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http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk Update Week 23 New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the Info Professional. 8/9/01 Hello from Washington D.C. Well the heat has not slowed the amount of interesting news stories and useful content. This could be the best week so far. ---- An Announcement: Coming Soon, WE=92RE MOVING! ***The SAME Mix of New Resources and News, The Same Editor*** A New Host: The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk Will Become Part of FreePint, New: Searchable Entries New: Opt-In Mailing List If you=92ve never visited FreePint it=92s an online community for information researchers. One of the resources it provides is a free e-mail newsletter published twice a month. It=92s filled with Internet resources, commentary, reviews, and more. You can visit the site and browse through the archives at: http://www.freepint.com FreePint=92s managing editor/founder is Will Hann. He was named SLA=92s European Librarian of the Year in 2000. More details in the next few weeks. ------ REMEMBER, this email update is *ONLY A SAMPLE* of what you=92ll find on the actual weblog site. http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com The weblog page is updated DAILY. Also, note the links to the Archives on the left side of the page. --------- If you have any questions or comments, just drop me a note. Cheers, gary gprice@gwu.edu ---------------- p.s. Feel free to forward this e-mail or share the weblog url with others. p.p.s This newsletter will be sent next WEDNESDAY since I will be flying to San Francisco next Thursday. ----------------- Weekly Highlights #23 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ------ Thursday, August 9, 2001 Organization of Information--Taxonomies Professional Reading "Taxonomies: The Value of Organized Business Knowledge=94 Online Map Update=97MapQuest Online Map Update--MapBlast Satellite Images from MapQuest, New Driving Maps from MapBlast ----- Wednesday, August 8, 2001 Current Awareness Tools=97Patents PatentAlert.Com Current Awareness Tools--Medicine Pubcrawler.ie Full-Text Document and Resource Shelf Elections--Canada Parliament--Canada Source: Elections Canada 5 New Election Reports/Resources Labor--United States Source: BLS Unemployment--United States Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 1999 ----- Tuesday, August 7, 2001 Online Searching Source: Information Today NewsBreaks "Johns Hopkins=92 Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death?" Web Portals--Yahoo New Resource: "Yahoo Education" From the news release, "-- As the new school year begins, Yahoo! today announced the launch of Yahoo! Education (http://education.yahoo.com), a free resource that enables educators at the college, high school and middle school levels to easily create a virtual classroom environment and communication center for their students. Full-Text Document and Resource Shelf Health--United States Source: National Center for Health Statistics 2001 State Health Profiles Material for all 50 States and the District of Columbia Labor--United States "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, 1999" 189 pages .pdf ----- Monday, August 6, 2001 Web Search--Lycos Source: ZDNet UK "Lycos Bug Lets Malicious Web Pages Crash PCs" Full-Text Document and Resource Shelf Software Industry--Lists and Rankings Source: Software Magazine Software Magazine - 2001 Software 500 -- Energy--Statistics Source: Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Review 2000 ----- The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ----- Sunday, August 5, 2001 Web Search--Google Google Search Tidbits 1) The & (ampersand) is searchable. Treat it like a stop word. Place a + in front of the symbol. For example, "Dun +& Bradstreet" 2) As you know the OR operator can be used with Google. If you prefer, the | symbol will also provide an "or" search. ----- Saturday, August 4, 2001 Web Search--LII Source: LJ Digital (Free Registration Required) Carole Leita To Leave as Coordinator of Librarians' Index to the Internet ----- Friday, August 3, 2001 Image Search--picsearch A New Image Search Tool: Hello to picsearch Resource Discovery--RDN (Resource Discovery Network) Web Directories The RDN Website Recieves an Overhaul This U.K based site with a wonderful and searchable directory of web resources has undergone a redesign. ----- Thursday, August 2, 2001 Web Search Source: Internet.Com "Is The Internet Becoming A Commercial Directory?" World Population Source: Population Reference Bureau World Population Gap Widens Includes the chart, "World Population Clock" See Also: World Population Data Sheet-2001 "The 2001 World Population Data Sheet contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for all geographic entities with populations of 150,000 or more and all members of the United Nations." ----- Weekly Highlights #23 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University gprice@gwu.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. 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