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The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk Update Week 29
New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the
Info Professional.
9/20/01
Hello from DC.
Here are a few of the highlights from the past few days of blogging. Please
stop by whenever you have a moment.
Btw, Will Hann and I would love for you to subscribe to our weekly highlight
newsletter. You can find the sign-up page with all the details at:
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Thank You,
Gary
Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
gprice@gwu.edu
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http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk Update Week 29
New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the
Info Professional.
If you’re looking for material relating to the tragedy of 9/11/01, I am
compiling two pages that might be of interest.
1) Research & Reference Resources--Events of September 11, 2001
http://www.freepint.com/gary/91101.html
2) Speech and Transcript Center
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm
NOTE: THE GAO RELEASED (9/20/01) SEVERAL REPORTS ABOUT TERRORISM & AIRLINE
SAFETY. THEY ARE NOW LISTED AND LINKED ON THE 9/11/01 RESOURCE SITE!
http://www.freepint.com/gary/91101.html
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Thursday, September 20, 2001
Web Search--Google
Google Makes An Acquisition
Outride heads to the Google stable.
Info Industry--TheScientificWorld
Scientific Conferences--Specialized Databases
Articles on Demand
TheScientificWorld Continues To Add Content
The WorldMEET database contains info on over 4,000 scientific conferences.
Professional Reading
The September issue of D-Lib Libraries is Now Online
Here are 2 articles from the 9/2001issue:
"Preserving Scholarly E-Journals" by Dale Flecker
-- "Linking to the Appropriate Copy, Report of a DOI-Based Prototype" ----Wednesday, September 19, 2001 >From the Interesting Idea File Book Forager A new UK search tool to assist with book selection by selecting from 12 criteria. From a news release, "The software for the new initiative was developed by Applied Psychology Research which worked alongside the Society of Chief Librarians and the reader development agency, Opening the Book..." ----
Tuesday, September 18, 2001 Web Search--AltaVista Source: News.Com New CEO, More Job Cuts at AV
Full-Text Document Shelf Business--Australia Source: Department of Parliament Library Foreign Ownership and Corporate Australia ----
Monday, September 17, 2001 Scholarly Publishing Source: Info Today NewsBreaks Archives--Directory UNESCO Archives Portal Tops 5000 Entries
Digitization Projects Newspaper Archives New Beta: NewspaperDirect.Com
Small Business--Canada Starting a Business--Canada New Web Site: The Business Start-up Assistant (BSA)
Full-Text Document Shelf Home Schooling--United States Source: U.S. Census Home Schooling in the United States: Trends and Characteristics
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Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University gprice@gwu.edu
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