Professional Reading Shelf Personal Information Management
Source: Seattle Times UW ponders how to best store and retrieve electronic information
More about the Keeping Found Things Found project at the University of Washington. We've posted about it before. Gary offers a few comments about PIM and related "stuff" on the SEW Blog.
-- Censorship--Public Libraries
Source: Houston Chronicle Houston Texas: Mayor wrote a new page in library history
"It wasn't unusual for the Houston library to receive a complaint about a sexually explicit book like porn star Jenna Jameson's autobiography. What was unusual was that the mayor dealt with it personally, according to a Chronicle review of 10 years of library complaints."
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Information Industry The January/February Issue of Research Information is Now Available
Articles include:
+ High-tech business embraces new library technology
+ Tailoring tools -- from clothing to patents
A profile of Charles Besson, CEO of Questel Orbit
+ Mobile data could help medicine
+ Portals enable national access
-- Information Industry--LexisNexis
Legal Research
Source: The Virtual Chase The Devil Is in the Details
Genie Tyburski writes about a technical "glitch" with the LN's free service, LexisOne.
-- EJournals
Online Databases--Higher Education--United Kingdom
JISC
Source: Public Technology More online content available to UK academics as NESLi2 has 2nd successful year
"The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that it has secured agreements for 2005 with nine major international publishers via NESLi2, the national electronic journals initiative for further and higher education, funded by JISC. In addition to the renewal of significant agreements with Blackwell Publishing and Oxford University Press, brand new agreements were concluded with AAAS for Science Online, The American Chemical Society, The British Psychological Society, BMJ Publishing Group, Cell Press, The Institute of Physics and Sage. These agreements will mean considerable savings for the education and research communities through the lower cost of journals secured through national negotiations."
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