************************************************************** K12NewsLetters - From Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs@xxxxxxx> To: Multiple recipients of list <liiweek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:04:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIIWEEK] March 13, 2003 ********************************************************************** lii.org: Librarians' Index to the Internet NEW THIS WEEK for March 13, 2003 ********************************************************************** To read lii.org New This Week on the Web, go to: http://lii.org/ntw To see over 11,000 other great resources, go to: http://lii.org/ ********************************************************************** IN NEW THIS WEEK, below, and online at http://lii.org/ntw : Explore Web resources from Baghdad to butterflies, poppies to poets, grizzly bears to grizzled librarians, and elephants to the environment. We offer sites on a wide variety of perspectives related to Iraq. MORE NEW THIS WEEK, online at http://lii.org/mntw : Elections, atoms, nutrition, hospices, and more. Bon appetit! -- Karen, Martha, Wendy, Pat, Diana, Tom, Maria, And our 100+ intrepid contributors! ********************************************************************** Sign off or on New This Week at http://lii.org/search/file/mailinglist ********************************************************************** Financial support for lii.org (Librarians' Index to the Internet) provided by the Library of California, www.library.ca.gov/loc; the Washington State Library; the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act; the California Digital Library; and UC Berkeley SunSITE, which provides Web hosting for lii.org and support for this mailing list. ********************************************************************** NEW THIS WEEK ********************************************************************** Alfred Stieglitz Companion to a documentary (part of the PBS American Masters series) about photographer and art impresario Alfred Stieglitz whose work influenced American art and culture in the early twentieth century. Includes an essay about Stieglitz, a timeline of his career, filmmaker interview, and video clips of footage not included in the original documentary. With links to sites featuring work by Stieglitz and his artist associates. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/stieglitz_a.html Subjects: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946... Created by bkl Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's Disinformation and Propaganda, 1990-2003 "Apparatus of Lies discusses the lies that Iraq has used to promote its propaganda and disinformation." The site includes a downloadable PDF version and related links. From the Office of the President of the United States. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ogc/apparatus/ Subjects: Propaganda -- Iraq... Created by kgs AuthorYellowPages.com Entries in this online directory include links to sites maintained by authors and their publishers. There are also links to e-mail newsletter subscription forms. Browsable by author or genre. From the Book Report Network. http://authoryellowpages.com/ Subjects: Authors Created by sf BBC News: Key Maps Clickable map of the Middle East region showing military build-up, presidential palaces, dissidents, oilfields, weapons, etc. Iraq Navigator, is a more detailed, animated map that allows viewers to choose which elements to display. From BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_iraq_key_maps/html/ Subjects: Iraq -- Maps... Created by cdt BBC News: Military Fact Files Information on military forces of the U.K., U.S., and Iraq, and the missile defenses of Israel. Browse by firepower, biochemical weapons, forces, and equipment for air, land, and sea. Also provides information on biological warfare, including delivery, storage, transport, spread, detection, protective equipment, antidotes, and proliferation. From BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/02/military_fact_files/html/default.stm Subjects: United States -- Armed Forces... Created by cdt Butterflies of California: California Dogface (Zerene eurydice) The information here about California's state insect includes habitat, caterpillar host, and Nature Conservancy global rank. http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/ca/725.htm Subjects: Butterflies Created by wh California Poet Laureate A brief history of the state's poets laureate from the Santa Cruz Public Library. http://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/c/calpoet.shtml Subjects: Poets laureate -- California Created by wh CalPhotos: California Poppies Visitors to this site can view over 100 images of the California state wild flower, the California Poppy, Eschscholzia californica. Each image has a link to more information, which includes photographer name, creation date and location, copyright usage guidelines, additional plant information, links to other database systems, and external links to related sites on the Internet. From the University of California, Digital Library Project. http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&rel-cname=like&where-cname=California+Po Subjects: California poppy... Created by dlb Celebrating Diversity: Women Energize an Atomic World "This site highlights and celebrates the contribution of women in the nuclear field." Read or listen to the women of IAEA profile their stories of challenges to balance home and work. Includes statistics on the number of women in the nuclear industry, the efforts to educate and include women in the industry, and how nuclear science is used to help impoverished women. From the International Atomic Energy Agency. http://www.iaea.org/women/2003/ Subjects: Nuclear industry... Created by jh Center on Conscience and War (CCW) "CCW works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors." Formerly called the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO), they provide public education, counseling, legal support, and loans to men barred from receiving state or federal financial aid due to refusal to register with Selective Service. The site has not been updated in some time, but it has useful articles to help in deciding about and documenting conscientious objection. http://www.nisbco.org/ Subjects: Draft registration -- United States... Created by mrm Crisis at Fort Sumter An "interactive historical simulation and decision making program" that allows the user to make decisions just as President Lincoln had to at the beginning of the Civil War. With an explanation of events and advice from the official advisors, the user chooses a course of action based upon the information provided. A fascinating exercise in history, public policy, and the political process. From a history professor at Tulane University. http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/ Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865... Created by smb Dictionary of Newfoundland English Online The second edition (1982), plus supplements, of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, a "regional lexicon of one of the oldest overseas communities of the English-speaking world: the lexicon of Newfoundland and coastal Labrador as it is displayed in the sources drawn upon in compiling the work, sources which range from sixteenth-century printed books to tape recordings of contemporary Newfoundland speakers." There are over 5,000 entries in this searchable and browsable collection. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/ Subjects: English language -- Dialects... Created by wh EKU Department of Geography Web Links A collection of annotated Web links related to geography. It includes aerial and satellite imagery, country information, driving directions and street maps, global information systems (GIS), journals and magazines, mapping software, map publishers, vendors, online maps, atlases, professional associations, university departments, and U.S. government resources. From the Department of Geography at Eastern Kentucky University. http://www.geography.eku.edu/LINKS.HTM Subjects: Geography Created by dl Grizzly Bears View a photo gallery of California's state animal, the grizzly bear, and learn the facts about the grizzly's habits and habitats. Tag along with scientists in A Typical Day of Bear-Watching, and find out about study tours. This is part of the larger Web site from the North American Bear Center. http://www.bear.org/Grizzly/GB_Home.html Subjects: Bears Created by dlb Guide to Santa Barbara Authors and Publishers The author section has brief information about writers who live or have lived in the Santa Barbara, California, area. Includes dates, career, and bibliographic information. The publisher section is a briefly annotated list of "publishers/presses and associated individuals located at one time or another in Santa Barbara." From the Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/sbauthors_a.html Subjects: Authors -- California -- Santa Barbara... Created by mg Just War--Or a Just War? In this widely-distributed commentary on the potential conflict in Iraq, former President Jimmy Carter argues that "as a Christian and as a president who was severely provoked by international crises, I became thoroughly familiar with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards." http://www.cartercenter.org/viewdoc.asp?docID=1249&submenu=news Subjects: Carter, Jimmy, 1924- -- Views on war... Created by kgs Mutopia Collection of several hundred classical music scores available in various text formats, some with MIDI audio files. Browse by composer, instrument, or musical style, or search by keywords. http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ Subjects: Music... Created by ct NewsLab Links for Journalists: Internet Resources for Covering Iraq Links to online resources for journalists covering the conflict with Iraq, focusing on the region and the work of war journalism. From NewsLab (a nonprofit organization associated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism), the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and the Park Foundation. http://www.newslab.org/iraqlinks.htm Subjects: Iraq... Created by cdt Revolting Librarians Several poems, stories, and essays by librarians. From a 1972 collection described as "one of the lasting monuments of the library underground....Thirty years on, its mixture of wild-eyed idealism and bleary-eyed realism is still a testament of solidarity with the enthusiastic, disgruntled or just plain bolshy librarian, the sort of thing that the Association of Assistant Librarians did so well before putting on a tie and becoming the Career Development Group." http://owen.massey.net/libraries/revolting/ Subjects: Library science -- Philosophy... Created by mg Saddam Hussein's Iraq: A Decade of Defiance and Deception Resources related to the official White House position on Iraq. Includes Presidential remarks, key documents, press briefings, timelines, photos of Iraqi weapons facilities, remarks by cabinet members, and related links. From the Office of the President of the United States. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/ Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq... Created by kgs San Francisco Free Help Charts Local resource for free food, shelter, medical aid, and help with neighborhood problems in San Francisco from the Free Print Shop. These informative charts are in English and Spanish and can be downloaded or printed. http://freep.spaz.org/index.html Subjects: Community information services -- California... Created by jhg SDN: Student Doctor Network "SDN is run by a small group of unpaid volunteers that are dedicated to providing students unbiased information." The site aims to provide information to those applying to medical and dental schools. There are student forums on a great number of topics, online diaries of students in different years of med school, information on test-taking and financial aid, and help in writing application essays. You can read interview experiences of students applying to different schools. http://www.studentdoctor.net/ Subjects: College choice... Created by ha State Bird of California This site features the state bird of California, the valley quail, Lophortyx californica. It examines its habits and habitats, and includes an image. Male and female specimens are described in an excerpt from John James Audubon's work The Birds of America. From 50states.com. http://www.50states.com/bird/quail.htm Subjects: Quails... Created by dlb Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work This site provides information about Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day (held the fourth Thursday in April). The program focuses on expanding future opportunities for children in their work and family lives. Includes scheduled activities, press links, gifts, and resources for teachers, parents, and mentors. Sponsored by the Ms. Foundation for Women. http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/ Subjects: Parent and child... Created by jh The Elephant Sanctuary This is the Web site of "America's first natural habitat refuge developed specifically for endangered Asian elephants." Resources include an "EleCam," information about elephants, a photo gallery, elephant biographies, global elephant news, school curriculum units, and a newsletter. The Sanctuary, located in Hohenwald, Tennessee, is a non-profit "designed specifically for old, sick, or needy elephants who have been retired from zoos and circuses." http://www.elephants.com/ Subjects: Elephants... Created by ttk The International Archive of Women in Architecture A collection of "professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world." The site includes about 800 images of architects and their works, biographical information (under Inventories to Architectural Collections as well as the biographical directory), and information on the Milka Bliznakov Prize. From the libraries and architecture school at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/ Subjects: Architecture... Created by cb The Klingon Language Institute "That's right, Klingon. Those bumpy headed aliens of Star Trek really have their own language, one which has far outgrown mere television and film....Our site has information and resources to interest both skeptic and enthusiast alike." Includes history, basic phrases, writing and pronunciation tips, new words (not in the official dictionary), FAQ, and a discussion group. http://www.kli.org/ Subjects: Klingon (Artificial language) Created by mg The Lesson of Iraq Historical perspective from an article by William R. Polk which appeared in the December 1958 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/58dec/polk.htm Subjects: Iraq -- History... Created by cdt Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program This is an "EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities." Searchable by zip code, and users can create release, waste water, and waste transport reports by geographical location, chemical or chemical group released, industry, and year of data. http://www.epa.gov/tri/ Subjects: United States. Environmental Protection Agency... Created by cb Volunteer Center of San Francisco (VCSF) A clearinghouse of volunteer information for San Francisco nonprofit organizations, individuals, city agencies, and other civic groups, VCSF also develops more specialized programs for people with disabilities, youth, corporate volunteers, potential board members, and more. The site has a searchable database of organizations desiring volunteer, lists of specific volunteer opportunities, advice for nonprofits on recruiting and working with volunteers, and other information, some of which is also provided in Spanish. http://www.vcsf.org/ Subjects: Voluntarism... 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