Enterprise Search–Northern Light
Future Search
Northern Light and In-Q-Tel Team To Develop New Search System
From the press release, “Northern Light Technology, LLC and In-Q-Tel have teamed up to develop an advanced search system that will eliminate the need to manually sift through countless documents in a variety of languages. In-Q-Tel can now take advantage of a unique combination of search capabilities from Northern Light that will use double-byte technology to deliver comprehensive and relevant Web content in multiple languages.” In-Q-Tel is a “venture catalyst” organization that’s chartered by the CIA. A review of press releases In-Q-Tel funding of Intelliseek, the ProFusion folks, Mohomine, and Tacit Knowledge Systems.
See Also: Direct to the In-Q-Tel Site
See Also: “CIA Doesn’t Spook Northern Light” (via Internet.Com)

Academic Libraries
Association of College and Reference Libraries
ACRL President Mary Reichel to Hold Live Webcast on “The Changing Library”
It’s scheduled for 1/29/02 at 2pm EST. No charge to view the webcast but you will need to sign-up. More details on the linked page.
See Also: You can also access and view (free) an archive of webcasts including the 11/13/01 session, Librarians and Information Technology, with ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen Davis.

Web Search –Usenet
Web Search–Google
Source: Salon
“The Geeks Who Saved Usenet”
From the article, Google gets the credit for making these relics of the early Net accessible to anyone on the Web, bringing the early history of Usenet to all. Michael Schmidt, 29, a Google software engineer, spent the last year and a half playing detective, trying to track down the Internet’s lost history: “It was a long and painful investigative process. I was searching on the Web, calling people. There were a lot of dead ends.” But it was the geeky pragmatism and historical foresight of Usenet old-timers themselves that actually saved the early history of the newsgroups so that we can all poke around in it today. These “archive donors,” whom Google thanks here, gave their copies of the millions of messages they’d saved back to the Net.” Thanks to S.C. for alerting us to this article.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources & Tools (2 Items)
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Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: Library Association
New Library Association Report: Libraries and Lifelong Learning: a Strategy 2002-4
See Also: Direct to the Report (Full-Text, 18 pages)
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Aviation–United States–Statistics
Source: NTSB
Full-Text Report: Public Aircraft Safety
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text

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