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Saturday, 29th December 2001

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Legal Research
Academic Libraries
Two Interesting Articles from the Law Librarians in the New Millenium Newsletter
The Winter 2002 issue of this West Group newsletter for librarians has two articles that might be of interest.
1) "Class Discussion" (page 1)
Dan Dabney, senior director of Legal Product Research and Development at West discusses legal classification.
2) "Starting From Scratch: Tips on Building a Modern Academic Library Collection" (page 6)
Suggestions from Margaret Meaes Axtmann who helped build the collection at the University of St. Thomas law library.

U.S. Government--Electronic Records
Source: Federal Computer Week
"Electronic Records Baffle Agencies"
From the article, "A survey of more than 150 federal agencies and departments concludes that most agencies are still baffled by electronic records. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, most federal agencies create documents in electronic formats, but when preserving them as official records, print them on paper and put them into storage."
See Also: The 12/19 posting contains a link to the full-text document discussed in this article.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources & Tools (2 Items)
Books--Lists & Rankings
Source: Publishers Weekly
All-Time Bestselling Children's Books
"A listing of hardcovers that have sold 750,000 copies and paperbacks that have topped the one million copy mark over the years." The list currently contains 376 titles.
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Health--Economic Issues
Source: WHO
Full-Text Report--Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development

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