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For those of you who want a useful free newsletter featuring: Monthly Events=20 Holidays - National and International=20 This Day in History=20 Birthdays=20 Featured Location of the Month Obituaries for the month Special Feature:=20 Science in the News Chronology - Events of the month Offbeat News Stories Links of the Month =20 =20 C World Almanac Education Group. World Almanac E-Newsletter =20 http://www.worldalmanac.com/index-m.htm =20 =20 Here is the link to the February newsletter: =20 http://www.worldalmanac.com/200402WAE-Newsletter.html =20 The March newsletter was sent to subscribers and included this feature: "From The World Almanac: Internet Lingo" =20 "The following abbreviations are sometimes used in Internet documents = and in e-mail." =20 BTW By the way F2F Face to face; a personal meeting FCOL For crying out loud FWIW For what it's worth FYI For your information GOK God only knows GTG Got to go HHOK Ha, ha - only kidding INHO In my humble opinion IMO In my opinion JK Just kidding LOL Laughing out loud OTOH On the other hand PLS Please ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing TAFN That's all for now TTFN Ta-ta for now" =20 This is useful when students use this language and we do not know what = they are talking about! =20 Sybil Finemel Library Director MLIS.CIO. Los Angeles CA Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/ Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer 24/7 Reference Librarian. =20 sfinemel@comcast.net =20 =20 "Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or = soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a = constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe = in." Edmund Burke (1729-1797) =20 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-