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ResourceShelf Newsletter
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Number 255
April 6, 2006

++  Thursday, April 6, 2006  ++
Resource of the Week
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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Library of Congress--Portal
  Source: National Digital Library (NDL) Program and the Public
  Affairs Office of the Library of Congress

The LOC.GOV Wise Guide

  The Wise Guide describes itself as a magazine that will be updated
  monthly with pointers to "items contained in a collection, database,
  reading room or other area of the Library's online offerings." This
  includes not only books, but "prints, photographs, films, audio
  recordings, maps, manuscripts, music and digital materials" as well.

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Professional Reading Shelf
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Reference Reviews
  Source: Gale.com
  The April 2006 Edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf Is Now
  Online

  Dr. Peter Jacso has reviewed:
  Encyclopedia of Television (1st edition)
  "Although this edition was updated by a 2nd edition, it is still a
  high-quality digital ready-reference source with the added advantage
  that it is free. Wth a little savvy, it is searchable instead of
  just browsable."

&

Oxford Journals Collection

  "The Oxford Journals Collection shows the mighty synergy between
  valuable content and powerful software. The volume of open access
  full-text articles (nearly 100,000), open access abstracts (about
  179,000) and open access bibliographic records (close to 900,000)
  makes this service very impressive. The software also gently and
  smartly leads the searcher to other relevant sources."

Digital Libraries--Europe
  Source: Euractiv.com
  First Meeting: Digital libraries: industry dominates expert group

Health Information--Conferences
  Source: U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

  Upcoming Event: 2006 Libraries & Health Information Forum The forum
  will take place at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD
  on May 3rd. Eugenie Prime will be the moderator.

Library Management and Organization
  Source: INFORMED LIBRARIAN
  Guest Forum: Values: A Human and Organizational Resource

  This forum was written Audrey Fenner from the Congressional Research
  Service and John Fenner. "It is Part I of an article entitled
  'Values: A Human and Organizational Resource'. The authors discuss
  the importance of understanding the values of your staff members
  (including your own), and of identifying and mobilizing shared
  values."

Digital Storage
  Source: Computerworld
  Quick Study Guide to Virtual Tape

  "Virtual tape is an archival backup technology that saves data on
  hard drives as if it were being stored on tape. A virtual tape
  appliance or server emulates traditional tape devices and formats,
  allowing existing tape-based processes and procedures to remain in
  place. Virtual tape systems offer faster backup and recovery times
  and lower operating costs."

Open Access
  Scholarly Publishing
  Source: SPARC/Peter Suber
  Issue #96 (April 2nd) of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter is Now
  Online

Serials
  Source: Louisville Courier-Journal
  Libraries cut back
  "The University of Kentucky also has been hit by the cost of
  academic journals, removing 1,000 this year. 'It's killing
  libraries,' Carol P. Diedrichs, dean of libraries at UK, said of
  journal costs." Thanks to Wired Campus for the news tip.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Weather--United States--Databases
  Climate--United States--Databases
  Source: NOAA
  Improved: NOWData (NOAA Online Weather Data)

  Need to find weather conditions (temperature, precipitation averages
  and extremes) data from the past? "By visiting the NOAA National
  Weather Service's national climate Web portal, users can click a
  desired location on a national map and be taken directly to the
  local climate page of the appropriate NOAA National Weather Service
  forecast office. Then, by clicking on the NOWData tab [far right],
  users can access a wide range of climate products for nearly 3,900
  locations. Daily past weather is available for the last two years
  with climate averages for the standard 30-year period of 1971-2000
  and extremes for as long as a station has been taking
  observations...Past weather data offered by NOAA National Weather
  Service forecast offices and linked from the NOWData Web site are
  considered preliminary, and, therefore, unofficial. Certified
  weather data, for uses such as litigation, are available only
  through the NOAA National Climatic Data Center."

Internet--United States--Statistics
  Source: FCC
  New, Federal Communications Commission Releases Data On High-Speed
  Services For Internet Access

  "The Federal Communications Commission [has] released new data on
  high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States. Twice a
  year, facilitiesbased broadband providers report the number of high-
  speed connections in service pursuant to the FCC?s local telephone
  competition and broadband data gathering program. Statistics
  released today reflect data as of June 30, 2005."

Ready Reference
Fast Facts
  Source: The World Almanac
  New, The April 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)

Athletes--Timelines
  Source: Infoplease
  New, The Tiger Woods Timeline

Science Education--United States--Databases
  The Science Diversity Center
  "The Science Diversity Center (SDC) is a web-based comprehensive
  one-stop science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
  educational resource tool designed (1) to assist federal agencies
  that fund STEM education initiatives in sharing timely program and
  project information in a user-friendly format with stakeholders, (2)
  to serve as a tool for sharing information on strategies that
  addresses the nation's STEM workforce needs, and (3) to foster
  increased participation in STEM fields by individuals from groups
  currently underrepresented in STEM fields of study."

Software Piracy--United States--Statistics
  Source: SIIA
  New, 2005 AntiPiracy Year End Report
  "The largest states, naturally, are home to the largest number of
  piracy cases California leads with 18% and Texas & New York follow
  with 7% each. Only five more states are required to reach half of
  all cases: Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Illinois and Massachusetts each
  represent about 5% of the total cases." Summary ||| Full Text Report
  (Both PDF) (via DocuTicker.com)

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+ ProQuest partners with Naxos to provide first music audio files
  within a music reference database

+ Nielsen deal with BL improves MARC data (via IWR)

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++  Wednesday, April 5, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Libraries--United States
  Source: American Library Association
  Just Released: State of America's Libraries 2006

  From Introduction: "While you can still borrow books, today's
  libraries are resource and community centers, widely used and
  enthusiastically supported by a growing proportion of Americans. In
  a survey conducted early this year, 36 percent of Americans put the
  benefits of libraries at the top of the public services list, a six-
  percentage point increase from 2002."

Government Printing Office--United States
  U.S. Government--Databases
  Source: GPO
  GPO Issues RFP for Future Digital System

  The GPO has published an RFP, "for the Master Integrator of the
  Future Digital System, also referred to as FDsys. The launch of the
  RFP marks a major point in GPO's timetable to create a new content
  management system that will provide permanent public access to all
  Federal Government information." The full text of the RFP is
  available here (520 pages; PDF). Additional background about FDsys
  here.

Digital Archiving
  Digital Records
  Source: UKOLN
  Presentation: Digital Archiving or Digital Archaeology? Dealing with
  Digital Records

  A presentation given last month by Maureen Pennock from the
  Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS). Available
  in HTML or PowerPoint.

Data Collection--Best Practices
  Public Libraries--United Kingdom
  Source: LISU
  Recently Released, Best Practice in Data Collection

  "Report of a benchmarking exercise for Leicestershire Library
  Services and Warwickshire Library and Information Service. This is
  an anonymised version of a report produced for a small group of
  county library authorities, looking at the relative cost of library
  services and library use indicators."

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Immigration--United States
  Source: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)/Syracuse
  University Updated, Enhanced: TRAC Immigration Info Web Site

  "Developed with the support of the JEHT Foundation, the Ford
  Foundation and Syracuse University, the site offers one-stop
  shopping for a broad array of authoritative information about what
  is now one of the largest single enforcement and control efforts in
  the United States. The first edition of TRAC's new site, among other
  features, includes: (1) separate clearly written reports on
  important immigration matters, (2) a special TRAC tool that provides
  one-click access to the very latest monthly data on criminal
  enforcement of the immigration laws, along with a clear explanatory
  text, (3) an extensive library of immigration reports by the GAO,
  CRS and inspectors general, (4) a plain English glossary of
  frequently used words and acronyms and much more."

Lookup Databases
  Source: Melissa Data
  New, House Number by ZIP Code Lookup
  "Use this address finder if you know the ZIP and the house or
  building number."

See Also: Street Names by ZIP
See Also: Many More Lookup Databases
Access to just about all of them is free.

eGovernment--Canada
  Source:
  New Report, Government On-Line 2006 [Canada]
  Overview report. Includes appendix with the top 130 most used
  services.

Airlines--Lists & Ranking
  Source: UNO Aviation Institute and W. Frank Barton School of
  Business at Wichita State University 2006 Airline Quality Rating

  From press release: "For the third consecutive year, Jet Blue was
  the best performing airline according to the 16th annual national
  Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study. However, 15 of the 16 airlines
  in the study, including Jet Blue, performed more poorly in 2005 than
  2004." Full Rankings (PDF; 334 KB) (via DocuTicker.com)

Earthquakes
  U.S. History
  San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
  Source: USGS
  Google Earth and USGS Team Up for 3D View of San Francisco 1906
  Earthquake

  "The virtual tour, using the three-dimensional geographic mapping
  tool Google Earth, begins with a view from space and zooms in on the
  300-mile rupture of the 1906 earthquake along the San Andreas Fault.
  Using overlays of ground-shaking intensity, damage, historic photos
  and first-hand accounts, the 1906 earthquake is revealed in a
  historic and scientific context. In addition, the user can explore
  the present day earthquake hazard in the Bay Area with maps and
  other on-line resources."

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Search Briefs
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+ Review: A Few Minutes with Relaunched Image Search Engine: Pixsy

+ Google Related Links Now Out; Challenges Yahoo's Year-Old Y!Q Links

+ A9: New Bookmark Export Utility
  From the A9 blog, "If you are using A9.com bookmarks and wish to
  import your A9.com bookmarks into Internet Explorer or Firefox..."

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Cool "Stuff" to Try
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+ WeatherBug Labs
  For the weather info geek. All sorts of new stuff from the new
  WeatherBug lab. Almost all of these "lab" products are available
  without having to download the WeatherBug app. From a Firefox plugin
  (works very well) to gadgets and widgets for MS and Yahoo. From RSS
  feeds to games to weather via an IM app. All products are free to
  try and use.

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Industry Briefs
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+ LexisNexis and Newstex Add Blog Content to LN Database

+ Factiva Adds Visualization Technology to SalesWorks Product

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Congressional Research Service
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Source: CRS via OpenCRS, FAS, NCSE

A Selection of New/Updated CRS Reports

+ North Korean Counterfeiting of U.S. Currency

+ National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations: A
  Glimpse of the Legal Background and Recent Amendments

+ Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. PolicyPost-War
  Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

+ NASA's Space Shuttle Program: The Columbia Tragedy, the Discovery
  Mission, and the Future of the Shuttle

+ Lobbying, Ethics and Related Procedural Reforms: Comparison of
  Current Provisions of S. 2349 and H.R. 4975

+ Active Military Sonar and Marine Mammals: Events and References

+ Protecting New Orleans: From Hurricane Barriers to Floodwalls

+ Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy

+ Mexico's Importance and Multiple Relationships with the United States

+ Immigration Policy on Expedited Removal of Aliens
  See Also: More Immigration Related CRS Reports Available via TRAC
  (Syracuse University)

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                  ++  Tuesday, April 4, 2006  ++


Professional Reading Shelf
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Scholarly Publishing--Europe
  Source: European Commission
  New, Study on the economic and technical evolution of scientific
  publication markets in Europe

  112 pages; PDF. From the summary, "The Commission published, on 31
  March 2006, a study analysing the economic and technical evolution
  of the scientific publication markets in Europe since 1975. As
  prices of scientific journals have sharply increased, the number of
  individual researchers and libraries subscribing to scientific
  publications has, accordingly, decreased."

Academic Libraries
  Source: portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2006), pp.
  59-77. (via ARL)

  New, Improving Library Service Quality to Graduate Students: LibQual
  + (TM) Survey Results in Practical Setting Written by Maria Anna
  Jankowska, Karen Hertel, and Nancy J. Young. From the abstract, "The
  LibQUAL+TM survey was conducted to determine user satisfaction and
  expectations concerning library service quality."

WHOIS--Databases
  Source: ICANN
  ICANN Publishes Third Annual Update on the InterNIC Whois Data
  Problem Report System 12 pages; PDF.

Library Standards
  LITA
  Source: Library and Information Technology Association
  LITA Standards Coordinator Named
  "The Library and Information Technology Association Board of
  Directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Diane I.
  Hillmann to the new position of LITA Standards Coordinator...Diane
  Hillmann received her MLS from the School of Information Studies at
  Syracuse University in 1976. Hillmann has been involved with
  standards during most of her professional career."

Competitive Intelligence
  Enterprise Search
  Source: IWR
  France's Digimind Releases Digimind Finder

  "Digimind Finder differs from using a standard web search engine in
  that users pre-inform the search engine what sites and databases
  they regularly search. The application then searches, filters and
  presents the results in separate groups according to the information
  areas covered, called dimensions. Digimind cites pharmaceutical
  users who are using Finder to track PubMed Central , the Food and
  Drugs Administration (FDA), European equivalent the European Agency
  for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products ( EMEA ) and the corporate
  websites of rivals."

Open Archives Initiative--Events
  Scholarly Publishing
  Source: OAI
  Upcoming Meetings: Augmenting interoperability across scholarly
  repositories

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Search Briefs
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+ Answers.com Adds New Content to Their Database

+ RocketInfo Adds Video and Podcast Search

+ Research Tools, Management, and Organization: Onfolio Acquired by
  Microsoft

+ Name Change: America Online Officially Now Known as AOL
  Please don't call us America Online.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Online Maps
  Historical Maps

  David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Adds More than 1000 New
  Digitized Maps Review all of the new maps here. Highlights include:

+ Introduction a la Geographie, 1717
  Fer, Nicolas de, Paris
  6 Maps and plates. An early French geography book. Includes a map of
  California as an island.
  atlas, also used as a school atlas. Includes 26 classical maps.

+ New General Atlas, editions of 1870, 1880, and 1890
  Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, Philadelphia
  3 editions of a very popular 19th century American Atlas, showing
  the political and economic expansion of the United States over three
  decades. The 1870 edition includes R.A. Campbell's Atlas of
  Illinois.

+ 8 Atlases of Westchester County and Northern New York City, ranging
  in date from 1881 to 1914. The atlases show rapid suburban growth
  over 30 years along the railroad lines running north from New York
  City. .

Initial Public Offerings--Global--Statistics
  Source: Ernst and Young
  The IPO Market

  "No fewer than 29 countries each hosted more than $1 billion worth
  of IPOs last year, marking a globalization trend set to continue
  through 2006, according to Accelerating Growth, the third annual
  Global IPO Trends Report released today by Ernst & Young." Also
  includes, "a detailed breakdown and analysis of 2005's activity."
  Direct to Full Text Report. 56 pages; PDF.

Immigration--Canada--Exhibits
  Source: Library and Archives Canada
  New Online Exhibit, Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian
  Immigrant Experience

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                  ++  Monday, April 3, 2006  ++

Professional Reading Shelf
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Information Architecture

  Source: IA Blog and IA Web Site (via American Society for
  Information Science and Technology) Presentations from the IA Summit
  2006 Have Been Uploaded to the Summit 2006 Site

Tagging
  Weblogs
  Source: Dr. Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke, University of
  Amsterdam

  Two New Papers:

+ AutoTag: A Collaborative Approach to Automated Tag Assignment for
  Weblog Posts 2 pages; PDF.

+ Deriving Wishlists from Blogs: Show us your Blog, and We'll Tell you
  What Books to Buy 2 pages; PDF. Both papers will be presented at the
  15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006) See Also: Dr.
  Mishne's Paper: "A Study of Blog Search."

Enterprise Search
  Source: Computerworld
  In Google's Shadow
  A look at FAST Search and Transfer, a company that we've mentioned
  many times in the past couple of years.

National Libraries--Canada
  Source: Libraries and Archives Canada
  Libraries and Archives Canada "Services to the Public" Site Has a
  New Look, Content

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Identity Theft--United States--Statistics
  Source: BJS
  New Report, Identity Theft, 2004
  Highlights include:

+ Households headed by persons age 18-24 and those in the highest
  income bracket ($75,000 or more) were the most likely to experience
  identity theft.

+ 3 in 10 households experiencing any type of identity theft
  discovered it by missing money or noticing unfamiliar charges on an
  account; almost 1 in 4 were contacted by a credit bureau.

+ About two-thirds of households experiencing identity theft reported
  some type of a monetary loss as a result of theft.

Education--United States--Statistics
  Source: U.S. Census
  New Report, National Spending Per Student Rises to $8,287

  "U.S. public school districts spent an average of $8,287 per student
  in 2004, up from the previous year's total of $8,019. In all, public
  elementary and secondary education received $462.7 billion from
  federal, state and local sources in 2004, up 5.1 percent from 2003."
  Summary Direct to Federal, State, and Local Governments 2004 Public
  Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data.

Cell Phones--United States--Surveys
  Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
  How Americans use their cell phones

  "The cell phone has become an integral and, for some, essential
  communications tool that has helped owners gain help in emergencies.
  Fully 74% of the Americans who own mobile phones say they have used
  their hand-held device in an emergency and gained valuable help.
  Another striking impact of mobile technology is that Americans are
  using their cell phones to shift the way they spend their time. Some
  41% of cell phone owners say they fill in free time when they are
  traveling or waiting for someone by making phone calls. And 44% say
  they wait to make most of their cell calls for the hours when they
  do not count against their 'anytime' minutes in their basic calling
  plan."

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+ The Nation Digital Archive Now Available Only via EBSCOhost

+ FBI Expands Use of Choicepoint's i2 data visualization and
  investigative analysis software

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Search Briefs
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+ All Sorts of New Services, Search Options from MapQuest

1) New Routing Options from MapQuest Including an Option to Select:

++ Shortest Time
++ Shortest Distance
++ Avoid Highways
++ Avoid Tolls
++ New Interactive Maps, Just Rollover a Location for More Info and
   Chance to Send Info to Mobile
++ New Search Refinement Options, Examples available here.

2) Location Based Mapping Service from MapQuest Announced (via
   News.com) MapQuest still needs to work out deals with wireless
   providers. More info from the MapQuest Navigator page.

3) MapQuest Introduces Beta Version of Free Mapping and Routing
   Technology Platform For Web Developers

4) Access to MapQuest From Mobile Devices Now Available at No Charge.
   Go to: <http://wap.mapquest.com>

+ MSN Local Search Adds "Send to Phone" Option

  MSN joins Yahoo and Google in offering a "send to phone" feature
  with local search product. Example: Note the "Send to Mobile" link
  next to each entry. Btw, another favorite mobile tool that makes
  sending any web pages text to a mobile phone/device very easy is
  Vazu.

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                  ++  Sunday, April 2, 2006 ++

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Public Libraries--Australia--Internet Access--Surveys
  Source: The Australian Library and Information Association
  Internet Access in Australian Public Libraries (PDF)
  "The Association has recently completed its second comprehensive
  survey of internet delivery, use and management across over 700
  Australian public libraries." Direct to survey results (Summary |||
  Summary (PDF) ||| Survey Results

Libraries--United Kingdom
  Archives--United Kingdom
  Source: LISU
  Digest of Statistics for Museums, Libraries and Archives 2005
  "The Digest gives a broad overall perspective of the museums,
  libraries and archives scene in England." 12 pages; PDF.

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Search Briefs
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+ Lists: Looking at "Web 2.0" Companies and Apps

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Public Transportation--United States--Directory
  Source: American Public Transportation Association
  Comprehensive Directory of State and Local Transportation Links
  Also available here (by county) as a clickable map.

Higher Education--United States--Lists & Rankings
  Source: US News & World Report
  Just Released, USNews.com: America's Best Graduate Schools 2007
  A premium fee-based version is also available.

World Economy--Surveys
  Source: Economist Intelligence Unit

  The world economy to 2020: A tale of three countries China, US and
  India to drive global growth; Brazil and Russia to disappoint
  "Almost 40% of the increase in global GDP in the coming 15 years
  will come from China (27%) and India (12%). Brazil and Russia trail
  in their wake, each contributing just over 2% to the increase in
  world GDP between now and 2020." Direct to Full Text of EIU report.

National Poetry Month
  Source: Infoplease Almanac
  Resources for National Poetry Month

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                 ++  Saturday, April 1, 2006  ++

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School Libraries--United States
  Source: SouthCoastToday.com (Massachusetts)

  Regional library system drops Freetown school: Students lose access
  to electronic databases

  From the article, "Freetown School Superintendent Steven Furtado
  said the revoked membership is another example of the negative
  impact on the school's curriculum and instruction from the lack of
  funds needed to pay a certified school librarian. 'You don't see the
  cost immediately when a library position is not funded," Dr. Furtado
  said. "The children and the staff will suffer from the loss of this
  service. It's a worldwide information service that we would normally
  have access to. This is a blow to the curriculum and to the
  technology program.'" Thanks to David Dillard for the news tip.

Scholarly Publishing
  Source: SPARC
  Just Released, SPARC E-News
  Articles include:

+ Article: "Jeremy Greenwood Gets It: Examining One Faculty Member's
  Creative Use of an Institutional Repository," by Suzanne Bell,
  University of Rochester

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Business--United States--Lists & Rankings
  Source: Fortune
  Fortune 500, 2006
  "America's Largest Corporations."

+ Direct to complete list.
+ Companies by State
+ Women CEO's of Fortune 500 Companies
+ Complete Database (1955-2006)

Every company that's ever appeared on the list. View by year or
search.

Search Engines--Legal Documents in the News
  Source: U.S. District Court Southern District of New York (via
  PACER) Full Text, Opinion in Merck vs. Mediplan Health Case
  Involving Search Engine Keyword Advertising 37 pages; PDF.

+ See Also: Full Text of Order in Edina Realty, Inc. v.
  TheMLSonline.com 17 pages; PDF.

+ See Also: Ruling adds to confusion over legality of keywords
  (News.com)

+ See Also: Keyword Purchases Not a Trademark Use--Merck v. Mediplan
  Health Consulting (via Technology and Marketing Blog)

+ FDA Staff Travels on Drug Industry Dollars: Groups tied to FDA-
  regulated industry paying for agency officials' trips
+ Best 100 Communities for Music Education in America
+ The Associated Press Profanity Study
+ Global access to HIV therapy tripled in past two years, but
  significant challenges remain
+ Telephony Implications of Voice over Internet Protocol
+ Your Driving Costs
+ The Great Backyard Bird Count

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                 ++  Friday, March 31, 2006  ++


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Academic Librarians
  Source: ACRL
  ACRL seeks applicants for Institute for Information Literacy
  Intentional Teacher Program

  "The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Institute
  for Information Literacy (IIL) seeks applicants for the newest
  addition to its Immersion program--The Intentional Teacher: Renewal
  through Informed Reflection. Acceptance to the program is
  competitive; participation is limited to 36 individuals per program.
  The deadline for application is May 5, 2006."

Law Librarians
  Librarian Recruitment
  Source: AALL (via AALL's President Web Site)
  Law Librarians Listed

  From the post, "For the first time, law librarians are listed in
  Occupational Outlook, in the Grab Bag, a career information magazine
  aimed at high school and college students and counselors.
  (Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2006, Vol. 50, Number 1).
  This is a great new opportunity to spread the message about law
  librarianship as a career possibility to students at an early stage
  in their career preparation." See Also: Full Text of Article Also
  Available in PDF.

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
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Iraq
  Source: Congressional Research Service (via FAS)
  Updated: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq: Effects and
  Countermeasures

Cultural Awareness--Bibliography
  Source: Air University Library
  Cultural Awareness and the Military
  Includes Internet resources, books, documents, periodicals.

Information Technology--Ranking
  Source: World Economic Forum
  Global Information Technology Report

  "Since it was first launched in 2001, the Global Information
  Technology Report has become a valuable and unique benchmarking tool
  to determine national ICT strengths and weaknesses, and to evaluate
  progress. It also highlights the continuing importance of ICT
  application and development for economic growth. The Report uses the
  Networked Readiness Index (NRI), covering a total of 115 economies
  in 2005-2006, to measure the degree of preparation of a nation or
  community to participate in and benefit from ICT developments." The
  NRI is composed of three component indexes which assess: the
  environment for ICT offered by a given country or community; the
  readiness of the community's key stakeholders - individuals,
  business and governments; and the usage of ICT among these
  stakeholders."

Military--United States--History
  Source: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
  New, Army JAG Corps Historical Monographs
  "Official history of the Army JAG Corps and other studies of judge
  advocates."

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Search Briefs
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+ Podcasts from AOL's Mountain View Office

+ YouTube and Its Future (via News.com)

+ Google Adds Continuous Playback to Google Video (via News.com)

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Search Patent Update
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Microsoft Has Several Search and Ad Patent Applications Published,
Also New App from Yahoo

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               ++  Thursday, March 30, 2006  ++

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
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Economics--United States--Portal
  Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  Liber8

  Here is a website by librarians for librarians. "Federal Reserve
  Bank of St. Louis librarians designed this site with university and
  government document librarians, students, and the general public in
  mind. Economic information can, at times, be difficult for the non-
  economist to find and understand. We hope this site will provide a
  single point of access to the economic information that the Federal
  Reserve System, other government agencies, and data providers have
  to offer. We specifically selected non-technical sources that would
  be simpler to use and easier to understand."

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


Professional Reading Shelf
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Metadata
  Source: PerX
  New Publication: The Power of Good Metadata Discussed in 'Marketing'
  with Metadata -- How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility
  of Online Content

  From a synopsis, "'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can
  Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content is aimed at
  content providers of various kinds -- for example, journal
  publishers, professional societies and database providers and owners
  -- who may have such data, or metadata, available for the content
  they produce."

See Also: Metadata (via Digital Curation Centre)
A chapter from the DCC Curation Manual.
Excellent intro to metadata.
See Also: Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
(via Getty Research Institute)

Internet2--Statistics
  Source: Internet2
  New Survey Shows Access and Usage of Internet2 in Schools, Public
  Libraries, and Elsewhere

Vocabularies--Medical
  Source: NLM
  New Fact Sheets Provide Info About Unified Medical Language System

+ Unified Medical Language System
  "The purpose of NLM's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is to
  facilitate the development of computer systems that behave as if
  they "understand" the meaning of the language of biomedicine and
  health."

+ UMLS Metathesaurus

+ UMLS Semantic Network

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

Newspaper Archives
  Digitization Projects
  United States History
  Source: NewspaperARCHIVE.com

Two New Archives of Historic Material (Free) from NewspaperARCHIVE.com
  What's New this Week?

+ FBI Newspaper Archive
  More than 50,000 full text articles about the FBI, criminals, etc.
  Love the timeline.

+ September 11th Archive
  More than 15,000 articles. Advanced interfaces are available for
  both databases. See Also: Links to More Archives from
  NewspaperARCHIVES.com Including:

+ MartinLutherKingJrArchive

+ Pro Baseball Archive

+ College Basketball Archive

+ Abraham Lincoln Archive

+ AsbestosArchive.com (Asbestos and Asbestos Related Lawsuits)

+ HMS Titanic Archive

+ Winter Games Archive

Reference Shelf--Statistics
  Source: OECD
  Just Released, OECD Factbook 2006: Economic, Environmental and
  Social Statistics

  "How does France compare with other EU countries in terms of growth
  in labour productivity? Where does Japan rank versus the other major
  developed countries in public spending on health? People and
  politicians want to know how their countries and regions are
  performing. The OECD's Factbook is designed to help them." Numbers
  in charts and graphs available in Excel format. Data, reorganised by
  country, also available.

Digital Libraries--Science
  Resources for Educators
  Source: Exploratorium, San Francisco
  New, Exploratorium Digital Library

  Expect a closer look from ResourceShelf soon. From the site, "The
  different collections in the library include digital media and
  digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and
  scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities in
  PDF and html formats, QuickTime movies, streaming media, and audio
  files. You may search, select and download digital files for
  individual, noncommercial educational use."

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Briefly
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+ Convera and Factiva enter indexing deal (via IWR)

+ H.W. Wilson Introduces New Web Technical Support Center

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Search Briefs
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+ Ask.Com's New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals (via Wall
  St. Journal)

  Walt Mossberg weighs in on what's up at Ask.com!
  See Also: Gary's New Job and A Look at What Ask.com Offers
  See Also: Gary's Interview about his New Role at Ask.com (via LJ)

+ Google Files With SEC To Offer More Shares of GOOG

+ Happy Birthday to Yahoo 360 The blogging/social networking/community
  platform celebrates its first birthday.

+ Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop (via News.com)

+ MSN Live Search Adds "Search Macros" (via SEW Blog) See Also: Rollyo
  Quickly and painlessly create your own site specific search engine.
  Uses Yahoo database.

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