxford University is planning to reduce staffing costs in its
  libraries by up to 2m Pounds, which could result in the loss of up
  to 200 jobs.The curators of Oxford University libraries have
  proposed that over a five-year period, staffing costs be reduced by
  up to £2m, 'with savings made through re-deployment, staff turnover
  and voluntary severance.'"

Public Libraries--Iowa--Internet Filtering
  Source: ALA
  Iowa Bill Ties Funding to Filtering Pornography
  A bill introduced January 30 in the Iowa Senate would withhold state
  funding to public libraries unless they 'eliminate access to
  pornography on the public library?s computer equipment.' If enacted,
  Senate File 2108 would also require state-funded public libraries to
  prohibit patrons younger than 17 from borrowing R-rated films."

National Library of Medicine--Budget
  Source: NLM
  National Library of Medicine Appropriations, 2007 Congressional
  Justification
  17 pages; PDF.

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Search Briefs
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+ Feedster Gets a New Look (via SEW Blog)

+ Udi Manber Leaves A9 to Join Google

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Ready Reference--Answers.com
  Source: Answers.com
  Answers.com Adds New Ready Reference Content to Database
  Answers.com continues to add new content from a wide variety of
  sources to their database. Cool! Several new sources have been added
  this month. They include:

+ Pop Artists via AMG Pop Artist Bios (e.g. Stevie Wonder, Tori Amos,
  Pearl Jam...)

AMG stands for All Music Guidem a wonderful reference tool and a
favorite resource of mine. Look for bios and discographies. AMG also
contains info about classical music.

+ Fast Facts - Interesting trivia (e.g. Larry Bird, Magic Johnson,
  Charles Barkley...)

+ Western Birds - Souurce: Peterson Field guide to Western birds (e.g.
  bar-tailed godwit, yellow-headed parrot, ringed-turtle dove...)

+ Rocks and Minerals - Source: Peterson Field Guide to Rocks and
  Minerals (e.g. gold, opal, sulfur...)

+ Botanical Glossary: - Source: Glossary for Taylor's Guide to Annuals
  (e.g. lateral bud, two-lipped, ray flower...)

In the past year Answers.com has also introduced initiatives to work
with the education and library communities. For example, they offer a
poster with citation help and another poster aimed at high school
journalists.

See Also: Answers.com's New "Find As You Type" Feature

Population--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census
  Just Released, We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in
  the United States

  A portrait of the American Indian and Alaska native population in
  the United

  States, providing data on the largest specified tribal groupings,
  reservations, Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas (ANVSAs) and
  areas outside reservations and ANVSAs at the national level. It is
  part of a special report series that presents data collected from
  Census 2000 on demographic, social and economic characteristics.

Interstate Highways--United States--History
  Source: Federal Highway Administration
  New, Interstate 50th Anniversary Web site
  Useful FAQ as well as a bibliography.

U.S. Courts--United States--Statistics
  Source: BJS
  New, Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2002

  "This Bureau of Justice Statistics report presents data collected
  from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the Nation's
  75 largest counties during May 2002. Data collected include current
  arrest charges, demographic characteristics, prior arrests and
  convictions, criminal justice status at arrest, type of pretrial
  release or detention, bail amount, court appearance record,
  adjudication outcome, and sentence received if convicted."

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+ Feedster Gets a New Look (via SEW Blog)

+ Udi Manber Leaves A9 to Join Google

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                 ++  Wednesday, February 8, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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National Archives and Records Administration--Budget
  Budget Request: $338 Million in FY 2007 for the National Archives
  and Records Administration

  "President George W. Bush sent to Congress a proposed Fiscal Year
  2007 budget for the Federal Government. The request calls for
  $338,054,000 for the National Archives and Records Administration
  (NARA), an increase of $12,519,000 over the FY 2006 appropriations
  of $325,535,000...The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) program, a
  key NARA strategic goal aimed at providing a means to preserve and
  make accessible electronic records far into the future, is funded in
  the FY 2007 request at $45,455,000, which is $7,920,000 over the FY
  2006 appropriated level."

  See Also: President Submits FY 2007 Budget -- But Is It Dead on
  Arrival? (via SAA)

Open Access
  Source: SPARC/Peter Suber
  Now Online: SPARC Open Access Newsletter (Number #94)
  For daily coverage of the Open Access scene visit Peter's blog.

Wikipedia
  Source: Lowell (MA) Sun
  Rewriting history under the dome

  "The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his
  broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge
  campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell
  Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the 'world's largest
  encyclopedia,' The Sun has learned. The Meehan alterations on
  Wikipedia.com represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by
  congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the
  past six month. Wikipedia is a global reference that relies on its
  Internet users to add credible information to entries on millions of
  topics."

RSS Feeds
  Source: NCIC
  New, Introducing Feeds from FirstGov.gov and the Federal Citizen
  Information Center

  "Stay on top of important government news and information with the
  News and Features RSS feeds. We'll update these feeds when we update
  news and featured content."

Classification
  Source: OCLC/Forest Press
  The Dewey Decimal Classification debuts in German

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Search Briefs
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+ The Wayback Machine Announces Larger Archive

+ President of University of Michigan Talks Google Book Search

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Information Technology--Security
  Source: NIST
  New, Guidelines for Media Sanitization (PDF)

  "NIST's Computer Security Division has completed the initial public
  draft of Special Publication 800-88, Guidelines for Media
  Sanitization. This guide is intended to assist organizations and
  system owners in making practical sanitization decisions based on
  the level of sensitivity of their information. It does not, and
  cannot, specifically address all known types of media however; the
  described draft sanitization decision process can be applied
  universally to all forms of media and categorizations of
  information. NIST invites public comments on the draft guideline
  until 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on March 31, 2006. Written
  comments on Special Publication 800-88 may be sent to Chief,
  Computer Security Division, Information Technology Laboratory, Attn:
  Comments on Draft Special Publication 800-88, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr.,
  Stop 8930, Gaithersburg, Md. 20899-8930. Comments also may be
  submitted electronically to media-sanitize@xxxxxxxx"

Information Technology--Security
  Source: Computerworld
  Quick Study: What's a Rootkit?
  "A rootkit is a set of software tools used by an intruder or illegal
  hacker to break into a computer and obtain root privileges in order
  to perform unauthorized functions, hide traces of its existence and
  exploit its systemwide access."

INFORMATION ON DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html
K 12 Public Education Hacker Ethics
The first thing you need to know is there are 2 words that are
constantly misunderstood and incorrectly used by the media.
A security cracker is a person who breaks computer security systems.
A software cracker is one who circumvents software copy protection schemes.


Energy Industry--Statistics
  Source: EIA
  New, Advance Tables from Performance Profiles of Major Energy
  Producers 2004

  "Today the Energy Information Administration released advance copies
  of the tables that will appear as Appendix B in Performance Profiles
  of Major Energy Producers 2004. The tables consist of financial and
  operating statistics of the major U.S. energy companies that report
  to the Financial Reporting System (FRS). The full Performance
  Profiles report will be available towards the end of February."

Lawsuits in the News
  Source: FindLaw
  Court Filings: iPod Alleged Hearing Loss Class Action Lawsuit:
  John Kiel Patterson, et al. v. Apple Computer, Inc.

EAR HEALTH - Losing your ears to music.
The greatest loss in my estimation is not the ability to hear music.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/ears.html

Marriage--United Kingdom--Fast Facts
  Source: National Statistics Office
  UK marriages rise for 3rd year running

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+ LexisNexis Launches LexisNexis Toolbar For Legal Practitioners

+ FAST Unveils World's Most Intelligent Enterprise Search Platform ?
  FAST Esp 5

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Educational CyberPlayGround
How does the Brain Work?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/brain.html


                  ++  Tuesday, February 7, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Books
  Source: CORDIS
  Research books its place in the library of the future
  "In the digital age, cultural institutions face new technical and
  organisational challenges. They must improve and sometimes radically
  change how they acquire, store and preserve their collections as
  well as how they provide access to users. European research is
  helping them rise to the challenge." Thanks to S.B. for the news
  tip.

Online--Legal Issues
  Source: First Monday
  The February Issue of First Monday is Now Online
  Articles include:

+ The Great Debate -- Law in the Virtual World

+ The Life of the Law Online

State Libraries
  Source: GovTech.net
  South Dakota State Library Seeks Citizen Input
  "The South Dakota State Library is seeking input from South Dakota
  citizens regarding how technology will impact their use of
  information in the next 5 to 10 years. Nine focus group discussions
  will be held across the state to gather this information. The focus
  groups also will discuss what role they expect local libraries and
  the State Library to play in the delivery of information."

Sherlock Holmes
  Source: Stanford University
  Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From
  Stanford University

  "Over 12 weeks from January through April 2006, Stanford will be
  republishing, free of charge, two early Holmes stories, 'A Scandal
  in Bohemia' and 'The Speckled Band'; the nine-part novel, The Hound
  of the Baskervilles; and the famous 'last' encounter between Holmes
  and Moriarty, 'The Final Problem.' If you would like to receive
  paper facsimiles of the original magazine releases, you may sign up
  on our website. If you would prefer to download the facsimile as a
  pdf from the website, each installment will be available on
  successive Fridays under the Sherlock Holmes Adventures link above."

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Search Briefs
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+ France's Exalead Continues Growing, Database Passes 4 Billion Page Mark
  If you've never checked out Exalead it's more than worth a look.

+ Google: Chat a Natural Fit with Email

+ Ask Jeeves Opens European R&D Center; Several Interesting Live Demos
  and Papers by AJ R&D Center Leader Also Available

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Earthquakes--Notification
  Source: USGS
  Site Redesign USGS Website and Earthquake Notification Service
  Simplify Ways to Get Information You Need

  "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has unveiled a new design of its
  earthquake website and a new Earthquake Notification Service (ENS).
  The redesigned website and ENS will help get earthquake information
  out to the public in a more timely fashion. The USGS Earthquake
  Hazards Program website, http://earthquake.usgs.gov, is the primary
  method by which earthquake information is communicated to the
  public, while the ENS sends out earthquake alerts to subscribers via
  email. With the new system, users have more options in deciding
  which alerts they receive...The USGS earthquake website receives
  over one million hits every day. Information about the latest
  earthquakes occurring around the world is posted within two minutes
  for U.S. earthquakes and within 30 minutes for earthquakes outside
  the U.S." Note: Earthquake alerts are also available in near real-
  time via PubSub and delivered via RSS or the PubSub Sidebar.

Home Schooling--United States--Statistics
  Source: NCES
  Just Released, Homeschooling in the United States: 2003

  "This report uses the Parent and Family Involvement Survey of the
  2003 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) to estimate
  the number and percentage of homeschooled students in the United
  States in 2003 and to describe the characteristics of these students
  and their families. In 2003, 31 percent of homeschooled children had
  parents who cited concern about the environment of other schools,
  such as safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure, as the most
  important reason for homeschooling, 30 percent had parents who said
  the most important reason was to provide religious or moral
  instruction, and 16 percent of homeschooled students had parents who
  said dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available at
  other schools was the most important reason."

R&D--United States--Statistics
  Source: National Science Foundation
  Just Released, US R&D Continues to Rebound in 2004 (NSF 06-306)

  Data from four National Science Foundation R&D surveys show 2003 R&D
  expenditures grew to $291.9 billion, after declining in 2002 for the
  first time since 1953. Growth is projected to continue in 2004. The
  business sector, which performed 70% of U.S. R&D in 2004, is largely
  responsible for the decline and subsequent recovery. Projected 2004
  R&D expenditures by sector and character of work are presented,
  along with long-term trends by performer and funding sector.

Saudi Arabia--Bibliiography
  Source: Air University Library
  Saudi Arabia
  New bibliography includes Internet resources, books, documents,
  periodicals, videos.

Health--Web Resources
  Source: MedlinePlus
  New Topical Compilations from MedlinePLUS

+ Triglycerides

+ Testicular Disorders

+ Gas

+ Indigestion

Cool Web Tools
  Source: PC World
  Freebies That Save Time and Clicks

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                  ++  Monday, February 6, 2006  ++

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Libraries--Funding--United States
  Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services
  President's Budget Requests $262,240,000 for Institute of Museum and
  Library Services

Government Printing Office (GPO)
  Source: Federal Computer Week
  Mission: Impossible Printing in the Digital Age

  "The traditionally paper-based Government Printing Office is working
  to come up with ways to remain viable in today's Digital Age. GPO
  recently issued a request for proposals for the Future Digital
  System, which agency officials hope will take GPO into the 21st
  century. We at Federal Computer Week also try to keep up with the
  times. We know our readers lead busy lives and like to get their
  information in many formats, not only print or online articles.
  Therefore, in addition to providing you with an intriguing behind-
  the-scenes look at GPO in print, we also give you the chance to
  actually look inside the agency through our slideshow. Or you can
  listen to Public Printer Bruce James and other agency officials
  discuss their plans for modernizing GPO by clicking on the audio
  links below. You can also download them to your computer or mp3
  player. For more insight, check out FCW Executive Editor Christopher
  J. Dorobek's blog post or read the Q&A."

Public Libraries--Literacy
  Source: Sacramento Bee
  Another view: Libraries must target illiteracy

  "We at the California State Library know if we meet only the
  literacy needs of college students, we risk widening our country's
  already troubling socioeconomic divide." Susan Hildreth, California
  State Librarian, responds to an earlier editorial discussing the
  National Literacy Study, in which the newspaper recommended focusing
  "on improving the literacy of those who will graduate from high
  school, college, or postgraduate institutions."

Scholarly Information--Search
  Source: High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine
  Google Scholar Versus Metasearch Systems

  "Google Scholar is becoming the object of greater attention from
  libraries, patrons, and publishers, regardless of librarian
  approval. Depending on Google's plans, Google Scholar may turn into
  a core resource for researchers. Perhaps the library community
  should encourage patrons to use this search engine when appropriate
  and keep a watchful eye on the quality of the results. Google's
  attentiveness to the library community, as evidenced by the rapid
  implementation of the OpenURL standard in Google Scholar, indicates
  that this service might well be evolving in the right direction.
  Nevertheless, it is not likely to replace metasearch systems in the
  short term. A locally controlled and branded system that enables
  librarians to offer accurate, up-to-date, subject-specific research
  data and to customize relevant services renders metasearch systems
  highly valuable to the scholarly community."

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Search Briefs
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+ Searching Television News (via SearchDay)
  Gary looks at several services including a new freebie from TVEyes. Cool!

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Ready Reference Desk
  Fast Facts
  Source: The World Almanac
  New, The February 2006 Issue of The World Almanac E-Newsletter is
  Online
  Contains a chronology of January events and holidays, "This Day in
  History," and much more.
  See Also: Back issues and subscription info (free)

Trial of Saddam Hussein
  Source: Law Library of Congress
  New, Trial of Saddam Hussein

  "This website is intended to provide the viewer with essential
  information related to the relevant trials. It will also set out a
  selection of reference materials that will further explain important
  aspects of the trials. In making this selection, the Law Library of
  Congress does not endorse or attest to the authenticity of any such
  referenced materials or information. In addition to viewers in
  general, the following of the development of the trial of Saddam
  Hussein, which started in October 2005, may be of special interest
  to legal scholars of international criminal law and the seekers of
  universal justice."

Population--United States--Historical
  Source: U.S. Census
  Just Released, Working Paper No. 81, Historical Census Statistics on
  the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000

  PDF version also available.

Budget--United States--FY 2007
  Source: OMB, White House
  Just Released, Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year
  2007
  See Also:

+ Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government,
  Fiscal Year 2007 (PDF)

+ Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal
  Year 2007 (PDF)

+ Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2007-Appendix

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+ New Electronic Edition of Library Classic: Play Index

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                  ++  Sunday, February 5, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Web Resources
  The February 2006 Issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter is Now
  Online
  More goodies from Roddy MacLeod and crew.

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World War II--Maps
  Source: Library of Congress
  New From Library of Congress-American Memory Project: Digitized
  World War II Situation Maps

  From the web site: "A new online presentation from the Library,
  World War II Military Situation Maps, documents troop positions from
  June 6, 1944, to July 26, 1945. The presentation is available at and
  is one of more than 135 thematic presentations in the American
  Memory Web site. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give
  daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing
  the progress of the Allied Forces as they push toward Germany. Some
  of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified "G-3 Report" giving
  detailed information on troop positions for the period March 3
  through July 26, 1945. These maps and reports were used by the
  commanders of the United States forces in their evaluation of the
  campaigns and for planning future strategies. The collection
  consists of 416 printed maps and 115 reports, the originals of which
  reside in the Library of Congress's Geography and Map
  Division...Researchers browsing through the maps can easily follow
  the Western Allies' progress in Europe through the movements of the
  unit symbols and the frontline. Even the casual browser's eye can
  identify significant battles by the concentrations of unit symbols
  on the maps...Users can zoom in on these digitized maps and view
  details not easily seen with the naked eye."

Federal Employees--Demographics
  Source: Office of Personnel Management
  2004 Demographic Profile of the Federal Workforce
  "This publication presents statistical tables and narrative on race
  and national origin (RNO), gender, disability status, veterans
  status, age, and years of service characteristics of the Federal
  civilian non-postal workforce in the Executive Branch of Government.
  The data are displayed by agency, major pay plans, general schedule,
  and related grades and occupations. Data sources, coverage,
  definitions of terms, and highlights of this survey are presented in
  the narrative." (via DocuTicker)

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                 ++  Saturday, February 4, 2006  ++

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Music Search
  Source: BetaNews
  Cool!!! Pandora Sees the DNA in Digital Music
  If you've never checked out Pandora.com, it's more than worth a
  look. An illustration of what good metadata can do. From the
  article: "Enter the Music Genome Project, a six-year initiative
  undertaken by Pandora Media. A team of thirty musical analysts makes
  up the core of this effort, and they have listened to hundreds of
  thousands of songs from over 15,000 artists, individually analyzing
  each on some 400 distinct musical attributes."

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Advertising--Super Bowl
  Source: USA Today
  List of Ads Scheduled to Run During Super Bowl XL

Firefighter Safety--Databases
  Source: U.S. Fire Administration, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
  National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System

  "The National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System is a
  voluntary, confidential, non-punitive and secure reporting system
  with the goal of improving fire fighter safety. By collecting and
  analyzing information on near-miss events, improvements can be made
  in command, education, operations and training. Submitted reports
  will be viewed by fire service professionals. Identifying
  descriptions are removed to protect your identity. The report is
  then posted on this website for other fire fighters to use as a
  learning tool." Click "search reports" on the top navigation bar to
  get to the search form.

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                 ++  Friday, February 3,  2006  ++


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Music Search
Source: SEW Blog
  Gracenote: The Music Info Database You've Used But Possibly Know
  Little About

Search Behavior
  User Interfaces
  Source: Univ of Maryland
  The Evolution of the International Children's Digital Library
  Searching and Browsing Interface

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Population--Projections--United Kingdom
  Source: National Statistics Offc
  National Projections: UK population to rise by 7m by 2031

Labor Unions
  Source: Monthly Labor Review, BLS
  Union membership statistics in 24 countries
  12 Pages; PDF.

Country Studies
  Source: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
  Updated Report, Country Profile: Turkey (PDF)

Transportation--United States--Statistics
  Source: BTS
  New, State Transportation Statistics (STS) 2005

  "This report presents a statistical profile of transportation in the
  50 states and the District of Columbia. This is the third annual
  edition of the State Transportation Statistics, and a companion
  document to the National Transportation Statistics (NTS), which is
  updated quarterly on the BTS website." A picture of the states'
  infrastructure, freight movement and passenger travel, safety,
  vehicles, economy and finance, and energy and the environment is
  presented in tables covering the 50 states and the District of
  Columbia."

Forensic Science
  Source: DOJ, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Communications
  Site Redesign: DNA.gov: New Look, New Features

  "Here, on the redesigned Web site, find online training, and
  resources tailored to policymakers and lawmakers, forensic
  scientists, researchers, and victim advocates. Other new features
  include services that are available to forensic laboratories under
  the President's Initiative, Advancing Justice Through DNA
  Technology, and case studies on how criminals were caught and
  innocent people were exonerated."

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Search Briefs
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Useful Search Tools: What's a Rollyo? How About A PubSub?

  Rollyo allows the user to create a domain specific search engine
  with just a few clicks. Cool!!! PubSub delivers news in real-time.
  Make sure to check out the PubSub Sidebar.

+ Oops, Specs for Dell Computers Found in Google Cache
  Remember that Google isn't the only database to cache pages.

+ Personal Search Vertical ZoomInfo Awarded U.S. Patent

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EBSCO enters RSS news delivery market (via IWR)

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               ++  Thursday, February 2, 2006  ++

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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Science and Technology--Communications

  In my academic career, I went out of my way to avoid courses in the
  hard sciences. This was not a case of "Girls are not good at
  science." This was a case of "I'm going to be a writer. I don't need
  science courses." But as I've gotten older, the allure of science
  journalism has become apparent. I enjoy reading science and
  technology magazines, and turn first to the science articles in any
  mainstream publication. Research news intrigues me; I pore over
  press releases from the National Science Foundation, the National
  Institutes of Health, NOAA...and I've been reading the Centers for
  Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
  Report since it was available only in dead tree version.

Recently, I've become enamored of academic research magazines; many
are available online, the websites are often very attractive, and you
can read about cutting edge stuff right from the horse's mouth, so to
speak, in "user-friendly" language. You can find links to a lot of
these publications through the University Research Magazine
Association website:

+ Member list with contacts and links

+ Member magazines with links

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Reference Reviews
  The February 2006 Edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf Is Now
  Online

  This month Dr. Peter Jacso reviews:

PsycARTICLES Direct

  "PsycARTICLES Direct is a direct information service from the
  American Psychological Association (APA) offering free bibliographic
  citations and abstracts, as well as full-text searching, from 55
  journals published by APA and its partners. Overall, it is a very
  good deal for users who are not affiliated with a library that
  subscribes to one of the many implementations of PsycARTICLES by the
  largest online services that cater to academic and special
  libraries, but not to pay-as-you-go individual users."

&

Visual Thesaurus (and Dictionary) Online Edition

  "There are many good, free thesauri on the Web, but this one is also
  hip enough that high school students may be tempted to use it. The
  visual representation of relationships among words, the smart use of
  typography and the choice of customization options make this
  language tool cool, stylish, sophisticated and suave - especially
  for the under-40 set."

Academic Libraries
  Source: University of California Libraries Bibliographic Services
  Task Force

  Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University
  of California (PDF; 400 KB)

  "On the Library front, our bibliographic systems have not kept pace
  with this changing environment. The continuing proliferation of
  formats, tools, services, and technologies has upended how we
  arrange, retrieve, and present our holdings. Our users expect
  simplicity and immediate reward and Amazon, Google, and iTunes are
  the standards against which we are judged. Our current systems pale
  beside them."

Libraries--Image
  Source: Informed Librarian Online
  Reading the Tea Leaves

  A guest column by library marketing guru, Chris Olson. "If the name
  of an information service includes the word 'library,' it evokes the
  perception of 'books' regardless of its location -- law firm, health
  care center, government agency, company or otherwise. That's the
  beauty and curse of branding. A brand can be a great asset when it
  represents desirable features and evokes thoughts and memories which
  are intended by the brand owner. A brand can be a curse when people
  think of the brand differently from what is intended." Says Chris
  Olson, "Anyone who can change their brand name or drop the word
  'library' from it, should consider doing so if they want to be
  perceived as offering something other than books."

National Libraries--Australia--Web Sites
  Source: NLA Update
  MusicAustralia's success story
  MusicAustralia has become a runaway success, with a staggering 7.1
  million page views recorded up to the end of December 2005 since its
  launch as a full production service in March 2005. See for yourself
  at www.musicaustralia.org where you will find over 153 000
  resources, more than 11,000 of which are available online.

Public Libraries--United States
  Source: LJ
  Best Small Library in America Announced
  "From a field of over 50 nominations nationwide, the Milanof-Schock
  Library in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, has been selected by Library
  Journal for the annual Best Small Library in America Award."

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Search Briefs
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+ Oops, Specs for Dell Computers Found in Google Cache

+ Personal Search Engine ZoomInfo Awarded U.S. Patent

+ Searching for a Sense of Place

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Politics--Multimedia Archive
  Source: Berkman Center at Harvard University
  New, Institute of Politics Opens Up Video Archive to the Public

  Wow!!! "The Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard's Kennedy School
  of Government today announced that video footage of nearly thirty
  years of public addresses and panel discussions held in the John F.
  Kennedy Jr. Forum is now available on the IOP's website. The IOP,
  which manages the Forum venue, has created the new online video
  archive featuring hundreds of speeches given by some of the world's
  most prominent political speakers from 1978 to the present. The
  archive also offers visitors use of a search engine to fully explore
  its contents -- making the expansive library's material easy to
  access and use."

Cities--Economics--Statistics
  Source: EIU
  New Edition, Worldwide cost of living survey
  Highlights Only. "After 14 years at the top Tokyo has been overtaken
  by Oslo as the world's costliest city in the latest findings from
  the Economist Intelligence Unit's Worldwide cost of living survey.
  Elsewhere an improving economic outlook has pushed Brazilian cities
  up the ranking and Asian cities make up many of the cheapest
  destinations."

Internet Usage--Statistics
  Source: Clickz, Nielsen//NetRatings
  Active Home Web Use by Country, December 2005

Cybersquatting--Statistics
  Source: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  WIPO Responds to Significant Cybersquatting Activity in 2005

  "The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) saw a 20%
  increase in the number of cybersquatting (abusive registration of
  trademarks as domain names) cases filed in 2005 as compared to 2004.
  In 2005, a total of 1,456 cybersquatting cases were filed with
  WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center. This increase represents
  the highest number of cybersquatting cases handled by the WIPO
  Center since 2001."

DoD Contractors--Lists & Rankings
  Source: Department of Defense Personnel and Procurement, Statistical
  Information Analysis Division

  100 Companies Receiving The Largest Dollar Volume Of Prime Contract
  Awards - Fiscal Year 2005

  "This report presents summary data on the 100 companies, and their
  subsidiaries, receiving the largest dollar volume of Department of
  Defense (DoD) prime contract awards during fiscal year (FY) 2005.
  Table 1 lists the 100 companies in alphabetical order and gives
  their associated rank. Table 2 identifies the parent companies in
  rank order, with their subsidiaries, and gives the total net value
  of awards for both the parent company and its subsidiaries. In many
  cases, the parent company receives no awards itself, but appears on
  the list because of its subsidiaries. Table 2 also shows what
  percentage of the total awards each company's awards represent.
  Table 3 lists the top 100 companies DoD-wide in rank order and
  breaks the totals into three categories of procurement: Research,
  Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E); Other Services and
  Construction; and Supplies and Equipment. Table 4 lists the top 50
  companies for each of the Reporting Components in rank order, and by
  category of procurement." (via DocuTicker)

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Briefly
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+ SPARC Europe Announces Award for Outstanding Achievements in
  Scholarly Communications

+ New Round of Enhancements for WilsonWeb

+ FAST Search and Transfer Teams Up with LexisNexis to Deliver an
  Advanced Enterprise Search and Retrieval Solution

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