UPDATED> ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 160

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Subject: ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 160
 
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ResourceShelf
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Week 160
April 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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Shirl Kennedy, Contributing Editor
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Thursday, April 15, 2004

Resources of the Week
3 items.
1) Theatre--Reviews
The New York Times: Theatre Review Archive
The NYT is now offering free access to most of its theatre reviews back to 
1996, plus other "selected reviews" dating back to 1905.
Also available: New York Times Movie Review Archive: "Browse or search more 
than 5,000 New York Times movie reviews. Included in the free review archive 
are all films reviewed since 1983, reviews of all Best Picture Academy Award 
winners, as well as a selective list of the 1,000 Best Movies."
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2) Web-Based Tools
Web Frequency Indexer
"This page allows you to create a frequency index, or 'word list', of a text. 
Paste or type in your text below, and select a sort order.
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3) Online Databases
Heads Up!!!
Gale Celebrates National Library Week (April 18-April 24) With A Week of FREE 
Access to 24 Databases
It's likely that you already have free access to some of these database 
24x7x365 via your local public or college library. If you don't have access or 
just want to sample what these databases offer take you should take a look.

Professional Reading Shelf
Book Arts
Source: C&RL News
Webliography: Book arts on the Web
An introduction to selected resources compiled by Cynthia L. Gregory.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Web Search--a9
Amazon's Much Discussed A9 Portal Goes Live
Searchblog broke the story this afternoon and J.B. has many comments on its 
implications. I'll offer up a brief tour of a product that needs some work 
especially if it's going to be of value to the "power searcher." Right now it's 
just Google (that's even a stretch) and a few interesting bells and whistles.

Digital Archives--Russia
Source: The Moscow Times
Virtual Archive
"To myopic scholars searching hundreds of hours for that needle in the 
haystack, a growing online library of Russian literature holds promise of a 
dust-free academic life."

Professional Reading Shelf
U.S. Government--Electronic Records
Source: GCN
State, NARA complete first transfer of electronic records
>From the article, "The State Department and the National Archives and Records 
>Administration today completed the first electronic transfer of diplomatic 
>records. When secretary of State Colin Powell handed a stack of CD-ROMs to 
>national archivist John Carlin at ceremony at State headquarters, it marked 
>the transformation from a total paper process dating back to World War II to 
>one that uses modern technology."

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Children--United States--Statistics
Source: NCES
New Report, Before- and After-School Care, Programs, and Activities of Children
>From the report, "This new report provides insight into the complex and varied 
>ways kindergarten through eighth graders in the nation spend their time out of 
>school."
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Mobile Phones
Source: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying


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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Web Search--Google
Source: Reuters
California Legislator Drafts Legislation to Block Gmail
and in other Google News...
Open Season on Trademarks (via News.com)
and more...
Google Says It Doesn't Plan to Change Search Results (via NY Times)

News Search--Rocket News
Rocket News Adds Advanced Search Options
One of our favorite news search tools has added several new search options. 
Rocket News crawls more than 10,000 sources.

Weblog Search
Now Available: Daypop Top 40 Archives
Those of you who want/need to review web "buzz" back to 2002 can take a look at 
the Daypop Archives Top 40 that Dan Chan is now making available.

Professional Reading Shelf (5 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Librarians
Source: Kansas City Star
Special librarians are information 'detectives'
>From the article, "'What we do for a living is answer questions,' said Carol 
>Doms, a corporate librarian. Doms works for NKH&W Inc., an advertising and 
>marketing communications company in Kansas City. Doms also is a past president 
>of the Heart of America chapter of the Special Libraries Association."
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Archives
Source: American Historical Association
A Life with the Archives
An interview with Judith Schiff, chief research archivist at Yale.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items Listed on 
the Web Site)
Business
Leadership
Source: Harvard Business School
Great American Business Leaders Database
"The Great American Business Leaders database was compiled over a two-year 
period in an effort to identify and chronicle the lives of individuals whose 
business leadership in the twentieth century shaped the way people live, work, 
and interact.... Note: only a portion of the database is available on this 
website. Please complete the attached form (PDF) for access to an electronic 
copy of the full data set." You can view the data sorted by last name, 
birthplace, industry, era, gender, ethnicity, education.
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Internet Usage--United States--Statistics
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
New Data: Wireless connectivity, e-shopping, auctions, and Internet demographics
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Veterans--United States
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs
New, Nationwide Gravesite Locator

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Monday, April 12, 2004

Health Care--United States
Source: The New York Times
Medicare Web Site to Shine Light on Drug Prices

Online Information
Source: Wired
Whatever Happened to Gopher?

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Background Checks
Source: Chicago Tribune
Holes Found in Cheap Background Checks
"Employers worried about crime, terrorism and liability are embracing a new 
breed of online services for screening job candidates, but these low-budget 
background checks don't always check out. The cheapest ones routinely fail to 
identify criminals, performing such superficial reviews that serious offenders 
can get perfectly clean reports, critics say."

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items Listed on 
the Web Site)
Business--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
Top U.S. Corporate Brands
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Baseball--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
2004 Major League Baseball Team Valuations
Employment--Benefits--United States
Source: EBRI
Updated Fact Sheets from the Employee Benefits Research Institute
+ Domestic Partner Benefits: Facts & Background
5 pages.
+ The Basics of Social Security
2 pages.
+ The Basics of Medicare
5 pages.

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Library Briefs
+ Illinois...Best search engine? A librarian (via Chicago Sun-Times)
Note: Congrats and kudos to everyone at the Skokie Public Library. Great 
article. The SPL was also one of the libraries I visited and used on a regular 
basis while growing up.
+ Ohio...OhioLINK cuts may affect MU [Miami Universities] libraries (via the 
The Miami Student)
+ Arizona...Library cuts new books from budget (via the Arizona Daily Wildcat)
+ Florida...Library debates access to porn (via the Florida Times-Union)
+ Missouri...Shhh! Libraries leading downtown revitalization (via Kansas City 
Star)

Professional Reading Shelf
National Archives--United States
Source: Prologue
The ERA: An Archives of the Future and for the Future
An article by John Carlin, Archivist of the United States.

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Online Databases
Source: OCLC Research
FictionFinder: Demo this Prototype Database from OCLC
Goals
"The goal of this project is to use the FRBR [Functional Requirements for 
Bibliographic Records] model in a prototype system for searching [11 fields] 
and browsing [by category] bibliographic records representing fiction."  

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Friday, April 9, 2004

Search Engines
Source: Stanford Database Group
Full Text, Just Released, Web Spam Taxonomy
>From the abstract, "Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search 
>engines and give some pages higher ranking than they deserve. Recently, the 
>amount of web spam has increased dramatically, leading to a degradation of 
>search results. This paper presents a comprehensive taxonomy of current 
>spamming techniques, which we believe can help in developing appropriate 
>countermeasures."

Online Translation
Linguistics
Basis Technology Receives Funding From In-Q-Tel
>From the article, "In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, has invested in 
>Basis Technology Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., which sells multilingual 
>linguistic analysis, text mining and information retrieval software. In-Q-Tel 
>licensed Basis products and provided a strategic investment, but neither 
>organization disclosed the terms or dollar value of the 
>transaction"...Jonathan Joseph of In-Q-Tel adds, "Google.com, for example, 
>counts as one of Basis' customers, and there is a small number of competitors."

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items on the Web Site)
Internet
The April 2004 Issue of First Monday is Now Available
Articles include:
+ Lawfully surfing the Net: Disabling public library Internet filters to avoid 
more lawsuits in the United States
+ The state of copyright activism

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the Web Site)
Congressional Research Service
Source: CRS via FPC
New or Updated CRS Reports
+ FBI Intelligence Reform Since September 11, 2001: Issues and Options for 
Congress
+ The Budget for Fiscal Year 2005
+ The U.N. Convention Against Torture: Overview of U.S. Implementation Policy 
Concerning the Removal of Aliens
+ Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Enforcement
+ Visa Policy: Roles of the Departments of State and Homeland Security
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Internet--Wireless--Lists & Rankings
Source: Intel
Intel's Most Unwired Cities Survey (United States)
2nd annual list.
Also available:
+ Most Unwired Cities (U.S.)
+ Most Unwired College Campuses
+ Most Unwired Airports

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Thursday, April 8, 2004

Web Search
Ask.com Adds New "Smart Search" Feature: Famous People Search

Information Industry--EBSCO
EBSCO Will Provide Databases to Iraqi Universities and Libraries

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the Web Site)
Recorded Music--Statistics
Source: IFPI, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
New Statistics, Global music sales fall by 7.6% in 2003 - some positive signs 
in 2004
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Health Policy
Just Launched, KaiserEDU: An Online Resource for Faculty and Students
"KaiserEDU gives health policy students and faculty easy access to data, 
literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and 
debates."

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