Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Sports–Cliches
Source: TicketRetriever.com
The Sports Cliche List
“The Sports Clich� List was assembled from a detailed survey of numerous player and coach interviews, pre-game, post-game, and halftime analyses, sports radio commentaries, television sportscasts, and printed sports reports.”
See also: Baseball Basics: Lingo (mlb.com)

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–Internet
Source: Information Use Management and Policy Institute, College of Information, Florida State University
Public Libraries and the Internet 2004: Survey Results and Findings (PDF; 599 KB)
“Overall, the survey results show high levels of public access computing in public libraries but signs of cracks in the quality of service and the ability to sustain programs. The data also highlight disparities among rural and urban systems, in which rural libraries are more likely to have slower connectivity; fewer workstations to meet demand; and fewer training opportunities compared to urban libraries. At the same time, patrons in high poverty areas have access to the highest levels of connectivity, bandwidth, and wireless access, as high poverty outlets tend to be part of urban library systems. By contract, high poverty libraries also indicate that they consistently cannot meet the demand for public access workstations.”
See: Almost All Libraries in U.S. Offer Free Access to Internet (The New York Times)
See: Public libraries trying to untangle Web (St. Petersburg Times)
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Source: O’Reilly Network
Historical Maps Online
“David Rumsey writes about his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps of the Americas and the world, many of which he has made available free to the public in an online map library.”
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Reading
Source: Canadian Heritage Industry Development Publishing Policy and Programs
Canada: Reading And Buying Books For Pleasure: 2005 National Survey
Note: Section 1.11 discusses libraries; 1.12 reports on searching for books online.
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Freedom of Information–United Kingdom
Good start for FoI
“Assistant information commissioner Gerrard Tracey was speaking at a seminar at GCexpo2005 on 21 June 2005. He summed up the early signs of the act’s effect since it came into force on 1 January 2005. ‘The early indicators are that we are seeing a culture of change,’ he said. ‘The FoI is about changing the culture to one of open government, and I think we can see it beginning to happen.’”
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Metadata
Government Printing Office
Source: GPO
GPO Releases Report on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications (Final Version)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Philanthropy–United States
Source: Foundation Center (via DocuTicker.com)
Highlights of the Foundation Center’s Foundations Yearbook (PDF; 468 KB)
“Giving by the nation’s over 66,000 grantmaking foundations slipped 0.4 percent to $30.3 billion in 2003, following a 0.2 percent dip in the prior year. Nonetheless, foundations in the Northeast raised their level of giving 3.1 percent in the latest year, led by strong growth in funding by foundations based in Maine and New Jersey. Similarly, grantmakers in theWest managed a 1.3 percent increase in their giving, buoyed by gains in giving by foundations in Wyoming and California. In contrast, Midwestern and Southern foundations registered declines of 5.4 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively. By share of overall giving, the Northeast continued to lead, followed by the South. The West ranked third, surpassing the Midwest for the first time on record.”
See also: The State of Foundation Giving, 2005 (PDF; 336 KB)
Note: Complete Yearbook may be purchased from the Foundation Center’s Marketplace — $45.00.
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Population–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, Geographic Mobility: 2004
“A series of 26 tables on the 39 million people who moved between 2003 and 2004. The moving rate of 14 percent of the population continues a gradual, long term decline in residential mobility among U.S. residents since the late 1940s. Information is presented at the national and regional levels, along with characteristics of movers, such as by race and Hispanic origin, age, marital status, educational attainment, labor force status, occupation and industry group, income and poverty status and reason for moving.”
See Also: Archive of Past Reports

Search Briefs
+ MSN Adds Direct Answers With Sports Info
+ More on Grokker’s Visual Search Results

Briefly
+ LexisNexis Demonstrates Congressional Research Digital Collection
+ New Round of Enhancements for WilsonWeb Database Service

Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

Personally, I can’t ever seem to get very far away from the computer, but maybe you’re the kind of person who actually has a life. And the time, money, and sense of adventure to plan a really neat vacation. If you’re looking for ideas, we’ve got an excellent site for you this week.

Events–Database
Source: Whatsonwhen Limited
Whatsonwhen.com
Here we have the mother of all travel and entertainment calendars, brought to you by a UK company that specializes in content services for the T&E industry. There are so many ways to search and browse this thing that you can lose yourself for hours. Let’s take a closer look.

On the home page, you’ve got three columns. In the center, you’ll find links to highlighted events, a “Video of the Week” (Rio Carnival, anyone?), a business event, a couple of specialized guides, and some location-based features. You’ll find links to all available guides in the lefthand column, about halfway down:
+ Leisure Events Guide (a low graphicsversion is available)
+ Business Events Guide in calendar format. Mouse over any event and read all about it at the top of the page.
+ Video Guides. See such things as the Pamplona Bull Run, the Bogota (Columbia) Film Festival and Castrillo de Murcia’ss annual baby jumping festival. (Says here that no babies are actually harmed.) There are also a few location-based video guides, for Jordan, London and New York City.
+ A Globetrotter Guide takes you on a year-long trip around the world, stopping at different events appropriate to the calendar. (We should all be so lucky.)

The search and browse tools are in the righthand column of the home page. At the top is a small interactive map. Click on a continent and browse events by calendar date, interest (e.g., arts, family, music, sports…) or country. Scroll down to the middle of the column and you’ll see a Featured Destinations form that allows you to browse by continents, countries, regions or cities; choose via the dropdown menus. After this, you’ll find the main search tool. Choose a theme/country from the dropdown menus, and/or type a location/keyword into the text boxes. If you’ve already blocked out a couple of weeks on your own calender, you can also limit your search by date range.

We especially enjoyed browsing events via the Themes menu at the bottom of the right-hand column. If you’re anything like us, you clicked on Bizarre right off the bat. Maybe we’ll catch you at the Summer Redneck Games in East Dublin (GA) on July 9, or the Sauna Bathing World Championships, in Heinola, Finland, on August 2013. Looks like we’re already too late to make plans for the Kirkpinar Oiled Wrestling Festival, slated for June 24-30 in Edirne, Turkey.

If you like, you can register here (free) and make a personalized home page, compile a scrapbook of events and/or set up a search links page that allows you to monitor the database for certain types of events. You can also choose to subscribe to an e-mail newsletter. (Scroll down to the bottom of the left-hand column.) You can even submit an event to the database — also free — although the folks who run the site are the final arbiters of what gets included.

If, in spite of all this, you feel a need for additional events calendars, take a look at these:

+ EventJar (RS post from 7/2004)
+ artnet — art auctions calendar
+ Festival Network Online — “Music festivals, craft shows, art festivals & fairs in the US and Canada”
+ FestivalFinder — “the latest details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America”
+ Festivals.com — “the Internet’s largest Festival and Event resource”
+ FilmFestivals.com — self-explanatory
+ NASA Space Calendar — launches and other space-related events
+ Pollstar: The Concert Hotwire — “Now Showing: 6,985 Artists 59,017 Events”
+ TechWeb Tech Calendar — “Any day, any IT trade show, anywhere in the world”
+ TSNN — “The ultimate trade show, exhibition and exhibitor directory”
+ Chase’s Calendar of Events (A Reference “Classic”)

Professional Reading Shelf
Information Industry–Outsell
Source: San Francisco Business Journal
Outsell: Providing targeted information from all over the map
A profile of information industry market research company. “Today, Outsell’s annual revenue is approaching $7 million and growing at a 15 percent to 20 percent clip.”
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Digital Information–Conferences
Source: UKOLN
1st International Digital Curation Conference
“Registration for the conference is now open. The Conference will be of interest to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data from researchers and curators through to policy makers and funders.”
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Vietnamese Newspapers–Preservation
Source: Cornell University
Microfilm project preserves war-era Vietnamese newspapers
“A large collection of yellowing newsprint documenting Vietnam’s war era is being archived for posterity, thanks to cooperative microfilming projects undertaken by Cornell University’s Carl A. Kroch Library and other institutions…. The ongoing work is part of the Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM), established in 1970 and administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago. SEAM’s holdings — including dissertations, manuscript collections and hundreds of different historic newspapers from every country in Southeast Asia — are available for loan to CRL member libraries and universities for research purposes.”
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Public Libraries–U.S.
Source: Various
Public Library Briefs
Los Angeles: County library windfall cheered
Kansas City: KC library plans cuts in services
Bloomfield Township, Michigan: Library collections poised to stretch out
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Digital Archives
Source: Technology Review
MIT’s DSpace Explained
Includes useful graphic.

Search Briefs
+ Cool! MSN Search Adds New Advanced Search Options
We’ve posted a list on ResourceShelfPLUS.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Air Force Academy–Religious Intolerance
Source: Headquarters, United States Air Force
Just Released: The Report of the Headquarters Review Group Concerning the Religious Climate at the U.S. Air Force Academy (PDF; 4.2 MB)
“The HQ USAF team found a religious climate that does not involve overt religious discrimination, but a failure to fully accommodate all members’ needs and a lack of awareness over where the line is drawn between permissible and impermissible expression of beliefs.” (via DocuTicker)
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Supercomputers–Lists & Rankings
Source: Top500
Just Released, 25th Edition of TOP500 List
The fastest supercomputers in the world. “In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high-performance computing, the 25th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released today…”
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HIPPA
Source: askSam
Now Available: HIPAA Legislation in Searchable askSam Database
Another searchable database from askSam. Free. “The text from HIPAA is available in a searchable, hypertext-linked askSam database. The individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents in the database. This allows you to easily locate sections pertaining to specific topics.”
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Travel–Health
Source: CDC
New Edition Available: Health Information for International Travel, 2005-2006 (Yellow Book)
Also possible to build a customized report using this interactive tool.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission–Documents–Public Access
Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
NRC Completes Restoration of Additional Documents to Public Access via its On-Line Library
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Friday completed the restoration of public access to an additional 70,000 documents through its on-line library, ADAMS, after conducting a security-sensitivity review. Members of the public are now able to access these documents, involving administrative, contractual, research, and other documents not related to a specific licensee, which were removed from the public library on Oct. 25 of last year. The documents may be viewed and retrieved through the NRC’s Web-based ADAMS at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html or by using CITRIX software at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/citrix-based.html. Using CITRIX allows earlier access, by perhaps a day, but requires downloading the appropriate software.”
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File Sharing
Source: Federal Trade Commission (via DocuTicker)
FTC Issues Report on Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
“Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology offers significant benefits but also poses risks to consumers who use it, according to a Federal Trade Commission staff report issued today. The staff report, ‘Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protection and Competition Issues,’ analyzes the consumer protection, competition, and intellectual property issues that were discussed at the FTC’s December 2004 workshop on P2P file sharing. The report recommends that industry and government take steps so that consumers receive the many benefits from this technology while avoiding the risks that it creates.”
Summary Direct to Full Text

Briefly
+ NewsGator Technologies Introduces Business IQ, the Premium Industry Intelligence Service, Delivered with Factiva’s Editor’s Choice
+ Elsevier’s ScienceDirect passes seven million article mark
+ Xrefer and Paratext Team Up for Library Reference Delivery

Professional Reading Shelf
Scholarship
Source: ARL Bimonthly Report
The Global Record: Understanding Its Use and Ensuring Its Future For Scholarship
A new article by Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Collections & International Programs, Yale University.
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OCLC
Source: OCLC
Three New Research Projects from OCLC Research
You’ll read about:
+ Curiouser
“Curiouser is an approach to making the best use of data about items in WorldCat and a user interface for exploring and selecting works and items.”
+ MetaWiki
“This project leverages open standards, open-source software and existing resources to extend the Wiki model to support the creation and maintenance of structured data.”
+ Data Mining
“…data-mining projects produce valuable intelligence, mined from WorldCat and other data sources, tailored to the needs of those who manage information resources and those who use them.”
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Libraries–Law Enforcement–Privacy
Source: American Library Association
American Library Association (ALA) Announces Preliminary Findings of Study Measuring Law Enforcement Activity in Libraries
“The American Library Association (ALA) today released the findings of a comprehensive survey demonstrating the significant impact on the public of federal law enforcement activity in America’s libraries. Based on the survey findings, ALA believes that public anxiety and librarian concern over law enforcement activity in libraries is justified. Survey results indicate a total of at least 137 legally executed requests by federal and state/local law enforcement in both academic and public libraries have taken place since October, 2001-63 legally executed requests for records in public libraries and 74 legally executed requests in academic libraries.”

Scholarly Publishing–Citation Reports
Source: ISI
+ Science in Japan, 2000-04
+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Sport Sciences
+ Aerospace Engineering: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04
+ U.S. Universities with High Concentrations in Psychology, 2000-04
+ The Hottest Research of 2003-04

Search Briefs
+ More Satellite Imagery Available from Google Maps
Even more info here.
+ MSN Launches Local Search Tool and Aerial Maps
+ Publishers’ Group Requests that Google Stop Scanning Copyrighted Material for 6 Months
“The Association of American Publishers has sent a letter to Google requesting at least a six-month moratorium on scanning copyrighted library materials for the Google Library project which is a part of Google Print.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
E-Government–Australia
Source: FCW
E-gov grows down under
“No longer representing a minority population, 39 percent of Australians contacted their government via the Internet over the past 12 months, a new Australian government study has found.” A full-text copy of the study from the Australian Government Information Management Office is available here (PDF).
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Webcams–United States–Survey
Source: Pew Internet
The USA and the Webcam
“One out of six American adult internet users (16%) have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. That translates into roughly 21 million people who have viewed material on web cams. And on any given day, about two million internet users are checking out remote places or people by using webcams.”
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Supreme Court–United States
New Web Page, Foreign Translations–Supreme Court Publications
“This page will contain links to translations of these publications as they become available.” Only one doc available at the moment.
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Quotations–Films–List
Source: BBC News/American Film Institute (AFI)
Frankly, Rhett has top film quote
“Clark Gable’s quote beat Marlon Brando’s line from 1972’s The Godfather – ‘I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse’ – into second place.”
Top 100 Quotes (via Yahoo! News; AFI server not accessible Wednesday morning)

Professional Reading Shelf
Information Industry–infoUSA
Source: Information Today
The “New” OneSource
An article by Paula Hane. “Since its acquisition a year ago by infoUSA, business information provider OneSource (http://www.onesource.com) has directed an all-out effort to implement new technology and take advantage of the resources of its new parent. Now remade to be lean, streamlined, and nimble, OneSource has just announced a major upgrade to its flagship business information product, Business Browser. It has also introduced two new add-on modules. The new version of US Business Browser adds in-depth profiles on more than 160,000 private companies and expands core coverage from 300,000 to 600,000 U.S. and Canadian companies. The new add-on modules are Small Company Spectrum, which provides basic information on more than 13 million additional small companies, and a Credit Insights module that provides risk assessment indicators for all 13 million companies.”
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Librarians
Source: AP
Nevada Librarians Seek Reading Record
“Six Nevada librarians hope to earn a place in the Guinness Book of World Records after reading aloud for 100 consecutive hours.”
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Academic Libraries–United Kingdom
Rare Books
Source: The Guardian
University library dumps rare books
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National Archives–U.S.
Source: NARA
National Archives Recovers Treasure Trove of Kennedy Materials
“Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced that the National Archives and Records Administration, on behalf of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, has reached a settlement with the estate of Robert L. White for the return of thousands of pages of documents and artifacts from the presidential and pre-presidential period of John F. Kennedy’s career as a public servant.”
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Virtual Reference
Source: OCLC
New: OCLC launches ‘Ask a Librarian’ pilot in Open WorldCat
The reference service pilot will last at least six months.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Congressional Research Service
Source: CRS via FPC
New or Updated Reports
+ The United States and Europe: Current Issues
+ State and Local Homeland Security: Unresolved Issues for the 109th Congress
+ Protecting Our Perimeter: “Border Searches” Under the Fourth Amendment
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Tourism–United States–Halls of Fame
Source: Fodors.com
Check Out America’s Halls of Fame
“If you’ve already gambled at a Las Vegas casino, posed with Mickey at Disney World, and sampled the splendors of Yosemite, consider something a little different, like a pilgrimage to one of America’s many halls of fame. The choices are even more diverse than you might think. Strippers, inventors, bowlers, and gospel singers all have halls of fame, and the famous and unknown featured in these pages are equally exceptional. The halls they grace are guaranteed to yield a highly entertaining and educational experience.”
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Alzheimer’s Disease–Bibliography
Source: University of North Carolina Institute on Aging
Social and Behavioral Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia in Diverse Populations: An Online Bibliography
“The social and behavioral research related to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia reflects the diversity of the dementia patient and caregiving experience as well as the complexity of interventions and study approaches for this population. This online bibliography offers a comprehensive snapshot of the research. A myriad of articles are presented that highlight the unique experiences of the assortment of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups across the globe. While some studies focus on the caregiver, others center on the caregiving recipient. Patient-centered research has focused on every point of the dementia experience continuum, ranging from risk factors and diagnosis to treatment and quality of life. Many of the articles focus on the research process, including interventions and outreach programs, study recruitment and retention issues, and evaluation tools.”
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Knitting Patterns–Tool
Source: microRevolt
KnitPro
“knitPro is a web application that translates digital images into knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns. Just upload jpeg, gif or png images of whatever you wish — portraits, landscapes, logos — and it will generate the image pattern on a graph sizable for any fiber project.” Cool.

Search Briefs
+ The Digitization Of The Library
Gary offers a few comments about an article from MSNBC.
+ Browse and Search CNN Video For Free

Briefly
+ OPACS: Sirsi and Dynix Announce Merger, New Company is Named SirsiDynix
+ Full Text Books Online: ebrary Adds 500 Titles to Public Library Complete, Announces New Pricing Structure (PDF)
+ Groxis Opens Deep Web to Business, School

Professional Reading Shelf
Library & Information Technology Association
Source: LITA
LITA Launches New Blog
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Library Workers–Australia–Statistics
Source: ALIA
The Australian Library Labour Market
“Australia has almost ten million employees. The Australian Bureau of Statistics and Department of Employment classify more than 27,000 as library workers.”
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Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: MLA
Raising the Profile of Libraries and Books in Initial Teacher Training — Literature Matters
The full text of “Mapping the current and potential relationships between Initial Teacher Training providers and Museums, Archives and Libraries” is also available.
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Health Informatics
Source: NLM
$3.68 million grant to boost public health “Informatics”
“Without strong systems for gathering, using, and sharing information, federal, state and local public health offices cannot adequately detect disease outbreaks, notify the public of emerging health problems or promote sound health practices. Recognizing the importance of this issue, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will administer a $3.68 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop tomorrow’s public health leaders in the science of public health informatics.”
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Digital Libraries
The June 2005 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Articles Include:
+ A Standards-based Solution for the Accurate Transfer of Digital Assets
+ Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories
+ The Open Collections Program at Harvard University
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Government Information–United States
Infopreneur
Source: City Paper
Matthew Lesko: The Culler of Money
“Matthew Lesko has built a 25-year career of peddling free government information on a simple proposition: Ask what your country can do for you.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
France–Economics
Source: OECD
Just Published, Highlights: Economic Survey of France 2005
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Drugs–United States
Source: Congressional Budget Office (via DocuTicker)
New Report, Prices for Brand-Name Drugs Under Selected Federal Programs
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Spam
Source: Federal Trade Commission
Subject Line Labeling as a Weapon Against Spam: A CAN-SPAM Report to Congress
“In a report to Congress required by the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (’CAN-SPAM Act’), the Federal Trade Commission says it does not recommend requiring unsolicited commercial e-mail to include a label in the subject line as a means to reduce spam.”
Highlights Direct to Full Text (PDF)
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Occupational Safety–United States–Statistics
Source: BLS
Just Released, Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
This new version revises selected industry employment data in several of the tables.
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Web Browsers–Firefox
Source: PC Magazine
The Top Firefox Tips and Tricks