Professional Reading Shelf
Information Technology
Source: Journal of Digital Information
Full Text Paper, Employee Resistance to Information Technology Change in a Social Service Agency: A Membership Category Approach
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Audio Preservation
Source: CLIR
The Art and Science of Audio Preservation
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Technology Books–Book Reviews
Source: LITA
New Issues, TER: Technology Electronic Reviews
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Science Librarianship–Publications
Source: ACRL, Science and Technology Section
Now online:
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 2004
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Interlibrary Loan
Now Available: Free (One Week Only) Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of Interlending & Document Supply
Articles include:
+ Unmediated is the message: enhancements to traditional interlibrary loan in a Canadian university (Vol 32, No.3)
+ Document access in the United States: revisited 1978-2004 (Vol 32, No.3)
+ An end user writes about accessing documents (Vol 32, No.3)
+ The future of interlending (Vol 32, No.2)
+ License to Deny? Publisher restrictions on document delivery from e-licensed journals (Vol 32, No.2)
+ Interlending and document supply: a review of recent literature (Vol 32, No.2)
+ Finding that document! Enhancing the discovery and locating of journals (Vol 32, No.1)
+ View Interlibrary lending and document supply: past, present and future (Vol 32, No.1)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Employers–Science–Surveys
Source: Science Magazine
Science Magazine’s Top Employers Survey
“The latest survey sponsored by Science’s Office of Publishing and Member Services finds evidence of recovery in the biopharmaceutical sector. But top companies, in the view of the survey’s respondents, remain largely unchanged.”
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Economic Development
Source: ELDIS
Compilation: State of the World Reports 2004
From the site, “Want to know what’s going on in the world? The big development institutions are very happy to tell you. Here’s our selection from this year’s crop of the big macro-economic ‘State of the World’ surveys and analysis.”
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Families–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
New Report, “Stay-at-Home” Parents Top 5 Million, Census Bureau Reports
Summary Full Text Report ( America?s Families and Living Arrangements: 2003)

Search Briefs
+ Australia’s Ansearch to hatch competitor to Google
+ Autonomy Enters Desktop Search War
+ Video Search: Google, Yahoo, and MSN
Includes many examples of companies currently offering video/audio search.

Professional Reading Shelf
Information Quality on the Web
Diploma Mills–Domain Names
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Don’t Judge a College by Its Internet Address
“Although ‘.edu’ Internet addresses are supposed to be reserved for colleges with accreditation from agencies approved by the U.S. Department of Education, hundreds of institutions that do not meet that requirement have the coveted Web addresses.”
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Research Libraries
Source: ARL
Chart: Resources per Student in ARL Libraries, 1986-2003
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RFID
Source: KPIX
More on the Use of RFID at San Francisco Public Library
“A plan to put radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into San Francisco public library books has drawn sharp criticism on grounds ranging from privacy for library patrons to the health and safety of library workers…Other critics of the tags are concerned about the possible health risks to library staff from the radio frequencies emitted by the scanners. ‘Library workers,’ said Peter Warfield of the San Francisco Library Users Association, ‘would be at risk potentially much more than members of the public because they would be operating this equipment all day long.’”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Computers–United States–Statistics
Internet Usage–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, Detailed Tables: Computer and Internet Use in the United States: September 2001
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Education–United States–Statistics
Source: NCES
New Report, Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women: 2004
“This statistical report assembles a series of indicators that examine the extent to which males and females have access to the same educational opportunities, avail themselves equally of these opportunities, perform at similar levels throughout schooling, succeed at similar rates, and reap the same benefits from their educational experiences.”
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Digital Content Industry
Source: EContent Magazine
2004 EContent 100
“Welcome to the fourth annual EContent 100 - our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Science–Databases
Source: The Scientist
All About TextPresso
“Few research tasks are as time-consuming and tedious as scouring the scientific literature. The searcher might need only one nugget of information, yet it can take hours or days to slog through hundreds of papers before that one fact is found. Now, a new open-source tool called Textpresso (www.textpresso.org) can find a single fact just by typing in a quick search entry.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Medical Eponyms
Source: Ole Daniel Enersen
Who Named It?
“Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15,000 eponyms and more than 6,000 persons.” Search or browse.
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Commemerative Observances–United States
Source: CRS (via FPC)
Updated, Commemorative Observances: A Chronological List
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Rental Cars–Ratings
Source: J.D. Power and Associates
J.D. Power Rental Car Ratings
From press release: “The study, now in its ninth year, measures customer satisfaction among business and leisure customers who rented a car at or near an airport. Overall satisfaction is based on performance in six areas. In order of importance, they are: pick-up process, rates/value, return process, rental car, reservation and shuttle bus/van. Enterprise receives high ratings from customers in all factors and leads the industry in the areas of pick-up process and shuttle bus/van. Hertz follows Enterprise in the rankings, receiving the highest ratings in reservations, rental car and return process…. Wait times to pick up rental cars have increased significantly over 2003. The study finds that 43 percent of all rental car customers had to wait an average of 19 minutes for a shuttle bus to pick up their rental car-up from 11 minutes in 2003.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: Big Lottery Fund
National evaluation reveals impact of People’s Network
“A major new impact study undertaken by the Tavistock Institute and published by Big Lottery Fund shows how public libraries are being transformed and revitalised by the introduction of computers.”
Full Text Report: The People’s Network: Evaluation Summary
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Libraries–United States
E-Rate
Source: AP
Internet Aid to Schools, Libraries Flowing Again
“he program that helps link schools and libraries to the Internet has resumed spending after a cash-flow crunch that delayed more than $400 million in projects. The E-Rate program has ended a four-month-long moratorium on new projects, federal officials said Tuesday, but it will take time to clear a backlog of more than 4,000 requests.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Consumer Credit–United States
Source: Washington Post
Free Access to Consumer Credit Reports Begins Next Week
Here’s background of what’s free and what you’ll have to pay for (most extras are still fee-based).
Overview Article||| Charts and Tables
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Automobiles–Canada
Source: Natural Resources Canada (via DocuTicker.com)
Just Released, Automobiles–Canada
Just Released, 2005 Fuel Consumption Guide
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Aerial Photographs–Canada–Databases
Source: Natural Resources Canada
The National Air Photo Library Has a New Look
“The National Air Photo Library (NAPL) of Natural Resources Canada archives over six million aerial photographs covering all of Canada, some of which date back to the 1920s.”

Briefly
+ Digitization of the Nature Archive Continues

Librarians
New “Librarian” Web Domains
Here’s a new list (we’re going to make this a regular feature) with most of the domain names (.com, .org, .net, info) registered in October and November that contain the word “librarian” in them. In many cases, these domains aren’t active yet. Domains that are active (at the time of writing) are hyperlinked. If you’re interested in learning about who registered the domain, simply run a WHOIS search. Have fun!
+ famouslibrarians.com
+ checkoutalibrarian.com
+ librarianoccupation.com
+ librarianforums.org
+ librarianforum.org
+ askmedlibrarian.com (and .org)
++ (Registered by UCHSC Denison Memorial Library)
+ librarianjokes.com
+ librarianforhire.com
+ movie-librarians.com
+ novel-librarians.com
+ librarianknits.com
+ e-librarians.com
+ highschoollibrarian.com
+ galacticlibrarian.com
+ eclecticlibrarian.com
+ personalresearchlibrarian.com
++ (Registered by Johns Hopkins University)
+ systemslibrarian.org (and .info)
+ travelinlibrarian.info
+ eliteratelibrarian.com
+ imagelibrarian.com
+ justintime-librarian.info
+ librarianslave.com
+ thecyberlibrarian.com
+ yourcyberlibrarian.com
+ yourlibrarianslave.com
+ filmlibrarian.com
+ librarianexchange.com
+ librariangifts.com
+ librarianindex.com
+ librariansex.com
+ librarianworld.com
+ nakedlibrarian.com

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Vehicle Safety–Photos–Database
Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
AAA Foundation Photolibrary
“These images may be published and distributed in any paper, electronic or other media for the sole purpose of promoting traffic safety and injury prevention issues. Users of these images may digitally manipulate or add other graphic elements to enhance the usability of the images for publishing only as such use relates to promoting traffic safety, injury prevention, and/or public health. Users of these images may not sell them, transfer or assign intellectual property rights to the images, and users must credit the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety as the source.” Search by keyword or use dropdown menu to view photos by category — from “Aggressive Driving” to “Work Zone.” Submit online permission form for use.

Professional Reading Shelf
Metasearch
Source: NISO
Results of NISO Metasearch Survey
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Research Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: BL
Research Libraries Network appoints top jobs
“Dr Michael Jubb has been appointed as Director of the Research Libraries Network (RLN) based at the British Library, with Professor Robert Burgess taking up the role of Chair of the Advisory Board. With �3 million funding from a consortium of funders, the RLN will ensure ‘joined up’ information services for UK researchers. The RLN will bring together the UK ’s four higher education funding bodies, the British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales and the eight members of Research Councils UK, to develop the UK ’s first national framework aimed at addressing the information needs of researchers. The RLN will run initially for three years and start operating in February 2005. It will be led by an executive unit - based at the British Library - and take strategic guidance from the advisory board. More key executive unit and advisory board positions will be appointed in the near future.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Mobile Access to Information–Education
Source: JISC
New Report, Mobile and PDA technologies and their future use in education
“In recent years there has been a phenomenal growth in the number and technical sophistication of what can loosely be termed ‘mobile devices’ such as PDAs, mobile phones and media players. Increasingly these devices are also internet-enabled. This JISC report reviews the current state of the art, explores the potential uses within education and discusses some of the trends in technological development such as wireless networking, device convergence and ‘always-on’ connectivity.”
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Institutional Repositories
Source: SPARC
Workshop: Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage Work
Presentations and posters from the workshop are now available. The event took place last week in Washington D.C.
Presentations include:
+ Scholarly Communication, Open Access, and Cost Saving: Are They Related?
Keynote by Charles Phelps, University of Rochester.
+ Scientific Publications: Free for All? A Summary of Implications for Institutional Repositories
+ The Copyright Conundrum: How to Populate Your Repository and Stay Legal
+ DSpace at MIT - The Business Model Revisited
+ Open Access Policy: The View from Europe
++ Posters include:
+ Barriers to Adoption of an Institutional Repository: An Academic Library Case Study
+ Developing a Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories in Canada

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Out of Print Books–Lists & Rankings
BookFinder.com Unveils Top 10 Out-of-Print Books of 2004
See Also: Additional Bookfinder Rankings
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Labour–Australia
Source: Dept. of Parliamentary Libraries, Australia
Research Brief: Labour market dynamics