Resources of the Week
Three selections this week.

1) Employment–United States
Source: Wall Street Journal
CareerJournal.com: Salary and Hiring Information
As far as juicy information goes, salary data is among the juiciest. Who makes what? How do you stack up against your peers? If you relocate to a city in a different part of the country, can you expect to earn what you earn now? What’s a good ballpark figure to hold in your head when you’ve been called back for that second interview? Or maybe you need hard data to prove to your boss that you are, in fact, underpaid. There’s a real good chance you’ll find just the numbers you need on this page, specifically, from the scroll menu in the blue box at the top of the right column. Let’s choose…uh, Librarians. Highlight it and click “GO” at the bottom of the box. In the center column, up pops an article about hiring trends for corporate librarians. Beneath the blue box on the right, you’ll see another blue box labeled “Salary Tables.” Here’s the good stuff, folks. For Librarians, you’ll find links to five different salary tables — Library Department Heads, Librarians by Experience, Top Research Librarians, Librarians at Nonprofits in the Washington, D.C., Metro Area, and the decidedly generic…Librarians. For each table, the source/data is indicated in italics at the bottom. Go ahead…satisfy your curiosity now. Other fishing holes for salary data:
+ Bureau of Labor Statistics: Weekly Earnings Data (See especially the table Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex.)
+ GovExec.com: Salary and Benefits (federal employee pay schedules, etc.)
+ JobStar: Salary Info Index
+ Occupational Outlook Handbook
+ Portico’s collection of salary guides (resources for “advancement professionals”)
+ Salary Guides and Guidance (The Riley Guide)
+ Salary.com
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2) Economics
Source: Economic History Association
EH.Net
“EH.Net operates the Economic History Services fileserver and several electronic discussion lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields.” What’s here:
+ Abstracts in Economic History: “AEH is a service designed to assist economic historians in sharing information about their work. Abstracts are welcome for all types of work in the field, including dissertations, working papers, conference presentations, journal articles, and contributions to anthologies.”
+ Ask the Professor: “Professors who have done research in Economic History are volunteering to assist others interested in learning more about the field.” Searchable archive of previous questions and answers.
+ Book Reviews
+ Course Syllabi
+ Database Directory: “EH.Net provides an on-line location for researchers in economic history to make their data series available to other professionals and interested scholars. Several data series have been given to EH.Net and are available as downloadable files, while many other titles may be accessed through our Database Registry.”
+ Economic History in the Popular Press: Selected recent articles of interest.
+ Encyclopedia: “EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited.”
+ How Much Is That?: “Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today.” Includes data for the UK, gold prices, “the relative cost of unskilled labor,” some exchange rates.
+ Membership Directory: “(C)ontains a complete list of the members of the Business History Conference, The Cliometric Society, and the Economic History Association.”
+ Related Websites: “The materials listed here are primarily WWW sites with information of use to economic historians. Because there is presently a great deal more on the Internet in economics than in history, that discipline is more heavily represented, but over time the distribution will even out.”
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3) Naval Studies
NOSI: Naval Open Source Intelligence
“NOSI is a digital library of world naval operational news curated from open source intelligence. Links to naval operational news stories are posted daily after scanning over 100 international news sources…NOSI is curated by Michael P. D’Alessandro, M.D. Dr. D’Alessandro has been a member of the U.S. Naval Institute since 1981…. Dr. D’Alessandro’s research is in the field of digital libraries; he established the Virtual Hospital digital health sciences library as the 250th Web site on the Internet in 1993.”
See Also: GlobalSecurity.org
Another excellent source of open source security, intelligence, and related material.

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