Library Juice 1:4 - February 11, 1998
Contents: 1. AlphaSearch metasite; 35 subjects 2. UKOLN Electronic Library Conference Proceedings 3. Resource Guide for Black History and Culture. Library of Congress. 4. NPR site on death and dying 5. Free Pint - email newsletter for web searchers 6. Interactive Learning Exhibit on Russia Premieres 7. BotSpot. All about Bots and Intelligent Agents. Hmmmmmmm..... 8. Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga 9. Town Meeting on Copyright and Fair Use; soliciting questions 10. "A Legal Publishers' List" Who owns Legal Publishing? 11. Call for Student Speakers at Symposium for LIS Students ____________________________________________________________________ 1. AlphaSearch metasite; 35 subjects AlphaSearch http://www.calvin.edu/Lib_Resources/as/ AlphaSearch is a new subject-based metasite provided by the Hekman Digital Library at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A metasite of metasites, AphaSearch is a gateway into the topics it covers. Users can browse by resource type, any of 35 subjects from archaeology to Spanish, or by descriptor, which the Calvin selectors have applied to each resource. Searches in AlphaSearch are limited to single word at this time; however, fielded searching is available. Each resource offers a short description and a link to a full description containing hyperlinked title words and descriptors. At present, AlphaSearch contains some 700 metaresources and shows great promise of becoming one of the premier educational subject metasites on the Internet. [JS] ______________________________________________________________________ 2. UKOLN Electronic Library Conference Proceedings Two UKOLN Electronic Library Conference Proceedings Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/ US Mirror http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html Training for Change: New Skills for the Electronic Library http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/ans-1997/ The UK Office for Library and Information Networking has made available proceedings from two conferences that took place in June and September of 1997 respectively. Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library contains summaries of the conference proceedings compiled by The Marc Fresko Consultancy. This conference was sponsored by six major organizations, including the British Library, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). Featured are 26 papers and presentations in seven major areas including research and development, measurement, metadata, authentication, and intellectual property. Training for Change: New Skills for the Electronic Library, a conference held in York, UK, contains abstracts and twelve full text papers in the areas of the challenge of change, current projects, skills and training for the digital age, and the impacts of the digital library on staff training. It concentrates on experiences in European university libraries. [JS] _____________________________________________________________________ 3. Resource Guide for Black History and Culture. Library of Congress. _The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture_ http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam001.html This site marks the publication by the US Library of Congress of the Mosaic, the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections. "Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range, size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound." The site offers samples of the materials and themes in the Library's collections. It is also a sample of a much larger exhibit planned for 1998. The LOC chose to highlight four of the many themes covered in the Mosaic at this site: Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Each section covers key issues and figures and offers many digitized images of original documents held by the Library. [MD] _____________________________________________________________________ 4. NPR site on death and dying The End of Life: Exploring Death in America--NPR [RealPlayer] http://www.npr.org/programs/death/ Viewing the black and erie homepage of this website entitled Death in America might encourage one to shuddder and quickly avoid it. But click on! This site, provided by National Public Radio, covers a number of very real issues surrounding the experiences of death and dying in America. It is highlighted by RealAudio and text transcripts of various "All Things Considered" segments on this topic that have aired since November, 1997. Another section provides testimonals by the dying (or by family members and friends who are faced with loss), and two others serve as bibliographic resources for people with terminal illnesses and for people coping with grief. A feedback section allows users to add their own death story to the page. [LXP] ______________________________________________________________________ 5. Free Pint - email newsletter for web searchers Free Pint http://www.freepint.co.uk/ Issue Archive http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/issues.htm Free Pint, a biweekly email newsletter provided by the the Willco information consultancy and edited by William Hahn, covers various aspects of both network related tools and content. Recent issues have covered tool-related topics: web problem diagnostics, improving results from search engines, and metasearch sites. Content topics have included articles on major sources of business and medical information. Tools information usually targets novice users. The current issue is located in the issue archive. Interested users can subscribe on the home page. [JS] ______________________________________________________________________ 6. Interactive Learning Exhibit on Russia Premieres How has political change affected the people and cultures of the former USSR? Explore these issues and more in the Annenberg/CPB Project's "Russia" exhibit. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/russia/ The exhibit covers Russia from its early history to its current climate. An extensive interactive atlas contains useful information on each republic in the Russian Federation. Animated maps demonstrate changes in politics and resources. You can book a trip on the Continental Railway and explore cities such as St. Petersburg and Kiev. Along the way you can pick up souvenirs, take pictures, and even send an email postcard to a friend. When your journey is complete, you can bookmark your scrapbook as a reminder of your trip. An activity on daily life examines how political upheaval has affected the economy. You have to make cost-of-living decisions. Can you stay within budget? The exhibit also contains links to related Web sites and a wealth of resources. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/russia/ We offer these free online exhibits to the general public, students and educators as an educational resource. Our goal is to provide a collection of high-quality, interactive learning experiences using the new techologies offered by the Web. If you have any questions, please contact us. Maura LoMonico Web Site Coordinator, Learner Online http://www.learner.org The Annenberg/CPB Projects ______________________________________________________________________ 7. BotSpot. All about Bots and Intelligent Agents. Hmmmmmmm..... Visit BotSpot and chat with Eliza...the original ChatterBot! Visit BotSpot and chat with Shallow Red...A Bot for the Year 2000! http://www.botspot.com BotSpot(tm) - The Spot for all Bots and Intelligent Agents on the Net including 14 searchable Bot Classification Databases, FAQs, Libraries, Articles, Newsletters, Electronic Journals, Listservs, Conferences, Previous Conferences Proceedings, Language and Code, Book Store, New Bots, Add a Bot, NewsBots, CommerceBots, ShoppingBots, KnowledgeBots, Search Bots, Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence and more. Visit the BotSpot of the Week awarded by Team BotSpot. Read "Best of the Bots" reviews and "The Secret Agent Man" column by Don Barker. BotSpot has received over 180 awards in its first fourteen months including the "NetGuide Platinum Award", the "USA Today HotSite", the "Scout Report Selection", "Snap! Best of the Web Winner", NetGuide's "Top 10 Internet Sites", PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" and PC Review's "Best Internet Web Sites of 1997" and is lauded as the definitive resource for bots, intelligent agents and artificial intelligence on the Net. Subscribe to BotSpot's free monthly BotSpot Newsletter or stay completely attuned by subscribing to BotSpot's Report every two weeks on the latest happenings, new bots/intelligent agents and industry updates. BotSpot will make an excellent bookmark and link for you and/or your site! View a thirty minute video review of BotSpot available at the top of BotSpot's home page! Virtual Cheers.... Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Team BotSpot " Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know of a Bot that finds the information for us " _____________________________________________________________________ 8. Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga Just a short note to let folks know that I have updated my Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga. Anime is Japanese animation. Manga is Japanese graphic novels (comics is a very rough translation) With the growing popularity of anime and manga in America I created this resource as a basic introduction for librarians. The page is at: http://www.sirius.com/~cowpunk/Libguide.html +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gilles Poitras gpoitras[at]gtu.edu Reference Department Graduate Theological Union Library 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, California, USA http://www.gtu.edu/library/ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ____________________________________________________________________ 9. Meeting on Copyright and Fair Use Note: Although this meeting takes place in Toronto, the organizers are soliciting questions for discussion from interested parties, regardless of whether they will be attending. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 6, 1998 LAST IN CURRENT SERIES OF TOWN MEETINGS ON COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE CAA Conference, Toronto, Feb 26, 1998 <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm> Below is a notice on the last in the current series of "Copyright & Fair Use" town meetings organized by the College Art Association, the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies and NINCH, with funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. A future series of copyright education town meetings will be announced in the next few months. David Green >Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:31:44 -0500 >To: david[at]cni.org >From: "Robert A. Baron" <rabaron[at]pipeline.com> >Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Town Meeting on Copyright & Fair Use TOWN MEETING on COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE NOTICE: The College Art Association, in association with the American Council on Learned Societies and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, with funding provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will present its final "Town Meeting" on the Fair Use of Digital Images on Thursday, February 26, 1998, during its 86th annual conference, at the Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The program will include the following speakers: David Green (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) Gary Schwartz (Curators of Dutch Art) Peter Walsh (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College) Maxwell Anderson (Art Museum Image Consortium and American Association of Museum Directors) Howard Besser (University of California, Berkeley) The program is being coordinated by Robert Baron and Leila Kinney along with the College Art Association. For detailed information, including a list of topics and statements by the speakers, refer to <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm> ===== The second half of this two-part meeting will be devoted to a debate between Max Anderson and Howard Besser on intellectual property issues pertaining to AMICO and similar licensing schemes which promise to make museum images available to academia. Readers of this notice (whether they plan to attend or not) are urged to submit questions for this session in advance of the meeting. Please send your questions to Robert Baron. Kindly identify your questions by placing "TTM:" at the start of the subject line: <robert.baron[at]pipeline.com> ===== For more information about the 1998 Conference, consult the CAA conference website: <http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/index.html> or contact Mary-Beth Shine: (212) 691-1051, <mbshine[at]collegeart.org&> Registration information can be found at the CAA conference site: <http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/1998/registration.html> ____________________________________________________________________ 10. "A Legal Publishers' List" Who owns Legal Publishing? Hello: An updated version of "A Legal Publishers' List: The Shape of Legal Publishing Today," is now available on the WWW at: http://www.Colorado.EDU/Law/lawlib/ts/legpub.htm The "Description and Acknowledgements" section reads: "This list of corporate affiliations represents a collaborative effort by many librarians and legal information industry professionals on the LAW-LIB listserv to trace the current lines of ownership in the U.S. legal publishing industry. We know that the list is incomplete, and we suspect that it contains some inaccuracies, despite our best efforts. We hope that over time suggestions from individuals throughout the legal information world will render the list more complete and accurate. We are especially grateful to Bob Berring of Boalt Hall Law Library, University of California, Berkeley; Anna Belle Leiserson of Vanderbilt Law Library; Atty. Ellen M. Poler; Laura Orr of the Lillian Goldman Library, Yale Law School; Holley Marker Thompson of Lexis-Nexis; and Lawrence Thompson of Martindale-Hubbell for their indispensable insights. Many other individuals have made valuable suggestions, and we are grateful for their input. A previous version of this list appeared in The Shape of Legal Publishing Today, The CRIV Sheet, Nov. 1997, at 11. This list is undergoing continual revision. Please send comments to Rob Richards, University of Colorado Law Library, Campus Box 402, Boulder, CO 80309-0402, rrichard[at]stripe.colorado.edu." Thank you to all who have made suggestions or have offered corrections! Those who have made substantial contributions are acknowledged in the "Description and Acknowedgements" section of the site. I apologize if I have inadvertantly neglected anyone. Please let me know if I've made any oversights. Rob Richards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert C. Richards, Jr., M.A., M.S.L.I.S Technical Services Librarian University of Colorado Law Library Fleming Law Building Kittredge Loop South Campus Box 402 Boulder, Colorado 80309-0402 Telephone: (303) 492-7535 Fax: (303) 492-2707 E-mail: rrichard[at]stripe.Colorado.EDU URL: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~rrichard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ 11. Call for Student Speakers, Symposium for LIS Students --Please forward this to any mailing list-- --for Info. or Lib. Science students-- Southwestern Symposium for Information and Library Science Students (SSILSS) **Call for Speakers** The place: University of North Texas in Denton, Texas The day: Saturday, March 28, 1998 The speakers: Students from across the country The topics: Information or Library Science The sponsor: NTASIS, the UNT student group of ASIS The party: Evening of March 28, sponsored by LISSA The prize: $50 cash award to authors of the best presentations Students in Information or Library sciences at any level are invited to present a 25 minute presentation on research, projects, or work they have done in either of these fields. This will give students a chance to: - present their best class paper - meet and party with students from other LIS programs, - get valuable speaking experience, - have a chance to win $50, - hear exciting new ideas! The call for speakers is open until all slots are filled, but we hope to receive applications by 2/20. To apply, do one of the following: * Send the requested information to snicholson[at]bigfoot.com * Fax this form to (940) 565-3101 * Mail it to NTASIS, SLIS, ISB Room 205, P.O. Box 311068, Denton, Texas 76203-1068 * Put it in the NTASIS mailbox in the UNT SLIS office. Questions? Call Scott Nicholson at (940)243-0763 or write to snicholson[at]bigfoot.com Application to be a speaker at SSILSS: Name: Address: City: State: Zip: School: E-mail: Phone: Title of Presentation: Abstract (no more than 100 words): Call for student presenters - please forward (fwd) __________________________________________________________________ This has been Library Juice No. 4. Library Juice is published weekly, Wednesday nights. Send me items to include in future issues, write me with your comments, or just to say hello. (To be unsubscribed, just ask). 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