Federated Searching and Data Mining

Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html

Recombinant Roles Envisioned for Library Portals http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/dempsey_recombinant_library.pdf

The Right Solution: Federated Search Tools
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA302427

Tips on Searching for a Federated Search Service http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct03/hane1.shtml

Ill-Considered Legislation

Broadcast Flag -- see the EFF backgrounder on it at http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2801

Information Quality Act

PATRIOT ACT I and II

Database Protection Act

The Shifted Librarian: Go Where Our Users Are

See Jenny Levine's page, http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

• Blogs

  BlogBib CARL 2002 http://blogbib.blogspot.com/

  Be Spacific http://www.bespacific.com/

  Bibliolatry http://www.etches-johnson.com/blog.html

  Library Blogrunner http://blogrunner.com/snapshot/S/2/6/00218162.html
  

  Library Stuff http://www.librarystuff.net/

  LIS News http://www.lisnews.com/

  Peter Scott's Library Blog http://blog.xrefer.com/

  Resource Shelf http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/

  Scholarly Electronic Publishing http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

  The Virtual Chase http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert.shtml

  Waterboro Library Blog http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

• RSS

  Steven Cohen. Rss for Non-Techie Librarians http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm

  RSS Workshop: Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web http://gils.utah.gov/rss/

  Radio UserLand http://radio.userland.com/

  News Is Free http://newsisfree.com/

  Syndic8.com http://syndic8.com/

• Interactive

  Ask a Librarian

  Interactive blogs

  Online Forms

  MatchBook at the Webrary http://www.webrary.org/rs/matchbookabout.html

  Suggest a Site/Book

• Service 24/7/365 through:

  Online databases

  Online Tutorials -- see Multnomah County Library's Genealogy Tutorial http://multcolib.org/train/jumpstart/family/

  Our own super search engine: Fiat Luxe -- see Karen G. Schneider's article in Library Journal's NetConnect, Summer, 2002 http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=netConnect

• Chat - Virtual Reference

  Digital Reference Services Bibliography http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html

  Live Digital Reference Case Studies http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digicase.htm

  Digital Reference Question Logs http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/log.htm

  DigRef L http://www.vrd.org/Dig_Ref/dig_ref.html

• Personalized Web Pages:
  

  brary dog http://brarydog.org/

  Dialog Releases Dialog Portals Service http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031013-1.shtml

  Eric Lease Morgan's Portal Webliography http://www.infomotions.com/portals/

  Putting the MY in My Library
  http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA323338

• PDAs

  Handheld Librarian http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/

  Theresa Embrey. Today's PDAs Can Put an OPAC in the Palm of Your Hand." Computers in Libraries http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/mar02/embrey.htm

  Ken Varnum. Information @ Your Fingertips: Porting Services to the PDA. Online, Sept. 2000. (text available through FindArticles.com)

  PDAs for Health Care: Health Library Initiatives http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/lib.htm

  PalmBooks.org http://palmbooks.org/

  PDA Resources - VCU Libraries http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/pda.html

• Wireless

  Bill Drew's Wireless Librarian http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/

  For more examples, see Wilton Library's Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html
  
  
  

  Free Online Scholarship

  Peter Suber, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/. Read his guide to the FOS Movement for links to a wide number of free scholarship projects, including:

  arXiv http://arXiv.org/

  BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/

  Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

  Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/

  Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/

  
  
  
  

  Digital Library Projects

  PubMed Central has started a major archival scanning project in conjunction with several different publishers. The National Library of Medicine will scan cover-to- cover images of participating journal issues, back through volume one. You can read about the scanning project at http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html

  D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/

  Digital Library Federation http://www.diglib.org/

  PADI- Preserving Access to Digital Information http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

  Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll

  Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/

  Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

  Marylaine Block. Doing It Right: How Some Universities Encourage the Creation of Prime Research Web Sites http://infotoday.com/searcher/sep02/Block.htm

  Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

  "Superarchives ould Hold All Scholarly Output." http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm

  
  
  
  
  

  Open Source

  OSS4Lib http://www.oss4lib.org/

  Eric's Linux Information http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux/

  Open Source Software in Libraries: a Workshop http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-workshop/ossnlibraries-workshop.html

  
  
  
  

  Lawsuits

  Suit against Microsoft re plug-ins

  SCO suit claiming ownership of Linux

  Lawsuits against peer-to-peer technologies

  Linking: see EFF backgrounder at http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking//
  
  
  

  The Decline of Free Information

  Copyright Term Extension Act

  Database Protection Act -- see InfoWorld article, http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/16/HNsubbill_1.html
  "Boucher offered four other amendments to the bill, which were either voted down or withdrawn. One would have exempted libraries from penalties in the bill, but that amendment was rejected by the committee. A second Boucher amendment would have prevented database owners from using the bill to protect legal materials produced by federal courts or any legislative materials."

  Digital Millennium Copyright Act

  Decline of Advertising Revenues

  Leading to the decline of print and online magazines -- see MediaBistro, http://www.mediabistro.com/, Jim Romanesko's Media News, http://www.poynter.org/medianews/

  The End of Free http://www.theendoffree.com/

  Among the victims: the Industry Standard, Brill's Content, Lingua Franca, Arts & Letters Daily, about.com/, Feed. On the endangered list or looking for new revenue: Salon, Slashdot, American Lawyer. Laying off reporting staff and columnists: virtually every newspaper and magazine and other media -- CNN, AOL, MTV, Boston Globe, Playboy, various Primedia titles, about.com/, Springer-Verlag, etc. Time's staff is expected to be cut in half by 2010.
  
  
  

  Security

  SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
  http://www.sans.org/top20/index1.php
  "This updated SANS Top Twenty is actually two Top Ten lists: the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in Windows and the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in UNIX and Linux. Although there are thousands of security incidents each year affecting these operating systems, the overwhelming majority of successful attacks target one or more of these twenty vulnerable services."
  
  
  

  Old Allies Turning Against Each Other

  
  

  See my article, Shifting Alliances, in ExLibris, November 16, 2001, http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib121.html

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