Briefly
Eliyon Gets $7 Million in Venture Cap Funding
“Over 21 million executives, managers and professionals in 1,408,870 companies”…This database is built autonomously by crawling open web sources. A couple of demos are now available.
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SEC Announces Initiative to Assess Benefits of Tagged Data in Commission Filings

Resources of the Week
Two items for you this week:
History–Journals
Source: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, University of Illinois Press, National Academy Press
The History Cooperative
OK…so everything here is not free. The Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, the William and Mary Quarterly, and the Western Historical Quarterly are “gated” — e.g., for access, you must have organizational membership, a subscribing institutional affiliation and/or a paid individual subscription. (You can, however, view tables of contents.) But you will definitely find plenty of quality content that is freely available to everyone, including these journals:
+ Law and History Review (”America’s leading legal history journal, encompassing American, English, European, and ancient legal history….”)
+ The History Teacher (”…the most widely recognized journal in the United States devoted to the teaching of history in the secondary and higher education classroom…”)
+ Common-Place (”Common-place is not a traditional scholarly journal. It differs in content: we range across interests and disciplines, from art history to archaeology, from politics to parlor manners. It differs in tone: we aim to reach a broad audience of the educated public….”)
+ Labour/Le Travail (”…a bilingual semi-annual review dedicated to the broad, interdisciplinary study of Canadian labour history…”)
+ Journal of World History (”Devoted to historical analysis from a global point of view….”)
+ History of Education Quarterly (”Topics span the history of education, both formal and nonformal, including the history of childhood, youth, and the family.”)
+ Environmental History (”Insights from history, geography, anthropology, the natural sciences, and many other disciplines are included.”)
+ Oregon Historical Quarterly (”…one of the largest state historical society journals in the United States…a recognized and respected source for the history of the Pacific Northwest region…”)
+ Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (”…traditional national-level politics, social categories of race, class, ethnicity and gender, cities and regions, comparative transnational contexts, economic and business history, international relations, and every field of scholarly inquiry within its time period…”)
+ Indiana Magazine of History (”…documents and investigates the changing culture of Indiana and the Midwest…”)

All journals are searchable. A dropdown menu allows you to search all of them simultaneously or choose a title to search individually. Another dropdown menu lets you search by article type — e.g., articles, reviews, letters to the editor, etc.

Additional resources available here include:
+ “Booker T. Washington Papers Online is a free and fully searchable web tool designed to provide researchers with access to thousands of pages comprising the 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press.”
+ Historian’s Web Links — electronic journals, journal consortia, history department web pages, online teaching and research resources, links to archives around the world
+ Historical Map Collections
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Genetics–Law and Policy–Databases
Source: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
NHGRI Policy and Legislation Database
According to a press release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this new database “contains links to full-text copies of federal and state laws/statutes; federal legislative materials; and federal administrative and executive materials, including regulations, institutional policies and executive orders. Abstracts are also provided that summarize the government materials in lay language.” Topical coverage includes privacy of genetic information/confidentiality; informed consent; insurance and employment discrimination; genetic testing and counseling; and commercialization and patenting.

You can search this database by using dropdown menus to specify content type (e.g., statutes, laws, administrative materials, etc.), topic, and/or source (agency or U.S. state). Use shift/control keys to select multiple criteria. A keyword search option is available, but it searches only document titles. Boolean AND is assumed.

Alternately, you can search geographically, via an interactive U.S. map, which will display all materials in the database that are specific to a particular state or territory.

Notes the NIH press release: “This fall, NHGRI plans to add more categories of content to the database, primarily in the areas of foreign statutes and laws, foreign policy, treaty and international agreements, and policy material from international organizations.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Digitization
Source: ARL
ARL Endorses Digitization as an Acceptable Preservation Reformatting Option
From the announcement, “ARL has endorsed digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials. It encourages its members and others already engaged in digital reformatting and those interested in initiating these activities to make organizational and economic commitments to adhere to accepted standards and best practices in digital reformatting and to establish institutional policies to maintain digital products for the long term.”
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Libraries–Robotics
Source: BBC
Robots Get Bookish in Libraries
From the article: “Professor Pobil thinks libraries are the best place to start introducing robots into public spaces, or at least to start showing that the technology is possible and works. ‘A library is a semi-structured environment,’ Professor Pobil told BBC News Online. ‘You can meet other humans, but it is not like an airport or somewhere like that. So we think it is a good environment in which service robots are out there, working in a human environment, but it is still a controlled one.’”
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Internet
Source: New Scientist
Trillions More Internet Addresses May Emerge
“There are 13 root domain name servers that hold the master records for all such address mappings. But the range of numbers used under the current system, Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is slowly running out and about two thirds of the 4.3 billion numbers allocated have been used up so far. So a new set of rules, called IPv6, has been designed to take its place. IPv6 will increase the number of numerical addresses massively, increasing capacity to 340 billion, billion, billion, billion numbers.”
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Internet
Libraries–Censorship
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Library User Cutting ‘Bad’ Words From Popular Book Series
“Davis County library officials are facing a mystery that only Jessica Fletcher could solve. It seems a library patron has been busy crossing out the ‘hells’ and ‘damns’ in books based on the the popular ‘Murder, She Wrote’ TV series and changing them to ‘hecks’ and ‘darns.’”
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Scientific Publishing–Open Access
Source: The Scientist
Open access to US govt work urged
From the article, “A US House of Representatives committee has recommended that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide free access to all research it funds and asked the NIH to submit a plan by December 1, 2004, for how to implement the new policy in fiscal year 2005… ‘This is the policy that many of us have been advocating for some time,’ Peter Suber, from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., told The Scientist. ‘It’s an extraordinarily important step.’ The response from publishers, however, was less positive.”
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Hypertext
A New Issue of (Vol.5 No. 1) The Journal of Digital Information is Now Online
This “special issue” is titled, “Future Visions of Common-Use Hypertext.”
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Public Libraries
Source: AP
Providence library lays off 21 workers
“The Providence Public Library laid off 21 employees and will close the Central Library for a week while the staff adjusts to the changes. The library cut seven librarians on Friday-almost half of the staff at the Central Library-and 14 members of the support staff, The Providence Journal reported.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Democratic National Convention
Source: DNC
Selected Lists and Compilations
+ List of Past Conventions (1832-2000)
+ List of Keynote Speakers (1900-2000)
+ Most Notable Convention Speeches of the past
+ 2004 Platform Report (PDF)
+ Review of Past Conventions
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Politics–United States
Source: Feedster
Feedster Offers Searchable Compilation of Official DNC Bloggers
You can browse the latest postings or limit your search to these “official” DNC bloggers.
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Health Information
New Compilation from MEDLINEplus
+ MedlinePlus: Poison Ivy, Oak and Sumac
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Congressional Research Service
Source: CRS via Franklin Pierce School of Law
New/Updated CRS Reports
+ Spectrum Policy: Public Safety and Wireless Communications Interference
+ Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes
+ Copyright Law: Digital Rights Management Legislation
+ Wireless Technology and Spectrum Demand: Third Generation (3G) and Beyond
+ Internet: Status Report on Legislative Attempts to Protect Children from Unsuitable Material on the Web
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Labor–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Two New Reports
+ Local Employment Dynamics, A Profile Of Older Workers In Illinois
+ Local Employment Dynamics, A Profile Of Older Workers In West Virginia
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Nuclear Energy–United States
Source: DOE/EIA
New, Compendium of State Nuclear Profiles
“The first seven of a series of profiles of States having at least one commercial nuclear power plant are available. These summaries include both data and items of topical interest for a general audience. Topics covered range from the return to service of a reactor dormant since 1985 in Alabama, to the only whale named after a nuclear power plant (in Georgia). Data features include the following: nuclear capacity and generation, emissions levels, re-licensing, and market share. The current profiles are for Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia.”
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Music–Piracy
Source: International Federation for the Phonographic Industry
Commercial Piracy Report the Recording Industry – 2004
From the Press Release: “Global sales of pirate music have hit another record at 1.1 billion discs annually, but thanks to stepped up enforcement efforts the fake CD trade is spreading more slowly than in recent years. Music piracy remains a huge US$4.5 billion illegal business driven by organised crime, government apathy and corruption.”
Read the Report [PDF]
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Health Information–United States
Source: HHS
New, The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-Rich Health Care
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text

Documents in the News
Available at 11:30 am EDST:
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Final Report
The report is now available on the GPO site at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html. It will also be available on the Commission’s site at: http://www.9-11commission.gov. The transcripts /video of hearings remain available.
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New GAO Report
Military Operations: Fiscal Year 2004 Costs for the Global War on Terrorism Will Exceed Supplemental, Requiring DOD to Shift Funds from Other Uses
Abstract ||| Highlights ||| Full Report
See: War Costs Exceed Budget, Watchdog Panel Says (New York Times)

Briefly
+ + Search LexisNexis With Your Blackberry
+ Jane’s Information Group Selects Verity
+ ProQuest Releases New (Next) Interface (via Info Today NewsBreaks)
+ EBSCO Adds More H.W. Wilson Databases to EBSCOhost

Telephone Directories–Australia
Source: News.com.au
Australian Reverse Phone Directory Service Forced to Shut Down
From the article, “Law enforcement agencies that have been using a ‘reverse white pages’ directory found to breach Telstra’s copyright will face a more cumbersome and expensive procedure each time they search for details of phone number owners.”
See Also: Desktop Marketing Systems

Professional Reading Shelf
Librarianship
Source: CILIP
The July/August Issue of CILIP’s Library + Information update is Now Online
Articles Include:
+ The five purposes of metadata
+ Metadata and the e-GMS
On a Related Note: NISO’s new publication, Understanding Metadata, might also be of interest.
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Digital Information
The July 2004 Issue of First Monday is Online
Articles Include:
+ The educated blogger: Using Weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom
+ Escher Staircases on the World Wide Web
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Citation Analysis
Source: ISI
New Thomson Study Reveals Weak Correlation Between Self-Citations and Impact Factor
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Librarians–United Kingdom
Source: Managinginformation.com
Britain’s Librarians Vote For Most Annoying Noises!
From the article, “To celebrate this year’s Make a Noise in Libraries Week, the national charity, National Library for the Blind (NLB) have revealed the top ten most annoying noises as voted for by Britain’s librarians!”
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Digital Libararies
The July/August 2004 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Available
+ Commentary: Thirteen Ways of Looking at …Digital Preservation
+ The Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an Eprints Repository
+ The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe
+ The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Lewis Carroll
Source: Library of Congress Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Just Released, The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
From the announcement, “The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook is an original scrapbook kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. The scrapbook appears to have been kept by Carroll between the years 1855 and 1872, and contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, illustrations, and photographs. These items were personally selected and arranged by Carroll, giving us insight into his interests and collecting habits….The collection was processed with optical character recognition (OCR) software and hand-encoded in SGML to allow users to search the full text of the scrapbook for a word or phrase. This feature enhances the usefulness of the site by allowing users to search not only titles and authors, but also the full-text of items.”
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Business–Canada–Lists & Rankings
Source: Canadian Business
Just Released, The 2004 Canadian Business Technology 100
“…seventh annual ranking of Canada’s top technology companies…”
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General Counsel–Compensation Survey
Source: Corporate Counsel
Just Released, General Compensation Compensation Survey Survey
Top 100 are listed. More in this overview article.
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Internet Use–Children–United Kingdom
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science
Just Released, UK Children Go Online
From the Press Release: “Parents considerably underestimate the risks their children are experiencing online, according to new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science published today.”
Read the Press Release
Read the Executive Summary
Read the Full Report
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Drug Trafficking–Canada
Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Drug Situation in Canada – 2003
“This report describes illicit drug trafficking activity in Canada in 2003. It is based on information and intelligence gleaned from investigations and seizures conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and various Canadian agencies and departments involved in drug enforcement.”
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Iraq
Source: House of Commons Library
New, Full Text Report, Iraq: political and security issues at the handover

Search Tools
Blinkx Officially Launches
We provided an overview of this desktop search tool last month. Interesting idea (especially for desktop search) but it needs work.

Image Search
Learn About Atlas WISE: An Image Retrieval Tool from Canada
From the article, “The great paradox of the Web is that the more information is available about a given subject, the more difficult it is to locate the information you need in a reasonable time,’ says computer scientist Dr. Djemel Ziou…But before you drown in all of this information, you should know that a new search engine, Atlas WISE, can help you search and retrieve photos, images and videos on the Web, in databases and digital libraries in no time. ResourceShelf will have more about Atlas WISE in the near future.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
National Archives–United States
Source: NARA
Two New Databases Added to Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System
1) The Homeless Assistance Management Information System (HAMIS), 1987-1994
This HAMIS series contains information on the:
Organizations sponsoring projects to assist the homeless
Types of assistance provided
Characteristics of homeless receiving assistance
Special conditions on the grant to assist the homeless
Amount of funding and its sources
HAMIS records are organized by project number, and contain data taken from the application or added during the evaluation process.

2) World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946
The World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File contains records of approximately nine million men and women who enlisted in the United States Army, including in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Although incomplete, the records contain data for a majority of the enlistments in the United States Army during World War II including:
Serial number
Name
State and county of residence
Place and Date of enlistment
Grade
Army branch
Term of enlistment
Longevity
Nativity (place of birth)
Year of birth
Race
Education
Civilian occupation
Marital status
The bulk of the records conform to the format found on War Department Adjutant General’s Office (WD AGO) Form 317 (Enlistment Card) for the period ca. 1941-1945, and WD AGO Form 372 (Enlistment Card) for ca. 1945-1946. Additional records contain data originally recorded on Enlisted Reserve Corps (E.R.C.) Statistical cards.
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Firearms–United States
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Inspections of Firearms Dealers by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
From the report: “The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) assessed the effectiveness of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program for inspecting Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) to ensure that they are complying with federal firearms laws and regulations. We reviewed the frequency and quality of the ATF’s different types of FFL inspections; how the ATF manages its Inspector resources; how the ATF selects FFLs for inspection; and the regulatory enforcement actions taken by the ATF against FFLs who violate federal firearms laws.”
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Economics–Women
Source: Institute For Women’s Policy Research
Women’s Economic Status in the States
From the report: “Women have made tremendous progress toward gaining economic equality during the last several decades. Nonetheless, throughout the United States, women earn less, are less likely to own a business, and are more likely to live in poverty than men.”
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New Bibliographies from Air University Library
Internet resources, books, documents, periodicals
Peacekeeping
Covers:
- General Information
- Costs
- Military Aspects
- Nation Building
- Recent Peacekeeping Missions(Afghanistan, Balkans, Iraq)
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North Korea: Selected Online Resources
Covers:
- Background Information
- Kim Jong-il
- Armed Forces
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- United States Policy and North Korea
- North Korea – South Korea Relations
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Effective Writing Resources
Books and Internet resources
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Medical Journals
HIV/AIDS
Source: Medscape
eJIAS: eJournal of the International AIDS Society
From the site: “The International AIDS Society and Medscape/WebMD are pleased to introduce eJIAS: eJournal of the International AIDS Society, a new, peer-reviewed, primary-source Web-based medical journal dedicated to the publication and dissemination of vital HIV/AIDS research conducted in developing countries. This inaugural issue of eJIAS comprises the complete official abstracts of the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 July, 2004.”
+ Search the Abstracts from the Conference
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Missing Children–United States
AMBER Alerts
New Portal, AMBER Alert 911
“The AMBER Alert 911 Web portal is a tool for law enforcement to aid in swiftly distributing information about an abducted child and the suspected perpetrator to other law enforcement agencies, the media, members of the public and other stakeholders.” More about the site in this announcement.

RSS
Several Wall Street Journal “Speciality Sites” Add RSS Feeds
Here are the urls you’ll need:
CareerJournal.com
CollegeJournal.com
OpinionJournal.com
RealEstateJournal.com
StartupJournal.com

Professional Reading Shelf
Scholarly Publishing–United Kingdom
Source: Science and Technology Committee, House of Commons
Final Report Scientific Publications: Free for all?
10th Report (HTML Version) (PDF Version)
Vol. 2 Oral and Written Evidence (PDF Version) (HTML Version Coming Soon)
See Also: Report on Release of Document via ManagingInformation.com
See Also: Comment from JISC
See Also: Comment from BioMed Central
See Also: Comment from The British Library
See Also: Report from The Scientist
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Digital Reference
Source: SIGIR Forum
Question Taxonomies for Digital Reference
A new paper by Jeffery Pomerantz.
See Also: Additional Articles from the New Issue of SIGIR Forum
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Library and Information Science
Source: IFLA
Just Released, International Library and Information Science Research: A Comparison of National Trends
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Digital Archives
Source: National Library of Australia
“…and then there’s the rest of the stuff…” The role of the PANDORA Archive
Presentation by Paul Koerbin, Supervisor, Digital Archiving Section, to the Australasian Sound Recording Association 2004 Conference “Sounding Out a Cultural Heritage”, 13 May 2004
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RFID
Source: Australian IT
RFID opens library’s new chapter
From the article: “The National Library of Australia is seeking a new book-detection system, preferably one that uses radio frequency identification. The national library has issued a request for proposals to replace a book security system for its collection of more than seven million items. The collection’s security is foremost, but the library also hopes a new system will include features such as automated stocktaking.”
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Presidential Libraries
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
FDR Papers Are an Open Book
“Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the first of the nation’s 10 presidential libraries in 1939 when he donated his 15,000-volume private library and 16 acres of his family’s estate in Hyde Park…. Since then, authors and scholars have flocked to Hyde Park to make use of the voluminous papers and books stored in the archives of the FDR library. In the last two years, 55 new books on Roosevelt have been published, the authors all having conducted research in the FDR library archives either in person or via e-mail, Internet or telephone….”

Web Search
Two Articles from the SF Chronicle
1) All About at Ask Jeeves
2) A Look at Some Speciality Search Tools
Almost all of these tools have been mentioned at one time on ResourceShelf. Some are real favorites like Topix and Vivisimo.
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Web Search–Yahoo
Yahoo Completes Roll-Out of Its Own Search Technology
Yahoo-built search technology is now being utilized on its 25 properties. The final Yahoo site to implement the technology was Yahoo! Taiwan.
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Web Search
Source: Digital Media Europe
BBC may launch low-cost broadband, search engine
From the article, “Mr [Ashley] Highfield [Director of New Media at the BBC] also outlined plans to launch a BBC standalone search engine that would compete with Google and others.” (Thanks A.B. for the news tip)

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries–United States
Source: IMLS
IMLS Seeks Comments on Impact of Museum and Library Services Analysis
From the announcement, “The reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act creates new authority for IMLS to carry out and publish analyses of the impact of museum and library services. The Act stipulates that these analyses should be conducted in ongoing consultation with stakeholders, including “State Library Administrative Agencies; state, regional, and national library and museum organizations; and other relevant agencies.”
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Distance Learning–Bibliographies
Library Services For Distance Learning: The Fourth Bibliography
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Librarians–Distance Learning
Source: E-LIS
The changing role of librarians and the online learning environment
From the abstract: “The online teaching and learning environment arising in response to the need for distance and flexible education provides new opportunities for librarians to work with students to develop their information literacy skills. At the University of Waikato librarians are included as information coaches in the virtual classroom for several online courses. Their role is to provide students with guidance in the processes underlying tertiary learning. The collaborative relationship between students, teacher and librarian in this new environment provides students with a greater understanding of how the research (or assignment) process works.”
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Academic Libraries–United States–Databases
Source: NCES
Compare Academic Libraries Updated with 2002 Data
“NCES’ Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) produces descriptive statistics on about 3,700 academic libraries in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the outlying areas of the United States. This includes data on the libraries in the entire universe of accredited degree-granting institutions of higher education and on the libraries in non-accredited institutions with a program of four years or more. This tool allows users to create reports which compare one library of interest to other libraries for fiscal year 2002.”
See Also: The Public Library Database Has Also Been Updated with 2002 Data and New Features
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Archives–Professional Organizations
Society of American Archivists Issues Issues Statement on the Renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act
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RFID
Source: Dallas Business Journal
Texas Instruments helps Vatican Library keep track of books
From the article: “The Vatican Library in Rome, Italy, has adopted Texas Instruments Corp.’s 13.56 MHz, ISO 15693 radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to identify and manage its extensive two-million volume collection, Dallas-based TI said Friday.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
North Korea–Official Web Sites
Source: Reuters
New Web Site: N.Korea Opens Pilot Web Portal, Glitches Remain
From the article, “Reclusive North Korea has been testing its first Web portal for the past month, but so far visitors have not been able to access the entertainment, shopping and free email facilities it promises. The Naenara (”My Country”) site at www.kcckp.net is based in Germany, and links to information on North Korean politics, tourism and trade, along with its official media and “real time” music and movies decorate the home page.
See Also: Direct to the New North Korean Web Portal
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Education–United States–Statistics
Source: NCES
School District Analysis System (SDAS)
“This application allows users to view summary state and national tables of school district data from the 2000 School District Special Tabulation (STP2). The system is made up of a set of crosstabulations permitting users to specify pre-selected row topics and column topics. Column topics provide a unique distribution of school district data grouped by the indicated characteristics (e.g., percent minority, school district size, etc.). The enrollment column topic is essentially a rearrangement of the state and U.S. data provided in the Census 2000 data link.”
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Military–Families
Source: National Military Family Association
Serving the Home Front: An Analysis of Military Family Support from September 11, 2001 through March 31, 2004
From the site: “Since September 11, 2001, when the Global War on Terrorism began, the operational tempo (OPTEMPO) of the uniformed services has increased dramatically. Military families have faced daunting challenges in maintaining a stable home life while supporting their servicemembers. As servicemembers have gone to war, so too have families and support providers.”
Read the full report
Read the Executive Summary
Websites cited in the study

Professional Reading Shelf
Health Information
Source: The Lancet
Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?
From the article: “Universal access to information for health professionals is a prerequisite for meeting the Millennium Development Goals and achieving Health for All. However, despite the promises of the information revolution, and some successful initiatives, there is little if any evidence that the majority of health professionals in the developing world are any better informed than they were 10 years ago. Lack of access to information remains a major barrier to knowledge-based health care in developing countries.”

and while we’re on the topic of health info…
PubMed Central: New Journals Participating and New Content Added

Briefly
+ xrefer Continues to Add New Content, This Time The Collins World Atlas Gazetteer
+ The NY Times Real Estate Section Now Offers Community Profile Data for NYC Metropolitan Area
+ RealEstateJournal.com (from the Wall Street Journal) Adds a Community Profile Database from BestPlaces.com
+ The Economist Intelligence Unit relaunches “Industry Forecasts”
+ Content from World News Connection Added to Dialog Newsroom

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Economics
Source: New School University
Schools of Thought
Group of charts offering links to reference material about various schools of economic thought. Four main headings:
+ Schools of Political Economy
+ Neoclassical Schools
+ Alternative Schools
+ Thematic Schools
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Railroads–United States–History
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries
Links to Railroad History Resources in the United States
Annotated links to genealogical information, institutions holding railroad source material, railroad museums and societies, railroad-oriented photographic collections.
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Ethics
Source: Lawrence M. Hinman, Values Institute, University of San Diego
Ethics Updates
“Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.”
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Politics–Research
Source: Richard Jensen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Guide to Political Research On-Line
Cornucopia of links to: teaching resources, libraries and bibliographies, international politics, data/demographics/criminal justice, U.S. Federal Government, polls/elections/current politics, public administration, U.S. presidents, online maps, minorities, women, terrorism, think tanks, unions, state and local politics, more.