Current Awareness Tools
Online News�Aggregators Resource of the Week: NewsNow
Those of you who like Moreover as an aggregator of breaking news links will want to visit and bookmark NewsNow, another U.K. based resource.
NewsNow compiles information from hundreds of well-know news sources from around the world. Here are a few of my favorite features:
*Home page updates automatically with new material every 5 minutes. *Home page divided into 6 categories (Business & Finance, Info Tech, Current Affairs, Sport, Entertainment, U.K. Politics)
*Right side of page contains links to many subject oriented �newswire� compilations. These links also aggregate news from many providers. *Keyword search engine finds links to articles from the past month (left side of page)
*Each news entry throughout the entire site is labeled with an image of the flag of the country where the news source is based. *The LiveFeed link (left side of page) opens open a separate window with a virtual ticker that automatically refreshes itself every 5 minutes. The LiveFeed is a great way to quickly identify each news story, for all sections of the site, as they come in. In addition to the flag icon, each entry is color-coded by subject.
*The LiveFeed is also available at: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/-LiveFeed.htm
The only thing this free resource seems to lack is a complete list of the sites where news is culled from. However, a quick tour will result in you identifying many top-level news sources. Kudos to NewsNow!
Research To Know About
Preservation of Authentic Records InterPARES (International Research on Authentic Permanent Records in Electronic Systems)
From the site, "The goal of the InterPARES Project is to develop the theoretical and methodological knowledge essential to the permanent preservation of electronically generated records and, on the basis of this knowledge, to formulate model strategies, policies and standards capable of ensuring their preservation."
The project is based at the the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Available is 14 page .pdf glossary containing definitiond of terms about information organization, preservation, and the program itself.
Web Search
Source: Internet.Com "Is The Internet Becoming A Commercial Directory?"
From the article, "GoTo.com's growth and continuing development has seen the majority of its search counterparts follow suit and implement paid inclusion programmes. For instance, Inktomi - one of the web's original crawlers - is increasingly relying on its paid inclusion products to grow its revenue base. Similarly, Looksmart's quarterly earning calls last week re-iterated that the future of the company was in paid listings." Training users to understand the differences between the types of results and the different types of engines is more important now than ever before.
Education New Material From ERIC Clearinghouses Community College Abstracts
"...from the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges (ERIC/JC) provides an opportunity for users to view new abstracts that have been processed by ERIC/JC but don't appear in the ERIC Database yet. Abstracts are accessible through this system until they are available in the ERIC Database."
---- Child Care FAQs Child Care FAQ's From the National Child Care Information Center
This adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse, has added new content to the FAQ section of the site. New FAQ's include: Average Number of Children in Child Care and Child Care Workforce Salaries.
--- From the NCES Home Schooling in the United States: 1999
30 pages .pdf
--- The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2000
National Mathematics Assessment Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
World Population
Source: Population Reference Bureau World Population Gap Widens
Includes the chart, "World Population Clock" See Also: World Population Data Sheet-2001
"The 2001 World Population Data Sheet contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for all geographic entities with populations of 150,000 or more and all members of the United Nations."
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