The Web World
Internet Domains
Registration Opens Soon for .Biz and .Info Domains
From the press release, “Dot-info will be an unrestricted TLD [top-level domain], open to any business or person to register for any purpose. Dot-biz will be a restricted TLD open only for commercial or business purposes and .biz names are not intended for exclusively personal or non-commercial purposes.”

Web Search–New Technologies
P2P
Invisible Web
“FedStats Experimenting with P2P”
Source: Civic.Com
Learn about the work and controversy at FedStats.Net. From the article, “Fourteen principal agencies are involved in FedStats.net, which uses Extensible Markup Language and P2P technology, and the task force is a partner in nine grants from the NSF�s Digital Government program.”

Full-Text Document Shelf (6 Items)
Campaign Finance–United States
Congressional Financial Activity for 2000
Political Party Fundraising 2000
Both news releases contain many links to tables in both HTML and spreadsheet formats.
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Demographics–United States
Profile of General Demographic Characteristics for the U.S.-2000
Source: U.S. Census
Direct to Highlights and News Release||| Direct to Full-Text Document
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Manufacturing–United States
Source: BLS
Productivity and Costs: Manufacturing: 1990-1999
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Energy–New York City
“New York City’s Summer 2001 Electricity Situation”
Source: EIA
This site is contains statistics, a history and overview the problem, and links to additional resources.
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On a Related Note:
Gasoline Prices–United States
“Gasoline Prices: What is Happening?”
Source: EIA
A set of slides used at a recent presentation by EIA staff.

Kudos and Congratulations
Libraries of the Future
ALA/Information Today Library of the Future Award Winner Announced
Congrats and kudos to the staff of the The Richland College Library in Dallas. From the news release, “The library’s program, Richland College Library Accessibility Initiative, is a proactive, multidimensional information literacy training. The initiative was designed and deployed to ensure that students, faculty, staff, administrators and members of the community have an understanding of information technology.” You can visit the Richland College Library web site here.

Fee-Based Resources
Trade Data–European Union
New Resource: EuroTrade Online
From the site, “STAT-USA announces the opening of its new subscription service, EuroTrade Online, a valuable, up-to-date source of trade data for the 15 member nations of the European Union. The new service is a direct complement to the USA Trade Online service.”

Science–Online Exhibits
Materials from Nobel Winning Scientist, Marshall Nirenberg,
Added to Profiles in Science Project
From the news release, “The online Profiles in Science exhibit features correspondence, laboratory notes, unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and reflects the many research projects Dr. Nirenberg has undertaken during the more than 40 years he has been associated with the NIH. Visitors to the Marshall Nirenberg site can view, for example, the original notes that Nirenberg delivered at a historic Moscow conference in 1961. Visitors can also see photographs of Nirenberg during his work on the genetic code. The online collection, however, is only a small sampling of the full scope of the Marshall Nirenberg Papers, the vast bulk of which have yet to be fully processed.”

Knowledge Management
“Managing the Knowledge Manager”
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly

Information Industry–LexisNexis
Forget the Hyphen, LexisNexis Unifies Brands With New Name, Icon
From the news release, “…Reed Elsevier�s legal division today announced the launch of LexisNexis� as a masterbrand encompassing its worldwide legal operations and products. Effective immediately, LexisNexis represents the Reed Elsevier plc legal and information operations in 21 countries and all of its legal and information products marketed worldwide.” The company will now consist of four core groups. Also, a new LN was announced (this is sure a busy period for new icons/logos) and is called the Knowledge Burst. You can get a look at it via this link.

Web Searching
ProFusion Now Out of Beta
We will have more to say about Profusion after we more time with it. From the press release, “Intelliseek� today announced the public release of the Web’s largest search site, ProFusion.com� (http://www.profusion.com). The new ProFusion.com, which showcases Intelliseek’s enterprise intelligence technology, provides direct access to 1,000+ targeted sources of information and searches through more than fifty times as much information as the average search engine.”
Direct to What’s New With ProFusion
Direct to ProFusion

Full-Text Document Shelf (3 Items)
Environment–Air Pollution
The State of the Air 2001
This report contains plenty of charts and graphs as well as a clickable map of conditions by State.
Source: American Lung Association
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Manufacturing–United States
Manufacturers’ Shipment Inventories and Orders: 1992-2000
Source: U.S. Census
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Source:U.S. Census
Economic Census–1997
Information Sector
From the document, “The Information Sector (sector 51) of the 1997 Economic Census comprises establishements engaged in the following processes: (a) producing and distributing information and cultural products, (b) producing the means to transmit or distribute these products as well as data or communications, and, (c) processing data.

WOW!
Internet Training Materials
RDN (Resource Discovery Network) Virtual Training Suite
This important U.K. organization has made over 40 subject based tutorials available. How the site describes itself, “The Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. The tutorials offer self-directed learning, take around an hour each to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience.”

Academic Libraries
Electronic Books
“Companies Find Academic Libraries a Key Target and a Tough Sell”
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
From the article, “Want to get a rise out of your favorite librarian? Suggest that the college use some of its acquisitions budget to buy e-books from netLibrary. Or propose that the administration use library funds to buy students and faculty members subscriptions to Questia.”

ERIC–Guides
ERIC: User’s Guide For Librarians
A new User’s Guide aimed at the librarian audience. From the site, “The ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (ERIC/HE) has created a new Web page with links to ERIC information and resources of special interest to librarians. This page includes the ERIC system’s policies and major rules for materials selection, indexing, and abstracting; ERIC/HE tutorials; a list of the journals indexed by ERIC/HE, along with their status as refereed or nonrefereed; and ERIC descriptors frequently used for indexing the higher
education literature.”

Future Search
Learn All About grub.Org
Is this a solution for the “time lag” that’s part of all general web search engines?
Only time will tell. Make sure to share this with your techie friends.
Direct from the site, “grub.org is a company with a single purpose – to provide a radical solution to the problem of outdated links and incomplete searches provided by search engines today. grub.org’s massive distributed network will build, and maintain in real-time, the most comprehensive index of the Internet ever compiled. The size of the grub.org database will exceed the size of any other index on the Internet today, and, at the same time, will be the most up-to-date…This database is accessed by search engine related companies via a XML feed – allowing them to target crawl sites that have recently changed and update them in their index on a continuous basis. In addition, Grub will provide update feeds to individuals, schools and other Open Source software projects as a complimentary service.”
See Also: Push Indexing from 360.Com

Business–Rankings
S.F. Bay Area Top Companies
The Chronicle 500-2001 is Now Available
Several Lists and Charts. Profiles for Companies are Also Available.

Professional Reading
Online Databases via the Web
“Playing Twenty Questions to Test
Low-Cost, Free, or Subscription Databases for End-User Online Service”
Source: Searcher (May, 2001)
Nicholas Tomaiuolo plays 20 Questions with FindArticles.Com, Contentville, Northern Light Special Collection, XanEdu, Ebsco Academic Search Elite, and Gale Group’s InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Business–Rankings
The Forbes/Milken Institute Best Places for Business and Career-2001
Source: Forbes
From the site, “…ranks 200 metros based on growth in jobs and earned income, plus a measure of activity in critical technologies that foster future growth.” Some material requires registration (free). The web site contains a list of 94 smaller metro areas that is not available in the print version of the story.

Election 2001–United Kingdom
A Selection of Election Resources From Major U.K. Media Outlets
BBC–Vote 2001
Financial Times–U.K. Election 2001
The Guardian–Election 2001
The Independent–Election 2001
The Scotsman–General Election 2001
The Telegraph–Election 2001
The Times–Election 2001

Census 2000
Free E-Mail Tutorial
The Alaska Library Association is offering a free e-mail tutorial on the 2000 Census.
From a recent e-mail posting, “Modeled after ALA’s successful e-mail tutorial on copyright, this nine week, once-a-week tutorial will unravel many of the mysteries of Census 2000.” The e-mail also highlights tutorial topics:
*Learn all about the new 63 racial categories and how they might cause confusion at the reference desk!
*Learn what questions/topics can be answered using Census data.
*Navigate through the wide world of census Geography.
*Discover when all of this great data is coming out — some of our favorite reports won’t be out till 2003!
*See where and how to get Census information. It will be available on and offline, and from the State as well as Washington, DC.
*Find where to get help when we’ve exhausted our own resources!
This tutorial will be presented by Daniel Cornwall, Government Publications Librarian at the Alaska State Library, which is a coordinating agency of the Alaska Census & Geographic Information Network.
Registration Information:
There is NO COST to receive this information. If you would like to join the Documents Roundtable for this once-a-week Census tutorial, please send an e-mail to dan_cornwall@eed.state.ak.us before Monday, May 21st. The tutorial will start Tuesday, May 22nd.

Airports–Statistics–United States
Airline Industry–Statistics–United States
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Airport Activity Statistics of Certificated Air Carriers: Summary Tables
From the site, “…presents summary data for all scheduled and nonscheduled service by large certificated U.S. air carriers for each airport served during the 12 months ending December 31, 1999.”

Energy Crisis–California
Source: EIA
“Subsequent Events–California’s Energy Crisis”
From the site, “The energy crisis in California has received national media coverage over the past year. Because the problems are complex and the crisis is ongoing, it may be difficult to keep up with the situation. This paper presents a summary of California’s
energy problems, and the activities taken by industry leaders to resolve the crisis.”

International Business Research
The STAT-USA/Internet Companion to International Business
Free access for STAT-USA subscribers, available in print May 16th for non-subscribers.
From the site, “The Companion provides instruction on how to use the information contained in our database for analytical purposes. It then goes one step further by providing exercises to help you transform this information into knowledge which you can use.”

The Nicholson Baker Scene
The Chronicle of Higher Education With A New Q&A With NB
&
Participate in an Online Discussion with Baker on May 15th
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More NB: An Interview with the Atlantic Monthly

Database of the Day–Invisible Web
Salary Data–U.S. and International
SalaryExpert.Com
Information provided by Baker, Thomsen Associates. Select job title (several hundred) and limit by zip code or state.
Plenty of additional salary resources. An online International Version is also available.
WOW, Even Better!
Download the Full Version (free) that contains data for Over 32,000 Job Titles. Info for both U.S. and International locations. You can also download PDA and/or International Only versions.

Web Based Research Tools–Questia
Layoffs At Questia
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Canada Resource Shelf (2 Items)
Retail
New Web Site: RetailInteractive.Ca
From the site, “Retail Council of Canada and Industry Canada have partnered to develop and publish retailinteractive.ca, a pipeline to practical, hands-on business information, resources and tools designed especially for Canada’s retailers. Used properly, this site can give retailers the competitive edge they need to run their operations more effectively and profitably.”
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Electricity Industry
Canadian Electricity Trends and Issues
Source: National Energy Board
News Release and Summary ||| Full-Text Document

Full-Text Document Shelf (3 Items)
Census Brief: The Hispanic Population
Source: U.S. Census
Full-Text of Document ||| News Release and Highlights
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Housing–United States
Source: U.S. Census
American Housing Brief
Our Homes, Our Neighborhoods ||| Out of Order

Online Databases–Dialog
Database Catalogs and Guides–Dialog
Just Online From Dialog, Worldwide Database Catalog 2001
and
Updated Dialog Pocket Guide Now Available