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ResourceShelf Newsletter
<http://www.resourceshelf.com>
Number 252
March 16, 2006

Information Literacy
  Health Research
  Source: NLM
  New, MedlinePlus Adds Tutorial on Evaluating Internet Health
  Information
  See: http://digbig.com/4gskh

Web-Based Word Processing Resources
  See: http://digbig.com/4gskb



                 ++  Thursday, March 16, 2006  ++


Resource of the Week
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
-------------------------------

Library Automation--Hub
  Source: Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and
  Research, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

  Library Technology Guides
  "...comprises several different databases, including libwebcats
  (directory of libraries worldwide), library companies (automation
  vendors), a news release archive (from automation vendors), and the
  modestly titled bibliography, which is an industrial strength
  databases that indexes "books, book chapters, and articles relevant
  to the discipline."

Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4gsnp>


Professional Reading Shelf
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Challenged Books--United States
  Source: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
  "It's Perfectly Normal" tops ALA's 2005 list of most challenged books

Grey Literature
  Source: TextRelease
  WHOIS in the field of Grey Literature

  People who research and write on the topic of grey literature. What
  is it? "Grey Literature "Information produced on all levels of
  government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print
  formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where
  publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body."
  (Luxembourg, 1997 -- Expanded in New York, 2004)"

  See Also: Sources For Grey Literature, a ResourceShelf Compilation

Librarians
  Librarian Recruitment
  Source: ALA
  New Web Site: LibraryCareers.org
  "The Web site includes basic information on what it takes to become
  a librarian or library worker and also information on education,
  financial assistance and possible career paths." Learn more here.

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


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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News--Multimedia
  Digitization Projects--Film
  Source: British Universities Film & Video Council
  New Demo Site: Newsfilm Online
  Via JISC, The BUFVC's Newsfilm Online team has now launched a
  demonstrator website which makes some fifty news clips
  (approximately two hours of material) freely available for
  downloading to all users. These clips are arranged by theme and
  decade. More clips will be added to the site in due course.

  See Also: MANY more Sources for Digitizred "Historic" News Clips
  (2nd Item)

Journalism--Web Resources
  Source: C&RL News
  Journalism: Resources from education to advocacy
  This guide was compiled by Bob Garber, a reference librarian and the
  subject specialist for journalism at the University of Maryland.

Irish American's--Fast Facts
  Source: U.S. Census
  Fast Facts About Irish American's in Honor of St. Patrick's Day and
  Irish-American Heritage Month

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


Search Briefs
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+ Nutch's Doug Cutting Joins Yahoo Full Time After Serving Four Years
  Independently (via SEW Blog)

+ Facelift For Yahoo's Home Page (via InternetNews.com)
  Note: Yahoo has offered a clutter-free search interface at
  Search.yahoo.com for a couple of years.

+ Google Desktop 3 Leaves Beta, Gains Quick Search Feature (via SEW
  Blog)

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



Online Productivity
Web Browsers--Firefox
---------------------

Some of Our Favorite Firefox Ad-ons (All Free, More to Come in
Upcoming Weeks)

+ NeedleSearch
  Create a toolbar entry for just about any search engine in two
  clicks. Simply type the word NeedleSearch into a search box and you
  instantly have access to that search tool from the bar.

If you don't like NeedleSearch, no worries. Take a look at the
following option:

++ Search Engine Ordering (we've just started using it) appears to be
   a winner at this point. This add-on makes it a snap (we're talking
   seconds) to add just about ANY search engine to the well-known
   search bar (in the upper right corner of the Firefox interface). It
   is also possible to "hack" the urls to create pre-built or "canned"
   searches that are limited to a specific domain, url, etc. However,
   that's not all Search Engine Ordering offers. You can also drag and
   drop to reorder the engines listed in your search bar. SEO also
   makes it a snap to remove any engine from the search bar. More on
   this one later but so far we like, a lot.

+ PDF Download
  "Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser
  (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your
  default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!"

+ Tab Mix Plus
  A real time saver! The session manager is a must. "Tab Mix Plus
  enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such
  features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking
  options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also
  includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that
  can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows."

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


Multimedia Shelf
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Information Retrieval
  Source: ResearchChannel.org
  Video Presentation: Human-Computer Information Retrieval
  A lecture by Professor Gary Marchionini from the University of North
  Carolina at Microsoft Research. The even took place on October 14,
  2005. It runs about 75 minutes.

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


You Might Have Missed
----------------------

+ Cool! 3-D Imagery of the Moon Now Available via NASA's World Wind
(via SEW Blog)
  "The newly expanded NASA 'World Wind' computer program can
  'transport' Web users to almost anyplace on the moon, when they zoom
  in from a global view to closer pictures of our natural satellite
  taken by the Clementine spacecraft in the 1990s. Computer
  programmers at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon
  Valley originally designed the World Wind program to deliver
  satellite images and data of Earth to the Internet..."

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


                 ++  Wednesday, March 15, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Library and Archives Canada--Federated Search
  Source: Library and Archives Canada
  New, National Libraries and Archives Begins Testing Federated Search
  Tool: Search All

  Search All allows you to search the resources of Library and
  Archives Canada (LAC). LAC combines the holdings of the former
  National Archives of Canada and the former National Library of
  Canada.


These resources include:

+ LAC's website;
+ LAC's library catalogue; and
+ the following archival research tools:
+++ General Inventory
+++ Government of Canada files
+++ Métis Scrip
+++ War Diaries of the First World War
+++ Prime Ministers' Fonds

More info here including an email address to send feedback to LAC.
  See Also:
  Australia's largest online library opens for business

Resource Discovery Network
  Source: RDN
  Major Changes Coming to Resource Discovery Network, Service Will
  Also Get New Name

  The Resource Discovery Network, one of ResourceShelf's favorite set
  of non-commercial web directories and lots more, has some major
  changes, including a new name, coming in the second half of 2006.
  The service will be called Intute. This post has all of the details.
  If you've never used the RDN and it's underlying subject gateways,
  they are MORE than worthy of your attention and use.

  See Also: Virtual Training Suite from the RDN

Libraries
  Source: Council on Library and Information Resources
  CLIR Issues March/April 2006 Now Available
  Articles include:

+ For the Record: Recorded-Sound Studies Nearing Completion

+ Got Metadata?

Information Policy
  Source: Yale Information Society Project
  Upcoming Conference: The first international conference on Access to
  Knowledge

  The conference will take place at the Yale Law School, April 21-23,
  2006. From the web site, "The first goal of the Yale A2K Initiative
  is to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the
  possibly distortive effects of public policies relying exclusively
  on intellectual property rights. Beyond this aim, the A2K initiative
  seeks to support the adoption and development of alternative ways to
  foster greater access to knowledge in the digitally connected
  environment." List of panels.

Government Printing Office--United States
  Source: GPO
  Enhanced version of the CGP/OPAC now available
  "The Superintendent of Documents is pleased to announce the launch
  of the enhanced version of the Catalog of U.S. Government
  Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public
  access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's
  (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of the
  new CGP Phase 1 of a larger modernization plan to replace older
  legacy systems is complete."

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


Scholarly Publishing--Citation Reports
--------------------------------------

Source: ISI

+ The Hottest Research of 2004-05
+ Australian Universities: Most Prolific in Computer Science, 2000-04
+ Science in Taiwan, 2000-04
+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Veterinary Sciences
+ History: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 2000-04
+ Hot Paper in Physics
+ The 20 Most-Cited Countries in Chemistry, 1995-August 31, 2005

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


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Newspaper Digitization
  Baseball--United States
  College Basketball--United States
  Source: NewspaperARCHIVE.com

NewspaperARCHIVE.com Releases Basketball and Baseball Archives, Access
Tens of Thousands of Full Text & Full Image "Historical" Articles
(Free)

Wow, NewspaperARCHIVE.com is on a roll.

Last week we mentioned the release of a new and free searchable
archive containing umore than 15,000 full text and full image articles
from hundreds of newspapers about the HMS Titanic. Access to the
database and the articles is free. Material can be copied and printed.

Today, just as March Madness gets underway, NewspaperArchive.com has
released CollegeBasketballArchive.com. This database offers searchable
access to more than 50,000 historical full text newspaper pages about
the college bball.

From the site, "CollegeBasketballArchive.com contains newspaper
articles covering all of the great moments in the history of the
college game. From the first NCAA Champion, the University of Oregon,
to the 2005 champion University of North Carolina, the archive
contains exciting accounts of every NCAA tournament. The archive also
includes articles on legendary coaches like John Wooden and Jim
Valvano as well as great players such as Bill Walton and Michael
Jordan."

Search (advanced interface, too) or browse key articles via this
timeline.

If college hoops are not your thing, perhaps baseball is.

Just in time for baseball seaon, NewspaperARCHIVE.com also provides
ProBaseballArchive.com. This free service lets you search and read,
copy, and prin the full text and image of more than 50,000 articles
about professional baseball.

Other NewspaperARCHIVE.com Free Archives Include:

+ MartinLutherKingJuniorArchive.com (we posted about this important
  site in January)
+ AbrahamLincolnArchive.com
+ WinterGamesArchive.com (Winter Olympics)
+ AsbestosArchive.com (Asbestos and Asbestos Related Lawsuits)


Elections--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census
  Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004

  "Report examines the levels of voting and registration in the
  November 2004 presidential election, the characteristics of citizens
  reporting they were registered to vote and actually did vote, and
  the reasons why others registered did not vote. The report, from the
  Current Population Survey, provides the first-ever analysis of
  national- and state-level data that was released last May." 18
  pages; PDF.

Avian Influenza--Maps
  Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas
  at Austin

  Avian Influenza Maps on Other Web Sites

  Collection of links to general and regional maps from 2004, 2005,
  2006.

Geology--United States
  Earthquakes
  Source: USGS
  New, A Virtual Tour of the Hayward Fault

  From the announcement, "The U.S. Geological Survey has a new website
  that offers a virtual tour of the Hayward fault. The virtual tour
  starts at the northern end of the Hayward fault, where it enters San
  Pablo Bay, and flies south along the fault to Fremont, showing along
  the way where the fault crosses freeways, runs through the
  University of California Berkeley football stadium, and intersects
  residential neighborhoods throughout the East Bay. The virtual tour
  provides an unprecedented look at the Hayward fault, which last
  produced a damaging earthquake in October 1868. At the time, this
  Hayward fault earthquake was known as the great San Francisco
  earthquake, but it lost that title on April 18th, 1906, when the San
  Francisco earthquake struck along the San Andreas Fault."

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


Search Briefs
-------------

+ AOL video service to debut with Intel, Kraft ads (via Reuters)
  NOTE: The service is officially debuting today but the In2TV
  (complete tv shows from the 70's, 80's, and 90's has been online for
  over a week and we offered an overview of the service last week.

  UPDATE: In our review last week we mentioned that some programs will
  be available using AOL's Hi-Q Video service (free). They've been
  testing this product that delivers higher quality (DVD and TV
  quality) since November. More about Hi-Q here. Requires download,
  Windows only, IE only.

  Update 2: Material from In2TV can also be found by searching AOL
  Video Search.

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



                  ++  Tuesday, March 14, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
--------------------------

Science and Technology Libraries
  Source: ISTL
  The Winter 2006 issue of Issues in Science and Technology
  Librarianship is Now Online

  This new issue focuses on outreach and marketing. Articles include:

+ Reaching the Engineering and Science Communities: New Technologies
  and Approaches at MIT

+ Creating a BUZZ: Attracting SCI/TECH Students to the Library!

+ The Beat of a Different Drum: Using the Arts in Outreach to
  Science/Engineering Students and Faculty

Other articles include:

+ Using Spreadsheets to Map a Library Reclassification,
  Reorganization, and Merger

+ Materials Used by Master's Students in Engineering and Implications
  for Collection Development: A Citation Analysis

+ Database reviews of Google Scholar, Scopus, and ENGnetBASE.

Digital Libraries
  Source: BL/JISC/UKOLN Workshop, British Library

  Presentation: Digital Libraries and the business process:
  reflections on a theme

  A recent presentation by Dr Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN. PPT slides
  also available.

Scholarly Publishing
  Source: C&RL News
  The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: An
  evolving agenda

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


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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International Security--Yearbooks
  Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
  SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International
  Security, Pocket-size Summary Edition 36 pages; PDF.

Nanotechnology--Databases
  Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  New, NIOSH Offers Nanoparticle Information Library to Meet User's
  Needs for On-line Resource

  "The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  offers a new, web-based Nanoparticle Information Library (NIL) for
  public use and comment. The new, interactive database responds to
  the needs of scientists, business leaders, and others for
  information on different types of nanoparticles in current use,
  their physical and chemical characteristics, and their occupational
  health and safety implications. The Library is available at
  http://www2a.cdc.gov/niosh-nil/ as a resource for those diverse
  users -- from students to researchers -- and as a forum in which
  scientists can share their latest technical information. By
  providing the database, NIOSH hopes to further the ability of
  researchers and decisionmakers to address the question of whether
  work-related exposures to nanomaterials may have unintended health
  consequences."

  Resource Overview Direct to Nanoparticle Information Library

Prisons--United States--Statistics
  Source: BJS
  New, Prisoners in 2004

From the report:

+ The Nation's prison population grew 1.9% in 2004, reaching 1.5
million inmates. Ten States had increases of at least 5%, led by
Minnesota (up 11.4%), Idaho (up 11.1%), and Georgia (up 8.3%).

+ Eleven States experienced prison population decreases, led by
Alabama (down 7.3%), Rhode Island (down 2.8%), New York (down 2.2%),

+ Local jails housed 74,378 State and Federal inmates (5.0% of all
prisoners).

Higher Education--United States--Statistics
  Source: NSF
  New, Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and
  Engineering: Fall 2003

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


Search Briefs
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+ UPDATE: Judge to Order Google to Give Up Some Data
+ Feds and Google Head to Court Today over Search Records (via
  News.com)
+ New Classified Engine Takes to the Web (via News.com)
  Here's a list of a few (just a few) classified ad/local listings
  databases. Several of them have launched during the past year. This
  is not a comprehensive list by any stretch of the imagination.
+ Vast (new today)
+ Adoos (non-US)
+ BlockRocker
+ BlogBuy
+ Craigslist
+ Edegio
+ Google Base
+ TheGreenSheet
+ Kijiji (non-US, from eBay)
+ LiveDeal
+ Microsoft Live Expo
+ Oodle (also available via Lycos with different interface)
+ Recycler.com (owned by Tribune Company)
+ theadcloud
+ Yahoo Classifieds (some listings are free)
+ Check out the Topix.net Forum Activity Map
  Topix.net, the wonderful online news site, launched an interactive
  "forum map" linked in the "right rail" of their home page. Once it
  opens, you can see where forum posts (Topix.net forums for each news
  story in 2005) are coming from. Each circle on the map can be
  clicked to go directly to posts from that area. U.S. only.

Ask.com Launches New Betas Sites in France, The Netherlands, and Italy

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


Briefly
-------

+ Happy 70th Anniversary to the Federal Register (PDF)
  "The Federal Register provides public notice of pending and final
  actions of the Government in the form of rules, Presidential
  proclamations, executive orders, meeting notices, and other
  rulemaking. Since this has a direct impact on many people, what
  appears in the Register is key to the American public. In its first
  year back in 1936, the Register printed 2,620 pages. Today, nearly
  that many pages are published each week. Approximately 100 million
  Register documents are viewed annually over the Internet through GPO
  Access."

  See Also: Volume 59 (1994) - 71 (2006) available via GPO Access

  NOTE: Hein Online (Fee-Based) Offers Digitized Access (Full Image of
  Each Page) of the FR Back to Vol.1

  See Also: GPO Daily E-Mail Containing Federal Register Table of
  Contents, Free


+ RLG: CAMIO Fine Arts Database Available throughout North Carolina
  Libraries
  Camio is the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online.
  See Also: What's Trove.net?

+ Endeavor Information Systems and TDNet Expand Partnership to
Introduce Re-Architected Reference Linking Solution for Libraries

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


                  ++  Monday, March 13, 2006  ++



Professional Reading Shelf
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Public Records
  Source: Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS), Reference
  and User Services Association (RUSA)

  Public Libraries Briefcase: Finding & Using Public Records

  "The challenge in finding and using public records is one of
  accessibility. Regulated by individual state statutes, access to
  specific categories of records is restricted in some states while in
  others the same records are open and unrestricted. The categories of
  public records most frequently impacted by individual state code
  include criminal histories, vehicle ownership, and workmen's
  compensation claims -- areas related to personnel background checks.
  Additionally the overall inconsistencies of what agencies in which
  states make public records available online can make the search for
  information frustrating."

Information Technology
  Source: Council on Library and Information Resources
  New Report, Shidhulai Swarnivar Sangstha: Bringing Information
  Technology to Rural Bangladesh by Boat

  From the abstract, "The 2005 recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates
  Foundation Access to Learning Award overcame the challenge that the
  ecosystem of Bangladesh poses and found a way to deliver information
  technology to residents of some of that country's flood-prone areas.
  With specially designed, indigenous boats, Shidhulai Swanirvar
  Sangstha is using cellular technology and solar power to provide
  Internet access and online training to thousands of rural residents.
  Shidhulai is the name of a village in the Natore district of
  Bangladesh, and the term swanirvar sangstha means 'self-reliant
  organization.' This report is a case study of how Shidhulai
  Swanirvar Sangstha approached formidable obstacles and documents the
  overall success of the project." Direct to Full Text (26 pages; PDF)

Paris--Libraries
  Source: New York Times
  At These Parisian Landmarks, Shhh Is the Word
  "Libraries seldom turn up on a tourist's itinerary. This makes them
  ideal havens for anyone eager to escape from one's fellow
  foreigners. It's worth risking a derisive glance from a Parisian
  bookworm, who no doubt regards you as an intruding barbarian anyway,
  to tiptoe through some of the city's most atmospheric public
  spaces."

Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4gskp>


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
-----------------------------------------------

Final Four--2006
  College Athletics--United States
  Source: NCAA
  College Basketball: 2006 Men's and Women's Final Four: Records,
  Rules, and Handbooks

+ 2006 Division I Women's Basketball Championship Handbook
  (66 pages; PDF)
+ 2006 Division I Men's Basketball Championship Handbook
  (57 pages; PDF)
+ 2006 Men's Final Four Records Book (250 pages; PDF)
+ 2006 Women's Final Four Records Book (147 pages; PDF)
+ 2006 Men's Basketball Records Book (404 pages; PDF)
+ 2006 Women's Basketball Records Book (334 pages; PDF)

See Also: Men's and Women's Illustrated Basketball Rules, 2006
  (162 pages; PDF)
See Also: Men's and Women's Basketball Rules, 2006 (184 pages; PDF)
See Also: List: NCAA Member School Nicknames>
See Also: 2006 Men's Final Four Brackets
See Also: 2006 Women's Final Four Brackets (Available Monday Night)

Public Opinion--European Union--Databases
  Source: European Union
  Eurobarometer Interactive Search System

  "This section of the website gives you access to the search tool for
  our Trends questions database. Trends questions are asked several
  times a year and they allow us to measure the evolution of European
  public opinion. This search tool gives you an overview of these
  trends in the form of graphs. The system allows you to choose a
  subject, a particular period of time, the country which interests
  you and then compare these results with any other European Union
  country. You can also export these results under different formats
  allowing you to easily create your own documents. Thanks to SB from
  the IWS for the news tip.

Homeland Security--United States
  Biosecurity--United States
  Source: Purdue University Homeland Security Institute for Animal
  Health Emergencies
  National Biosecurity Resource Center
  News, databases, and more.

Business
  Source: Emerald Publishing Group
  New from Emerald, Emerald Management Xtra for Deans and Directors
  "Emerald Group Publishing announces the launch of Emerald Management
  Xtra for Deans and Directors, a suite of online resources designed
  to support senior managers and administrators in management
  education. Building on the communities of practice concept of
  Emerald Management Xtra for librarians, authors, researchers,
  students, and faculty, this latest addition is focused on leading
  the future of global business and management education."

Americans With Disability Act
  Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)
  New Report, The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The
  Definition of Disability

  Written by Nancy Lee Jones, Legislative Attorney, American Law
  Division. 14 pages; PDF.

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Search Briefs
--------------

Google to broker online book sales (via News.com)

"The new offering would allow people to sign in and purchase
immediate, browser-based access to books, Google said on its site.
Purchasers would not, however, be allowed to save a copy of the book
to their computer or to otherwise copy pages from the book." Services
like ebrary, Books24x7, NetLibrary, Safari, and others offer new books
online (searchable) that can also in many cases be printed, shared,
annotated, etc. I'm sure that Amazon.com will announce a similar
service soon to go along with their Search Inside the Book program.
Actually, we know that they're already working on one and don't forget
that about a year ago they purchased an on-demand book publisher. It's
one thing to be able to read a book online (cool!), but it's something
else to be able to use the content (print, share, annotate, etc.)
(cooler!!!). It will be interesting to see where Google takes this
service in the future and if they develop a micropayment service (like
ebrary Discover (see below) where you can read for free and then pay
to print or copy specific pages.


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                  ++  Sunday, March 12, 2006 ++

Professional Reading Shelf
--------------------------

Social Search
  Tagging
  Source: Nature Publishing Group
  New Tools and More from Connotea
  "Connotea is a free online reference management service. It allows
  you to save links to all your favourite articles, references,
  websites and other online resources with one click. Connotea is also
  a social bookmarking tool, so you can view other people's
  collections to discover new, interesting content."

Several new features in the past few weeks including:

+ A Tagging Tool for EPrints-powered Institutional Repositories
+ New Homepage Includes Tag Cloud
+ Video Introduction to Connotea, tags, bookmarking, automatic
  bibliographic information import, and more

Academic Libraries
  Digitization Projects
  Source: The Daily Bruin (UCLA)
  Libraries getting the digital treatment

  "Gary Strong, the UCLA librarian, said that he envisions the library
  of the future as a space of collaborative learning. Instead of
  coming to the library to read books, students will be able to
  collaborate with peers and faculty while looking at and researching
  collections of rare material, he said." The California Digital
  Library is also mentioned. Search the California Digital Library.

See Also: Direct to The Online Books Page
  "Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web."
See Also: Searching for Digital Books
See Also: A (Non-controversial) Alternative to Google Print
See Also: More Online Books Resources

Personal Information--United States
  Source: Chicago Tribune
  Internet blows CIA cover

  From the article, "When the Tribune searched a commercial online
  data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600
  CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the
  locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United
  States." While this is bad, the article is clear that the
  information is NOT on the public web but rather via a fee-based
  service or what we would call "via the web." Which one? We don't
  know. Also, although the article states, "anyone ... can qualify for
  a subscription to one of the online services." Without knowing the
  precise service, it is very hard to measure the accessibility to the
  data. That said, many of the most robust services are not available
  to the general public. Lots of paperwork/documentation needs to get
  completed and approved before access is granted. Of course, many
  government databases (direct from local, state, federal authorities)
  offer access to all sorts of personal info, IF you know where to
  look. This data stockpile, for the most part, remains on the
  Invisible or deep web. The issue is not one for the search engines,
  but rather for government webmasters and legislators. Thanks to P.L.
  for the news tip.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Freedom Of Information Act
  Source: News University (A project of The Poynter Institute funded
  by the Knight Foundation)

  Freedom of Information--Online Course

  Free registration required. "Freedom of information is instrumental
  to journalism and essential for democracy. This course teaches you
  how to use the Freedom of Information Act, Public Records Laws and
  Open Meetings Laws to uphold your right to know the government's
  actions. Learn not only the details of FOI laws in your state, but
  how to use FOI to write better stories today."

Planning--United Kingdom--Databases
  Source: Planning Portal
  New Database, Search for Planning Applications Throughout the UK

From the site, The National Planning Application Register has been
developed in partnership with Emap Glenigan. It allows you to search
for information on 80 per cent of planning applications and 40 per
cent of decisions made in every area of England and Wales. The service
is free of charge and can be used to:

+ Search for planning applications in your area
+ Read details about applications, including descriptions
+ Print or download a list of applications for an area

See Also: Planning register goes online (via Kable's Government News)

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                 ++  Saturday, March 11, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Information Literacy
  Health Research
  Source: NLM
  New, MedlinePlus Adds Tutorial on Evaluating Internet Health Information

  "Evaluating Internet Health Information is a 16-minute narrated
  slideshow. The tutorial runs automatically, but you can use the
  navigation bar at the bottom of the screen to go forward, backward,
  pause, or start over. Using fictional "good" and "bad" Web sites,
  the tutorial walks the user though a comparison of the two, pointing
  out features to look for concerning the information provider,
  funding source, quality, and privacy. The tutorial uses plain
  language and narration and is appropriate for users at a broad range
  of reading levels."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Senior Citizens--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census, National Institute on Aging
  New Report, 65+ in the United States: 2005
  "The face of aging in the United States is changing dramatically -
  and rapidly, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
  Today's older Americans are very different from their predecessors,
  living longer, having lower rates of disability, achieving higher
  levels of education and less often living in poverty. And the baby
  boomers, the first of whom celebrated their 60th birthdays in 2006,
  promise to redefine further what it means to grow older in America."

  Summary/Fast Facts Direct to Full Text (PDF; 254 pages)

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Search Briefs
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Feedster, An RSS Search Engine, Launches in Japan

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                 ++  Friday, March 10, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Web Directories
  Source: LII
  The LII Wants Your Feedback

  Karen Schneider and the Librarians' Internet Index have just placed
  their Annual User Survey online. Please share your thoughts. It only
  takes a few, very few, minutes. If you've never visted and used this
  wonderful resource, it's a MUST! Since we shared a few thoughts
  about the LII earlier this week in this post (2nd item), no need to
  repeat them today. Btw, not only is the LII a wonderful directory
  but also a great current awareness resource that we think is a must
  read, along with ResourceShelf and DocuTicker, of course. :-)

Personal Information Management
  Source: E-LIS

  Annotating the Web: An Exploratory Study of Web Users' Needs for
  Personal Annotation Tools

  This paper was writen by Xin Fu, Tom Ciszek, Gary Marchionini, and
  Paul Solomon, and was published in the Proceedings 68th Annual
  Meeting (2005) of the American Society for Information Science and
  Technology (ASIST). From the abstract, "This exploratory study
  investigates the needs Web users have to make annotations for their
  personal use when they view Web pages. Three forms of annotations
  observed on printed documents - text selection and emphasis,
  association building, and document re-segmentation - are examined in
  the Web environment. The study shows that text selection and
  association building through notes or symbols remain the dominant
  forms of annotation on the Web, while structural annotation (re-
  segmentation) and layout annotation (change of font, color, etc.)
  are also prevalent. The study also investigates users' preferences
  for the tools designed to facilitate Web annotation practices.
  Findings suggest that usability is of utmost importance when
  developing Web annotation tools, and that under the current
  technical conditions, users welcome lightweight annotation
  functions, which are built into standard Web browsers."

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Personal Wealth--Lists & Rankings
  Source: Forbes
  Just Released: The World's Richest People: Forbes Billionaires List
  2006

Top 10:
1. William Gates
2. Warren Buffett
3. Carlos Slim Helú
4. Ingvar Kamprad
5. Lakshmi Mittal
6. Paul Allen
7. Bernard Arnault
8. Prince Alwaleed
9. Kenneth Thomson
10. Li Ka-shing

Search:

MSN: Bill Gates, #1
MSN: Steve Ballmer, #24
Google: Sergey Brin: #26
Google: Larry Page #27
Google: Eric Schmidt #129
Yahoo: David Filo: #240
Yahoo: Jerry Yang: #317
Ask.com: Barry Diller #606


U.S. Central Intelligence Agency--Movies
  Source: The Memory Hole
  CIA Films at the National Archives

  "After a certain number of years, the CIA, like many other agencies,
  turns over its films and other documents to the National Archives
  and Records Administration (NARA). The lengthy list of CIA films at
  the Archives has never been publicly released, but researcher
  Michael Ravnitzky requested and received a copy from NARA. It's
  posted in two formats at the link above (the plain text version
  looks better online). Many of the films were created by the CIA, and
  some - such as news reports and the occasional Hollywood movie --
  were not.... You can request a copy of any of the films under the
  Freedom of Information Act."

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               ++  Thursday, March 9, 2006  ++

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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Textiles--Database
  Source: University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham (UK)
  The Textiles Collection

Comprising about 3,000 artifacts, this database of digital images
"ranges from Coptic textiles dating from 800-1000 AD through to
British woollen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving and
Scandinavian furnishing fabrics from 1950 to 1990." You can search the
collection via a text box at the top of the home page; typing in
batik, for example, and clicking "Go" generates a results page with
seven records, each a thumbnail image with a brief description
underneath. Click on an image to retrieve the item record, which
includes: the creator, date, item type, its function (e.g., scarf), a
general description, a subject term, type of material, visual
information (e.g., "geometric"), technique (e.g., hand woven), process
(e.g., batik), culture (e.g, country, ethnic group, etc.), source (how
it was obtained), and rights. A link at the bottom of the record takes
you to a full catalog record, which includes a link to a larger image.
Many of these are quite spectacular, and rightly so. "Each image has
been carefully created to describe the particular qualities of its
subject - expressing the fold and drape of a textile; communicating
the fibre, structure and finish of woven cloths; and illustrating
pattern, repeat and scale in printed fabrics."

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Reference Reviews
  Peter's Digital Reference Shelf: March 2006 is Now Online
  This month Dr. Peter Jacso from the University of Hawaii offers in-
  depth reviews of:
  NCJRS (Criminal Justice Database)

  "A good example of when an open-access version of a high-quality
  database providing much more content than its subscription-based
  implementation, along with offers high-IQ search features."

and

Taber's Medical Encyclopedia

  "This free version of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary is one
  of the leading sources among the many (partially) open access
  versions of the most well-known medical dictionaries. Although it
  does not have the pictures and the tables of the subscription-based
  online version, its clear definitions make it stand out from its
  competitors."

Digital Universe Project
  Encyclopedia
  Source: eLearn
  Exploring the Digital Universe

  "A new network of Web portals called the Digital Universe aims to
  answer these questions with technically advanced, advertising-free,
  expert-vetted content that is fully accessible to all. Intended to
  one day incorporate thousands of sub-portals and a full
  encyclopedia, and with developing plans for "open" content to which
  anyone can contribute, the open-source Digital Universe may get a
  serious jumpstart from its innovative "venture philanthropy"
  business model. It's an ambitious undertaking, and one that won't be
  easy to pull off. But its very presence serves a much-needed
  reminder that much of the Web's great potential has yet to be
  fulfilled."

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Newspaper Digitizaton
  RMS Titanic
  Source: NewspaperARCHIVE.com
  Brand New, Titanic Newspaper Archive

  From the same company that offers the MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com
  that was released in January. Access to both archives is free. What
  does the Titanic Newspaper Archive contain? More than 15,000 fully
  digitized and searchable newspaper pages. Pages are delivered as PDF
  files. Pages can be saved and/or printed. Very cool!

Traffic--United States--Statistics
  Source: FHWA
  Serial: Traffic Volume Trends

  "Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic
  count data reported by the States. These data are collected at
  approximately 4,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide
  and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the
  current month compared with the same month in the previous year."
  Numbers are also available in .XLS format.

  See Also: Archive of TVT Back to Jan. 2002

Terrorism
  Source: Council on Foreign Relations
  New Background Brief, Terrorists and the Internet

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Multimedia Lecture Hall
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Libraries
  Digital Information
  Source: MIT World
  Video: The Future of Digital Commons

Presentations from:

+ Nancy Kranich, Former President, American Library Association and
  Guest Lecturer

+ Ann Wolpert, Drector, MIT Libraries

+ Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard
  University

This event took place at MIT on September 22, 2005.

  See Also: Now Available, A Presentation by Peter H. Diamandis,
  Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation

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Search Briefs
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+ Answers.com Files Patent Infrigement Lawsuit in Israeli Court
+ Yahoo, Siemens enter VoIP partnership
+ Mobile: Sony Ericsson teams with Google

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Bibliographic Databases
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What's a RedLightGreen?

  Over 120,000,000 searchable bibliographic records. Refine by simply
  pointing and clicking. RedLightGreen also allows you to associate
  each record with local library catalogs around the world. Save and
  share lists of titles. Many more features. RedLightGreen will even
  prepare your bibliography for you. A free service.

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