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Monday, 21st May 2001

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Web Tools--Calendars
Web Site Preparation
Cool Resource: OCLC's NetFirst NetCalendar
Here's one to share with colleagues. Is it a calendar? Is it a web directory? How about both? This wonderful FREE RESOURCE provides you with quality sites that offer information related to upcoming special events (birthdays, historical anniversaries, etc.) The weekly update gives you plenty of lead time since it highlights events about 3 months in the future.
Each listing contains links to three web-based resources as well as a bit of background on the person, country, event, etc.
Highlights from 5/14/01 Issue
*Raoul Wallenberg: Birth Anniversary (8/5/1912)
*Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima: Anniversary (8/6/1945)
*Voting Rights Act of 1965 Signed: Anniversary (8/6/1965)
*Nixon Resigns: Anniversary (8/9/1974)

State Libraries--Washington
Source: Civic.Com
"Washington Workers Get E-Books"
From the article, "Through a deal with netLibrary Inc., the Washington State Library (www.statelib.wa.gov) offers more than 600 titles, most of them technical books and manuals. The books reside on netLibrary servers, and state employees can "sign out" books one at a time through netLibrary�s system after they�ve set up an account as a registered user."

Web Search--Google
"Monika Henzinger: The Sage of Search"
Source: TheStandard.Com
"Not only are Henzinger and her team of 10 scientists dedicated to keeping the engine running smoothly, but also they're in charge of adding new features such as translation, dictionary links, maps and white pages. Henzinger's team is responsible for making Google run on wireless devices and, with voice recognition, on cell phones as well."

Full-Text Document Shelf (5 Items)
Individual Wealth--Worldwide
"World Wealth Report 2001"
Source: Merrill Lynch, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Direct to Full-Text Document
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Tax Rates
Historical Effective Tax Rates (1979-1997)
Source: Congressional Budget Office
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Minority-Owned Business Ownership--Statistics--United States
Source: U.S. Census
Asian and Pacific Islander-Owned Businesses
Summary/News Release ||| Direct to Full-Text
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American Indian and Alaska Native-Owned Businesses
Summary/News Release ||| Direct to Full-Text Document
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Energy--Maps--U.S.
East North Central Energy Market Map
Source: EIA
From the site, "shows the geographic locations of key energy sites in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin as of the year 2000. Natural gas pipeline flow, the Chicago market center, electric power plants and transmission lines, oil ports, refineries, and other sites are included."

Canada Resource Shelf (2 Items)
Economic Update
Canada Economic Update
Source: Dept. of Finance
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Rural Services
Pocket Directory of Rural Programs and Services
Source: Canadian Rural Partnership

Public Libraries
"Owning the Future: Looting the Library"
Source: Technology Review
From the article, "As we plunge into the digital realm, the nation's 16,000 public libraries are striving to uphold their tradition as protectors of public access to new books and articles. But publishers, in an increasingly bald, frontal assault on the library's mission, have something very different in mind: a pay-per-use model for information content that will largely shut libraries out."

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