Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
Pennsylvania–History
Source: Pennsylvania State Archives
“Pennsylvania State Archives Launches “Doc Heritage” Web Site” (via Government Technology News)
Direct to Pennsylvania “Doc Heritage” Web Site

E-Journals–Preservation
The National Library of the Netherlands Becomes First Official Digital Archive for Elsevier Science Journals
From the announcement, “…the library will receive digital copies of all Elsevier journals made available on its web platform, ScienceDirect, which are approximately 1,500 journals covering all areas of science, technology and medicine, and exceeding 7 TB of data…Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Strategy at Elsevier and responsible for this digital archiving initiative, explains the relevance of this agreement: �It is essential that we will be able to guarantee both authors and researchers using the journals that the electronic files will be permanently available. Journals have been called �the minutes of science�. As we move toward journals being available only in electronic form and being held centrally on publishers� computers, the public has the right to be assured that, should a publisher go out of business, these files will not be lost.” Thanks to NFAIS for the news tip.

Web Search–Teoma
Teoma to Launch U.K. Version, Jeeves.Co.Uk to Undergo Major Overhaul (Registration Required)
A report in the U.K.’s Marketing notes that Teoma will launch a separate U.K. site in the near future. From the article, “No timescale has been set for the launch of teoma.co.uk as a standalone UK-specific search engine, but it could go live before the end of this year.” Currently, www.teoma.co.uk is but taps the “U.S.” version. The article also mentions that jeeves.co.uk will give the brand, “the biggest revamp since its launch.” From the article, “…communications director Nick Mason-Pearson said the firm would not run a heavyweight launch campaign for fear of cannibalising its existing Ask Jeeves customer base, even though it is aimed at a different kind of user.” We’ve also learned that sometime in the next 4-6 weeks Teoma is planning several enhancements for the search engine. Stay Tuned.

Research Databases–Australia
Official Launch: Australian Universities Unveil New Literature Research Tool
The AustLit Gateway site has been available for some time but today marks the official launch of the site of this fee-based database. From the site, “AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works – published in a range of print and electronic sources – and on more than 60 000 Australian authors and literary organisations, from 1780 to the present day.”
The Gateway is a joint project of eight Australian Universities (the University of Queensland, the University of Western Australia, the University of Canberra, the University of Sydney, Flinders University, Monash University and Deakin University with assistance from the National Library of Australia). A small portion of author records can be viewed by non-subscribers.

Web Browsers–Internet Explorer
Source: Computerworld
Microsoft Releases “Super Patch” To Correct Six IE Problems
“Microsoft Corp. late yesterday issued a cumulative patch for its Internet Explorer Web browser that also fixes six new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to take control over a user’s system, the company said.”
See Also: Direct to Patch Download Information

Librarians
Museums
New Museum to Open in NYC, Librarian Involvement
Source: The Washington Post
The article provides background about the Museum of Sex soon to open in New York City. Included in the article is the following short passage, “Gluck found his collection in expected places, and a few unexpected. The Kinsey Institute opened its voluminous archives to the museum, and Gluck borrowed from other collections, as well. Then there’s Ralph Whittington, a retired Library of Congress archivist widely recognized as possessing perhaps the world’s largest collection of pornographic literature and film. His is a scholarly obsession, although he wouldn’t deny he peruses the material. “Being a librarian, I know how to keep these materials preserved,” he said. “It’s not easy being seen as a porn king.”
Read Also: Ralph Whittington Shares A Few Comments in this 2000 Interview

Professional Reading Shelf
Conference Presentations
Presentations from the 2002 WiLSWorld Conference
The conference took place Wednesday July 31 and Thursday August 1, 2002 in Madison, Wisconsin. Slides are in ppt format.
Selected Presentations (several others available):
*”eProfiles: Innovative Information Systems and Services” by Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library
*”Reference With QuestionPoint” by Jeff Penka, Manager, OCLC Cooperative Reference Services
*”Future Directions of Libraries and Librarians” by Susan McGlamery, Coordinator for Reference Services, Metropolitan Cooperative Library Systems, California
*”IDEALS: Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services” by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Consumer Information–United States
New from Pueblo, The Fall Edition of the Free Consumer Information Catalog is Now Available
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Non-Profits–Lists & Rankings
Source: The Non-Profit Times
The NPT Power & Influence, 2002
Short bios of leaders in non-profit industry. Includes a link to complete report in pdf.
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Encryption–Overview
Source: The Atlantic
New, “A Web-only Primer on Public-key Encryption”
This primer cannot be found in the print edition of the magazine.

Web Resources of the Week
Resource #1
Impressive Search Functionality: The Tower Records Searchable Catalog
Tower Records is one of the most well-known music retailers in many parts of the world and as you would expect they also have a large online presence. This week I’m mentioning the Tower searchable catalog not as a source to purchase music, I’m sure you already have a favorite or a vendor that you must use. I making note of it because the database’s advanced interface, provides access to a potentially useful reference tool for music related queries. Two advanced interfaces exist, one for all types of recordings except classical and the second, a specialized classical interface. Take a look at the numerous search criteria to assist in accessing the correct info.
General Interface Search Criteria
*Artist
*Guest Artist
*Album Title
*Song (Very Useful if Your Trying to Learn if the Tune is On a Compilation)
*Genre (Over 20 Available Including Spoken Word and Audiobooks)
*Label
*Producer
*Format
Classical Interface Search Criteria
*Composer
*Work
*Form (Over 20 Available)
*Performer
*Conductor
*Ensemble
*Album Title
*Label
*Catalog #:
*Instrument
*Format
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Entries contains a track listing, release date, a list of guest artists (if available) and in some cases brief bio of the performer. Some data is provided by the music info company Muze. AllMusic.Com is another essential music database to have in your collection.
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See Also: While we’re on the topic of music, Peter Scott, the developer of many essential tools including Libdex (a directory of over 18,000 library sites and catalogs), a wonderful database of publisher catalogs (over 7000), and a comprehensive collection of library weblogs, is building a NEW database of record label information. Btw, those of you who’ve been online for several years also know Peter as the developer of HYTELNET.

Resource of the Week #2
A Quick Review of Reference Resources from Economist.Com
A sizeable portion of the content is available at no charge.
1) Country Briefings
Available for about 60 nations. Links to some fee-based content.
2) The Economist Business Database
Content provided by Bloomsbury. “Contains a business dictionary covering over 6,000 related terms, practical guides explaining finance, marketing, personnel, and e-commerce, and 144 biographies of important business minds.”
3) Backgrounders
“…concise summaries of complex issues in politics, finance, business, science and technology.” Included in the backgrounders are links to full-text fee-based articles.
4) The Economist Style Guide

Professional Reading Shelf and Listening Station (3 Items)
Research Libraries
Source: Council on Library and Information Resources
Full-Text, Diffuse Libraries: Emergent Roles for the Research Library in the Digital Age
From the abstract, “Research libraries are taking on a range of new roles in the digital age as they become more deeply engaged in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. While some of these roles are extensions of traditional library activity, others are largely new. Wendy Lougee, university librarian at the University of Minnesota, explores some of these emerging functions in this report.” 32 pages pdf.
Direct to Full-Text
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Libraries
Source: WAMU-FM, Washington D.C.
Listen Online, “Future of Libraries”
From a WAMU Radios Public Interest program. Aired 8/20/02. From the blurb, “These days, students come to college armed with laptops, cell phones and PDAs. So where do books fit into the equation? A look at the evolving role of university libraries, whether electronic archives will be there when students need them, and how new technology affects learning.” Helen Spalding from ACRL, Pat MacGuire from Trinity College, and Dr. Anthony (Tony) Paustian from the Des Moines Area Community College are guests on the show. Thanks to LISNews.Com for the tip.
See Also: Direct to Audio
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Librarianship
New Issue, Cites & Insights (Vol. 2 No. 12)
The September issue Walt Crawford’s publication is now available.

The Internet Archive
Pre-Release: Take a Look at a New Version of The Internet Archive Web Site
Make sure to take note of the new text, audio, and software collections. Brewster and the IA organization would appreciate any and all comments

Virtual Reference
Source: Government Computing News
“Library Encourages Patrons to Chat”
A brief article about the “Ask a Librarian Live Reference” in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Court Records on the Internet–United States
Source: AP
“How Much Info Is Too Much Info?”
From the article, “States have made significant progress in putting their court records online, allowing the public to examine criminal cases, lawsuits and divorces. However, all are struggling to develop privacy standards that keep pace with the technology, says a report released Wednesday.”
See Also: Direct Access to the Full-Text of the Report Mentioned in the Article

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items)
E-Government
Source: UN/American Society for Public Administration
New, Full-Text Report,
Benchmarking E-Government: A Global Perspective–Assessing the U.N. Member States
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E-Government–United States
Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for The Business of Government
Full-Text, The State of Federal Web Sites, The Pursuit of Excellence
See Also: Article About Report in Federal Computer Week
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E-Commerce–United Kingdom–Statistics
Source: National Statistics Office
Full-Text, 2001 E-Commerce Survey Of Business
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Law Firms–California–Lists & Rankings
Source: The Recorder
The California 40 (Top Grossing Law Firms, 2001)
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Criminal Justice–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 2000
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Structural Engineering–World Trade Center
Source: NIST
NIST World Trade Center Investigation
Homepage for the new, “$16 million, 24-month federal building and fire safety investigation to study the structural failure and subsequent progressive collapse of several World Trade Center (WTC)…”

News Briefs
New Look for Google’s Specialized Search and Tools Page

Specialty Search Engines
Elsevier & FAST Upgrade Scirus Search Engine
***”The index now contains over 107 million science specific pages, with new full-text additions like NASA reports, CogPrints pre- and postprints, and preprints from the Chemistry and Mathematics Preprint Servers. Scirus now offers over 17 million proprietary records that cannot be found using generic search engines.”
***”Improved the ranking and relevance of the results by implementing �intelligent query rewrites�, which automatically attempts to understand the intention of the user and enables more intelligent searching by rewriting the queries.” Intelligent rewrites have been available via FAST’s AlltheWeb engine for some time.
***”Scirus now includes a news feed with the latest science headlines provided by the Lexis Nexis Web Publisher News Database.” First look, not very useful at the moment.
***”More refined searching will be facilitated by the addition of the new Information Types “Company Homepages” and “Preprints.” This will allow the searcher to quickly find science-related company and product information, as well as papers that are available before the peer-review process has been completed.”
Finally, two points worth remembering. First, although this database runs its own crawl program, material in Scirus is simply not a chunk of “science related material” taken from the AlltheWeb database. Second, Scirus combines open web content with access to full-text articles from professional journals. These articles can be purchase on a pay-per-document basis. More later as we begin spending time “testing” Scirus.
See Also: Direct to Scirus

Digital Preservation
“Stanford Libraries, Sun Micro Awarded Mellon Foundation and NSF Grants for Digital Archiving Program”
From the announcement, “Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have independently awarded two new, two year grants totaling almost $3 million to the LOCKSS (”Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) Program. The LOCKSS program is a joint undertaking of Sun Microsystems Laboratories and Stanford University Libraries to develop a secure, reliable system which safeguards and preserves access to digital publications. The LOCKSS system is designed to make it feasible and affordable, even for smaller libraries, to preserve access to the e-journals to which they subscribe, and safeguard their community’s access to them.”
See Also: Direct to the LOCKSS site (includes demo of user interface)

Conferences
1) 2nd Annual Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems
Scheduled for Philadelphia (November 16-17, 2002) immediately preceding the ASIST Annual Conference. Abstracts for all of the presentations are available on this site.
2) Call For Papers: Search Engines Meeting 2003
Scheduled for Boston, April 7-8, 2003. Make sure to take a look at some of the very interesting and informative presentations from previous meetings.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
West Nile Virus–Web Resources
Collection of West Nile Virus Information Resources
This comprehensive collection of West Nile info sites, compiled using many sources, was put together by Tim Rozgonyi at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Tim is the Assistant Technology Systems Editor at the newspaper. I would like to thank him for allowing me to host this resource on the web.
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College Rankings–Bibliography and Web Resources
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse of Higher Education
New, “Critical Issue Bibliography: College Rankings”
“The following CRIB presents resources on college rankings publications, criticisms of rankings methodology, effects of the rankings on the public, and alternatives to the major rankings guides.”
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Money Laundering–Statistics
Source: GAO
Full-Text Report, Extent of Money Laundering Through Credit Cards Is Unknown
Includes background on major credit card associations, info about various money laundering scenarios.

News Briefs (3 Items)
Colorado Library Patron Challenges Video of “Madame Bovary” (via Greeley Tribune)
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Economist Intelligence Unit Launches Web-Based Forecasting Service
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AT&T Awarded $7.6 Million FirstGov Web Hosting Contract (Via Gov. Computer News)
AT&T also won the search engine contract in March