UPDATED> ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 144

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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:43:18 GMT
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Subject: ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 144
From: Gary Price <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


ResourceShelf
E-Mail Reminder
Week 144
December 18, 2003
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Greetings from DC!

Before we get started, a brief housekeeping item and a few thank you's.

This will be the final E-Mail Reminder for 2003. The next regularly scheduled
ResourceShelf E-Mail Reminder will be on January 8, 2004. However, I do plan on 

sending a "We're still here" message to the list on December 29th. The
ResourceShelf web site will continue to be updated on a daily or almost daily
basis, so please stop by if you have a chance.

I would like to thank each of you for helping to make this a wonderful year for 

ResourceShelf. More and more people are visiting the web site and the E-Mail
Reminder mailing list has more than doubled in the past 12 months. I would also 

like to thank you for not only the comments and suggestions you've shared but
also for the inspiration you provide.

Finally, allow me to publicly thank four of ResourceShelf's many friends who
help out an almost daily basis. Will Hann, Contributing Editor Shirl Kennedy,
Dale Copps, and everyone at MuseGlobal.

Happy Holidays,
gary

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Thursday, December 18, 2003

Web Resources of the Week

1) Harness the Search Power of Any Search Box With a Cool Toolbar
Web Resource of the Week
Search Tools
Harness the Power of Any Search Engine Onto a Cool Toolbar
This week, it's time for a free web search tool that I recently discovered
called NeedleSearch. It allows you to capture the basic search functionality
from any web engine, site search tool, or specialized database and make it
readily accessible at any time via an easy-to-use toolbar.
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2) Television--History
Source: The Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago
Full Text Book: The Encyclopedia of Television
 >From the site, The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 
original
essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and
people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as
violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes
histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around
the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical 

information. The book is not searchable but does contain hyperlinked
cross-references.

Professional Reading Shelf
Source: AScribe Newswire
Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools Don't Always Mesh With How People Work
"People have devised many tricks - such as sending e-mails to themselves or
jotting on sticky notes - for keeping track of Web pages, but William Jones and 

Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan
Dumais of Microsoft Research have found that often people don't use any of them 

when it comes time to revisit a Web page. Instead, they rely on their ability 
to
find the Web page all over again.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Software Industry--Lists & Rankings
Source: Software Magazine
The Software 500
Background Article ||| List and Database (Registration Required, Free)
"Top 500 Software and Service companies."

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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Information--Preservation
Source: OECD Observer
"The great digital information disappearing act"
This article was written by Deborah Woodyard, Digital Preservation Coordinator, 

The British Library. From the article, Simply saving all the bits and bytes is 
a
good start, but it will not necessarily be enough to be able to use the
information again in the future

Web Search?Google
Another Day and More Google News
It looks like Google has launched a beta of it's book search program to compete 

with Amazon's "Search Inside the Book". Early word of this program "leaked" out 

within a few hours of when Amazon launched SITB in October. You can learn more
by going to the Google Print FAQ page. Much more about Google Print on the
ResourceShelf web site.

Digitization Projects--Canada
Canada's Digital Collections Adds Several New Resources
You can find blurbs and links about each new collection on this page.
+ Vancouver's Golden Years: 1900-1910, Photographs by Philip Timms
+ The Waldren Studios: Images of Nova Scotia, 1870-1940
+ Centuries of the Image
+ Fire + Earth
+ Louis-Auguste Guillemette, maître d'orgue
+ Performing Our Musical Heritage

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (7 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Volunteerism--United States--Statistics
Source: BJS
Full Text, Volunteering in the United States
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Climate--United States--Year in Review
Source: National Climatic Data Center
New Report, Climate of 2003: 2003 in Historical Perspective ||| Chart
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Economy--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
Full Text Report, Digital Economy 2003
"Digital Economy 2003 (DE2003) is the Department's fifth annual report on
conditions in U.S. information technology (IT) industries and the effects of IT 

on national economic performance." In a nutshell, the technology industry is
recovering slowly, but hiring and salaries are lagging somewhat.
See Also: Direct to Full Report (PDF; 2.26MB)


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Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Congressional Research Service
Source: Copley News Service
"Ney draws line at public access to research"
More on the fate of public access to CRS reports. From the article, Ohio Rep.
Bob Ney, R-St. Clairsville, has played a decisive role in the argument by
potentially expanding access to some degree while leaving the basic restrictive 

policy unchanged. As chairman of the House Administration Committee, which has
jurisdiction over the CRS, Ney launched a new service that allows lawmakers to
make reports of their choosing available via a link in their congressional Web
sites. "It used to be nothing went up online" for the public to see, Ney said.
"Now we're telling members if you want to do a work product and put it online,
that's fine." At the same time, Ney called a halt to efforts to provide greater 

public access to the research. He ended a two-year pilot project, which allowed 

the public to search through the otherwise inaccessible CRS database via links
on the Web sites of participating congressmen

Information Industry--netLibrary/OCLC
Online Books
New Version of netLibrary to Launch on January 14th, 2004

Books
Source: AP
"MIT scientist forms world's largest book"


Motion Pictures
The Library of Congress
LC Announces 2003 Additions to National Film Registry


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Privacy--Canada
Source: Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Resources: "Canada's New Private Sector Privacy Law"
Canadians' personal information will be protected by a new law -- the Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents (PIPED) Act. The new law goes
into effect on 1/1/04.
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Internet--United Kingdom
Source: e-Envoy
Just Released, Full Text, Annual Report: UK Online 2003
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Crime--United States--Statistics
Source: FBI
Just Released, FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text

Industry Briefs
West/Thomson Awarded $25 Million Contract by IRS
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Monday, December 15, 2003

Information Visualization
Personal Searching
Source: San Jose Mercury News
New Version of Grokker Available Today
Grokker2, a visual search tool, was released today and allows you to not only
search web content but also all of the material on your computer.

Open Access
Source: SciDevNet
"Information summit endorses key role of 'e-science'"

Information Industry--FAST Search and Transfer
FAST Now Powering Japan's Largest E-Commerce Portal

Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Health Information--United States
Source: Pew Internet & American Life
Full-Text Report, Wired for Health: How Californians compare to the rest of the 

nation: A case study sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
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Digital Libraries
The December, 2003 Issue of Digital Libraries Magazine is Online
Articles include:
+ Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: 

An Exploratory Study
by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; and
Stephen R. Lawrence, University of Colorado
+ NEP: Current Awareness Service of the RePEc Digital Library
by Heting Chu and Thomas Krichel, Long Island University
+ Open Archives Data Service Prototype and Automated Subject Indexing Using
D-Lib Archive Content As a Testbed
by Larry Mongin, Yueyu Fu, and Javed Mostafa, Indiana University
+ (Book Review) Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians
Reviewed by: Stuart A. Sutton, University of Washington

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Sunday, December 14, 2003

Web Search--Lycos
Lycos Announces Its List of the Most Popular Search Terms of 2003

Fine Art--Databases
The AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) Database Now Available for Individual
Subscribers
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Saturday, December 13, 2003

Scholarly Publishing
Source: The Guardian
UK Government Preparing Investigation of Scientific Publishers
 >From the article, Reed Elsevier faces a serious challenge to one of its main
revenue drivers as a committee of MPs prepares to investigate the growing
academic backlash against scientific publishing - a market worth more than
£4.5bn a year...Increasingly, universities are reluctant to pay the large fees
demanded by publishers and are turning to so-called open access journals, where 

the costs of publication are paid by the authors.

Professional Reading Shelf
Metadata
Announcement: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Annual Conference
The 2004 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications will 

be held October 11-24 in Shanghai (China).

Briefly (3 Items Listed on the Web Site)
LexisNexis Will Begin To Roll Out New Technology Platform in Early 2004
The new platform will first be available for customers in Australia, France,
Germany.
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Enhanced Functionality Plus Access to More Data in the NLM (National Library of 

Medicine) Gateway's Latest Release

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Friday, December 12, 2003

Professional Reading Shelf (5 Items Listed on the Web Site)
World Summit on the Information Society
Source: IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions)
IFLA Has Posted Three Reports From the World Summit on the Information Society
in Geneva
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RSS
Source: Special Libraries Association Information Technology Division
RSS? What is it?
The November/December issue of b/te, the bimonthly bulletin of SLA's 
Information
Technology Division, focuses on RSS. Three articles -- by Marie C. Kaddell, 
Greg
Kaplan and Steven M. Cohen -- do a good job of demystifying the technology,
explaining current and potential uses, and discussing customization options 
that
are possible in the next iteration.
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Dictionaries
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
The December, 2003 Issue of the Oxford English Dictionary Newsletter is Now
Online

Web Search--Google
Google Launches New Search By Number Options, Direct Links to Access Airport
Delay Info

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Economics--United States--Database
Source: GPO
New, GPO Now Offering Search/Browse Access to Economic Indicators
Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the 

Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides
economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, 
purchasing
power, credit, money and Federal finance.

Briefly
UK's National Health Service Developing a Dictionary of Medicines and Devices
(via KableNET)
It will help promote information sharing.
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"Emerald Launches Digital Signatures" (via ManagingInformation.Com)


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Thursday, December 11, 2003

Online Databases
Source: The Virtual Chase
Boolean, Online Database Training, and Other Thoughts

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Business--Europe--Lists & Rankings
Source: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Just Announced, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Technology Fast 500 (2003)
"...ranking of the fastest growing high-technology companies." A CEO survey is
also available. Additional resources on the Fast 500 homepage.
See Also: FAST Search and Transfer was ranked #2 on the list.
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Business--Europe--Lists & Rankings
Source: Bureau van Dijk
Company Profiles for the Top 20 European Companies
Material comes from the BvD AMADEUS database.
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Almanacs
Source: The World Almanac
The December Issue of The World Almanac E-Newsletter is Online
Contains a November chronology, holidays, "This Day in History," and much more.

Scholarly Publishing
Source: SciDevNet
The Case for Open Access Made at World Summit on the Information Society


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