UPDATED> ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 156

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:22:47 GMT
To: gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 156
From: Gary Price <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


ResourceShelf
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Week 156
March 18, 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, March 18, 2004

Resources of the Week
Technical Reports
Source: University of Maryland Libraries
The Virtual Technical Reports Center
A massive browsable directory compiled by Technical Reports Librarian Gloria
Lyles Chawla. The Virtual Technical Reports Center, "contains links to 
technical
reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of 
all
kinds. Some metasites are listed by subject categories, as well as by
institution."
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Finance--Directories
FinanceWise
FinanceWise bills itself as "the only finance-specific search engine." It's 
been
around awhile; it was mentioned in the Internet Resources Newsletter way back 
in
April 1998. Two things you should know about FinanceWise right up front: it
indexes only websites that are finance-specific, and the contents it indexes 
are
"evaluated by finance professionals before sites are allowed into FinanceWise's 

search index."

News from the Resource Discovery Network
Some news from a few of the many subject gateways that make up this wonderful
and important UK-based resource.

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries
Webcast: (3/18), Libraries in the Digital World The Scoundrels, the
Threats...and the Opportunities
The presentation features Miriam Nisbet, Legislative Counsel of the American
Library Association. It begins at 2:30 EST.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Health Information
New Topic Page/Compilations from MEDLINEplus
+ MedlinePlus: International Health
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Television--United States
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts: Sampling of Statistics About Television and the Television Industry
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Spam
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Center
New Data Memo/Survey Results: The CAN-SPAM Act has not helped most email users
so far
Summary ||| Full Text

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Web Search--Google
Source: SearchDay
Google Rolls Out Local Search Product (U.S. Only)


Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items on the Web Site)
Special Libraries
The USGS Library -- A National Resource
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
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Digital Information
Controlled Vocabularies
Three New Articles from The Journal of Digital Information
+ Reengineering Thesauri for New Applications: The AGROVOC Example
+ Vocabulary Mapping for Terminology Services
+ Towards a Semantic Web for Culture

The Library of Congress
National Library of Brazil
The Library of Congress and National Library of Brazil Announce New Web
Resource

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (7 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Journalism
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
The State of the News Media 2004
"A comprehensive examination of eight major sectors of American Journalism" --
newspapers, online, network TV, cable TV, local TV, magazines, radio,
ethnic/alternative. "For each area, we have produced original research and
aggregated existing data into a comprehensive look at many of the pressing
issues facing the news media."
Eight Major Trends
Charts and Tables (interactive)
An impressive list of statistics. Very useful!!!
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Election 2004--United States
Internet Usage--Elections
Source: Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI)
Full Text Report, Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential
Campaign

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Libraries
Source: IMLS
Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards over $157 Million to State
Libraries

Geographic Searching
Information Visualization
Source: Directions Magazine
MetaCarta, Inc. - Geographical Text Searching

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Health Policy--United States--Statistics
Source: The Foundation Center
Just Released, Update on Foundation Health Policy Grantmaking
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Water--United States--Statistics
Source: USGS
New Statistics: Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000
Summary ||| Direct to Report
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Children--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, Census 2000 Special Reports, Children and the Households They
Live In: 2000

Industry Briefs (4 Items Listed on the Web Site)
xrefer Adds CIA World Factbook to xreferplus, Includes Interactive and
Downloadable Tables
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IEEE Completes Independent Audit of IEEE Xplore Usage Statistics Measurement 
and
Reporting System

Professional Reading Shelf
Source: SPARC
Library and Advocacy Organizations Praise Call for Free Access to Science

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Monday, March 15, 2004

Research
Source: San Jose Mercury News
 >From the Be Careful What You Find Online Department
 >From the article, "City officials [Aliso Viejo, Calif] were so concerned 
about
the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they 
considered
banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production. 

Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for short - is the scientific
term for water.

Online Databases--Engineering
Source: Albany Business Journal
GlobalSpec this: building an engineer's search engine

Info Industry Update (2 Items)
Elsevier
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service
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Dialog
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
Dialog Technology Changes Foreshadow Improvements

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Digital Libraries
The March 2004 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Articles Include:
+ Using the Internet for Searching
+ The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation
+ A Developing Search Service: Heterogeneous Resources Integration and 
Retrieval
System

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Transportation--United States--Statistics
Source: BTS
Just Released, Pocket Guide to Transportation 2004

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Sunday, March 14, 2004

Web Search--Yahoo
Source: Taipei Times
An Interview With Yahoo Co-Founder, Jerry Yang

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Digital Libraries
Source: OCLC
Now Available: Derek Law's Lecture on the Social Role of Digital Libraries
(PowerPoint Slides)

Briefly
+ Man held in Google stock fraud: FBI arrests Dutch native in sale of fake IPO
shares (via the SF Chronicle)

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Saturday, March 13, 2004

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Dictionaries
The March 2004 Issue of the Oxford English Dictionary is Online
+ "'Where in the multiverse...?': researching the vocabulary of science fiction 

for the OED."

Library News Roundup
+ Kansas: Libraries look at possible filtered future (via The Garden City
Telegram)
+ New York: Voices raised for libraries in funding fight (via the Albany Times
Union)
+ Tennessee: School libraries not stacking up (via The Tennessean)
+ Arizona: Libraries fall behind curve in Arizona (via Arizona Republic)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Topics in the News
Same-Sex Marriage--Bibliography
Source: Rutgers Law Library - Newark
Same-Sex Marriage: A Selective Bibliography of the Legal Literature
Compiled by Paul Axel-Lute.

Information Industry--Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Debuts Massive Online Collection of Primary Documents

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Friday, March 12, 2004
Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items on the Web Site)
Access to Information--United States (2 Items)
Ten Organizations File Supreme Court Brief Supporting Public's Right to Know

Web Search
Enterprise Search
Source: Red Herring
Searching for the next Google (registration required to read the full text,
free)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Terrorism
Source: Congressional Research Service
New Report, Full Text, Terrorism in South Asia
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Traffic--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: American Highway Users Alliance
Worst Highway Bottlenecks in the United States

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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Web Search--Northern Light
David Seuss, Northern Light CEO, Speaks at Computers in Libraries Conference

Digital Projects--Canada
Source: Canada's Digital Collections
Canada's Digital Collections: Highlights, 2003-2004

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Research Surveys
Full Text Report, Conducting Research Surveys via E-mail and the Web
 >From the summary, "This report provides practical information on design and
implementation for researchers who are thinking about using the Internet in
their survey activities or who are planning to conduct an Internet survey."
Thanks to LibraryNet for the tip.

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