E-Reference
NPR Features Report on Cleveland Public Library’s KnowItNow Service
Listen to this Report (RealAudio)
The NPR synopsis reads, “David Barnett of member station WCPN reports from Cleveland, where the public library is offering a new online service featuring real-live librarians to answer questions — it’s an antidote to the often incorrect and poorly organized facts provided by automated Internet searches. The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the library’s Web page.”
Learn More About KnowItNow
Thanks to HT for the tip.

Science
Invisible Web
Source: Nature
Is the PubScience Database About To Disappear?
Lead of the Declan Butler article, “A powerful congressional committee has passed a budget bill which, if enacted, could close down PubScience, a free search service for the physical sciences literature, operated by the US Department of Energy (DoE).”
See Also: A Nature Editorial, “Defending Tax-Funded Navigation”

Criminal Justice–United States
Updated Resource: Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online The Sourcebook now includes spreadsheet versions (.xls) of most tables.
Direct to a List of Tables and Figures

Aviation–United States
NTSB Adds New Feature to Site
From the news release, “The National Transportation Safety Board has added a new feature to its web site that gives notice of pending releases of probable cause briefs of general aviation accidents. The new feature debuted this week.”

Canadian Resource Shelf
Wealth–Lists and Rankings
Source: National Post Business
40 Richest Canadians Under 40

Documents in the News
Traffic Safety–U.S.–Lists and Rankings
Traffic Safety–Canada–Lists and Rankings
Source: State Farm Insurance
Most Dangerous Intersections in the U.S. and Canada-2001
Top 10 Most Dangerous (U.S. Only)
||| Top 10 Dangerous by State/Province
See Also: Additional Material

Education–Academic Freedom
New Web Resource: NEAR (Network For Education and Academic Rights)
This organization was just launched. It is sponsored by UNESCO. The site features background on the organization, alerts about recent incidents, and links to related resources.

Professional Reading
Archives–Australia
Government Information
Learn About the PANDORA Archive at the National Library of Australia
From the paper, “The National Library of Australia maintains PANDORA, an archive of selected, significant Australian web sites and web-based online publications. The purpose of PANDORA is to ensure that Australians of the future will be able to access a significant component of today�s Australian web based information resources.”

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