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Today the The National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas School of Law announced the availability of a website which currently provides access to over 200 CRS reports on agriculture and food law policy related issues. The site’s content will continue to expand, and currently provides users with a subject index comprising 22 …
“The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the availability of the ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 200304. This publication presents compilations and rankings of data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 77 law libraries at ARL member institutions throughout North America.” download the data files or a PDF of the publication
Following up on a series of postings included in Authority of Vast Collaborative Online Encyclopedia Questioned, please see this related article, Nature 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005), Special Report, Internet encyclopaedias go head to head, by Jim Giles: “Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a …
“Our new and improved Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System is here! It will feature global free-text searching across all series and files, in addition to our standard fielded search, and easier and faster ways to find the series and files you want.” Users may browse by categories that include: Genealogy/Personal History; Private Sector; Places; …
This text will self-destruct in 40 seconds – Next year self-deleting emails and photo messages too.: “Staellium UK said that its StealthText service will allow business executive dealing in sensitive information to send texts which will delete themselves from the recipient’s mobile phone as soon as the person has read them.” Details
KMWorld & Intranets 2005 Presentation Links. Topics include: Applying KM Strategies, Cultural Issues of KM, Collaborative Environments, Strategies & Practices, Strategies & Practices, Content Integration, Making Intranets Work, Building the Intranet, and Keeping Up with Intranet Trends.
Newsweek – Google: Ten Golden Rules – Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here’s how we do it at Google.
From WSJ free features, Project Gutenberg Fears No Google is a Q&A with Project Gutenberg’s founder, Michael Hart (the inventor of ebooks). His vision and determination are reflected in this project, which has been sustained for over three decades. The site, which currently offers over 17,000 full text books, has a million downloads per week.
National Summit on Competitiveness, Investing In U.S. Innovation, December 6, 2005 (8 pages, PDF).
From OCLC:Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005) summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences. “The Perceptions report provides the findings and responses from the online survey in an effort to learn more about: Library use; Awareness and use of library electronic resources; The Internet search engine, the library and the …
Growing pains for Wikipedia: “…founder Jimmy Walee [is]going to change the ground rules for the popular anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia…” Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar How wikis are changing our view of the world AP: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that …
“Internet Archive and many individual contributors created a comprehensive list of websites documenting the historic devastation and massive relief effort due to Hurricane Katrina. The sites were crawled between the dates of September 4 – October 17th. This collection, containing more than 25 million searchable documents, will be preserved by Internet Archive with access to …
