http://www.resourceshelf.com A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:48:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First posted in 2002. The Library of Congress, Free Web Access to the LC Authority Files At the beginning of July the Library of Congress began providing FREE "trial" public access to the LC Authority File via the LC Authorities site. For the cataloging community access to these files can serve ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/04/library-of-congress-providing-access-to-lc-authority-files/ Nice find. (-: From a Brief Article: Hours of TV news film recorded by a US news agency in the 1960s and 70s has been discovered in an empty London office. The material includes some famous names and some revealing glimpses of how we lived 40 years ago Watch the Video News Report Source: ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/02/tv-news-archive-discovered-after-30-years/ A new primer by Jane Lee from the California Digital Library. The article includes the following sections: + Content vs. Delivery + Reading as an Experience + Why e-books now? + Control of Content, Control of Distribution + Standards and Protocols + Will e-books make printed books obsolete? + Issues to Consider Direct to Complete Article (7 pages; PDF) Source: ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/02/e-books-understanding-the-basics/ Two items from two of the major search players. First, Bing is now including Twitter results from "more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres" for certain types of searches. Learn more via the Bing blog and Search Engine Land. Second, word from Google Book Search that they've added tag ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/02/bing-adds-selected-twiter-results-google-book-search-adds-tag-clouds/ 1) Our Story: How the National Archives Evolved Over 75 Years of Change and Challenges The chief executive gave his 131st press conference, but made little news. Then he held a cabinet meeting, met with a number of individual lawmakers, and left just before midnight for an overnight trip to New ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/two-full-text-articles-from-national-archives-us-prologue-magazine/ From the Interview: It is the largest rare book collection in North America, housed in the largest library in the world, a “huge theme park of materials,” as he describes it. The division contains some 850,000 items—including Charles Dickens’ walking stick, the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets on the night he ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/interview-mark-dimunation-chief-of-the-rare-books-and-special-collections-division-at-the-library-of-congress/ From the Web Site Do you want a quick and easy way to see the location of a street address? Without having to leave the webpage you are on? Bookmaplet is a free resource. Simply drag the "bookmarklet" to your bookmarks toolbar in your browser. Bookmaplet utilizes Google Maps. Direct to ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/web-tools-bookmaplet/ Here at ResourceShelf we're big fans and users of Zotero. If you've never used this great tool we suggest taking a look. It's free to download and use with your Firefox browser. From the Article: With Zotero, you can build up a collection of digital documents, cataloging and sorting it as ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/return-of-mark-of-zotero/ From a Summary: As far back as the mid-1600s, philanthropy was in play in Western society. Nancy K. Herther examines the growth of foundations and granting organizations and looks at the problems institutes of higher learning, powerhouses of research production within the U.S., are encountering using the evolving funding process. Direct to ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/information-resources-to-help-researchers-get-funding/ Word from Michael Hart, the Founder of Project Gutenberg, that once again this year the World e-Book Fair will take place from July 4th-August 4th. This is the 4th year of the annual book fair. It starts on July 4th to celebrate the 38th anniversary of Project Gutenberg which began ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/25-million-free-ebooks-worldbook-ebook-fair-begins-saturday/ The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor Bibliometricians have introduced various scales of ranking journals; some based on publications, some based on usage as well, including the internet, using social networking analysis. Bollen et al. (1) recently concluded that no single indicator adequately measures impact and the IF is at ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/the-most-influential-journals-impact-factor-and-eigenfactor/ From an Article: The Office of Management and Budget launched a Web site today that uses colorful pie charts, bar charts and raw data to share information with the public about how federal agencies are spending money on information technology, White House officials announced. [Snip] The dashboard’s homepage displays the federal government’s entire ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/01/new-us-government-web-site-federal-it-dashboard-beta/ From a Summary: The 2009 edition includes 60 articles and other submissions provided by more than 50 contributors from librarians in government agencies, courts, and the military, as well as from professional association leaders, LexisNexis Consultants, and more. The document was compiled by Marie Kaddell from LN. Direct to Full Text (181 pages; ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/06/30/now-available-best-practices-for-government-libraries-2009/ This could be quite a find if the story is accurate. Make sure to read the complete article. It discusses how and where the imagery was found. From the Article: Ecstatic space officials at NASA could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years — new ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/06/30/possible-resource-in-upcoming-months-nasa-finds-missing-moon-landing-tapes/ From the Abstract For centuries the archival community has understood and practiced the art of adding contextual information while preserving an artifact. The question now is how these practices can be transferred to the digital domain. With the growing expansion of production and consumption of digital objects (documents, audio, video, etc.) ... http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/06/30/new-article-mining-contextual-information-for-ephemeral-digital-video-preservation/