Library Juice 2:29 - Library Juice is now a book and a blog

Library Juice 2:29 - July 28, 1999 Contents: 1. Megan Adams' Consumer Resources Webliography at LSU 2. Press for Sandy Berman 3. AltaVista Nixes Paid Search 4. LibraryLand Index update 5. A New Tool Expands The Public's Right-to-know About Pollution 6. Information for Social Change website 7. Filtering vignette from Santa Clara County Public 8. Filtering-related news, courtesey of Karen Schneider 9. New anti-filtering discussion list from Chuck0 10. Ethnic pages and directories 11. PLUS: Public Libraries Using Spanish 12. El Faro - Servicio de Navegación Bibliotecológico 13. REFORMANET/Census2000 Website Info Re: Racially and Ethnically Mixed People 14. LIBREF Survey Results: Core Reference Tools 15. Economic Reporting Review 16. Alternative Press Center's Request 17. Skateboard Science [RealPlayer G2] Quote for the week: "Most of these (filtering) horror stories are taking place in schools. Why? Because so many have insisted so hard that school libraries are different. They act in loco parentis. Who, I'd like to know, is acting in loco parentis for those parents who DON'T want their kids to have only filtered access? I've asked that question, and haven't gotten an answer yet. When we ask questions about the welfare of all kids, the issues seem to quickly turn to questions of legal liability, as if what's best for kids and whether or not somebody might sue the school are NECESSARILY the same thing all the time." -Melora Ranney Home page of the week: Jessamyn West: http://www.jessamyn.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Megan Adams' Consumer Resources Webliography at LSU http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/consumer.html A nice collection of consumer resources, suitable for use in public libraries. ___________________________________________________________________________top 2. Press for Sandy Berman Article on Sandy Berman in Minneapolis's Citypages: http://citypages.com/databank/20/971/article7781.asp .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Following one of the links brought me to an interesting RealAudio lecture by Sandy: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/committee/colloqm/berman.html -Chris Mays .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:46:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Katia Roberto <kroberto[at]alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> Subject: Fun fact of the day. A certain festschrift zine is now online because I was bored today. Now you can see what it looks like with visible margins and good copy quality. Absolutely astonishing, isn't it? http://www.freespeech.org/katia/sandy/ Now let us never speak of it again. Goodnight. Katia "Facts are like bricks. You can make a building out of them, or you can break a window." -- Charles Schnee http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~kroberto __________________________________________________________________________top 3. AltaVista Nixes Paid Search by Polly Sprenger 9:00 a.m. 23.Jul.99.PDT AltaVista announced Thursday it would stop its controversial policy of auctioning off the results to popular search terms. Full story: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/20906.html ___________________________________________________________________________top 4. LibraryLand Index update Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 06:14:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jerry Kuntz" <jkuntz[at]ansernet.rcls.org> To: publib <publib[at]sunsite.berkeley.edu> Subject: LibraryLand Index update Publibbers: As Karen Schneider mentioned in a recent message, the LibraryLand site of bookmarks for librarians at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/LibraryLand/ has been morphing into a indexing service for OTHER library resource sites. As of this month, we're indexing the following sites: LibraryLand Link Lists (those that remain!) American Library Association Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians Health Sciences Internet Librarianship Resource Page Book Arts Web Conservation Online FIDDO Project Libstats AcqWeb Library Support Staff Resource Center Young Adult Librarian's Help/Home Page Librarians Serving Genealogists Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources Art Libraries Society of North America Music Library Association Clearinghouse Serials in Cyberspace Internet School Library Media Center Law Librrary Resource Exchange (LLRX) Links Every word on every html document (excepting mailing list archives) on these sites is indexed in LibraryLand, so make your search inputs specific! (The first search result screen you'll see will list the number of hits at each one of these sites, which should help to narrow your search.) We're perfectly willing to index even more sites, and improve the interface more, but only if we see some evidence that the library community is finding this a helpful service. The only thing we won't consider is going back to the old LibraryLand bookmark lists, which were proving too time-consuming to maintain. Jerry Kuntz Ramapo Catskill Library System jkuntz[at]rcls.org ___________________________________________________________________________top 5. A New Tool Expands The Public's Right-to-know About Pollution Today EPA is releasing a new tool for comparing information about pollution in local communities. This new tool entitled, "Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators," is available on CD-ROM and is a part of the agency's public right-to-know efforts. It uses national data on toxic chemical emissions from EPA's Toxic Release Inventory. Specifically, the new tool can be used to compare relative risk from toxic chemicals grouped by categories like cities, states, and industrial facilities, based on factors like pounds of pollutants released, relative toxicity, population and exposure data. It is critical to note that these relative-risk rankings can only be used for comparisons. For example, the rankings now allow one industrial facility to be compared to another, but are not intended for quantifying actual risks posed to public health from any single facility, geographical area or other category. Such comparisons are meant to be helpful only for identifying and prioritizing areas for further research and attention. A more detailed description of the tool, the user manual, frequently asked questions, and contact information is available at: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/env_ind/index.html More information on the Toxic Release Inventory is available at: http://www.epa.gov/tri/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 6. Information for Social Change http://libr.org/ISC Seizing the Time Information for Social Change is an activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers. It is committed to promoting alternatives to the dominant paradigms of library and information work and publishes its own journal, Information for Social Change. The ways by which information is controlled and mediated has a serious influence on the ways people think, how they communicate, what they believe is the "real world", what the limits of the permissible are. This applies equally to information that comes through the channels of the mass media, through our bookshops or through our libraries. Of course, free and equal access to information is a myth throughout the world, although different situations pertain in different countries. Control is more explicit in cruder in some places, more "sophisticated" and more invisible elsewhere (for example in Britain). One of the aims of Information for Social Change is to document these situations. But we want to go further than that, documenting also the alternatives to this control, the radical and progressive channels by which truly unfettered, unmediated ideas may circulate. And further still: to encourage information workers to come together, to share ideas, to foster these alternatives - whether we are publishers, librarians, booksellers, communication workers or distributors. Whoever you are, if you are in sympathy with us, join us. Putting Ideas Into Action 1.To address issues of freedom of information and censorship as they affect library and information work. 2.To promote alternatives to mainstream library and information provision. 3.To provide a forum for the exchange of radical views on library and information issues. 4.To debate ethics and freedom within the library and information professions. 5.To challenge the dominant paradigms of library and information work. We publish a journal Information for Social Change twice a year. We also organise seminars and conferences, sometimes in associations with other progressive organisations such as LINK and the Black Radical and Third World Book Fair. The Better Read than Dead conferences, for example looked at non-capitalist library provisions in Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and China. The conference proceeding were subsequently published. Information for Social Change is an Organisation in Liason with the Library Association. The Journal: Information for Social Change, ISSN 1364-694X Members of the Editorial Board are: Shiraz Durrani, Ukenya Gill Harris, LINK Joe Hendry, Cumbria County Libraries Martyn Lowe, Founder, LWPM Christopher Merrett, University of Natal John Pateman, National Councilor, LA We welcome contributions in our field. Read the journal to gauge our interests. If you're in doubt, write to us with suggestions. Whilst encouraging rigorous debate, the journal exists primarily for workers and practitioners, so simple and clear English is preferable. Articles should, where possible, be between 500 and 2500 words. This is to ensure a wide coverage of topics in each issue. However, longer articles may be excerpted in the journal and the full text made available from the author(s), if you wish. We also welcome reviews, letters, and news items. We publish twice per year. Individual subscription for a year is £5.00. Institutional rate is £15.00. Free to exchanging journals. Enquire for overseas rates. Please make cheques payable to "Information for Social Change". Send to: John Pateman 32 Petten Grove Orpington Kent BR5 4PU ___________________________________________________________________________top 7. Filtering vignette from Santa Clara County Public by Rory Litwin I've been doing extra-hire work in the Santa Clara County Public Library system, which I should start out by saying is a very nice library system, with an unusually good feeling. It's really exemplary in its atmosphere and in the approachability and helpfulness of the staff. Santa Clara County is big, with affluent Silicon Valley suburbs in its West Hills, and rural Gilroy, home of the famous garlic festival, in the South. Gilroy residents are predictably more conservative. A savvy pro-filtering group formed there and after much hard work forced the county library system to install filters on all of its computers. The filtering works through a proxy server. If you are in an adult area, when you sit down at a computer to begin using the web, your first click takes you to a consent form, where you can select filtered or unfiltered access for the next twenty minutes or so, after which time you'll encounter the consent form again. Children's areas have filtered access only. The filtering is provided by CyberNOT. If you ask different librarians in the system how well the filtering is working you will get different answers. The librarian who trained me when I was hired reported that it seems to be working well, and there haven't been any instances of erroneous site-blockages that she is aware of. A children's librarian I spoke to, however, had complaints. She has run into the problem of wrongly blocked sites frequently enough to be unhappy with this particular filter. She is unhappier still with the reporting mechanism. When a user encounters a site that is blocked, the message that comes up on the screen gives contact information for CyberNOT that can be used to report an inappropriately blocked site. Of course, many library users, especially children, would not know that a site is blocked inappropriately, and would simply be embarrassed by the warning message and move on to something else, with the librarian never finding out. If a user encounters porn while using a filter, on the other hand, the librarian is very likely to hear about it, and will make a report to CyberNOT. The children's librarian I talked to said that it's only the librarians who are continually helping patrons use the internet who are aware of the problem of inappropriately blocked sites. I am also aware of the problem, by first hand experience, because when I am using the web at the reference desk, I like to keep the filter on. (I am the only librarian in the system I know who does this.) I was testing the links on the ISC links page when I discovered that two of them are blocked, the site for Raimund Dehmlow's Directory of Progressive Librarians Around the World, and the site for the German left librarians group AKRIBIE. I will report these sites to librarians above me on the food chain, but I have no expectation that the blocks will be removed. The children's librarian I spoke to said that CyberNOT does not respond to requests to unblock sites, even if the requests come from librarians. Whether they chose to unblock a site is not something that the librarians are able to predict, and can find out only by checking the sites directly after some time has passed. It's a perfect example of bad customer service. The librarians who have the complaints, though, are front line librarians, not the librarians at HQ responsible for evaluating the service, and the two groups may not even be in communication, so, CyberNOT remains in place. Perhaps HQ is actually fully aware that CyberNOT's service is lacking but still finds it better than the alternatives. In sum, what we have is a library system where filtering is not working very well, but whose spokespeople will tell you that everyone is happy. Is that perhaps a little bit like your own library? -Rory Litwin, Library Juice editor ___________________________________________________________________________top 8. Filtering-related news, courtesey of Karen Schneider Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:39:43 -0400 To: ALA Council List <alacoun[at]ala1.ala.org> From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs[at]bluehighways.com> Subject: Great Article in Washington Post! See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july99/library15.htm Do not miss this article! Suitable for framing! PUBLIB folks--note reference to PUBLIB'er Leila Shapiro! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:14:34 -0400 To: ALA Council List <alacoun[at]ala1.ala.org> From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs[at]bluehighways.com> Subject: Marianne Means debunks Dole on filtering On Sunday, July 18, the Albany Times Union ran a column by Marianne Means in which she emphatically debunks Elizabeth Dole's statements about Internet filtering. Means' column is so concise, clear and accurate that it makes a great mini-tutorial on the topic. "At its clumsiest, the system represents unconstitutional censorship," she wrote. Means cited the inherent weaknesses of filters: the fact that site lists are hidden as a "trade secret," so that "librarians have no basis on which to examine the [filter's] decisions"; that they are known to block "legitimate literature"; and that mandated filtering flies in the face of local standards. "What really upsets the librarians," Means writes, "is having mechanical one-size-fits-all censorship imposed by Washington." She points out how convenient it is to support filtering legislation because it makes politicians appear that they are against "smut." She focused firmly on her point that the nature of Internet content does not mitigate the inherent flaws of Internet filters. If we in NY are collecting ideas for Best Library-Related Column of the Year, I hope Means makes the list! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:23:57 -0400 To: ALA Council List <alacoun[at]ala1.ala.org> From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs[at]bluehighways.com> Subject: Letter in Washington Post re Sex, Libraries and Internet The Washington Post printed a letter I wrote in response to Daniel LeDuc's column about sexually explicit materials in libraries. In the online version, my letter runs directly below a letter using arguments touted by the pro-censorship organization, Filtering Facts. You can read both letters at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/25/130l-072599-idx.html (I did explain to the Post that I *live* in Albany and *work[ed]* in Brunswick, but like most papers they chose to list my residence.) _________________________________________________________________ Karen G. Schneider | kgs[at]bluehighways.com http://www.bluehighways.com Author: A Practical Guide to Internet Filters, Neal Schuman, 1997 Director, Brunswick Community Library [Formerly Garfield] http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/garfield/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 9. New anti-filtering discussion list from Chuck0 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:10:47 -0400 From: Chuck0 <chuck[at]tao.ca> To: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom List <alaoif[at]ala1.ala.org> Subject: New anti-filtering list I've set up a new list for those opposed to filtering software in libraries. This is a working and organizing list. It's primary purpose will be to collectively develop the Filtering FAQ found at the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop (http://www.infoshop.org/library/faq.html). It will also be used to organize a grassroots campaign against filtering. Supporters of filtering are NOT welcome on this list and will be removed immediately if discovered. List name: nofilters[at]tao.ca To join, send an email to lists[at]tao.ca In the body type subscribe nofilters I look forward to seeing some of you on this list. We will win someday! -- Chuck0 Alternative Press Review http://flag.blackened.net/apr/ Free Leonard Peltier! "A society is a healthy society only to the degree that it exhibits anarchistic traits." - Jens Bjørneboe ___________________________________________________________________________top 10. Ethnic pages and directories http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/7423/ethnic.html Multicultural links courtesy of Chris Dodge, at his Street Librarian site. Suitable for a library links collection. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Diversity and Libraries http://scow.gslis.ucla.edu/faculty/cchu/diversity/index.html The impact of racial and ethnic diversity on libraries grows as the world becomes increasingly connected. More accessible transportation, global communication systems, and international diplomacy foster a global community. These resources were collected to help 1) librarians to stay informed about the diverse communities they serve and to provide services appropriate to their needs, and 2) library educators to infuse multiculturalism in LIS programs in order to train professionals to serve culturally diverse communities. This site is continually updated so plan to visit us again. >From Clara Chu of UCLA's DLIS ___________________________________________________________________________top 11. PLUS: Public Libraries Using Spanish http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/8107/ Many public libraries are constrained in their efforts to attract and serve Spanish-speaking patrons because they lack staff members capable of performing translation and outreach work. PLUS seeks to lend a hand by gathering useful, downloadable documents that can help you make your library a more welcoming place for Spanish-speakers. Card applications, brochures, policy statements, signage text, press releases and news articles--all in Spanish with a side-by-side English translation--will be collected here and are yours to use as you see fit. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. La Brujula - Latin American Resources http://www.brujula.com.ar Búsquedas en Sol http://www.sol.es Yahoo! en espanol http://espanol.yahoo.com/ More: http://espanol.yahoo.com/Internet_y_computadoras/Internet/Red_mundial/Navegando_la_Red/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 12. El Faro - Servicio de Navegación Bibliotecológico http://nutabe.udea.edu.co/~elfaro/index.html Creado y administrado por: Paola Andrea Ramírez Pérez Bibliotecologa. U de A. andrear[at]nutabe.udea.edu.co Estos son los primeros y principales servicios de EL FARO; y teniendo en cuenta que la principal virtud de un sitio como este, es la de mantenerse activo para solventar las necesidades de información y aprovechar las nuevas capacidades técnicas que ofrezca la internet, en el apartado de Proyección de presentan otros servicios que pueden prestarse. Consulta en la página principal Es el principal servicio de EL FARO, consultar de los recursos de la internet para unidades de información y profesionales de la información, clasificados en facetas y con énfasis en América Latina. Consulta personal Cada usuario podrá dirigir sus sugerencias e inquietudes sobre el servicio y solicitar la realización de una búsqueda de manera personal y directa a la administración, cuando la información presentada no satisfaga sus expectativas. Con base en estas consultas personales se conformará un banco de perfiles de usuarios para mantener una comunicación directa con la comunidad y para iniciar un estudio de las necesidades de información reales y practicas del área. Asesoría para la búsqueda y consulta en la internet El trabajo desarrollado para la construcción del Servicio da como resultado una metodología de búsqueda, consulta y evaluación de recursos de información en la internet. Para mayor comodidad de los usuarios, estas indicaciones y estrategias están disponibles en un banco de documentos en línea que se mantendrá actualizado y que apoye las solicitudes personales para la realización de búsquedas individuales en otra áreas del conocimiento ___________________________________________________________________________top 13. REFORMANET/Census2000 Website Info Re: Racially and Ethnically Mixed People ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:52:34 -0400 From: Cal Zunt <Cal.Zunt[at]cpl.org> To: CPL Branch Librarians <branch.librarians[at]cpl.org> Cc: reformanet[at]lmrinet.ucsb.edu Subject: REFORMANET/Census2000 Website Info Re: Racially and Ethnically Mixed People REFORMANET DIGEST Please go to the following website for additional info regarding Census 2000 issues regarding racially and ethnically mixed people: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race.html Topics covered include: Issues for 2000 census The federal government is considering changes in the guidelines for classifying race and ethnic data. Draft Provisional Guidance on the Implementation of the 1997 Standards for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (February 17, 1999) (528k) Federal Register Notice (10/30/97, Vol. 62, No. 210) Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Federal Register Notice (7/17/97, Vol. 62, No. 137) Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Questions on Race and Hispanic Origin Federal Register Notice (7/9/97, Part II) Recommendations from the Interagency Committee for the Review of the Racial and Ethnic Standards to the Office of Management and Budget Concerning Changes to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Federal Register Notice (8/28/95, Vol. 60, No. 166) Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Population Division Working Paper No. 18 Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test Population Division Working Paper No. 16 Findings on Questions on Race and Hispanic Origin Tested in the 1996 National Content Survey 1996 National Content Survey: Findings on Questions on Race and Hispanic Origin Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Racial Statistics Branch Maintained By: Laura K. Yax (Population Division) Last Revised: July 13, 1999 at 09:31:09 AM -- ***************************************************************** M. Callaghan "Cal" Zunt Branch Head Email: Cal.Zunt[at]cpl.org Carnegie West Branch Phone: (216) 623-6927 Cleveland Public Library Fax: (216) 623-6929 1900 Fulton Road Cleveland, OH 44113 http://www.cpl.org ***************************************************************** _______________________________________________ REFORMANET maillist - REFORMANET[at]lmrinet.ucsb.edu ___________________________________________________________________________top 14. LIBREF Survey Results: Core Reference Tools ===== Original Message From "Diane K. Kovacs" <diane[at]kovacs.com> ===== Thank you all very much to everyone who responded. Here are the core reference tools survey results from my previous question to this list (sorry for cross-posting inconveniences). They are in approximately order of their mention with some notes from me and comments from respondents. Please feel free to send me your core reference tools. I can always add to these. Thank you all again! Cordially, Di 1. What are the top 5 print reference books that you can't work without? The top 7: World Almanac (comment: "hardcover, because I don't have to remove my glasses to read tables, etc.") World Book Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Associations Random House 2nd ed. Unabridged Dictionary Encyclopedia Britannica Statistical Abstracts. Local/Regional and major city Phone books The also rans: National Five-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory NADA automobile price guides, Kelley Blue Books, Edmunds Used Car Price Guide Haines Criss-Cross Directory Thomas Register American Heritage English Dictionary Americana Encyclopedia CIA World Factbook Consumer's Reports (both the magazines and the annual buying guides) Contemporary Black Biography. (We have a large African American population, and this series is great for Black History Month.) Directory of Corporate Affiliations Endangered Wildlife of the world (Marshall Cavendish) Infotrac Magazine ASAP (CD-ROM) International Wildlife Encyclopedia (Marhsall Cavendish) McGraw-Hill Ency. of World Biography (Comment: "though may need updating!") McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Merck Manual New York Times Almanac Physicians Desk Reference *note votes in Medical questions also. Statistical Abstracts The Information Please series--great starting points for many assignments. DSM-IV Specific State codes, regulations, and case reporters (Comment: "[It is my firm belief that >90% of reference questions can be answered using only these two sources.]" speaking of the Random House Unabridged and the World Almanac). 2. What are the top 3 CD-ROM, Tape or Online databases that you can't work without? Infotrac Magazine and Newspaper Indexes PhoneDisc, Powerfinder Phone Discs (or similar product) American Business Disk Electric Library Infotrac Health Reference Center Amazon.com Books In Print+ EBSCOhost online periodical database Full text magazine database---UMI or Ebsco. (The more titles in full-text the better.) Grangers Poetry IAC magazine indexes (Searchbank--General Reference Center & Health Reference Center) Local Newspaper (on-line or CD) (Comments: "we have Dallas Morning News CD-ROM or on-line periodical index such as Infotrak General Reference", "Active Dayton (index to the local newspaper)") Newsbank Comprehensive MEDLINE SIRS Researcher B&T Link database from Baker & Taylor (comment: "similar to BIP on disc, only better") 3. What are your 2 most used reference tools for Business Questions? Southern California Business Directory--provides addresses, contact information, and some sales data for many local businesses. Main directory is by SIC (or whatever the new classification is called)/subject, with geographic, zip code, and alphabetical listings. ValueLine Investment Survey Duns Million Dollar Directory American Business Disk Dun and Bradstreets Business Directories Hoover's directories Standard & Poors Register Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Moody's Industrial Manual. Business InfoTrac ONline 2 Directory of Corporate Affiliations Illinois Services Directory Infotrac Company Profiles Morningstar Mutual fund Survey. Poor's company directory Wisconsin Business Services Directory (published by State Chamber of Commerce) Wisconsin Manufacturers Directory plus California manufacturers and service industry directories for product complaint--Gale's Brands and their companies 4. What are your 2 most used reference tools for Medical Questions? Merck Manual PDR Health Reference InfoTrac Encyclopedia of Diseases (Springhouse?) Consumer Reports Complete Drug Reference Harrison's principles of Internal Medicine Pharmacopeia Stedman's Medical Dictionary 5. What are your 2 most used reference tools for Jobs and Employment Questions? The number 1 source by a lot: Occupational Outlook Handbook (comment: "Occupational Outlook Handbook is THE most frequently used source, nothing else really comes close..") Others: "Assortment of resume books kept at reference desk" Internet Local newspaper Help Wanted Ads Career Information Center (13v., Macmillan Pub.) Help Wanted USA (job ads from multiple Sunday papers on microfiche) Infotrac Company Profiles Directory of Executive Recruiters Moody's Manuals (comment: "that huge news collection") Career Information Center (Ferguson) or Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (Macmillan) Ferguson's Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries. Ohio Industrial Directory. 6. What are your 2 most used reference tools for Law Questions? The number 1 source by a lot: Specific State codes, regulations, and case reporters Others: West's Encyclopedia of American Law Nolo Press books on divorce, bankruptcy, copyright, trademark, and patents Black's Law Dictionary GPO Access - through internet Thomas online - through internet WESTLAW CD-ROM (Massachusetts Laws, REgs, Cases) Martindale-Hubbel Tenant/Landlord Law (various sources - mostly local) Legal Forms publications BOCA codes (Building Officials and Code Administrators) for regulations on various building projects Divorce in Ohio Other areas added: "Two areas I didn't have room for are Native Americans (Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes by Waldman) and information about what happened in different eras (Time-Life series of the Gale Decades series)" ________________________________________________________________________ Diane K. Kovacs | http://www.kovacs.com Kovacs Consulting - | fax: (330)225-0083 Specializing in Instructor-Led | phone: (330)273-5032 Web-Based Training http://www.kovacs.com/online.html ___________________________________________________________________________top 15. Economic Reporting Review FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports Economic Reporting Review July 26, 1999 Contact: Rachel Coen (mailto:rcoen[at]fair.org) MICROSOFT-Is It Really as Big as Spain? Reporting on a jump in the price of Microsoft stock that placed its market valuation at approximately $500 billion, the New York Times asserted that if Microsoft were a country, "it would have the ninth-largest economy in the world, behind Spain" (7/17/99). As Dean Baker reveals, the Times' assertion is based on a faulty economic comparison and creates a very misleading impression of Microsoft's place in the global economy. Read this week's ERR and learn where Microsoft really ranks. TAX CUTS-Beyond the Spin Baker shows how the papers of record failed to question both Democratic and Republican assertions about the size and impact of the GOP's proposed tax cuts. See ERR for a reality check. AMERICA'S ECONOMIC DOMINANCE-A Closer Look To read the New York Times, you would think the United States is leaving all its economic rivals in the dust. Find out how the U.S. really compares with "struggling" Europe and "lagging" China in this week's ERR. Check out this week's ERR for more on these key stories and others: http://www.fair.org/err/990726.html What is ERR? Challenging reporters at the nation's leading newspapers to live up to their reputations, Economic Reporting Review provides weekly on-line analysis of the economic reporting in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Written by Dean Baker, a senior research fellow at the Preamble Center for Public Policy, and previously a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, ERR calls attention to unsupported assertions, misrepresented facts or outright mistakes in economic reporting. An invaluable resource for journalists, columnists and media analysts, ERR provides a fresh, insightful perspective on economics. ERR is a joint project of FAIR and the Preamble Center. ERR is on-line at http://www.fair.org/err/. To receive ERR via e-mail every week, go to: http://www.preamble.org/columns/subbaker.htm ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ---------- Feel free to respond to FAIR ( fair[at]fair.org ). We can't reply to everything, but we will look at each message. We especially appreciate documented example of media bias or censorship. 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You can become a member by calling 1-800-847-3993 from 9 to 5 Eastern Time (be sure to tell them you got the information on-line) or by sending $19 with your name and address to: FAIR/EXTRA! Subscription Service P.O. Box 170 Congers, NY 10920-9930 FAIR (212) 633-6700 http://www.fair.org/ E-mail: fair[at]fair.org list administrators: FAIR-L-request[at]american.edu ___________________________________________________________________________top 16. Alternative Press Center's Request Dear progressive librarians, I wonder if some of you might be able to help me. With the help of our friends at the Alternative Press Center, the Independent Press Association (IPA) has just published a handy and eminently useful directory of progressive print magazines and newspapers. Now, with boxes and boxes of these books crowding our San Francisco offices, we're getting serious about spreading the word to all of the markets that might be interested. Not surprisingly, socially-aware librarians are high on our list. "Annotations: a guide to the critical independent press" is the main part of an initiative by the IPA to get more progressive and independent print periodicals into North American libraries. Recent years have seen the IPA rent booths at ALA conferences (most recently in New Orleans), going head-to-head with EBSCO to craft efficient and easy magazine sample-giveaway programs. But while EBSCO is pushing often unchallenging material, the IPA's 170 member magazines offer real alternatives to mainstream thought and opinion. Where are the best places to go to reach this market, either in the U.S. or in Canada? Where are the Web sites, the journals, the Listservs that progressive librarians use? Who are in iconoclastic individuals that are quietly leading this struggle? Any help -- even of a general nature -- would be greatly appreciated. Lastly, a final component of this initiative will be a column devoted to progressive librarianship featured in the IPA Ink Reader, our 8-page newsletter for the wide independent publishing world. We want to find individuals librarians who have -- as we put it -- fought to make a difference, implemented great changes, built their collections, and lived to tell about it. By interviewing them, we think they might be able to provide real hands-on technical advice to the 2,000 or so progressive publishing workers who receive our newsletter. Do such people exist? I've listed more information about ANNOTATIONS below, including how to PURCHASE IT. Even more info about this guide can be seen at http://www.indypress.org/order/annotations.htm. For the complete story of our experiences in NEW ORLEANS, check out the IPA web site at : http://www.indypress.org/hotnews/index.html. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give. Best regards, Robert Rosenthal IPA Publications Coordinator PS -- Any truly helpful advice will be rewarded with FREE COPIES of Annotations! * * * ><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< Robert J. Rosenthal Publications Coordinator Independent Press Association 2390 Mission St., #201 San Francisco, CA 94110 phone: (415) 643-4401 fax: (415) 643-4402 www.indypress.org * * * Teamwork over the last year between the IPA and the Alternative Press Center has yielded a stunning result: "Annotations -- a guide to the independent critical press". This valuable new 500-page directory showcases the unique perspectives of over 300 hard-to-find independent periodicals, including fully-indexed listings of subjects, editorial & column staffs, formats & frequencies, subscription rates, publishing histories, and summary reviews. If you're a writer, editor, activist, researcher or donor (and you care about diversity of thought and opinion) make sure you get your copy. Ralph Nader calls it "proof that there is much more beyond the soft ice cream ladled out by the mainstream corporate press." To get your copy of Annotations, send a check for US$28 (that's $24.95, plus $3.05 shipping and handling) to: IPA Book, 2390 Mission St., #201, SF, CA 94110-1836. IPA members pay only $13 ($9.95, plus shipping and handling) Call for credit card orders. ___________________________________________________________________________top 17. Skateboard Science [RealPlayer G2] http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/index.html This new exhibit from the Exploratorium (last described in the February 19, 1999 Scout Report) lets users in on the techniques and equipment skateboarders use to seemingly bend the law of gravity. In the trickscience section, the site explains the physics behind the ollie, a fundamental jumping technique; mid-air maneuvers; and McTwists and Caballerials with illustrations, concise text, and several experiments to try at home. The equipment section offers an in-depth look at skateboard design and construction and how they have changed over time. In addition, the site also contains a glossary of skateboard terms and a RealPlayer G2 archive of a recent (June 12) webcast of a skateboard science exhibition at the Exploratorium. [MD] >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________________top L I B R A R Y J U I C E | http://libr.org/Juice/ | | Except where noted, items appearing in Library Juice | are copyright-free, so feel free to share them with | colleagues and friends. Library Juice is a free weekly | publication edited by Rory Litwin. Original senders | are credited wherever possible; opinions are theirs. | Your comments and suggestions are welcome. | mailto:Juice[at]libr.org This page was created by SimpleText2Html 1.0.3 on 27-Jul-99.