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Tuesday, 6th November 2001

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Library of Congress
International Online Resources
LC Launches "Online International Project"
From the annoucement, "Portals to the World serves as a kind of one-stop shopping for reliable international information," said Carolyn T. Brown, Assistant Librarian for Library Services and Acting Director, Area Studies Collections. "We expect that it will become one of the very first places that librarians, researchers, and the general public turn to for information about the nations of the world." Portals to the World (www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html) offers links to selective and authoritative electronic resources, arranged by country or geographic regions, with links for each, sorted in a wide range of broad categories. Each country portal is designed to be comprehensive, yet selective, and to cover topics of interest to specialists and the general public alike. Typical categories are business, commerce, economy, culture, education, government, politics, law, history, libraries, and archives, with some categories tailored to subjects of particular importance for the study of individual nations. In some cases, search engines local to that nation or language have also been included as have links to worldwide organizations, such as the World Bank and UNESCO.
Direct to "Portals to the World"

Online Research
Source: Kentucky Kernel (University of Kentucky)
Scary Stuff: No Need To Use Books, Magazines, and Other Paper-Based Resources?
This article from the student newpaper at the University of Kentucky is about the underuse of LexisNexis at the school. However, this article is not being brought to your attention for this topic but, specifically for its lead. The article makes it seem that LN and other electronic tools are the only resources needed to write a paper. From the article, "Forget pulling books from the shelves and blowing dust off their covers. There's no need to thumb through books, magazines, newspapers and business reports in an attempt to accumulate enough information to draft a substantial paper.Yet many students are unaware that much of the information needed is available on Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe."

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (2 Items)
U.S./Canadian Border--Statistics
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Preview: "North American Trade and Travel Trends"
Full report available Friday
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Minority Business--United States
Full-Text
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Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises, Black-Owned Businesses: 1997
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