Web Search–Google
Useful? Interesting? Fun? Another List of “Recently Registered” Google-Based Domain Names
This is becoming a monthly feature. I’m glad that many of you find the lists useful and maybe even fun. This month also includes a list of about 20 domains registered by Google Inc. Now, here are a few favorites (not registered by Google Inc.):
+ googlectomy.com
+ subvertinggoogle.com
+ mygoogleblog.com
+ censoredbygoogle.com (this site is live)
+ googleburiedme.com
+ google-hacks.com
+ fuckingoogleit.com
+ churchofgoogle.com
+ googleture.com
+ evilgoogle.com (interesting logo)
+ spamminggoogle.com

Controlled Vocabularies–United Kingdom
Federated Search
Learn About seamlessUK
“SeamlessUK is developing a one-stop citizen’s gateway which integrates local and national information on health, education, employment, rights, benefits, government etc. It is funded under the NOF (New Opportunities Fund) Digitisation Programme in the UK. The project is led by Essex County Council and involves a further 8 local authorities and 14 key national information providers working together to develop a national citizens’ gateway and 9 locally branded portals, one in each local authority area. It is hoped that the system will be taken up across the UK.” We’ve learned today that three taxonomies (Government Category List, Local Government Category List and seamlessUK) have agreed to merge. From an announcement, “The e-Government Metadata Standard sets out the way in which organisations should apply metadata to describe their information resources. One element relates to the subject of the resource and until now organisations have been able to use any of the three term lists as source files for subject terms, which has led to confusion and difficulties in finding information. Now however the list owners have agreed to work together to create a single unified list of categories and keywords that the public sector can use to describe their information resources. This standardisation should result in information resources being described more consistently across organisations, which should in turn make it easier for organisations to share information and for user searches to be more effective. The work, which is funded by the new Local e-Government Standards Body, will be carried out by an independent taxonomy expert Stella Dextre Clarke and is expected to be completed by the Spring. Until then, the ODPM have stressed that organisations should continue to use any of the lists. Involvement of existing users of the three lists will be a key part of the process and more details of the consultation process will be issued shortly.”
See Also: Learn More Via Several Presentations from the seamlessUK Conference and this collection of presentations.

Professional Reading Shelf
Censorship
Source: Houston Chronicle
Critics take aim at 120 library books for young readers
From the article, “A new group has formed to address the selection and placement of books at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System, and it is targeting 120 works aimed at children and young adults. Called Library Patrons of Texas Inc., the group wants an age-appropriate policy at the system and targeting books with sexual and gay themes, as well as those with what the group says is offensive language. Among those are Silly Duck by Harvey Fierstein, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Deal With It! by Esther Drill and Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez.”
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Source: European Southern Observatory
Libraries–Astronomy
Directory of Astronomy Librarians and Libraries
“Following is an alphabetical list of astronomy librarians and a few astrolibrary-related addresses. Use the FIND function below to look up a particular name, institute, or location.”
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Libraries–Parliamentary
Source: German Bundestag
World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries
From the introduction: “The Directory of Parliamentary Libraries, in the form in which you will now find it on the Internet, was originally published by the International Federation of Library Associations, or rather by the Section on Library and Research Services for Parliament…. The World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries registers parliaments and their libraries in alphabetical order. You will also find the data for a country using the clickable world map.”
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Public Libraries–Spanish Language Resources
Source: Bruce Jensen, MA, MLIS
PLUS: Public Libraries Using Spanish
“Many public libraries find it difficult to fully serve their multicultural communities because of the time and expertise needed for translation and outreach work. PLUS seeks to lend a hand by gathering useful resources that can help you make your library a more welcoming place for Spanish speakers. Card applications, brochures, programming suggestions, signage, press releases and news articles–many in Spanish with a side-by-side English translation–are collected here and are yours to use as you wish.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Recidivism–United States–Statistics
Source: USSC
+ The predictive power of criminal history guidelines
+ Recidivism rates among federal offenders with little or no criminal history
See Also: 2002 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics
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Hospitals–Lists and Rankings
Source: Hospitals and Health Networks
The 100 Most Wired Hospitals
+ List in Alphabetical Order
+ The Most Wireless
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Copyright–United States
Source: Copyright Clearance Center
A Practical Guide to Copyright Compliance for Business Professionals
From press release: “The Guide to Copyright Compliance was developed specifically for business professionals who frequently use copyright-protected materials in their day-to-day activities, and provides helpful information about the legal issues related to photocopying, e-mailing and Web-posting text materials. The online resource was designed as an interactive reference tool to make it easy for employees to find the information and resources they need to reduce their company’s risk of copyright infringement.” Free registration required to access resource.
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Art–United Kingdom
Holocaust
Source: National Museum Directors’ Conference
Spoliation of works of art during the Holocaust and World War II period
From the site, “…to assist with the worldwide search for works of art that may have been wrongly taken during the Holocaust and World War II. It includes reports on the research being undertaken by the UK’s national museums and 23 leading local authority and university museums, and a searchable database of works of art with uncertain provenance. In publishing this information, we aim to advertise as widely as possible the details of specific works of art, the whereabouts and ownership of which cannot with confidence by specified for the years 1933-1945.” More about a recent update to the site via a ManagingInformation.com article.

Briefly
+ ProQuest and MyFamily.com Introduce New “Ancestry” Product for Genealogy Research in Libraries

Web Search–Technorati
Technorati’s Politics Site Is Now Live
“… new way to monitor politics in weblogs during and after the Democratic National Convention.” Feedster also has a special section devoted to convention weblogs. Actually, the entire Technorati site has a new look today and the beta tag has been removed.
See Also: BlogPulse also offers some resources.

Information Retrieval
On ResourceShelfPLUS: A New Compilation of Recently Awarded Search-Related Patents & Patent Apps (July 2004)
The June compilation of selected search-related patents and patent apps is now available on ResourceShelfPLUS.
Highlights:
+ Google Awarded patent (and has patent app published)
“Techniques for finding related hyperlinked documents using link-based analysis”
+ A Google Patent Application Published
“Method for searching media”
+ Microsoft and IBM awarded several new search patents
+ AltaVista (now Yahoo) get a patent

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Health Care–United States
Source: US DOJ and FTC
New, Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text
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Parole–United States
Source: BJS
Probation and Parole in the United States, 2003
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Iraq
Source: Parliamentary Library, Australia
New, Research Brief, The implications of a US military drawdown in Korea
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Cell Phones–Driving–Research
Source: Brookings Institution
The Impact of Driver Cell Phone Use on Accidents
“This paper differs from previous research in two significant ways: first, we use a larger sample of individual-level data; and second, we test for selection effects, such as whether drivers who use cell phones are inherently less safe drivers, even when not on the phone.”
See: Full text working paper (PDF; 604 KB)
See: Appendix B (supplementary materials and greater detail on the data and estimations; PDF, 1.18 MB)
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Industrial Design Awards
Source: Industrial Designers Society of America
2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) Winners
The 130 winners of the 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) are listed in the categories listed below: Business & Industrial Products, Computer Equipment, Consumer Products, Design Explorations, Design Strategy, Digital Media & Interfaces, Environments, Furniture, Medical & Scientific Equipment, Packaging & Graphics, Student Designs, Transportation.” Lotsa cool stuff to look through here.

Professional Reading Shelf
Academic Libraries–North Carolina
Source: The Herald-Sun
University of North Carolina names new top librarian
“A Utah librarian has been picked to head UNC’s campus library system. Sarah C. Michalak, currently the director of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, will begin work in Chapel Hill Sept. 20. She succeeds Joe Hewitt, who recently stepped down after a 29-year career at Carolina.”
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Libraries
Source: The Herald (South Carolina)
Libraries struggle to keep up with demand for instant information
From the article, “It’s a common situation in public libraries locally and across the state. In the age of accessing information at the click of a button, most people want results five minutes ago. That means hardcover reference books — Encyclopedias, atlases and medical journals — often don’t budge from the shelves, even though they are a treasure trove of facts…Other information-seekers could also avoid research roadblocks if they just remembered to use one of the most accessible resources in the library — the librarian.”
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Academic Libraries–California
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz Library Gets Large Planned Gift
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National Libraries–Kazakhstan
Digitization Projects
IBM and Kazkommertzbank to Sponsor Kazak Rare Books Digitization
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Criminal Records–Maine
Source: Portland Press Herald
Paper trail entangles justice
From the article: “Only 10 percent of Maine’s criminal records are entered into the state’s two-year-old computer database. The rest – roughly 405,000 records – are still on paper. Because 90 percent of the state’s criminal records are still on paper, it can take clerks weeks to cull data from paper files and transpose it to the electronic database that prosecutors access.”

Briefly
+ Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Adds Bibliography Creation Tool
+ PAIS International Now Available On EBSCOhost
+ 192.com Makes 2004 UK Electoral Roll Available on the Web (Fee-Based)
+ nStein Will Provide Master Taxonomy/Categorization for Time Inc. Editorial Archive
+ FAST Search and Transfer Technology Being Used at NBC’s Olympics Web Site

Professional Reading Shelf
Preservation–United Kingdom
Source: The Independent
Treasures of the Digital Age at Risk of Being Lost Forever
“Books, scientific journals and films which are published only on the internet could be lost unless a system to store the digital material in permanent form is put in place, said Lynne Brindley the chief executive of the British Library.”
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Electronic Records–Management
Source: Federal Computer Week
Where Does the Recordkeeping Buck Stop?
“According to the report from the Electronic Records Policy Working Group, most experts already acknowledge that electronic records are poorly managed. To fix that, the report recommends user-training programs as a way of encouraging better records practices. Some electronic-records experts, however, have criticized the findings.”
See report: Barriers to the Effective Management of Government Information on the Internet and Other Electronic Records (PDF; 492 KB)
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Data Protection
Source: Computerworld
Protecting the Data Jewels
“While savvy companies are using business intelligence and CRM systems to identify their most profitable customers, there’s a genuine danger of that information falling into the wrong hands. Broader access to those applications and the trend toward employees switching jobs more frequently have made protecting customer lists an even greater priority. Fortunately, there are managerial, legal and technological steps you can take to help prevent, or at least discourage, departing employees from walking out the door with this vital information.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Population–Statistics and Demographics
Source: Richard Jensen, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois-Chicago
World Population: A Guide to the WWW
Extensive collection of annotated links organized by category:
+ Demographic Perspectives and General Resources
+ Overview of World Population: Countries, Regions
+ Sociological Data Sets, Techniques
+ Case Studies: Australia, Canada & USA
+ Case Studies: other
+ Fertility, Age Groups, Marriage, Women
+ Mortality, Morbidity, Health
+ Migration, Ethnicity, Minorities, Urbanization, Education; Class
+ Policy Perspectives
+ Other Recommendations; Teaching Tools
See also: The Internet Guide to Demography and Population Studies
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Religion–United States
Source: Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
American Religion Data Archive
“The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).”
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Drugs–United States–Database
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
National Drug Code Directory
“The directory consists of prescription and selected over-the-counter, insulin, domestic, and foreign drug products that are in commercial distribution in the United States. The products have been listed in accordance with the Drug Listing Act and applicable Code of Federal Regulations for submitting drug product information to the FDA.” Search by proprietary name, active ingredient, National Drug Code number or manufacturer’s name. Each entry includes: trade/proprietary name, National Drug Code (identifies label/vendor, product, trade package size), dosage form, active ingredient, strength and unit, package size and type.
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Terrorism/Warfare–Bibliographies
Source: Air University Libary
Two new bibliographies
+ Asymmetric Warfare
+ Suicide Terrorism

Government Documents–United States
Source: ALA Washington Office Newsletter
Justice Department asks depository libraries to destroy forfeiture documents
From the newsletter, “The Department of Justice has asked the Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of the materials listed below. DOJ claims that these are “training materials and other materials that the DOJ staff did not feel were appropriate for external use.” GPO/SuDocs is doing what it is required to do and did do a specific check with DOJ on this request – so that is not the issue. It is the case, however, that — as one attorney put it — these are the types of materials that law offices have on hand “to help people get their stuff back” from the government. Moreover, if law offices and law libraries have them, they are hardly internal use only.”

Web Search–Google
More Legal Issues For Google
First, we learn about trademark problems for Google’s shopping site, Froogle.
From the article, Google Inc.’s right to use the name “Froogle” for its online shopping service came into question Friday when an arbitration panel rejected the company’s challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com. The search-engine company’s loss has no immediate impact on its use of the name Froogle. But it means that the Froogles.com name will remain with Richard Wolfe, a disabled Holtsville, N.Y., carpenter who started the Web shopping site in March 2001, before Google introduced Froogle in December 2002.”
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Second, we read about Brian Reid, the former Director of Operations at Google, filing a law suit.
From the AP article, “…a lawsuit filed earlier this week by a recently fired Google manager offers a less flattering picture, contending the company has cultivated a culture that discriminates against older workers and fostered serious morale problems. The civil complaint, filed Tuesday in Santa Clara Superior court, alleges Mountain View-based Google fired Brian Reid, 54, as its director of operations in February 2004 because he didn’t fit in a culture emphasizing youth and energy. ‘…The firing cost Reid his annual salary of $200,000 and 119,000 Google stock options with an exercise price of 30 cents per share. Based on estimates of Google’s market value, Reid’s stock options probably would have been worth about $10 million after the company’s IPO. The suit seeks to recover lost compensation and punitive damages. …Reid’s lawsuit alleges that Google’s office are far from Utopian. The complaint says Google recruited Reid, a technology industry veteran, from his last job as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University West “to correct some very serious problems…with its work force,” citing management and morale problems among women in particular. The suit didn’t describe the nature of the trouble, but said that Reid cleaned things up. Reid never received a negative job review before his firing, the suit said.”

Web Search–MSN
Backlinks and the MSN Search Tech Preview
1) Backlink searching does work with the MSN Search Technology Preview. You’ll need to use http:// in the query. For example: link:http://www.gurunet.com.
2) More desktop search. A link to download (free) the email/desktop search software from Lookout that MS purchased last week has appeared on the MS Sandbox. This is unsupported “experimental” software. Thanks SEW Forums for the tip.

Web Search–Vivisimo
Search and Cluster the 9/11 Commission Final Report with Vivisimo
Keyword search the entire 500+ page document and then review the first 200 matching paragraphs in browsable folders. Another useful resource from Vivisimo.

News Search
MSN Newsbot Launches More Regional “Betas”
The personalized news search beta is online today with several new regional versions.
New Today:
+ Belgium
+ Germany
+ Ireland
+ Switzerland (French)
+ Switzerland (German)
+ US (Spanish)
+ Indonesia
+ Philippines
See Also: 17 Regional Versions of MSN Newsbot Are Now Online

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Politics–United States
Source: Feedster
Feedster Offers Compilation of Official DNC Bloggers
You can browse or limit your search to these “official” DNC bloggers. Another engine that focuses on the blogosphere, Technorati, has a relationship with CNN and will launch a politics site this weekend.
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Legal Resources–Australia–Databases
Source: The Federal Court of Australia
Just Released, The Native Title Infobase
From an email, “The NTIB covers all aspects of Australian native title and also includes selected material from other jurisdictions including New Zealand, United States, Canada, Africa, Asia and other countries with indigenous populations involved in disputes over access to their traditional lands.” Thanks to N.G. for the news tip.
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Japan–Research Tools
Source: Stanford University
J Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
“The J Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources is a topically arranged directory of online information resources in and about Japan, with focus on resources about Japan in the English language. The J Guide is an ongoing project of the US-Asia Technology Management Center (USATMC), School of Engineering, Stanford University.”
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Schools–Grades
Source: School Information Partnership
SchoolResults.org update
From the Press Release: “Parents in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Kansas, and Rhode Island can now check-in on their child’s school performance and test scores with the click of a mouse. Free, easily accessible data is now available online that compares all of a state’s public schools to each other so that parents, policy makers and community leaders can determine which schools are measuring up and which schools need help. By the end of 2004, data from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico will be available on the web site.
+ RS first brought you news about this resource in February
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Philosophy–Academic Programs–Rankings
Source: Blackwell Publishing; edited by Brian Leiter (Director of the Law & Philosophy Program, University of Texas-Austin)
The Philosophical Gourmet: A Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
“The rankings are primarily measures of faculty quality and reputation. Faculty quality and reputation correlates quite well with job placement, but students are well-advised to make inquiries with individual departments for complete information on this score.”
Direct to overall rankings
Methodology
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Iraq
Source: House of Commons Library
New, Full Text Report, Iraq: political and security issues at the handover
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Prisons–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
Profile of Jail Inmates, 2002
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Housing–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, Housing Growth
“Nevada led all states with a 13 percent increase in the number of homes over the 39-month period. It was followed by Arizona, Colorado and Georgia (all about 9 percent) and Utah (8 percent).” Tables in pdf and xls formats are available.
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Search Technology–FDA
Source: Federal Computer Week
FDA Expands Search Capabilities
“CDER is the division within the FDA that ensures the safety of new drugs, including marketed prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Agency officials have been using Convera Corp.’s RetrievalWare for a decade or more. Recently, they introduced a Web-based version and expanded the searchable data sources for the agency’s 2,500 scientific employees. Now reviewers can search as many as 200 file types and formats–Microsoft Corp. Word, image, PDF, HTML, Extensible Markup Language and others–that are stored in relational databases, document management systems, and repositories. The Convera technology also can be used to search video and audio files and documents in a variety of foreign languages….”
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Business–Surveys
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
The McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives (Reg req, free)
“The second McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives, with responses from almost 5,500 executives in 113 countries, finds business leaders still upbeat about the global economy, although their enthusiasm has waned a bit in the past four months. Executives in China and India are the most optimistic, while the confidence of those in other developing markets fell the furthest. Pricing is still under pressure, but companies around the world indicate that they will boost IT spending and hire new employees in the coming months.” Several charts. Thanks to Stuart B. at the ILR for the news tip.

Professional Reading Shelf
National Archives and Records Administration
Source: AP
National Archives Maintains Tight Security
From the article, “Pens are forbidden, pencils provided. Each scribbled piece of paper is checked, then stamped. Cell phones and jackets go into lockers. Prying eyes make sure nothing precious walks off. Researchers digging into the nation’s history at the National Archives are watched every step of the way. Despite precautions like those, former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger somehow came away with material he wasn’t supposed to have.”
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Librarians
Source: InfoShop.org (via Alternative Press Review)
New, Interview with Jenna Freedman on anarchist and zine librarians
From the article, “Radical and anarchist librarians recently met in Orlando, Florida as part of the annual meeting of the American Library Association. We interviewed several radical and anarchist librarians. Jenna Freedman is the Coordinator of Reference at Barnard College in New York City. She is active in the Social Responsibilities Round Table and many other ALA groups and activities. Infoshop News editor Chuck Munson interviewed Jenna Freedman near the end of the conference.”
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Preservation
Source: Innovations Report
Library at Illinois working to preserve 125 years of agricultural history
From the story, “Page by page, America’s rich agricultural history is being ravaged, not by boll weevils, not by locusts, not by critters of any kind, but by time. However, librarians at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are engaged in a fierce battle to save hundreds of aged publications–the core history and literature on Illinois agriculture, as they see it. Their weapon? Microfilm – miles of it. More than a century of endangered materials have accumulated and are in dire need of reclamation…With the selection process now nearly completed, the U. of I. Library soon will begin the next phase, the microfilming, thanks to a second NEH grant, which it received in June. Within weeks graduate students from Illinois’ library school will begin rounding up the targeted materials and preparing them for microfilming, which will be carried out by OCLC Digital Collection and Preservation Services in Bethlehem, Pa.”
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Public Libraries
Source: AP
Library Association seeks role in review of state Web sites
From the article, “South Dakota librarians want a role in Governor Rounds’ review of state government Web pages. He called for the study after he had the state library remove links for teenagers on its Internet site.”
See Also: More in this 7/15 Post
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Libraries
Source: IMLS
IMLS Launches Second Technology and Digitization Survey
From the announcement, “The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) launched its second survey on the Status of Technology and Digitization in the Nation’s Museums and Libraries this month. The first survey, published in May 2002, established baseline data that was helpful in clarifying how libraries and museums use technology and digitization, and in defining their future needs. The report is available online at: www.imls.gov/reports/techreports/intro02.htm”
The goal of the second survey is to update the baseline data and capture related information on new developments and trends.”
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Preservation
Source: The Huntsville Times
Library volunteers bring old county records online
From the article: “For the past three years, volunteers have been beavering away in the Madison County Records Center. Their mission? To clean, repair, and inventory thousands of documents dating back to 1810, then index them and put them online.”

Desktop Search
More Desktop Search Apps to Check Out
Just learned about these. More later.
1) SERGlobal Brain Personal
Concept search. Free trial. The company SER plays in the KM space also offers an enterprise version of the technology. It can also be downloaded from Download.com.
2) Archivarius 3000