Briefly
H.W. Wilson Partners with Bowker: Wilson’s Standard Catalog Data Powers the New Bowker’s Book Analysis System
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+ infoUSA Discontinues Participation in Meritbase

Professional Reading Shelf
Music Archives–Digitization Projects
Preservation
Source: Monterey Country Herald
New life for old jazz tapes
“Recordings of live performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and others at the Monterey Jazz Festival are in danger of deteriorating. To help preserve these recordings and others from 1958 to 1969, the Grammy Foundation has given the jazz festival a $40,000 grant for its Archive Preservation Project to digitally reformat and catalog the archives, in partnership with Stanford University.”
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Public Libraries
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Book returned to library 78 years late

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Online Calendars
Source: Reuters
A Look at Online Calendar Services
Includes an intro to Trumba.com, a new service. Two month free trial available. Worth a look.
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Health–Web Resources
Source: MedlinePlus
New MedlinePlus Topic Compilation
+ Germs and Hygiene
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Red Tide
Source: NOAA
NOAA Establishes New England Red Tide Information Web Site

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries–Marketing
Source: Chris Olson
The June Issue of Chris Olson’s Marketing Treasures Newsletter is Online

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Celebrities–Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
The Celebrity 100, 2005
“The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities.”
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Florida–Digital Library
Source: Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services
Florida on Florida
“Florida On Florida is a catalog of digital materials related to Florida. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts. The materials in Florida On Florida come from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies throughout Florida. To see a list of the collections included, click ‘Collections‘ on the menu near the top of this page.”

Search Briefs
+ Privacy issues with Google library search
See Also: Google Library Digitization Agreement With University Of Michigan Now Available

Professional Reading Shelf
National Library of Medicine
Presentations From the 2005 National Library of Medicine Update and Online Users’ Meeting
+ NLM Update PowerPoint Presentations
+ NLM Theater PowerPoint Presentations
+ NLM Online Users’ Meeting 2005: Remarks
+ NLM Online Users’ Meeting 2005: Questions and Answers
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Libraries and Librarians
Source: RLG
New Issue (Volume 9, Number 3) of RLG DigiNews is Now Online
+ Selective Archiving of Web Resources: A Study of Acquisition Costs at the National Library of Australia
+ Bringing the Digital Revolution to Medieval Musicology: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
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Non-Commercial Web Directories–INFOMINE
Library of Congress
Metadata
Source: LC Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team
INFOMINE and Library of Congress Having “Discussions” About iVia Software
“The Library is in discussion with the INFOMINE Project (http://infomine.ucr.edu) at the University of California, Riverside about establishing a cooperative agreement to test the iVia software (http://infomine.ucr.edu/iVia/) developed for the INFOMINE project. iVia harvests, analyzes, and processes metadata from Web sites and other digital objects for use in the INFOMINE database. The parties believe that it would benefit the library community worldwide to incorporate the Library’s subject authority and classification data into the iVia automatic classifier capability. It is thought that the incorporation of this data will improve the ability of the iVia software to generate metadata useful to the Library and other libraries, with minimal intervention by cataloging staff. The goal of the cooperative agreement would be to test this hypothesis.”
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School Libraries–United States
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Just released: America’s Public School Libraries: 1953-2000
“Drawn from more than 25 sources, mostly federal reports and surveys, this booklet presents a history of federal legislation and national standards affecting school library media centers and key characteristics of school libraries at the national level, from 1953-54 to 1999-2000. This booklet is based on the report Fifty Years of Supporting Children’s Learning: A History of Public School Libraries and Federal Legislation from 1953-2000 (NCES 2005-311). ”
Full report (PDF; 672 KB)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Housing–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census/HUD
New, Census Bureau and HUD Release Data on Housing Characteristics for Selected Metro Areas
“The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released new American Housing Survey (AHS) data on costs and other housing characteristics for 13 metropolitan areas. These areas are: Atlanta; Cleveland; Denver; Hartford, Conn.; Indianapolis; Memphis, Tenn.; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; Pittsburgh; Sacramento, Calif.; San Antonio; Seattle; and St. Louis. The AHS is conducted by the Census Bureau and sponsored by HUD.”
Summary Full Text
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Information Technology–Salary Survey
Source: InfoWorld
2005 InfoWorld Compensation Survey
“At first glance, results from the 2005 InfoWorld Compensation Survey show an industry looking up. As company performance has risen, so have salaries and bonuses in the IT sector, suggesting the downturn is over. Jobs are to be had. Purse strings have loosened. In fact, many aspects of our survey of 1,510 IT professionals indicate that ‘better’ may be the norm. Yet beneath the surface, dissatisfaction and uncertainty threaten to spoil any celebration of IT’s return to square 2001.”
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Collaboration
Source: PortalsMag
The SMB Virtual Office Primer
“If you have no money to spend on collaboration, content management, etc., see how free tools can help you.”
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Firewalls
Source: SearchNetworking.com
Firewall Resource Guide
“Firewalls are an essential tool in protecting your network from various threats…this guide is a compilation of resources that explain what firewalls are, how they work, vulnerabilities, troubleshooting, configurations and more.”

Briefly
+ OverDrive Announces Video on Demand for Public Libraries

Search Briefs
+ Google Now Offering Index of Pages Optimized for the Mobile Web
+ Google Library Digitization Agreement With University Of Michigan Now Available

Resource of the Week
By Steven M. Cohen, Associate Editor

PubSub
Librarians
An Introduction to PubSub
This week, Shirl and Gary gave me the ROTW floor to talk about a resource that we released at PubSub on June 1st (For those who don’t follow my blog, I started at PubSub in the beginning of the year, continuing my untraditional library career.) First, a bit about the company:

PubSub Concepts, Inc. is a real-time matching service that instantly notifies you when new published content is created that interests you. We monitor:
+ Weblog postings and any other syndicated content (http://www.pubsub.com/weblogs.php)
+ Newsgroups (http://www.pubsub.com/newsgroups.php)
+ SEC filings (http://www.pubsub.com/edgar.php)
+ Full-text press releases (http://www.pubsub.com/pressreleases.php)
+ Airport delays (http://www.pubsub.com/airports.php)
+ Earthquake activity (http://www.pubsub.com/earthquakes.php).
You enter your query and the result will be delivered to you the moment an item is published that matches your query. You can receive the results in a number of ways including your favorite RSS reader (Bloglines, etc), the PubSub sidebar (http://www.pubsub.com/downloads.php), or just by bookmarking the resulting subscription page.

In order to demonstrate the capabilities of our service, we released our first integrated set of sample subscriptions – PubSub Government (http://www.pubsub.com/government) — which let users keep track of what is being said about various aspects of the U.S Government. These are pre-built, advanced queries using the numerous Boolean syntaxes we offer (http://www.pubsub.com/booleanhelp.php). PubSub Government users can access up-to-date content on:
+ Every member of Congress(http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/state.php)
+ U.S. Supreme Court Justices(http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/justices.php)
+ Congressional Committees (http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/committees.php)
+ Cabinet members (http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/cabinet.php), including the departments that each cabinet member heads.

Some additional features include:

+ The ability to put all subscriptions for each state, all the Supreme Court justices, the entire cabinet, and/or the committees, in your aggregator by using the OPML feature. (For example, the OPML feed for NY would be: http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/state_detail.php?state=ny&format=opml.) This saves you from having to subscribe to each individual feed.

+ The ability to add any of the subscriptions to your PubSub account by clicking on the green plus signs next to every pre-built subscription. This also allows you to edit or add to the query syntax that has already been created, allowing for more personalization of content.

Also, on each state page, we’ve indicated which congress member was discussed most often during the previous day and how often this person was mentioned.

Who can benefit from using PubSub Government? Librarians, activists, watch groups, campaign managers, journalists, lobbyists, and anyone else interested in monitoring the U.S. government. If you have any questions about PubSub Government, you can contact us at government@pubsub.com.

Professional Reading Shelf
PATRIOT Act
Source: AP (via CNN)
House limits Patriot Act rules on library records
“The House voted Wednesday to block the FBI and the Justice Department from using the Patriot Act to search library and book store records.”
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SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
Resource Discovery Network
Source: RDN
Next Week: SOSIG Virtual Event
“SOSIG will be running a weeklong virtual event as part of the ESRC Social Science Week (June 20th – 24th 2005). We have invited a number of social science specialists to consider how the Internet is changing the face of social science information and research, in particular how it has altered their own working practices and the impact this may have had on their research and teaching.
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OCLC–Pilot Projects
Source: OCLC
OCLC pilot program will increase discovery and use of libraries’ electronic collections
“OCLC will begin a pilot project later this month that will make it easy for library staff and patrons to find and use full-text electronic journals in library collections. The pilot will involve 20 libraries and four partners-TDNet, EBSCO, Serials Solutions, and Ex Libris.”
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Information Industry
Source: ResearchInformation
The May/June Issue of ResearchInformation Is Now Available
Articles Include:
+ The Swedish hub at the heart of open access
+ Reinventing journal publishing
+ Profile: Archiving without borders
A profile of the director of e-strategy and property management, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Netherlands
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E-LIS
Source: Jennifer A. De Beer, Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
E-LIS – Expanding (y)our field with E-LIS (PowerPoint presentation)
“Informative talk about and demonstration on E-LIS, forming part of a session on ‘Expanding the LIS field’ in a pre-conference workshop titled ‘Getting Published’.”

Search Briefs
Yahoo Launches Access to Some Subscription (aka Deep Web) Content With More To Come
Cool new stuff from Yahoo. Yes, federated search technology comes into play again. Gary has posted an overview of the just launched beta along with a couple of thoughts on the Search Engine Watch Blog. After you read the post, here’s something else to brainstorm about. Wouldn’t it be cool if a user could also opt-in and see what books, videos, etc, his or her local library had available at the same time reviewing Yahoo web results list. Or, what about Yahoo working with RLG and allowing searchers to include results from their RedLightGreen.com database containing more than 120 million bibliographic records. As many of you already know, RLG already allows the searcher to click and find if the item is available in their local library.
See Also: On a Related Note, ThomsonGale Launches a New Library Advocacy Campaign To Help Promote Remotely Accessible Resources
Great to see! From the way it reads, when users see an article via the new Yahoo service they might be able to go directly to a database via their local public library, get authenticated, and view it.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Air Quality–United States
Source: NOAA/EPA
NOAA and EPA Extend Reach of Air Quality Forecasts
“Air quality forecasts produced by the NOAA National Weather Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have been enhanced and expanded to better serve more regions of the United States. Forecast information for ground-level ozone that has been available for the northeastern United States will now include areas from just east of the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Hour-by-hour forecasts, through midnight the following day, are available online, providing information for the onset, severity and duration of poor air quality to more than 180 million people.” Direct to NOAA/EPA Air Quality Forecasts.
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Country Studies–Bulgaria
Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
Just Released, Country Profile of Bulgaria
PDF.
See Also: More Country Profiles from FRD
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Housing–United States
Source: National Association of Home Builders (via DocuTicker)
Housing Facts, Figures and Trends
“Housing Facts, Figures and Trends provides a snapshot of various aspects of the housing market including new home starts and sales, characteristics of new homes, homeownership rates and more.” Download full document in PDF.
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Research Reports–United Kingdom
Source: House of Commons Library
Two New Research Reports
+ Modernisation of the House of Commons 1997-2005
+ The Future of the European Constitution
Both reports are PDF files.

Professional Reading Shelf
Archives
Source: International Council on Archives
ICA/CAP’s Manual on Appraisal is online for feedback
“The Manual on Appraisal is conceived as a practical guide, aimed first and foremost at archivists faced with the daily problems of appraising and selecting documents, and who may not have been trained to do so.” Direct to Full Text.
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Digitization–Health Care
Source: Computerworld
The Paperless Hospital — Really!
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Public Libraries
Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer
Libraries turn the page
“What is a library supposed to be? It’s not merely an academic question. Continuing budget problems have forced libraries locally and nationwide to make tough choices about their priorities, especially in the kinds of materials they offer.”
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Internet Usage–Higher Education–Statistics
Source: ARL
Presentation: The Internet Goes To College
A presentation by Steve Jones, Senior Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life Project. This presentation was given last month at the Association of Research Libraries
146th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
See Also: More Materials From the Annual Meeting Here

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Military–Statistics
Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Updated Data Available from SIPRI
+ Top 100 arms-producing companies
+ Military Expenditure Database Updated (Reg Req, Free)
+ Arms transfers data from the 2005 SIPRI Yearbook
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Business–Canada–Lists & Rankings
PROFIT 100, 2005
Ranking of Canada’s fastest-growing companies.
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Blogging–Legal Guide
Source: Electronic Freedom Foundation
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers (newly revised)
“The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you’re doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn’t help – in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven’t yet decided how it applies to bloggers. But here’s the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn’t use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That’s why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom.” (via DocuTicker)
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Corporate Lawyers–Lists & Ranking
Source: Corporate Board Member Magazine
America’s Best Corporate Lawyers 2005
“In Corporate Board Member’s fifth annual survey, 1,229 directors selected the law firms they most admire, nationally and in 25 metropolitan areas. The 20 national leaders are ranked at right, with Skadden Arps in first place for the fifth straight year.”
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Briefly
+ Blackwell Psychology Handbooks now on Xreferplus
+ PEP Archive Now Available from EBSCO Publishing
+ ProQuest deliver NewsRx to library users (via IWR)

Professional Reading Shelf
United Nations–Libraries
Source: IWR
UN Library prepares for change
“The United Nations General Assembly has approved a strategic document from its Committee on Information that will enable a radical modernisation of the library services run by the organisation.”
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National Libraries–Australia
Catagloging
Source: National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia joins international program to assist searchers
Information seekers face enormous challenges in finding the resources they need. With millions of books and other materials for users to discover, libraries have established a cooperative scheme to help searchers find the right resources, by recording author and series names through an international standard system. This system, the Name Authority component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloguing (NACO), enables users all over the world to find resources easily through their library’s catalogue.
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Academic Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: PublicTechnology.net
UK universities gain access to the world’s greatest 18th-century digital library
“Following extensive consultation and nationwide demand, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) has bought Thomson Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) digital archive content in perpetuity on behalf on the UK higher and further education community.”
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Museums–United Kingdom–Collections
Source: Museums Association
New Report, Collections for the Future
“The result of an 18-month inquiry into every aspect of collections management, with input from over 500 organisations and individuals, the report looks at a range of issues from open storage and a distributed national collection to working with private owners, acquisition, transfer and disposal.”
Summary Direct to Full Text

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Science and Engineering–United States–Statistics
Source: NSF
Just Released, Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians in the United States: 2000
This report presents estimates of the total number of positions filled by scientists, engineers, and technicians employed in the U.S. economy, by industry and by occupational category. Estimates are also presented for mean wages (hourly and annual) of scientists, engineers, and technicians by industry and by occupational category. The 1999 report is also available.
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Bankruptcy–United States–Statistics
Source: Admin. of the U.S. Courts
Bankruptcy Filings Fell in March 2005 12-Month Period
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Research Reports–Australia
Source: Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia
Two New Research Reports from the Parliamentary Library
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Regional telecommunications: An overview
+ Sources of personal income by electorate (PDF)
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Birds–Database
Source: BirdLife International
Data Zone
“BirdLife has been investing in the development of information management tools to support the activities of the Partnership for many years. This is a fully relational database, known as the World Bird Database (WBDB). The database architecture provides some 120 tables covering in excess of 1,400 data fields. Data are being added continually, and certain tables already hold in excess of 250,000 records…. The World Bird Database provides the information management tool through which the BirdLife Partnership manages, analyses and reports on the breadth of its scientific knowledge — Species, Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs) — much of these data are available through the Data Zone. You can search for detailed information on Species, Sites and EBAs, see examples of recent analyses and download subsets of the database.”
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Police–United States
Source: BJS
Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004
“Presents findings from the 2004 Survey of State Police Agencies which obtained data from State police agencies on their policies and procedures for collecting race and ethnicity data regarding motorists involved in traffic stops.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: eGovmonitor
Libraries set for E-Content Deal
“Public libraries in England will be able to procure online content more cost-effectively through a nationally-negotiated deal later this year. The Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the sector’s strategic agency, is planning to have the central framework agreement for commercial online content in place by the summer. The framework will remain in force for two years, allowing individual library authorities – or purchasing consortia – to pick selected suppliers and take out subscriptions to their services under preferential terms.”
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Librarians–Videogames
Source: Heather Wilson, Instructional Librarian, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, Phillips Academy Andover
The Collectible Librarian
“Welcome! I have recently finished the MLIS program at Simmons and I am also a gamer. Due in part to my frustration with not being able to find games in libraries and in other part to feeling that teens get short shrift in the library world, I started this site. My goal is to introduce and explain games to librarians making it easier for them to integrate games into their collections. I will be reviewing games from a librarian’s perspective, and also providing as much cataloging help as I can. I hope you learn something and that you’ll come back. But most especially I hope that you will talk to the teens in your community and make a real effort to make your library’s Young Adult section a place that teens will use.”
See also: Gaming for Librarians — An Introduction (PDF; 320 KB)
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Libraries–Asia
Source: ACCESS
The June 2005 Issue of ACCESS is Now Available
Articles include:
+ Blackwell boosts professional society publishing in Asia
+ What to do with old library books?
+ The world of science in your hand
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Government Secrecy
Source: Cox News Service
Congress Cloaks More Information In Secrecy
“Few would argue with the need for a national livestock identification system to help the federal government handle a disease outbreak such as mad cow. But pending legislation calling for the nation’s first electronic livestock tracking system would prohibit the public from finding out anything about animals in the system, including the history of a cow sick with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The only way the public can find out such details is if the secretary of agriculture makes the information public.”