Search Briefs
+ Is Google Print Headed for Congressional Hearings?
+ Several Social Bookmarking/Tagging/Community Search Services Reviewed

Professional Reading Shelf
Open Content Alliance
Source: Merced Sun-Star
UC Joins Digital Alliance
A look at the University of California’s participation in the newly formed Open Content Alliance.
See Also: Learn More About the OCA in this SearchDay Article
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Academic Libraries–Journal Subscriptions
Source: Daily Pennsylvanian
As costs rise, library cuts journals
“The library has cut 2,255 journal subscriptions from its 2004-05 holdings, as journal prices have increased faster than the library’s budget. But the size of the materials budget — $13.1 million allotted for books, journals, magazines, periodicals, films and electronic resources — is not to blame, library officials said. Rather, officials blame big publishing companies, which they say have raised prices as the companies have bought up academic journals over the last two decades.”
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Library History
Source: LC
Library of Congress Co-Sponsors Seminar Oct. 27-30 in Illinois on History of Libraries
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Public Libraries–United Kingdom
Virtual Reference
Source: MLA
Public library services at your fingertips — 24/7 — People’s Network launches Enquire, Discover and Read
“England’s public libraries are joining forces to provide a suite of new online services – Enquire, Discover and Read. Managed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) the new services will be available for the first time from a single national website for public libraries with cutting edge 24/7 library services to help answer any question, guide you through the web and explore books and reading online.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Digital Books–New Zealand
Source: University of Auckland Library
Just Launched: Early New Zealand Books Digital Collection
From a news release: The University of Auckland Library announces the official launch of its Early New Zealand Books digital collection. The collection currently comprises 20 books (23 volumes) including the majority of those published in the first half of the 19th century. The books are keyword searchable, individually or as a collection, with keyword-in-context displays of hit terms at three different levels of inclusiveness. Searches can be limited to words and phrases in picture captions and chapter summaries, if desired.

All the illustrations are available at original size and double size for viewing detail. There are links to images of original pages. This collection is available primarily because of the enthusiasm and dedication of John Laurie, Subject Librarian for Anthropology, Applied Language Studies and Linguistics in the General Library, Te Tumu Herenga, the University of Auckland Library. The “Early New Zealand Books ” collection is freely available on the Web.

We believe that the collection will be of immense benefit to researchers of the period and the general public. Many of the books have been out-of-print and difficult to access in closed collections and keyword searchability will facilitate a whole range of new studies.

It is hoped to expand the collection over the next few years to cover more significant nineteenth century books. Forty targeted books are listed on the website.
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Education–Statistics–Databases
Source: NCES (via Docutickr.com)
Just Update, Statewide Education Data Profiles
“Search for statewide information in elementary/secondary education, postsecondary education, public libraries and selected demographics for all states in the U.S. You can select up to 4 states to compare at a time. In addition to getting statewide data you will also get data on U.S. averages and the ability to dynamically graph the results. The data used for this data tool comes from many NCES sources and has just been updated with 2003 public library information and 2004-05 postsecondary education information.”
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Leaders–United States–Lists & Ranking
Source: U.S. News and World Report/Center for Public Leadership, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
American’s Best Leaders
“Leadership, as the public tells the pollsters, is in disappointingly short supply. So the 25 people profiled in the following pages are a heartening exception to the rule. ‘America’s Best Leaders’ are an accomplished group selected by an independent committee of judges assembled by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Some leaders are famous names; others, while giants in their fields, may be introduced to readers for the first time.”
+ Does Leadership Matter? (David Gergen)
+ How They Made Their Picks(methodology)
+ National Leadership Index 2005 (PDF; 116 KB)
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Country Studies
Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
Just Released, Country Profile of Paraguay
PDF.
See Also: More Country Profiles from the FRD

Briefly
+ Enterprise Search: Fast Unveils A New Standard For Desktop Enterprise Search
+ Scirus Adds California Institute of Technology to Repository Search Service
+ ProQuest expands History Study Center

Professional Reading Shelf
Internet Librarian Conference
Live Blog Coverage of Presentations and Events at IL from the Info Today Blogging Crew
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Copyright
Source: Council on Library and Information Resources and Digital Library Federation
New, Full Text, Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books
From the abstract: “What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the material influence permission decisions? This report, by Denise Troll Covey, principal librarian for special projects at Carnegie Mellon University, responds to many of these questions. It begins with a brief, cogent overview of U.S. copyright laws, licensing practices, and technological developments in publishing that serve as the backdrop for the current environment. It then recounts in detail three efforts undertaken at Carnegie-Mellon University to secure copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books with scholarly content.”
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Digital Books–Germany
Source: Reuters
Publishers to build own online book network
“German publishers, keen to defend their copyrights as Internet search engines seek to put the world’s literature online, aim to set up their own Web-based database allowing readers to browse, borrow or buy books.”
See Also: Germany: Publishers Plan Online Book Service
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RFID–Libraries
Source: UPI
Wireless World: Libraries embrace wireless
“Currently, approximately 120 million media and books in about 500 libraries worldwide are already attached with RFID labels,” Birgit Lindl, a spokeswoman for Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems AG, based in Munich, Germany, told Wireless World. “This is a remarkable number which is continually increasing.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
American Memory Project
Source: Library of Congress
American Memory Updates from the Library of Congress
+ Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
“New audio recordings and manuscript items have been added to the Web site, along with a special presentation entitled “Cultural Landscapes at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley.” The Web site now includes 718 sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, 10 manuscripts, and 7 special presentations.”
+ “Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789″ from the Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides are one page in length; others range from 1 to 28 pages. A number of these items contain manuscript annotations not recorded elsewhere that offer insight into the delicate process of creating consensus. In many cases, multiple copies bearing manuscript annotations are available to compare and contrast.”
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Employment–United States–Statistics
Source: NBER (via IWS News Service)
New Report, Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave
48 page; PDF. “Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Health and Retirement
Study, we provide a set of facts about vacation leave and its relationship to hours worked, hours constraints, wage rates, worker characteristics, spouse’s vacation leave, labor market experience, job tenure, occupation, industry, and labor market conditions.”

Search Briefs
Video: Talking Search with MSN Search Geeks
+ Driving Directions using MSN Virtual Earth

Briefly
OneSource Releases Government Data Tool

Professional Reading Shelf
State Library Agencies
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
E.D. TAB: State Library Agencies: Fiscal Year 2004
“This report provides a statistical profile of state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2004. The report includes information on governance, collections and services, service outlets and staff, revenue, and expenditures. The data were collected through the State Library Agencies Survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).”
Full Report (PDF; 515 KB)
Supplemental State Tables (PDF; 601 KB)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Web Search–Exalead
Source: Search Engine Watch Blog
Exalead Part Deux: An Intro to “Smart Bookmarks”
Very Cool!!! More about Exalead here.

Professional Reading Shelf
The Internet Archive
Source: PBS
Interview with Brewster Kahle
The founder of The Internet Archive and also a librarian speaks to Robert Cringley. Watch online, download as a podcast, and/or read the transcript.
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RSS
Weblogs
Interviews with Dave Winer: RSS and Blogging Pioneer
Top blogger, RSS pioneer, and blogging software pioneer, Dave Winer sits down with Cringely.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
United Nations
Source: University of Michigan Graduate Library
The United Nations at 60
“As a repository of United Nations documents, the University of Michigan Graduate Library is happy to join in the 60th anniversary celebration. Here you will find more information about the history of the United Nations to complement the display in the North Lobby of the Graduate Library. United Nations documents are available in the Government Documents Center.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Libraries–Searcher Behavior
Source: Journal of Digital Information
New Article, Searching and Browsing in a Digital Library of Historical Maps and Newspapers
Digital libraries can empower end users through on-line provision of previously inaccessible materials, synergistic integration of related information collections, and tailoring of access mechanisms for target user groups. In this paper we describe the HistoryMap system that supports access to digitised collections of historical maps and newspapers, integrating searching and browsing between the two.
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National Library Week–United States
Source: ALA
New online tools, Graphics products available for National Library Week 2006
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Wikipedia
Source: AP
Airport fight extends to Wikipedia
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Google Print
Source: Searchblog
The AAP/Google Lawsuit: Much More At Stake

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Aerial Imagery
Real Estate–Databases
Source: SEW Blog
A New Service Named HomePages Combines Real Estate Listings, Local Data, and Aerial Imagery
“…new service named HomePages that’s available at this point for selected areas of the U.S. HomePages takes local home sale listings, recently sold listings (useful), and places them onto aerial images that you can zoom in and out of. Cool but it gets cooler. The service is free for users with revenue coming from real estate agents who list on the site. According to a HomePages spokesperson, the database utilizes MLS (multiple listing service) data as well as other aggregators.
See Also: Need More Power and More Features? Check out the NEW Property Analyst from GlobeXplorer.
Free demo for San Francisco County.
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U.S. Constitution
Source: GPO Access
Just Released, Constitution of the United States: Browse, 2002 Edition & Supplements
“The 2002 Edition & 2004 Supplement of The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis & Interpretation are now available in PDF format on GPO Access. Prepared by the Library of Congress, this document contains an annotated Constitution and analysis of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Population–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Census Bureau Releases First-Ever Data On Daytime Populations for Cities and Counties
“If it seems a little crowded on weekdays in cities like Washington, D.C.; Irvine, Calif.; Salt Lake City, Utah; or Orlando, Fla., it’s not your imagination. Among cities with 100,000 or more people, these four show the highest percentage increases in population during the day as opposed to their resident population. The findings come from the first-ever U.S. Census Bureau estimates of the daytime population for all counties and more than 6,400 places across the country, based on Census 2000 data.”

Search Briefs
+ Answers.com Creates One-Click Answers Tool for Wikipedia Content
+ Need to Ping? Check out Pingoat! (via ResearchBuzz)

Briefly
+ Macmillan parent opens digital repository (via IWR)

Resource of the Week
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by Stuart Basefsky [by special invitation]

Where do you turn for “real time” information on Workplace Issues?

While ResourceShelf.com and Docuticker try to post workplace-related information when possible, they cannot do it all. Consequently, the following resource is recommended in this increasingly important area of public policy.

This key resource is the IWS Documented News Service and its related information products. This service was established in 1996, evolving into the current product in April 2002. IWS stands for Institute for Workplace Studies a “think tank” in New York City associated with the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).

The service started out with an internal audience of ILR faculty, students, and staff (which remain the focus of its content) with the intent of being an agent of change. It is now distributed throughout the world as a free resource.

Designed primarily as a “push” e-mail service, this product bridges a gap in public policy by providing links to the full-text documentation of government studies, reports, and statistics in “real time” to researchers, practitioners, and the public interested in workplace issues. This e-mail service (sent directly to the blogs listed below) provides the following:
(1) Daily Postings (blog) via email. Three to ten emails are produced daily with clear and concise subject headings, content indicators, and links to full-text reports, studies, documentation, and statistics.
(2) Weekly Bulletin (blog) via email. One email is produced each week providing all the titles and links that appeared in the Daily Postings in the previous week. However, content indicators are not provided.

Please note, these blogs are in a temporary form to be improved at a later date. Nevertheless, they are available for public viewing and updated simultaneously with the e-mail postings (no need to receive the e-mails unless you like the “push”).

Numerous by-products are produced in part or in whole from the IWS Documented News Service. Consequently, many of the key resources from which the postings originate are found in these synergized guides. For example, most U.S. domestic sources are listed in the Industrial Relations Overview of the U.S., other sources can be found in the ILR Research Portal. Most notable therein is the section on International Information. A special web site of Freely Available Workplace Resources is designed for researchers lacking funds.

The service is viewed as a conduit for disseminating intellectual content and has been used as the basis for creating official partnerships between the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR) and international organizations. Among the many key organizations benefiting are:

+ The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and its key divisions – the European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC), the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online, and others.
+ The International Labour Organization (ILO) and its worldwide offices.
+ The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
+ The Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training (JILPT)
+ The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Professional Reading Shelf
Web Search–Exalead
Source: SEW Blog
Exalead’s Home Page Gets a New Look
Lots of cool features remain including a proximity operator. Thanks to G.N. for the news tip.
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Libraries–Marketing
Source: Chris Olson
The September Issue of Chris Olson’s Marketing Treasures Newsletter is Now Online
Highlights include:
+ Taking Cues from Service Companies
+ Forget the Slides
+ Why Libraries Matter: A Story Long Overdue
+ 32 Innovation Tips
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Vocabulary
Source: OCLC Research
Presentation: OCLC and Vocabulary Identifiers (288K/13 slides)
Presented on behalf of Eric Childress, Andrew Houghton, and Diane Vizine-Goetz at DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 13 September 2005, Madrid (Spain).
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Map and Antiquarian Book Theft
Source: WWW Virtual Library: History
Links relating to the theft of early books and maps
“The links listed below provide a context for understanding map thefts [though most of the information actually relates to books] and the response to them. If the organisations involved, with their ‘guidelines’ and codes of practice, are sometimes fragmented or overlapping, such an analysis can help to suggest where further co-ordination is needed. Local and regional organisations need at least to be linked together into global networks. Map theft is an international phenomenon and the response to it must, in future, be equally global.”
See also: The Map Room: Map Thefts Archive
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Licensing–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
New report looks at suitability of Creative Commons for UK public sector
“The Common Information Environment (CIE) today published the results of a study into the applicability of the international Creative Commons licenses to a range of UK public sector resources. The study, undertaken for the CIE by Intrallect and the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property & Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh, was commissioned to investigate the potential for Creative Commons licenses to clarify and simplify the process of making digital resources available for re-use.” Direct to Full Text report ||| Appendices
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Access to Information–Canada
Source: Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Proposed Changes to the Access to Information Act
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Information Retrieval
Source: IR
New Issue of Information Research Now Online
Articles include:
+ The development of children’s Web searching skills – a non-linear model.
+ Environmental scanning: how developed is information acquisition in Western European companies?

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Commuters–Workplaces–Lists & Ranking
Source: Environmental Protection Agency
Energy Savings Boost Companies onto List of Best Workplaces for Commuters
“Intel, QUALCOMM, and Oracle lead the 2nd annual list of Best Workplaces for Commuters from the Fortune 500 Companies, EPA announced today. The Bush Administration is recognizing these companies for their role in offering excellent commuter benefits that reduce fuel consumption, vehicle emissions and traffic congestion across the country.”
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Labor Statistics–United States–Databases
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Released Yesterday, New Features on BLS Website, October 2005
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RFID
Source: SearchNetworking.com
FastFacts on RFID

Search Briefs
+ Full Coverage: Association of American Publishers Sues Google over Library Digitization Plan
+ GuruNet Officially Becomes Answers Corporation
+ Gmail Becomes Googlemail in the UK