The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk Update Week 14
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the
Info Professional.
6/7/01
It’s been quite a busy week for this D.C. based weblog editor and compiler.
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talking about. Get ready to read a MANY interesting news stories and bookmark
or add to your own collections numerous new documents and sites.
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Cheers,
gary
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Weekly Highlights #14
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Thursday, June 7, 2001
Library History--Australia
New Web Resource: Our Nation's Album: The Library's First 100 Years
A new site from the National Library of Australia
Professional Reading--Scholarly Publishing
"Online or Invisible?"
Source: Author Web Page/Nature
>From the article: "Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For
greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should
aim to make research easy to access."
Web Directories
New Web Directory Goes Live: Hello to JoeAnt.Com
----Wednesday, June 6, 2001 Energy--California Real Time Information Two Resources to Monitor California Energy Supply and Demand
U.S. Senate--Bibliographies The United States Senate: An Institutional Bibliography, 1789-2000
Canada Resource Shelf Children--Directory--Canada Source: Government of Canada Services for Children: Guide to Government of Canada Services for Children and their Families
Full-Text Document Shelf Cities Source: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) State of the World Cities 2001 News Release/Summary ||| Direct To Full-Text Document ----
Tuesday, June 5, 2001 Copyright--Databases--United States New Databases: Web Access to Copyright Files
Web Search--Google Canada Gets "Customized" Google Site
Jacso on Scirus Library professor, writer, and database expert Peter Jacso takes a look at the recently released Scirus science search engine from Elsevier. An enlightening read!
Small Business--Rankings and Lists Source: Entrepreneur Entrepreneur and Dun & Bradstreet's 7th Annual Hot 100
Full-Text Document Shelf Transportation--Statistics National Transportation Statistics 2000 (NTS) ----
Monday, June 4, 2001 Full-Text Document Shelf Health Statistics--United States 1998-1999 State Health Care Expenditure Report
National Public Radio The NPR site relaunch includes a few new limiting options to the program archive database.
Search Engines--Pay-For-Placement Search Engines--GoTo.com "Paid Placement Is Catching On in Web Searches" Source: NY Times
Information Quality "Consumers Union To Begin Web Credibility Project" Source: LJ Digital Web Research Tools--Resource Discovery Network "Behind the Headlines": A New Service From the RDN ----
Sunday, June 3, 2001 News Resources--Politics--United States Keeping Current with Political News Two respected publishers of politcal news in the U.S. offer a few FREEBIES worthy of your attention. 1) CQ: Derek Willis's always interesting weblog, The Scoop and the CQ Midday Update. 2) National Journal: Hotline Scoop
Meteorology Hurricanes New Web Site: Hurricanes - 2001 ----
Weekly Highlights #14 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Saturday, June 2, 2001 Full-Text Document Shelf Human Rights Amnesty International Annual Report 2001 ----
Friday, June 1, 2001 Info Industry--Dialog Dialog CEO Chats With Information Today Roy M. Martin Jr. answers Paula Hane's questions.
Cataloging and Classification--Health National Library of Medicine Classification, 5th edition, Revised 1999, Goes Online in Beta Version
Web Search Business--Google An Interview With Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Source: Internet
Wildfires--United States Wildfires--Canada The National "Sit" Report Published each morning this ----
Thursday, May 31, 2001 Cool Database of the Day! Rail Travel--Europe--Database Invisible Web Die Bahn European Rail Timetable Database
Online News Tools New Resource: NewsConnect
Wealth----Rankings & Lists--United States Cities & Towns--Wealthiest--United States Source: Worth "America's Richest Towns: 2001"
Full-Text Document Shelf Health--AIDS 20 Years of AIDS Summary Info/Statistics/News Release ||| Current Edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Dedicated To AIDS (Several Article with Statistics) ||| "25 Notable HIV and AIDS Reports Published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report"
Education--Statistics The Condition of Education, 2001 Summary/News Release ||| Direct to Full-Text Document
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Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University gprice@gwu.edu
Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University gprice@gwu.edu
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