Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Information
Libraries
Source: Ariadne
The October 2005 Issue of Ariadne is Available
Articles include:
+ Web 2.0: Building the New Library
+ Looking for More than Text?
+ Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
+ DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow ePrints Service
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College Students–Technology
Source: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR)
ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning
“A longitudinal extension of the 2004 ECAR study of students and information technology, this 2005 study is based on quantitative data from more than 18,000 freshman and senior students at 63 higher education institutions. It focuses on what kinds of information technologies today’s students are using, with what levels of skill they are using them, how IT use contributes to the undergraduate experience, and what value the use of IT adds in terms of learning. The study also provides a review of and comparison with the 2004 ECAR study of students and IT and the 2003 ECAR study of faculty use of course management systems undertaken at the University of Wisconsin System.”
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Intellectual Freedom–China
Source: IFLA
IFLA condemns new Chinese Internet regulations and Western computer companies’ participation in the crackdown on intellectual freedom
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ERIC
Source: ERIC
ERIC Initiates OpenURL Link to My Library Beta Test

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
End User Licensing Agreements–Analyzer
Source: Javacool Software
EULAlyzer 1.0
“End user license agreements (EULAs) are the bane of most computer users. No one wants to read through pages and pages of boring text before installing a program. And many programs put their license agreements in small windows that require lots of scrolling. So many people either skim them or skip reading them altogether. But it can be dangerous not to read license agreements…. If you aren’t reading the license agreements, you have no idea what you could be agreeing to…. EULAlyzer can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the software you’re about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers to track you, or much much more.” Free download for Windows.
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Phishing
Source: O’Reilly Network
What Is Phishing (Or, How to Fight Phishing at the User-Interface Level)
“A phishing attack succeeds when a user is tricked into forming an inaccurate mental model of an online interaction and thus takes actions that have effects contrary to the user’s intentions. Because inferring a user’s intentions can be difficult, building an automated system to protect users from phishing attacks is a challenging problem.”

Search Briefs
+ Accessing Flight Info on the Web

Professional Reading Shelf
Internet
Source: Lee Rainie/Pew
Transcript: Speech by Lee Rainie, Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project
Rainie delivered a keynote speech at Internet Librarian on 10/24. It’s titled, “Shifting Worlds.” 11 pages; PDF.

Professional Reading Shelf
Internet
Source: Lee Rainie/Pew
Transcript: Speech by Lee Rainie, Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project
Rainie delivered a keynote speech at Internet Librarian on 10/24. It’s titled, “Shifting Worlds.” 11 pages; PDF.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text DocumentsIraq–Documents
Source: FindLaw.com
Special Coverage: Iraq Aftermath — Documents, Resolutions, and Reports
Includes materials related to Valerie Plame identity leak; Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq; United States Resolutions, Reports, and Documents; United Nations documents.

Search Briefs
+ The “About” Yahoo Search Page

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries and Librarians
Source: Info Today Blog
Stephen Abram on Libraries Fighting Back
Paula Hane reports on Stephen Abram’s (a great guy, someone we’re honored to call a good friend, and an avid ResourceShelf reader) closing keynote speech at Internet Librarian. When Stephen talks, we listen. My only comment (and a small one at that). Yes, Google is the brand name, no doubt about it, but plenty of other good general web engines exist that offer services and features that go beyond “G.” Experiment and try new things. You’ll be happy you did.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Information Technology–Salary Survey
Source: Computerworld
Computerworld Salary Survey 2005
“It was another year of skimpy, 3% raises, according to the more than 14,000 IT workers who took part in Computerworld’s 19th annual Salary Survey. But they’re finding consolation in slightly higher bonuses, a bit less work, and lower stress.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Medical Librarianship
Source: MLA
Now Available: October 2005 issue of The Journal of Medical Library Association
Articles include:
+ Information preferences and practices among people living with HIV/AIDS: results from a nationwide survey
+ Value of hospital libraries: the Fuld Campus study
+ A comparative study of six European databases of medically oriented Web resources
+ Consumer health libraries: what do patrons really want?
Also Available: Volume 93(4 Suppl); October 2005
Articles include:
+ Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations: guidance from research on information seeking and use
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Public Libraries–Theft
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DVDs vanish off library shelves
“Thieves in Gwinnett County have lifted enough DVDs from public library shelves to fill more than two video stores and wipe out nearly half the system’s collection. The thefts got so bad — nearly 17,000 discs in all — the library board quietly shut down the 5-year-old program last month and began selling off the remaining inventory.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Internet Usage–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003
“A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that 40 percent of adults used the Internet to obtain news, weather or sports information in 2003, a sharp increase from only 7 percent six years earlier. In a measure of how interpersonal communications are changing, more than half of adults (55 percent) used e-mail or instant messaging in 2003, a dramatic increase from the 12 percent who did so in 1997. The report also shows the Internet has become an integral part of the economy. In 2003, nearly half (47 percent) of adults used the Internet to find information on products or services. About one-third (32 percent) actually purchased a product or service online, compared with only 2 percent of adults who shopped online in 1997.”
See Also: Detailed Tables
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Celebrities–Wealth–Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
Just Released, Top-Earning Dead Celebrities (2005 List)
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National Statistics–New Zealand
Source: Statistics New Zealand
New Portal: Statisphere
“Statisphere, New Zealand’s official statistics portal. Statisphere provides information about New Zealand’s official statistics. It enables users, producers and researchers to quickly find all available official statistics.”

Resource of the Week
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

It’s getting to be that time of the year again here in most of the U.S. We’ll be turning our clocks back one hour, on the last Sunday in October, which marks the end of Daylight Saving Time…until April 2, 2006, the first Sunday in April, when we set our clocks ahead one hour for another DST go-around. What the heck is this all about, anyhow? How did it start? Is it done in other countries? Check out this week’s resource and become a fount of information about Daylight Saving Time.

Dayline Saving Time (DST)
Source: Web Exhibits (Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement)
Daylight Saving Time
“The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called ‘Summer Time’ many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates.” You probably already knew this, but maybe you didn’t know…
+ This past August 5, President G.W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PDF; 2.6 MB) which — among its many other provisions — moves up the start of DST to the second Sunday of March, and pushes the ending back the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report to Congress regarding the impact of this on energy savings, and Congress reserves the right to revert back to the previous schedule.
+ “In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1 am Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It starts the last Sunday in March, and ends the last Sunday in October.” Unlike in the United States, where each time zone switches over at a different time, all the EU time zones change simultaneously. Some counties — mostly equatorial and tropical — do not observe DST because the daylight hours are pretty much the same year round in the lower latitudes. But most other countries do, to one extent or another.
+ Benjamin Franklin is generally credited with the idea of DST in “a discourse on the thrift of natural versus artificial lighting,” published as a letter to the authors of the Journal of Paris in 1784.
+ “Daylight Saving Time has been used in the United States and in many European countries since World War I.” The Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S. Code Section 260a), signed into law by President L.B. Johnson, set the beginning of DST on the last Sunday of April and the end on the last Sunday of October.

Find out here who does and does not like DST and why, and read about its checkered history, including a collection of interesting anecdotes contributed by Dr. David Prerau, author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time and our leading national expert on DST.

“The Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) is committed to enriching and informing lives through public service projects and the subsequent application of innovative, learning-based technologies.” The WebExhibits site features an eclectic mix of science-oriented online exhibits such as Calendars Through the Ages, Causes of Colors, and Butter (which explores “the history and making of butter).” One presentation takes a look at Scientific Integrity in Policymaking; another examines Bogus Science, and presents you with seven warning signs.

For more information about Daylight Saving Time, see:
+ Saving Time, Saving Energy: Daylight Saving Time, Its History, and Why We Use It (California Energy Commission)
+ When Does Daylight Time Begin and End? (U.S. Naval Observatory)
+ Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements (EUR-Lex)

Professional Reading Shelf
Journal Prices–Databases
Source: SPARC
New Database, Journal Cost-Effectiveness
Use this search engine to find internationally published journals and rank them by price per article or citation. From Ted Bergstrom and Preston McAfee.”
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Book Digitization
The Open Library
“…check out OpenLibrary.org for a cool bookviewer and the vision book– it tells the story of what we envision.” –Brewster Kahle
See Also: Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
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Web Search
Source: Information Today Blog
Report from the Internet Librarian Keynote: Tennant vs. Wiggins
Marydee Ojala reports. Her article ends with the following comment, “Liz Lawley comments that Microsoft is doing sliders [see the "Search Builder" on the MSN Search page], which are similar to the knobs and dials Rich mentioned. Microsoft research publishes. You can go to the site and read the papers. Google is extraordinarily secretive. “How do you reconcile this with the notion you’re doing this for the good of humanity?” Adam [Smith] ducks the question, saying he wasn’t around when Google set the policies so he doesn’t know.”
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MetaSearch
Source: NISO
Metasearch Initiative Reaches Major Milestone
“NISO’s Metasearch Initiative has released its first round of documents providing the technical solutions to the challenge of providing federated search services. Just released: a Ranking of Authentication and Access Methods and Metaseach XML Gateway Implementors Guide.”

Congressional Research Service
Source: CRS (via The IP Mall)
New/Updated Reports
+ Federal Advertising Law: An Overview
+ Broadband Internet access and the Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs
+ Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues
+ Campaign Finance Reform: Regulating Political Communications on the Internet

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Moon
Source: SEW Blog
Cool! 3-D Imagery of the Moon Now Available via NASA’s World Wind
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Medicare–Drug Benefit
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
Resources on the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
“The Kaiser Family Foundation has extensive resources on the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, including fact sheets that summarize the benefit’s structure and the additional low-income assistance, survey data on seniors’ views of the new program, and various consumer resources to help make decisions about the benefit.”
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Web Credibility
Source: Consumers Union
New, Leap of Faith: Using the Internet Despite the Dangers: Results of a National Survey of Internet Users for Consumer Reports WebWatch
“Web users are demanding more of Web sites while becoming less trustful of them, and are adjusting their behavior in response to what they see as real threats online. In fact, almost a third say they are cutting back their Web use, according to a national survey and report prepared for WebWatch by Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI).”
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National Wildlife Refuge
Source: USGS (via DocuTicker)
USGS Updates Economic Analysis of Oil Resources in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Search Briefs
+ Autonomy’s Consumer Division Announces Creation Of Conceptual Index Of World Wide Web
+ Google Makes Digitized Archive of Interviews with TV Legends Available Online
+ Two from Yahoo: Plan a Trip With Yahoo and Print Flickr Images

Briefly
+ ebrary Adds Thousands of Online Books to its Growing Collections (PDF)

Professional Reading Shelf
Digitization Projects–Books
Source: SEW Blog
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
“MSN will launch MSN Book Search (MSNBS) sometime in first half of 2006. In the early stages, MSNBS will be found as a separate vertical on the MSN Search page (just like Image, News, etc.) but eventually MSN hopes to include book results in web results pages. The material that MSNBS will provide will come from the Open Content Alliance (OCA) that Microsoft is formally joining today.
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Information Science–Conferences
Source: ASIST
International Calendar of Information Science Conference
Sponsored by the New England chapter & SIG III
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Web Search–Google
The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography
A new bib by Charles W. Bailey Jr.
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Google Scholar
Source: Dr. Peter Jacso, University of Hawaii
Peter Jacso: Google Scholar and The Scientist
“This is a background piece for the interview made with Jeff Perkel for the article in The Scientist. Considering the limitations of the print edition, it is understandable that only a small part of my argument could be included. I provide here some background illustrations and comments to my correctly quoted remark that Google Scholar (GS) does a really horrible job matching cited and citing references.”
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Wikipedia
Source: The Guardian
Subject Experts Review Wikipedia Entries

Citation Reports
Source: ISI
+ Highest-Impact Journals (All Fields), 1995-2005
“With corresponding graphs specifying each journal’s publication and citation performance over the decade, showing each journal’s individual rank on three separate measures in five-year intervals with graphs and a text table of the graph data.”
+ U.S. Universities with Highest Concentrations in Civil Engineering, 2000-2004
+ Science in Switzerland, 2000-04
+ Agricultural Sciences: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Image Databases
Source: Univ. of Pittsburgh
Pitt Unveils Web Site That Includes More Than 3,000 Images of Chartres Cathedral
Online collection offers a comprehensive view of the European monument.
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Education–United States–Statistics
Source: NCES
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Database
New Database, NAEP Data Explorer
“The new NAEP Data Explorer (NDE) enables you to create statistical tables and graphics to help you find answers. Explore the results of decades of assessment of students’ academic performance, as well as information about factors that may be related to their learning.”