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Tuesday, 1st November 2005

RLG Joins Open Content Alliance and 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey: Government Documents

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Library Catalogs
Source: SearchDay
Searching for Library Books with RedLightGreen
Gary takes a look at this great bibliographic database+ from RLG. Btw, RLG will join Yahoo, MSN, and others as a member of the Open Content Alliance.
See Also: Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
See Also: Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details
A new IT NewsBreak by B.Q.
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OCLC--Lists & Rankings
Source: OCLC
Updated: OCLC 1000
"OCLC Research has updated its list of the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries--the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the 'purchase vote' of libraries around the globe."
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Government Documents
Source: Kovacs.com
Results Published: 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey: Government Documents
Results from a web-based survey from librarian, author, and web trainer Diane Kovacs. One question asked, "What are the essential 3-5 print Government Document reference sources that you can't work without in answering reference questions (e.g., laws, codes, statistics, etc.)?"
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Information Literacy--Science
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via American Copy Editors Society)
Notes from the Science Lab
"Some thoughts for reporters, editors, copy and news desks on evaluating medical, scientific and environmental studies.... Not all studies are definitive. In fact, very few are. Science is most often a continuum, in which one study builds on the last and some clear proof emerges only over time.... Many studies are based on numbers so small or evidence so flimsy that they raise the question as to whether we should publish them at all.... Here are some clues to help determine how strong or newsworthy a study is."
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Academic Libraries--Information Ethics--Discussion Lists
Source: ACRL
ACRL Committee on Ethics announces new discussion list
"The ACRL Committee on Ethics announces the establishment of a new discussion list, ETHICSFORUM, to stimulate discussion among librarians about ethical issues within academic librarianship. At the Annual Conference 2005 in Chicago, committee members determined that an open discussion list would be a useful tool to create greater awareness of ethical questions in the academic library."
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E-Journals
Source: ARL
ARL Endorses Call for Action to Preserve E-Journals
See Also: JISC issues call to preserve online journals

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