. Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:54:26 +0100 From: Gary Price <gary.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: jwne@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ResourceShelf] Newsletter 464 Off the Shelf: ResourceShelf Newsletter <http://www.resourceshelf.com/> Number 464 July 15, 2010
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Greetings from Tampa/St. Pete: It's hard to believe the baseball season is half over (Gary and I are serious fans). Which means 2010 itself is *more* than half over...and we've been continually updating ResourceShelf since 2001 and DocuTicker since 2004. That is a *lot* of good information -- and we're especially proud (and grateful) that more than 22,000 of you receive these newsletters each week. Although RSS and Twitter have become popular current awareness tools, e-mail newsletters remain a key information source for so many of us. The current Resource of the Week feature highlights a few e-mail newsletters we like -- and points you to a few sources where you can find more. Have a great week. sdk Using the social media sites? You can find us: On Facebook: * ResourceShelf: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/ResourceShelf/45783383771> * DocuTicker: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/DocuTicker/44566289460> * Gary: <http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Price/580249905> * Shirl: <http://www.facebook.com/people/Shirl-Kennedy/566607461> Or Twitter: * Combined ResourceShelf and DocuTicker feed: <http://www.twitter.com/resourceshelf> * DocuTicker only feed: <http://www.twitter.com/docuticker> * Shirl tweets here: <http://twitter.com/webdoyenne> ++ Your DocuTicker and ResourceShelf Editorial Team ++ Shirl Kennedy Senior Editor <shirl.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Gary Price Founding Editor <gary.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adrian Janes Contributing Editor Steven Cohen Contributing Editor Dan Giancaterino Contributing Editor Laura Gordon-Murnane Contributing Editor Stuart Basefsky, MLIS Contributing Editor
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Resource of the Week - E-mail Newsletters That Are Still Worth It By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor Direct link to this post online: <http://digbig.com/5bcaea> I don't subscribe to very many listservs anymore, and I've gone to RSS in lieu of most e-mail newsletters. Dealing with e-mail in general can be tedious and time-consuming. And yet it remains useful...and popular as a information delivery mechanism. Case in point - our e-mail newsletters for ResourceShelf and DocuTicker go out to more than 22,000 folks every week. But e-mail newsletters are not only an info delivery mechanism. They can also serve as 'ticklers' to remind you to check certain websites for content updates you don't want to miss. Our newsletters here, for example, present just a tiny fraction of the content we've added to both of our websites in the course of an average week. Both ResourceShelf and DocuTicker are updated continually throughout the day, all week long. At any rate, here are some other newsletters I still look at regularly, which you may or may not find useful as well. * The Mighell Marker: A Legal Technology Weekly <http://www.inter-alia.net/ILRW/currentissue.php> This newsletter is an offshoot of Inter Alia, a legal technology weblog maintained by Tom Mighell, senior counsel and litigation technology support coordinator at Cowles & Thompson in Dallas. It focuses mainly on websites and other resources of particular relevance to attorneys and legal researchers, but almost anyone will find something of interest each week. The current issue, for example, provides pointers to the research area of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute website, as well as a post from makeuseof.com on about the Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell Phone. Sign up here. * Brookings Alert <http://www.brookings.edu/mobilealert/2010/0706.aspx> This is a weekly update that provides a summary of new reports and other resources on the Brookings Institution website. Brookings is a venerable think tank that does work in a wide range of public policy areas - and a reliable source of interesting items that we post regularly on DocuTicker. Sign up here, where you'll also find a listing of all the specific topic-oriented newsletters offered by Brookings, on everything from China to health care policy. * INFOMINE Alert Service <http://digbig.com/5bcahg> INFOMINE, a ginormous scholarly internet resources collection, has been around since you had to connect to the Internet with Dixie cups and string. Created and maintained by academic librarians, it offers 'useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.' Why would you NOT want to be made aware of new additions to this valuable collection? Sign up here. You can even specify an area or areas of interest so you'll receive only updates to those categories. You can also specify how often you wish to receive these alerts. * The Scout Report <http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/> Another venerable resource, this weekly newsletter is the 'flagship publication' of the Internet Scout Project. It's been around since 1994, and more than 250,000 folks read it every week. "Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Our team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource." Enough said. Sign up here. * Uncle Sam, meanwhile, pumps out a wide range e-mail newsletters, for just about any kind of information you can imagine. You can sign up for as many as you want from this central location. Some newer offering include: * DisabilityInfo Connection * Social Security eNEWS * Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network News * Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Progress Alerts * Go Green * International Environmental and Climate Change Issues * Democracy, Human Rights, and Refugees * State Department Highlights * FEMA Disaster Declarations * Pandemic Flu Updates * Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Updates * 3-1-1 for Carry-Ons ('Timely alerts about Carry-On items.') Looking for e-mail newsletters on a specific topic? Give the New-List directory a try. Search or browse through more than 9,200 e-mail newsletters, organized by category. It can, however, be somewhat tedious to pick through here; it's up to you to separate the wheat from the chaff. For librarian-oriented info, check AcqWeb's Directory of Journals, Newsletters and Electronic Discussion Archives. (Note: there are plenty of things here that will interest non-librarians, including pointers to other news/newsletter directories.) Oh, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point you to the sign-up pages for the ResourceShelf and the DocuTicker weekly newsletters. Full post online with live links: <http://digbig.com/5bcaea>
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Off the Shelf: Featured posts from ResourceShelf Visit ResourceShelf now: <http://www.resourceshelf.com> or click a link to view the entire post: * HathiTrust Digital Library Adds New Content Accessible to All Users, Nearly 100,000 Volumes Digitized by Internet Archive - <http://digbig.com/5bcadd> * New Issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly (33.2, 2010): Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web - <http://digbig.com/5bcade> * New From Pew Internet: Millennials See Advantages of Personal Disclosure Trumping Concerns About Personal Privacy - <http://digbig.com/5bcadf> * Reference and Research: Timelines: Sources of History from British Library Wins Award - <http://digbig.com/5bcadg> * Clay Shirky Asks, 'Can the Internet Save the Book?' and a Bit of Recent Book Search History - <http://digbig.com/5bcadh> * Lists & Rankings: The 50 Smartest People in Tech - <http://digbig.com/5bcadj> Have you visited the ResourceShelf site this week? Remember that this newsletter contains just a minute sample of the content we continually add to the site. If you don't stop by, you'll almost certainly miss something of interest.
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