This is Issue Number 1 - January 22, 1998.
I'll release future issues once every week or two. Most will not be as long as this. I've been saving up some items, waiting for the bulk of subscribers to come onboard. First order of business: This Newsletter needs a name. Please email me with your suggestions. ("The Hory Horebuck" is ruled out in advance.) Also, email me items you would like me to include in future newsletters, and other ideas. If you receive two copies of this you are signed up twice - please let me know and I'll straighten it out. In this issue: 1. ALA SRRT Task Force on the Environment Home Page 2. Mary Minow's Map to Library Law 3. Censored News author to speak in Santa Monica, Jan. 22nd 4. New Internet Current Awareness Service for Librarians (email) 5-11 From the Internic Scout Report 5. LINK Alert--Springer-Verlag (abstracts from their e-journals) 6. Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1997--CIA 7. NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards--ANSI 8. Knowledge Discovery Nuggets (Data Mining) 9. Periods and Styles [frames] -Architecture 10. Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998 11. Subscribing to the Internic Scout Report 12. wORking Press is Ten Years Old! (Volunteer run art-book publisher) 13. LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS EXHORT COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT COPYRIGHT BILLS 14. PULSE - the Finnish PUblic Libraries FrontpagE ______________________________________________________________ 1. [ALA's SRRT (Social Responsibilities Round Table) Task Force on The Environment.] TFOE has a Home Page! http://www.usu.edu/~cnr/temp/tfoehome.htm Yes, 1997 was an exciting year for TFOE. Highlights included the unveiling of a newsletter, GreeNotes (a second electronic issue is planned for later this winter). TFOE held two well-attended and highly informative sessions at the 1997 ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The TFOE resolution for ALA to examine its use of chlorine-free paper for its publications and correspondence was approved at the SRRT Action Council. __________________________________________________________ 2. Mary Minow's Map to Library Law. http://www.best.com/~tstms/mary.html Mary Minow is teaching a class next fall (knock on wood) in Library Law. The URL above is for her home page, which has articles by her on intellectual freedom and intellectual property, some information on current legislation affecting libraries, documets serving as examples in library governance, and some library related links. ________________________________________________________ 3. Censored News ANNOUNCEMENT--Carl Jensen, author of Censored:The News That Didn't Make the News discusses and signs 20 Years of Censored News, a compilation of two decades' worth of important news under-reported or ignored by the media. on Thursday, Jan. 22nd, 7:30 PM at the Midnight Special Bookstore 1318 Third St. Promenade Santa Monica Joan Sekler Email: sekler[at]labridge.com http://home.labridge.com/~laamn/ _______________________________________________________ 4. The NetInLib-Announce email list is a free current awareness service whose purpose is to alert librarians and other information professionals to new, innovative, or useful Internet resources. Like most electronic mailing lists, NetInLib-Announce is intended to be member-driven and collaborative. Its success as a current awareness service depends heavily on members' contribution of new resources that they believe to be of interest to their colleagues. Members can announce resources they are responsible for publicizing or maintaining, or they can announce resources they have encountered and feel are worth sharing with others. See http://www.targetinform.com/netinlib/ for more information. Mark Jordan Subscribing to the list To subscribe, email NetInLib-Announce-request[at]targetinform.com with the message: subscribe netinlib-announce To receive a daily digest of all the messages as opposed to each message separately, your message should be: subscribe netinlib-announce digest You will receive an email message explaining how to confirm your subscription. If you subscribe without the digest option, and later change your mind and want to receive the digest, you have to unsubscribe from the list and then resubscribe. Unsubscribing to the list To be removed from the list, email NetInLib-Announce-request[at]targetinform.com with the message: unsubscribe netinlib-announce You will receive an email message explaining how to confirm being removed from the list. _____________________________________________________________ >From the Internic Scout Report: 5. LINK Alert--Springer-Verlag http://link.springer.de/alert/ Springer-Verlag Journals Preview Service (discussed in the September 17, 1997 issue of the Scout Report for Science & Engineering) has been integrated into Springer-Verlag's LINK service. This free service provides users with the most recent tables of contents and abstracts from more than 200 journals retrievable via LINK. Each new table of contents, with links to respective abstracts, is sent automatically to you via e-mail as soon as it becomes available electronically. To subscribe, users select one or more journals from an alphabetical list or click on an area of interest. Once an email address is entered, subscribers receive a confirmation message. Note that LINK Alert replaces SVJPS. [DF] 6. Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1997--CIA http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/hies97/ The 1997 edition of this handy reference work, produced by the US Central Intelligence Agency, is available. The 139 tables and 30 figures "provide basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions." Topics covered include general economic profiles, aggregated data, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and former Soviet Republics data, sector data from five economic sectors, and environmental data. Data can be time series or snapshot. Note that the quality of figure images varies by image. [JS] 7. NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards--ANSI http://www.nssn.org/ The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) provides this National Standards Systems Network database, a searchable interface to bibliographic information about more than 225,000 approved standards. The basic search interface supports title and document number queries. Information returned includes title, document number, whether or not there is an ANSI approved standard, and ordering information. The search help applies to an enhanced version of the search interface that is fee based. [JS] 8. Knowledge Discovery Nuggets Directory http://www.kdnuggets.com/ Knowledge Discovery Nuggets is both a web site and an associated newsletter. The newsletter focuses on the latest research, new applications, conference announcements, and news about data mining and knowledge discovery. The web site offers a large index of categorized pointers to data mining and knowledge discovery software, informative reference materials, related research projects, data sets, and much more. While somewhat difficult to navigate, Knowledge Discovery Nuggets offers an excellent place to start a data mining or knowledge discovery related search. [CL] 9. Period and Styles [frames] http://ps.theatre.tulane.edu/Period.Styles/Period_Styles.html Designed by Tulane University Professor Hugh Lester to complement his courses for advanced theater design students, this collection of teaching modules and images will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture or historical design. The modules offer varying levels of detail about historical time periods from Ancient Egypt to Modern. The image collection offers photos and information on a variety of architectural, decorative and furniture styles. Typical entries include a thumbnail image, location, name of architect or designer, and date of construction. Some provide commentary on the design and its place in the period. Access to images varies in terms of how it is organized in the module and image sections. [MD] 10. c http://www.Legacy98.org/ National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org/ Provided by the National Women's History Project, this site offers numerous resources to help educators and activists commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions signed in Seneca Falls set the agenda for the women's rights movement. At the site users will find a history of the movement and a detailed timeline, information on the Legacy98 newsgroup, and information on a large number of national women's rights organizations, museums, and Internet resources. Additional features include a listing of planned national and regional anniversary celebrations and program and curriculum ideas for teaching and commemorating the women's rights movement in schools, libraries, and local communities. [MD] 11. For information on subscribing to the Scout Report, send email to: listserv[at]cs.wisc.edu In the body of the message type: info scout-report Or visit their web site and subscribe using a web form: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/lists/ The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/ _______________________________________________________________ 12. wORking Press is Ten Years Old! wORking Press is an independent publisher run by volunteers. For ten years we have published books by for and about working-class artists. To mark the achievement of 10 years of autonomous publishing by working class artists and writers an exhibition will be held in the ILRC Library of London Guildhall University, 41 Commercial Road, London, E1 1LA Betweem January 5th and February 6th. The exhibition features the complete set of books published by wORking Press background information to the project and artwork selected from the books. A computer terminal connected to the wORking press website is also included in the exhibition. If you are unable to visit the exhibition in person why not check out the wORking Press website where you can read about the publishing project, browse the books and even download selected chapters and the full text of pamphlets. The website features a page of links to related sites, if you would like your project to be included reply to this e-mail with the URL of your site. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/working_press Richard McKeever wORking_press[at]compuserve.com __________________________________________________________ 13. LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS EXHORT COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT COPYRIGHT BILLS <http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/> In the latest issue of its Washington Office Newsletter (ALAWON), the American Library Association reports on an appeal from the presidents of four library associations to mobilize the library community in support of two copyright bills now before Congress. Specifically, they urge their members to encourage both of their Senators to cosponsor Sen. John Ashcroft's (R-MO) "Digital Copyright Clarification and Technology Act" (S. 1146) and their House Representative to cosponsor the "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act," introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Tom Campbell (R-CA) (H.R. 3048). The four presidents of the American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries and the Special Library Association, make it clear in a letter to library members that they believe these two bills are the "best approach to meet the challenges of the digital environment while, at the same time, preserving the critical balance between copyright owners and users in the electronic age." Ann Snoeyenbos *Address change--use Ann.Snoeyenbos[at]nyu.edu (Ann Snoeyenbos is ALA New Members Round Table President. -ed.) ______________________________________________________________ 14. And finally, homepage for the public libraries of the 2nd Greatest Country in the World, FINLAND! (#1 is Canada). Season's Greetings to all list members, PULSE - the Finnish PUblic Libraries FrontpagE is a single point of contact to distributed library resources in Finland and around the world. http://www.lib.hel.fi/syke/english In 1997, new resources and services have been developed and added to PULSE. These have been described and can be accessed also in English. ______________________________________________________________ Email me with suggestions, items to include, to unsubscribe, to say hello, etc. -- __________________________________________________________________ Rory Litwin mailto:rlitwin[at]earthlink.net PO Box 720511 phone: (408) 286-6409 San Jose, CA 95172 http://home.earthlink.net/~rlitwin __________________________________________________________________ X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 20032
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