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Friday, 31st May 2002

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CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act)
"Judges Toss Out Online Porn Law" MULTNOMAH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
From the story, "Public libraries cannot be forced to use Internet filters designed to block pornography, three federal judges said Friday in overturning a new federal law. In a 195-page decision, the judges said the Children's Internet Protection Act went too far because the filters can also blocked access to sites that contain protected speech."
See Also: Read the Full-Text of The Court Decision
See Also: ALA Page With Additional Details and Resources

Specialty Search--Beta
A New Beta From Amazon.Com: Search and Browse Restaurant Menus
Similar to Google Catalogs, this beta provides users with the ability to search (using optical character recognition) and browse a selection of restaurant menus in 6 cities, with more to come. The current cities available are: Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. Another useful and potentially "tasty" use of search technology. Bon Appetit!

FirstGov
Online This Monday (6/3): The FAST Search Powered/Crawled FirstGov.Gov Database Set To Debut
We've been looking forward to this for some time. FAST Search is the owner and operator of AllTheWeb.Com.

Web Search--Google
Winner of the Google Programming Contest Announced
A geographic search demo wins the $10,000 prize. From the announcement, "Daniel's project adds the ability to search for web pages within a particular geographic locale to traditional keyword searching...We selected Daniel's project because it combined an interesting and useful idea with a clean and robust implementation." Note: Similar services have already been developed and implemented. For example, GeoSearch from divine/Northern Light/Vicinity (interface available but not functioning, 5/31). Read a news release about GeoSearch.
See Also: A Few Comments from the First Prize Winner (via News.Com)

Online Industry--LexisNexis
D&B Data Now Available via Nexis.Com
From the announcement, "Until now, D&B information was accessible only on the LexisNexis Classic system."

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items)
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National Archives--United States
The New National Archives (U.S.) Web Site is Now Online
NARA's two websites, http://www.nara.gov and http://www.archives.gov have been combined into a single site. The new site will be located at the Archives.Gov url.
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Documents in the News
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Full-Text, New, Attorney General Guidelines & AG Directives on Information Sharing
Background: "Ashcroft Permits F.B.I. to Monitor Internet and Public Activities" (via NY Times)
See Also: "FBI Agents Gain New Latitude in Libraries" (via LJ)
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Science and Technology Information
Source: Department of Trade and Industry (U.K.)
New Site, GlobalWatch Online
Of special interest is the "Information" section. This section is a compilation of technology news (various sources) in several areas. It also contains a "news by country" (15 nations) section. Here you'll find reports from various British Embassies.
See Also: Site review from Kable's Government Computing
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U.S. State Government--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
State Government Spending, 2000
Summary/Fast Facts ||| Direct to Data

News Briefs
Google Answers Adds Keyword Search Capabilities
You can now search terms used in questions and answers. From what I've been told this database will NOT be updated with changed/updated facts, urls, etc.
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Digital Reference
"New Service Allows the Public to Pose Reference Questions Without Visiting the Library" (via The Chronicle of Higher Education)
More about QuestionPoint.

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