Information Industry–CQ
Information Industry–LexisNexis
Strategic Alliance Report: Today, CQ & LexisNexis
From the announcement, “Congressional Quarterly, Inc. and LexisNexis Group today announced a strategic alliance whereby LexisNexis, the leading global provider of authoritative legal and business research information, will become the exclusive distribution partner for CQ’s premier content on Congress, politics and public policy…In addition to being available through LexisNexis, this CQ content will continue to be distributed electronically through CQ.com OnCongress…As part of the arrangement, LexisNexis announced that it will discontinue its own legislative tracking service, called LexisNexis Political Universe.”
See Also: “LexisNexis to Distribute Congressional Quarterly Content” (via Information Today)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Tobacco Control
New: Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
From the announcement, “The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management today released on the internet the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, a collection of more than 20 million previously secret documents from tobacco industry files. The documents represent the world’s largest public digital collection maintained by a library.”
Thanks to S.C. for the news tip.
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Trade Statistics–Canada–Database
Invisible Web
Source: Industry Canada
Update: New From the Canadian Trade Data Online Database
From a recently received e-mail:
1) Trade data by industry is now available on a NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) basis. Industry level data by SIC
(Standard Industrial Classification) codes are still available for historical purposes, but are no longer regularly updated.
2) With respect to trade data by product, 4 digit level HS (Harmonized System) data have now been added to supplement the 2 and 6 digit level data previously available.
Data found in this dbase is supplied by Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items)
U.S. Government–Databases
Source: Searcher
“Digital Government: Digital Tools for the Electronic Dissemination of Government Information”
Reviews of FirstGov and American FactFinder by Laura Gordon-Murnane.
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Opinion
Web Search–Google
Source: Searcher
“Google: (v.)…”
Barbara Quint discusses Google from a “parts of speech” angle.
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Library of Congress Classification–History
Source: NewBreed Librarian
A Reference Librarian’s Take on Library of Congress Classification
A very interesting and informative article for all librarians. It was written by Robin Paynter, a reference librarian at the University of Oregon. A

Special Section: Lists & Rankings (2 Items)
Public Libraries–United Kingdom–Lists & Rankings
Source: The Guardian
Books Being Borrowed From the Library: U.K.
From the site, “The annual PLR figures listing the most popular authors and books in public libraries across the UK last year have just been released…”
See Also: Related Article and Background Via (The Guardian)
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Books–Lists & Rankings
Music–Lists & Rankings
DVD’s–Lists & Rankings
Movers & Shakers: What’s Hot at Amazon.Com
“The Movers & Shakers index identifies–by product group–the biggest gainers in sales rank at Amazon.com in the past 24 hours.” The lists are updated hourly.

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