UPDATED> ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 147

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:26:20 GMT
To: gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 147
From: Gary Price <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ResourceShelf
E-Mail Reminder
Week 147
January 15, 2004
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Greetings from Washington DC.

ResourceShelf is compiled by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
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Thursday, January 15, 2004

Web Resources of the Week
Two entries this week.
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Elections--United States
Election 2004 Resource Compilation #3
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Iowa Caucus
+ Official Democratic Caucus Web Site
++ Caucus Quick Fact Sheet
++ 2004 Delegate Selection Plan
++ 2004 Caucus Locations
+ Caucus Guide (via Secretary of States Office)
+ Caucus History (PowerPoint Presentation) from Secretary of State
+ Iowa Democratic Party Page Home Page
++ Past Results from the Iowa Democratic Caucus
++ Background Guide
++ Caucus FAQ
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New Hampshire Presidential Primary
+ New Hampshire Political Library (site suggested by SOS office)
++ History of New Hampshire Primary
++ List of All Candidates Who Have Ever Run in the Primary
+ Sample Ballot (Democratic) ||| Sample Ballot (Republican)
+ Candidates for President ||| For Vice President
+ Historical Election Statistics
+ List of Voting Technology Being Used in New Hampshire
+ New Hampshire Democratic Party Home Page
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+ ElectionLine.Org Interactive Map of the U.S.(Various Statistics)

+ "About Counties" (National Association of Counties)
Directory and statistical information about all counties in the U.S.

+ New Report, Primary Education: Election Reform and the 2004 Presidential Race 

(ElectionLine.Org)
Includes summaries for all States holding primaries.

+ Election Reform Legislation Database (National Council of State Legislatures) 



+ List of Candidates Receiving Matching Funds from the Federal Election
Commission

+ Congressional Research Service Report, Recently Updated, Campaign Finance

+ Big Men on Campus (Center for Responsive Politics)
A report about colleges and universities being sources for campaign money.

Latest Data on Health Coverage and Presidential Candidates' Proposals to Expand 

Coverage (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
"...analysis of federal government data and a side-by-side summary of the
Presidential candidates' proposals to expand health coverage."

+ Congressional Research Service Report,
The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections
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See Also: ResourceShelf Election 2004 Compilation #2
See Also: ResourceShelf Election 2004 Compilation #1
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Science and Technology
Source: Science, Technology and Business Division (Library of Congress)
Science Tracer Bullets
 >From the site, "Research guides that help you locate information on science 
and
technology subjects. With brief introductions to the topics, lists of resources 

and strategies for finding more, they help you to stay on target." Both print
and electronic resources are included in these guides. The Science, Technology
and Business Division also offers another set of subject based guides titled,
"Selected Internet Resources in Science and Technology."

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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Web Search--Google
Source: The Washington Post
More on Google's Upcoming (We Think) IPO

Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items on the Web Site)
Virtual Reference
Just Released, Online Proceedings from the 2003 Virtual Reference Desk
Conference
The conference was held in San Antonio in November.
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Metadata
Presentations from The Canadian Metadata Forum
The forum took place on Friday September 19, 2003 and Saturday, September 20,
2003 at Library and Archives Canada.
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Copyright--United Kingdom
Source: Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance/CILIP
Full Text, Guidelines on the Changes to Copyright Law
18 pages (pdf).

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items on the Web
Site)
African-Americans--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Fact Sheet, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and African-American History Month
This just released page focuses on statistics about the African-American
population.
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Transportation--United Statistics--Statistics
Source: BTS
Full Text, Journey to Work Trends in the United States and its Major
Metropolitan Areas, 1960 - 2000

Briefly
divine Case Update: 25 Cents on the Dollar Would Be "Good Result"
and on a related note..."New Outrage Over Jenner & Block Work with divine"
Both articles are via Library Journal.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Open Source Information
Databases--Research Projects
Source: Digital Government Research Program/National Science Foundation
Research Project: Software Scours News and Open Source Content to Forecast
International Conflict

Professional Reading Shelf (5 Items on the Web Site)
Corporate Libraries
Source: Best Practices
New, Report Highlights: Reducing Expenditures and Driving Costs Out of the
Corporate Library Budget
The full text of this report is fee-based. An 11 page (pdf) summary is 
available
for free.
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Library Portals
Federated Searching
Source: JISC/University of Loughborough
New, Library portals could lead to increase in resource usage

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Employment--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: Fortune
100 Best Companies to Work For 2004

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Monday, January 12, 2004

News Search
MSNBC's Search Engine Offers New Options


Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items)
Leadership
Source: CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources)
Full Text, Reflecting on Leadership
 >From the abstract, "As digital technology transforms the information 
landscape,
libraries must chart their course in an increasingly fluid, complex 
environment.
How is this new environment redefining leadership in the information
professions? What are the personal qualities that produce effective information 

leaders? CLIR invited three leaders in librarianship to write personally and
candidly about what they believe leadership is, how they developed an
understanding of their own leadership styles, and how they apply that
self-understanding to their daily responsibilities."

Web Search--Google
Google Releases More Shortcuts

Industry Briefs
Thomson Acquires BIOSIS Publishing Assets
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Elsevier Signs Deal With California Digital Library


Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items on the Web
Site)
Telecommunications
Source: Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School
Research Notebook: Telecommunications
A new addition to a series of research guides prepared by the Baker Library
staff at the Harvard Business School.
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Patents--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: USPTO
Just Released, Top 10 Organizations Receiving Most U.S. Patents (2003)



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Sunday, January 11, 2004

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Controlled Vocabularies
Source: Library of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
The International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology
Browse or search 3,565 refugee-related terms in English, French and Spanish. A
project of the Library of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Forced
Migration Online.

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Saturday, January 10, 2004

Web Search--Gigablast
Gigablast Keeps Growing

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Archives--Electronic
Source: UNESCO
International Council on Archives Submits Report on E-Records to UNESCO

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Friday, January 9, 2004

Information Industry--IBM
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Full Text article, A Fountain of Knowledge
More about IBM's WebFountain technology. From the article, "IBM's breakthrough
is called WebFountain-half a football field's worth of rack-mounted processors, 

routers, and disk drives running a huge menagerie of programs. All this 
hardware
and software is dedicated to one purpose: making sense of the churning ocean of 

information, opinion, and falsehood that roils the Internet every second of
every day." In September, Factiva announced that it is working on a new service 

with IBM utilizing the WebFountain technology.

Information Industry--OCLC
Full Text, The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition

Web Search Engines
Source: First Monday
Full Text article, "Do Web search engines suppress controversy?"

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Standards--Directory
Standards From Industry, Government and Military Organizations
"Below, listed by acronym, are major standards organizations that supply their
own standards. Many offer their standards for free. Those that charge fees are
marked with ($)."
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Indigenous Nations--Webliography
Source: C&RL News
New, Indigenous nations: Sites of interest
This webliography appears in the January 2004 issue of C&RL News. It was
compiled by Gina Matesic, a librarian at the University of Guelph-Humber.


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Thursday, January 8, 2004

The Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine Receives an Update

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Copyright
Source: Access
Full Text, Copyright and the internet: myth and reality
A new article by Paul Pedley. Paul is also the compiler of the KeepingLegal
weblog.
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Open Access
Source: BMJ (British Medical Journal)
Full Text Editorial, Open access publishing takes off

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