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February 16, 2006


Professional Reading Shelf
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Community and Junior College Libraries--Awards
  Source: ACRL

  Unique student orientation idea wins ACRL Community and Junior
  College Libraries Section Program Award

  Kudos on the creativity. Great idea! From the announcement, "The
  Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to
  announce that Eva Lautermann, library director, Sherry Durren,
  information literacy librarian, and Lois Shelton, l ibrary technical
  assistant, of the Georgia Perimeter College Jim Cherry Learning
  Resources Center, have been chosen to receive the 2006 CJCLS/EBSCO
  Community College Learning Resources Program Achievement Award for
  their work on the CSI: Information Literacy orientation. Using the
  television series, CSI, as their inspiration, the librarians wrote a
  script and clues for the orientation program in order to help
  familiarize students with using the library."

Health Information--United Kingdom
  Source: Kable's Government News
  Patient data venture begins

  "A new NHS information service has been made available which draws
  on a database containing details of every contact a patient has had
  with healthcare providers." Many services from the Dr. Foster
  service are fee-based but they do offer a public site filled with
  several consumer oriented services.

Military Libraries--United States
  Source: FCW
  Homeland security library gets more searchable
  "The Naval Postgraduate School is enhancing search capabilities
  within its digital library of homeland security information by using
  software from Teragram, company officials said today."

  See Also: More About Teragram Technology in this SEW Blog Post

Business Research--United States--EDGAR
  Source: GCN
  SEC holds pre-proposal conference for EDGAR contract

Information Industry--ebrary
  eBooks
  Source: IWR
  ebrary bulks out its e-books range and makes subs more flexible

  "E-book provider Ebrary has extended its pricing models and added
  8,000 new titles to its service."

  See Also: Did You Know that ebrary Also Offers a Service for
  Consumers Named Shop ebrary?

  It costs very little and offers access to over 20,000 full text
  titles. Read the full text online (no limit). Just pay a very small
  amount to copy or print a page.

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Search Briefs
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+ New, Answers.com Adds Access to Legal Biographies and Legal
  Definitions from West's Encyclopedia of American Law

+ Convera Signs First Commercial Clients for Excalibur Search Technology

  Deals with Vivisimo/Clusty, HighBeam, and CNET Networks. Bottom
  line? It looks like a new and large open web database will soon be
  accessible via one or more of these partners.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Photography--Dictionaries
  Source: askSam
  New, The Photography Dictionary

  Yet another free online searchable database (also available for
  offline work) from the askSam team. "Unique database of photography
  terms containing over 2,400 words and definitions. This dictionary
  contains a combination of many different photography dictionaries,
  glossaries, and other photography related information. Search the
  dictionary by any word or phrase."

Elections--United Kingdom
  Source: House of Commons Library
  New, Research Paper, Local and Mayoral Elections 2005
  19 pages; PDF.

Patents--United States--Fast Facts
  Source: USPTO
  United States Patent & Trademark Office Issues 7 Millionth Patent

  This announcement includea a bunch of "fast facts" about other
  "milestone" patents.

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Enterprise Search
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Video: Interview with John Lervik, CEO of FAST Search & Transfer
This interview (.WMV file) aired on CNBC Europe last month.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search.html

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In the News
Internet--China--Censorship
----------------------------

Source: Various
  Coverage of the U.S. House Of Rep. Hearing: The Internet in China: A
  Tool for Freedom or Suppression?

+ Politicians lash out at tech firms over China (via News.com)

Direct Links to Prepared Statements from Subcommittee on Africa,
Global Human Rights and International Operations Hearing (2/15/06)

See Also:

+ U.S. Internet Providers and the 'Great Firewall of China'

Cencorship
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/searchcountry.html


Multimedia Corner
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Lectures
  Source: MIT

  Innovation Everywhere--How the Acceleration of "GNR" (genetics,
  nanotechnology, robotics) Will Create a Flat and Equitable World

  Raymond Kurzweil talks at MIT. "His main points: technology evolves
  exponentially; the rate of technical progress itself is
  accelerating, so expect to 'see 20,000 years of progress in the 21st
  century, about 1000 times greater than the 20th century.' Before you
  can say, ?Hold your horses,' Kurzweil is off and running."

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/pioneersPaul.html



                 ++  Wednesday, February 15, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Privacy--Libraries
  Source: Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for
  Information

  Science and Technology (ASIST) (via E-LIS)

  Using Lessons from Health Care to Protect the Privacy of Library
  Users: Guidelines for the De-Identification of Library Data based on
  HIPAA

  From the abstract: "While libraries have employed policies to
  protect the data about use of their services, these policies are
  rarely specific or standardized. Since 1996 the U.S. healthcare
  system has been grappling with the Health Insurance Portability and
  Accountability Act (HIPAA), which is designed to provide those
  handling personal health information with standardized, definitive
  instructions as to the protection of data. In this work, the authors
  briefly discuss the present situation of privacy policies about
  library use data, outline the HIPAA guidelines to understand
  parallels between the two, and finally propose methods to create a
  de-identified library data warehouse based on HIPAA for the
  protection of user privacy."

Public Librarians--Weblogs
  Source: Hartford Courant (via Government Innovators Network, Kennedy
  School of Government, Harvard University)

  Government Innovators Network: Article: Blogs focus on books;
  Librarian reaching parents, children

  "Children's librarian Ginny Brouseau has joined the ranks of sports
  fans, courtroom watchers and political hounds. She's a blogger. In
  December, Brouseau created two online blogs that help her
  communicate with parents and children -- preschool through high
  school age -- about library programs and new books."

Web Search--Statistics
  Source: GovTech
  Online Searches Grow 55 Percent Year-Over-Year

  "Nielsen//NetRatings reported that the total number of searches in
  the U.S. conducted across approximately 60 search engines grew 55
  percent year-over-year to nearly 5.1 billion searches in December
  2005. There were 3.3 billion searches conducted via search engines
  in December 2004. While the number of searches conducted online
  swelled, the number of people connecting to the Internet rose a mere
  three percent to 207 million people in the U.S." Complete News
  Nielsen//NetRatings Release (PDF).

Digital Repositories--United Kingdom
  Source: JISC
  New, Digital repositories programme launches wiki and mailing list

  "JISC's Digital repositories programme, a 4m pounds JISC programme
  to enhance the implementation and development of digital
  repositories in the UK, has recently launched a wiki called DigiRep,
  managed by the Programme's support team, writes Julie Allinson."

Security? Your Privacy?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITYprivacy.html

Schools and Kids -- Student's Privacy?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securityarticles.html


Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports
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Source: ISI

+ UPDATED: Australia Country Rankings
  Ten-year country rankings for Australia among the 147 top-performing
  countries in all fields and all countries.

+ Computer Science & Engineering: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04

+ South Korean Science, 2000-04

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Electrical & Electronic Engineering

+ Canadian Universities: Most Prolific in Economics, 2000-04

+ What's the HOT Paper in Biology

+ What's the HOT Paper in Chemistry

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Poverty--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census
  The Effects of Government Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2004

  From the summary, "A U.S. Census Bureau report, The Effects of
  Government Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2004 was
  released today. The report provides alternative national poverty
  rates that range from 8.3 percent, using a more comprehensive
  definition of income that includes the value of noncash benefits and
  excludes taxes, to 19.4 percent, using another definition of income
  that excludes all government payments and does not deduct taxes. The
  official U.S. poverty rate of 12.7 percent was announced last
  summer."

Pacific Ocean--Maps
  Source: National Geographic
  Interactive Online Map, Pacific Ocean
  New from the NG Map Machine.

Public Health
  Source: OECD
  Study projects growing pressure on public health spending over and
  above effects of ageing society

  Highlights only. "Public spending on health and long-term care in
  OECD countries will double by 2050, if present trends continue,
  reaching an average level equivalent to nearly 13% of GDP compared
  with 6.7% today. Even if governments manage to contain rising costs,
  spending would still amount to the equivalent of around 10% of GDP
  by the middle of the century." Available: Key Findings (by Country,
  PDF) ||| Table: Spending into health care and long-term care (PDF)

Phishing
  Source: Anti-Phishing Working Group
  December Phishing Activity Trends Report (PDF)

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Search Briefs
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+ U.S. task force eyes Net censorship in China, elsewhere (via
  Reuters)
  See Also: Transcript of State Department Briefing
  See Also: Internet firms caught between Chinese rules and U.S.
  demands for free speech (via AP, Canada Press)

+ BitTorrent Search Will Be Available in Upcoming Release of Opera Web
  Browser

+ Apply For Jobs at Google Using New Online Application
  Now, when you find a job at Google you're interested in having, you
  can apply online using this new "online application."

+ An Interview with the CEO of Findory, Greg Linden (via Don Dodge)
  Findory is a personalized blog and news search engine. Worth a
  look!!! Gary interviewed Linden in 2004.

+ Filter By Authority is Added to Technorati Search (via SEW Blog)

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Briefly
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Westlaw: Stay Updated on Critical Information with the New Westlaw
Watch (New)

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Mobile Search
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4INFO Mobile Comparison Shopping Search Now Powered by Shopping.com

4INFO continues to offer new and improved mobile search tools.

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                  ++  Tuesday, February 14, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Semantic Web
  Source: IEEE Intelligent Systems
  Full Text article, Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web: From
  Scenario to Technology


Books
  Source: InfoToday
  Ad-Supported Free Books Arrive

  "Perhaps information really does want to be free. Citing the desire
  to create new revenue streams for authors, mega-publisher
  HarperCollins (http://www.harpercollins.com) has announced the first
  free Web-based, ad-supported, full-text business book. Go It Alone!
  The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own by Bruce
  Judson is now available on the author's Web site (
  http://www.BruceJudson.com), where an affiliate link to Amazon, not
  the publisher, can also be found. Not only can the book be read at
  the site, but it can also be searched. HarperCollins Publishers is
  calling the project a test of a new business model. Some self-
  published authors also offer ad-supported books online, but
  HarperCollins's move is the first by a major publisher."

Information Industry--Elsevier--Reviews
  Source: Charleston Adviser
  Updated Review of Scopus Now Available
  From the review:
  "QUICK SUMMARY IN ONE SENTENCE: Scopus -- the Database we hope to
  love when it grows up."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Valentine's Day--United States
  Source: U.S. Census
  Fast Facts Relating To Valentine's Day in the United States
  Facts include:

+ 180 million
  Number of Valentine's Day cards exchanged annually, making
  Valentine's Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving
  occasion. (This total excludes packaged kids valentines for
  classroom exchanges.) (Source: Hallmark research)

+ 1,271
  Number of locations producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2003.
  These establishments employed 43,379 people. California led the
  nation in the number of such establishments (with 146) followed by
  Pennsylvania (with 120).

+ $422 million
  The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut flowers in
  2004 for all flower-producing businesses in 36 states with $100,000
  or more in sales. Among states, California was the leading producer,
  alone accounting for nearly three-quarters of this amount ($304
  million).

++ See Also: NEW REPORT: Romance in America (PDF; via Pew Internet &
   American Life Project)

  "Most young singles in America do not describe themselves as
  actively looking for romantic partners. Even those who are seeking
  relationships are not dating frequently. About half (49%) had been
  on no more than one date in the previous three months."

Video Industry--United States--Statistics
  Source: FCC

  New Report: 12th Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in
  the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming

  Lots o' stats. "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today
  adopted its 12th Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in
  the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming. Section 628(g) of
  the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, requires the Commission
  to report annually to Congress on the status of competition among
  multichannel video programming distributors ("MVPDs"), including
  cable operators, direct broadcast satellite ("DBS") providers, local
  exchange carriers ("LECs") now entering the field, and others."
  Direct to Full Text.

  See Also: FCC Media Bureau Report Finds Substantial Consumer
  Benefits in A La Carte Model of Delivering Video Programming

Public Health--United Kingdom
  Source: Kable's Government Computing
  New Web Site: Online for health complaints
  "Named Please Ask, it is part of a wider campaign to encourage
  patients to ask questions and raise concerns about healthcare. It
  provides information and includes a facility -- the Patient and
  Public Reporting e-Form -- to report incidents, make complaints, and
  seek advice on patient safety issues"

Agriculture--United States--Projections
  Source: USDA
  New, USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2015
  See Also: Agricultural Baseline Database
  See Also: Agricultural Baseline Projection Tables

Writing--Bibliography
  Source: Air University Library
  Effective Writing Resources
  New bibliography (brief) includes Internet resources and books.

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Search Briefs
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+ Finding Articles Online (via SearchDay)
  When Mary Ellen writes, we read (and so should you).
  See Also: Finding Answers Beyond Web Search
  An article Gary wrote for BetaNews in 2005 that lists more sources
  to find full text articles (for free and from any web computer).

+ Yahoo Backs Internet Rights (via Red Herring)
  See Also: Tech companies brace for showdown over China (via News.com)

+ Google Desktop Boycott Urged

+ Google beta ditches gmail.com

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+ Factiva: List of New Sources Added in 2005

+ AASL recognizes five new school library media specialist programs

+ SLA 2006 Online Conference Planner Available

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Mobile Search
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FAST Search & Transfer, Telenor and Opera Announce Mobile Partnership

  "Fast Search & Transfer, Telenor R&D and Opera Software ASA are
  collaborating to bring best-in-breed technology and end-user
  expertise to mobile portals. The three companies are developing a
  complete system for delivering relevant location-based information,
  including localized content, news feeds, maps and traveling
  information directly to end-users' mobile phones."

+ Europe: Google and Vodaphone Announce Partnership
  Vodaphone will use Google as default search partner on Vodaphone
  Live.

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                  ++  Monday, February 13, 2006  ++

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Copyright--United States--Orphan Works
  Source: U.S. Copyright Office
  New Report, Orphan Works

  "The Copyright Office has completed its study of problems related to
  "orphan works," copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to
  identify and locate. As requested by Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator
  Patrick Leahy, the Office submitted its Report on Orphan Works to
  the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 31, 2006...During 2005,
  the Copyright Office studied issues raised by "orphan works,"
  copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and
  locate. Concerns had been raised that the uncertainty surrounding
  ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent
  creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative
  efforts, or from making such works available to the public." The
  Copyright Office also offers news about "orphan works" via this RSS
  feed.

Digital Information
  Libraries
  Source: Ariadne
  The February 2006 Issue of Ariadne is Available
  Happy 10th Anniversary to Ariadne!!!
  Articles include:

+ What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

+ Google Challenges for Academic Libraries

+ Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative
  Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

+ Excuse Me -- Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

+ The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Internet Usage--Statistics
  Source: Computer Industry Almanac
  Worldwide Internet Users Top 1 Billion in 2005

  "The worldwide number of Internet users surpassed 1 billion in 2005
  -- up from only 45M in 1995 and 420M in 2000. The 2 billion Internet
  users milestone is expected in 2011. Much of current and future
  Internet user growth is coming from populous countries such as
  China, India, Brazil, Russia, and Indonesia. In the next decade many
  Internet users will be supplementing PC Internet usage with
  Smartphone and mobile device Internet usage."

Wealth--Australia--Lists & Rankings
  Wealth--New Zealand--Lists & Rankings
  Source: Forbes
  Australia's & New Zealand's Richest
  Direct to complete list (sorted by rank).

Research Reports
  Source: Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia

+ New, Issue Brief: Identity Cards

+ Election 2006: Canada changes government [PDF 99KB]

Baseball Uniforms--History
  Source: National Baseball Hall of Fame
  National Baseball Hall of Fame - Dressed to the Nines

  "The first official baseball uniform, adopted in 1849 by the
  Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City, was a simple outfit
  consisting of a white flannel shirt, blue wool pants, and a straw
  hat. Fast-forward over 150 years later, and you'll find the modern-
  day major leaguer wearing brilliantly colored double-knit uniforms
  made of synthetic blend fabrics. What happened along the way? What
  styles came and went (and came again)? Which changes to the uniform
  were successful and which experiments fell flat? How has the
  baseball uniform become an integral part of our national pastime?"

U.S. Congress--Maps
  Source: NationalAtlas.gov
  Printable Maps: Congressional Districts -- 109th Congress
  Printable Map: North America General Reference Map
  All maps are available as PDF files.

U.S. Department of Justice
  Source: USDOJ
  New, FY2007 Budget and Performance Summary
  Most data available in XLS format.

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Search Briefs
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+ AOL Introduces Beta Test Of Chinese Language AOL.COM Portal For
  United States Market

  Public libraries serving the Chinese communities will want to know
  about this new service. Direct to the new portal at
  http://aol.com/chinese

+ "Search and Win": New Contest with MSN Search (via BetaNews)
  Over $1 million in prizes.

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ACRL Announces Winners of Hugh Atkinson & Marta Lange/CQ Press Award
Winners

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                  ++  Sunday, February 12, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Library Technology--Podcasts
  Source: PALINET (Iliff)
  PALINET Podcast: Technology Conversations

  "PALINET's Technology Conversations podcast series features
  interviews with leaders in library technology. Lasting approximately
  20 minutes and designed for portable listening devices or the
  desktop computer, each program is a brief take on a different hot
  tech topic. These sessions are also distributed via RSS. Possibly on
  your next commute, or while digging in your brown bag lunch, listen
  to library innovators discussing their cutting edge technology
  projects!"

OPACS
  Source: SearchTools.com
  NCSU Adds Faceted Navigation to Library Catalog

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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African-American History and Culture--Web Guide
  Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill News Services
  Reliable Web sites on black culture, history, identified in new UNC
  guide

  "Learning about black culture and history on the World Wide Web is
  now easier, thanks to a new online guide from the University of
  North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library. Studying black poets of the
  Appalachian region? Interested in the black inhabitants of Canada,
  Cuba, or the Caribbean? Wondering how many African-Americans have
  been U.S. senators? It's all there,
  http://www.lib.unc.edu/stone/webguide/. Raquel Cogell, librarian for
  UNC's Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
  Library, developed the guide to bring quality resources to the
  attention of students, teachers, librarians, and researchers. It is
  now the largest such site that she can identify."

Black History Month All Year Long
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/bhm/bhm.html
This collection of resources is intended for use by teachers, parents
and students throughout the school year. The links below
describe only some of what is in the module.
More than 50 pages of information you can print out.
Save time - the research has been done for you.
Links to the best sites on the Net for supporting information.
Original content not found in school libraries, books, or the WWW.
Two original E-books with sound. Read and hear Anansi folk tale in
Standard English and American Virgin Islands Creole.
Online Collaborative Project that can be expanded past the school day.


Business--Communications
  Source: Watson Wyatt
  New Study: 2005/2006 Communication ROI Study, Effective
  Communication: A Leading Indicator of Financial Performance

  "By their own admission, few multinationals are doing a good job
  when it comes to communicating with their employees and business
  units around the world, according to research by Watson Wyatt
  Worldwide, a global human capital consulting firm."

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                 ++  Saturday, February 11, 2006  ++

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Metadata
  Source: Associated Press (via FindLaw)
  Stronger efforts being made against embarrassing document "metadata"

  "When the New England Journal of Medicine used a word-processing
  function to reveal that Merck & Co. had deleted study data about
  Vioxx and heart attacks, the pharmaceutical giant joined a long line
  of organizations bitten by information lurking in electronic files.
  It's happened to no less than the White House, the Pentagon, the
  British prime minister's office and the United Nations. Each time,
  making minor electronic adjustments to documents aired juicy details
  not meant for public disclosure -- such as the true author of a file
  or sensitive data hacked from a final draft."

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Searching for Music on Satellite Radio OR What's the Name of that Tune?

  As satellite radio continues to gain new listeners in the U.S. and
  now Canada, I've been asked if any databases exist that allow you to
  check online what songs are currently being played (real time) and
  to also check what has been played in the past. Good news, two
  databases are available. They can be useful in helping find and
  identify the song you heard on the drive home but also can allow you
  to see which channel(s) air the artist(s) and song(s) you like to
  listen to. Here's quick peek at what's available for XM and Sirius
  Satellite Radio.

XM
  XMFan.com
  A portion of this site offers a constantly updating list (refreshes
  every minute) of the songs airing on XM. Each entry is in the form
  of a hypertext link that, when clicked, will show you other
  channels, songs, and times that artist or song has been played.
  Songs and artists can be searched. Results can be sorted by artist,
  title, channel, and time. Here's a search results page for Coldplay
  sorted by time. Btw, other XM programs (news, talk, comedy, etc.)
  are also listed and searchable.

Sirius
  SiriusBackstage.com
  Again, a real time list of what's playing on each Sirius channel.
  This list can be also be looked at as a grid. You can also customize
  which stations are visible and the order they are seen. These pages
  constantly refresh themselves.

In the basic (aka "classic") view, you'll notice that each
artist/group and song title has a question mark listed next to it.
Clicking this link will run a search for more info about that song or
artist on AllMusic.com. Very useful!!!

SiriusBackstage offers two search modes. Simple search allows you to
enter an artist or song title. You can also limit your results and
only see the last time the song was played. Advanced search offers
numerous limiting options including searching by time, channel,
category, etc. Here's the results page for Coldplay. This database
contains info back to Oct 1, 2005. The % serves as a wildcard when
searching for a title or artist.

With services like Pandora (a fave of mine) adding massive amounts of
quality metadata for tens of thousands of songs, I wonder if Pandora
plans to license this data to companies like XM and/or Sirius for both
internal use (playlist building) as well as allowing users to get more
info about a song and find related songs, artists by using the
metadata. Happy Listening!!!

* Some of the "Canadian only" channels on XM Canada and Sirius Canada
are not listed in these databases.

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                 ++  Friday, February 10, 2006  ++


ResourceShelf Special
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The 2006 Winter Olympics--Resources and Databases

Here are a few "fact filled" resources that you might have missed in
getting ready for the XX Winter Olympics.

+ Official Winter Sports Lexicon Database (Common Vocabulary of Sports)
  Official terms in English, French, and Italian.

Torino 2006
+ Torino Press Kit
  Fact sheets about all aspects of games including opening ceremonies
  and Olympics from A to Z (50 pages; PDF)

+ Program of the 2006 Winter Olympics (PDF)
++ Official Schedule (PDF) Scoreboard

+ Individual Sites for All Sports

+ Map of Olympic Locations (PDF)
++ Photos of Venues

+ Fast Facts About the Torino Games

+ Official Winter Olympics News Releases

+ Torino Photo Gallery

+ International Sports Calendar

+ International Olympic Committee Media Gallery (Images, Audio, Video)

Olympics History--Databases
+ Medal Winners Database (Historical Database, Searchable)
++ Profiles on Olympic Atheletes (Historical, Searchable)

Satellite Imagery
  Google Increases Resolution of Torino in Google Earth and Local (via
  SEW Blog)

Interactive Event Guides
  Cool!

E-Mail and SMS (Text Message Alerts, USA Only)

Fast Facts (via Infoplease.org)

+ Olympics Timeline

+ All-Time Standings

+ Most Gold Medals

+ Additional Resources (Bios, Trivia, Games, etc.)

+ Where are They Now? (via Forbes.com)

Profiles of past Olympic greats.

Gretchen Bleiler Snowboard Olympic Medal Winner Webquest
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/culdesac/Stars/GretchenBleiler.html

and MUCH MORE!!!

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Libraries
  Source: Campus Technology
  Next-Gen Libraries
  From the article: "Looking for what's next in digital library
  initiatives? As digital repositories continue to evolve, keep your
  eye on these projects." Projects and companies mentioned include:

+ Projects at Goshen College, Earlham College, and Manchester College
  in Indiana

+ "Digital Well" at the University of Washington

+ University of Virginia Projects (Example: Thomas Jefferson Digital
  Archive)

+ University of Michigan Projects (Example: "Making of America")

+ Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS)

+ D-Space at MIT

+ Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Built at the University of San Diego

+ Backstage Library Works

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Real Estate--Databases
  Source: Zillow.com
  Just Launched: Zillow.com = Residential Property Info + Aerial
  Imagery and Much More

  We will take a closer look at this service in the future. Plenty to
  digest. Find comparable home sales (search by address or browse
  using a map) info, detailed info about a specific property (sq.
  footage, year built, etc.) and then mash the data up with aerial
  imagery provided by GlobeXplorer. Lots and lots of data!!! This page
  explains the many services available including their proprietary
  Zestimate (estimated value of home). Info for about 60 million homes
  in the U.S. More details in this news release. Another service that
  lists property for sale and also comparable home values is
  HomePages.com. A third is Domania.com.

  See Also: A New Service Named HomePages Combines Real Estate
  Listings, Local Data, and Aerial Imagery

  See Also: Hot: Real Estate Industry Uses of Satellite/Aerial Imagery

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Search Patent Watch
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In the past couple of weeks both Yahoo and Microsoft have received a
couple search related patents and have also had several search related
patent applications published. I've listed the titles below. You'll
find more info along with the full text of the abstracts posted on
ResourceShelfPLUS. Note that several of the MS patents or apps deal
with recommendation tools, tagging, rating community threads, and the
presentation of results.

Yahoo Patent Applications

+ Targeted advertisements using time-dependent key search terms

+ Search systems and methods using in-line contextual queries

+ Automated solicited message detection


Patents Awarded to Microsoft

+ User intention modeling for web navigation

+ Auto playlist generator


Microsoft Patent Applications

+ Method and system for adaptive categorical presentation of search
  results

+ Life moment tagging and storage

+ Categorizing, voting, and rating community threads

+ Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping

+ You'll find more info along with the full text of the abstracts
  posted on ResourceShelfPLUS.


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Search Briefs
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Web Search--Yahoo--Alerts
  Yahoo Alerts Now Offers Personalized Movie Recommendations

  Yahoo Alerts has added (might be late to the party on this one) a
  new weekly "e-mail only" alert that sends personalized movie picks
  based on what you've selected/clicked at Yahoo Movies. The movie
  recommendation service went live last March and is powered by
  ChoiceStream. Yahoo also offers a personalized Shopping Gift Finder
  also powered by ChoiceStream. More personalized recommendation
  tools? Several are listed here including:

+ MyBestBets (TV)

+ MovieLens

+ Findory (News and Blogs)

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               ++  Thursday, February 9, 2006  ++

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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A Look at Several Sources for Gray Literature Including:

+ DTIC's Public STINET (Scientific and Technical Information Network)

+ GrayLIT Network, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of
  Scientific and Technical Information

+ The University of Maryland's Virtual Technical Reports Center,
  basically a large alphabetical list of links to institutions that
  make "full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their
  technical reports" available on the Web

+ Corporate technical report servers, such as those from HP Labs, IBM
  and Microsoft

+ ZDNet's White Paper Directory, offering IT-oriented content

+ Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library

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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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+ Yahoo: MyWeb 2.0 Update

+ Google Desktop Gets New Features (via SearchDay)

+ Feedster Gets a New Look (via SEW Blog)

+ Udi Manber Leaves A9 to Join Google

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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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Briefly
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+ RUSA appoints new editor of RUSQ

+ Inderscience and Swets Partner to Offer Full-Text Access via
  SwetsWise

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