Library Juice 2:41 - Library Juice is now a book and a blog

Library Juice 2:41 - October 27, 1999 Contents: 1. Eighty Books for 21st Century Girls 2. Britannica Gives In and Gets Online 3. Freedom to Read Foundation announces new web address 4. In Crisis Is Opportunity: Making the Best of a Public Relations Problem 5. Talk vs. I.F. 6. "5 Best Ready Reference Sources" list from LIBREF-L 7. Pledge Break 8. Zine resources 9. WorldCat Top 100 Books in Libraries 10. A Case against Outsourcing Materials Selection 11. Contribute to ALA's Core Values codification project 12. Justin Winsor Prize 13. Discovering America As It Is (book) 14. NEW BOOKS ON THE WTO 15. New WTO meeting website (anti-WTO) 16. Seattle General Strike Project (1919 general strike info) 17. The Official U. S. Time 18. The Dollar Stretcher 19. Open the Doors (poem) 20. Three Sites for Ghouls and Goblins 21. The Pond Quote for the week: "...And remember, if you can't find it in the library catalog, it looks like it isn't real or never happened." -Sandy Berman, in a talk last night which included many examples of bibliocide by cataloging. Most of the subject headings Berman offered as needed for adoption by LC had a political aspect - to their exclusion as well as to their need - but are justifiable simply based on sound cataloging principles. Homepage of the week: Cheryl Zobel http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/czobel/CZHome.html ____________________________________________________________________________top 1. FYI WOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION "Eighty Books for 21st Century Girls." http://bookbuzz.com/wnba80books.htm ________________________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom dwood[at]ala.org http://www.ala.org/oif.html ____________________________________________________________________________top 2. Britannica Gives In and Gets Online Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:12:31 -0400 From: "Byron C. Mayes" <bcmayes[at]astro.ocis.temple.edu> To: GLB Librarians <gay-libn[at]usc.edu> Subject: Britannica Gives In and Gets Online Here's an interesting twist. Story from the L.A. Times. Full article at the link below.--bc ----------(cut here)---------- Britannica Gives In and Gets Online By JONATHAN GAW, Times Staff Writer For more than two centuries, Encyclopaedia Britannica was the standard-bearer collection of knowledge in the English-speaking world, sold only through its own sales force at a premium price. But now the publication is on the verge of becoming the buggy-whip manufacturer of the Information Age. A shell of its former self, Britannica is taking the risky step --starting today--of posting the entire contents of its 32-volume set on the Internet for free. It hopes to make money by selling advertising on its Web site, a well-worn but still unproven business model. "There are so many sites competing for your attention that to try to rise above the noise and cacophony is going to be extremely hard," said David Sanderson, head of the electronic commerce practice at consulting firm Bain & Co. "This is going to be very, very tough for them to do." It is a risk Encyclopaedia Britannica officials feel they must take. [Read the full article at http://www.latimes.com/business/19991019/t000094383.html --bc] -- Byron C. Mayes * Head, Library Systems and Technology Temple University Libraries 1210 W Berks Street * Philadelphia, PA 19122-6088 bcmayes[at]unix.temple.edu * 215-204-5797 * Fax: 215-204-5201 Listowner, BLACK-IP, The Black Information Professionals' Network ____________________________________________________________________________top 3. Freedom to Read Foundation announces new web address: The Freedom to Read Foundation home page can be found at http://www.ftrf.org/index.html The site includes the Foundation's history, people, and projects; information on legal issues regarding libraries; the First Amendment; and more. Please update your bookmarks and links to FTRF. Also included is the new GIVE button, which allows FTRF to accept online donations through a secure, third-party browser, using any major credit card. Don Wood ____________________________________________________________________________top 4. In Crisis Is Opportunity: Making the Best of a Public Relations Problem by Lani Yoshimura http://www.infotoday.com/mls/oct/story.htm This article discusses strategies for dealing with the press when they come to you with a controversial issue involving the library. In this case, the issue is internet filtering, when the library is in a rural community with an active pro-filtering group. Lani Yoshimura is a librarian at the Gilroy Public Library, part of the Santa Clara County Library System. ____________________________________________________________________________top 5. Talk vs. I.F. http://www.fair.org/media-beat/991014.html An article for FAIR by Norman Solomon, discussing the differences between these two new magazines. If only collection development were as simple as answering the question, "what materials have the greatest value?" ____________________________________________________________________________top 6. "5 Best Ready Reference Sources" list from LIBREF-L Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:54:18 -0400 From: librefed <librefed[at]kent.edu> Subject: "5 Best Ready Reference Sources" list MIME-Version: 1.0 >===== Original Message From jhall2[at]ix.netcom.com ===== Last week I asked for opinions on the "5 ready reference sources" you would have mentioned if asked in an interview. I was very pleased by the response I got from this question. Thanks to all who took the time to give me their opinion. I received a total of 38 responses. Some gave their one favorite source. Others gave me 10, as they had been asked for that many in interviews. Most gave me five. I received an average of 3.6 sources per response, for a total of 45 discrete items. Below is a compilation of all answers, in descending order by the # of votes per resource. Again, thanks to everyone who gave me their opinion. I not only will benefit from the answers in future interviews, but I will keep this and use it wherever I land. # Resource -- -------- 23 World Almanac 19 Statistical Abstract of the U.S. 17 Dictionary (biological, language, geographic, American Heritage, Websters, Random House, etc.) 13 World Book Encyclopedia 11 Local Phone Book 7 New York Public Library Desk Reference 6 Encyclopedia of Associations 4 Bartlett's Quotations 3 Encyclopedia Britannica 3 Internet terminal 3 Map of immediate geographic area 3 Health manual/handbook (Merck, Mayo, etc.) 3 One-volume encyclopedia 3 Times World Atlas 2 Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory 2 Famous First Facts 2 Almanac (Florida, Texas, etc.) 2 Guinness Book of Records 3 Style Manual (MLA, APA) 2 Occupational Outlook Handbook 2 Oxford English Dictionary 2 Statesman's Yearbook 2 Hoover's Handbook of American Business 2 Legislative Manual, (New Jersey, etc.) 1 Biography and Genealogy Master Index 1 Business Phone Book USA 1 Career Guide, a 1 Chase's Calendar of Events 1 Complete Drug Reference 1 DDC2 1 Eeerdman's Handbook to the World's Religions 1 State Statistical Abstract (Florida) 1 General Guide to Reference Books 1 Government Phone Book USA 1 Granger's 1 Information Please Almanac 1 Internet directory 1 Local social services agency directory 1 Physician's Desk Reference 1 Readers Guide to Periodical Literature 1 State Government Directory, a 1 Taylor's Encyclopedia of Government Officials 1 U.S. Government handbook 1 Washington Information Directory 1 World Almanac of U.S. Politics ---- ---------------------------------- 45 Total resouces 160 total votes 3.6 resources/votes THANKS AGAIN! Jerrie Hall ____________________________________________________________________________top 7. Pledge Break For readers so inclined: I am asking for a voluntary donation of $10 per year (variable based on ability and desire to pay) to cover operation expenses and to pay me a little bit for the time I devote to this service. This is a pressure-free, guilt-free request, designed so that I can continue to publish Library Juice as I begin to work full-time as a librarian, and do it without running ads or restricting access to subscribers only. You can send checks (made out to Rory Litwin) to Rory Litwin, Library Juice, PO Box 720511, San Jose, CA 95172-0511. Thanks for your support! -Rory Litwin Library Juice editor/publisher ____________________________________________________________________________top 8. Zine resources Cheryl Zobel's piece on zines in public libraries http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/czobel/Zine4Web.html Chris Dodge's article on zines from Counterpoise 1:3 http://www.liblib.com/Archives/V1No3/zines.html A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press (Formerly Zine World) http://www.undergroundpress.org/index.html Zine libraries http://www.zinebook.com/resource/libes.html Article for American Libraries by Ron Chepesiuk on libraries collecting zines http://www.zinebook.com/resource/chep.html Much more at The Book of Zines: http://www.zinebook.com ____________________________________________________________________________top 9. WorldCat Top 100 Books in Libraries http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/19991005a.htm The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) recently surveyed WorldCat, its Online Union Catalog, to determine the most common books held in library collections. This year's winner, found in 3,971 libraries, was _In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-run Companies_, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Books one would expect to top the list, such as the Bible or Shakespeare's works, did not rank because there are so many editions, each of which is listed separately. Users can browse the list of 100 titles at the site. The books are listed by rank and include number of libraries holding them and OCLC number. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 10. Consider the Source: A Case against Outsourcing Materials Selection in Academic Libraries by Charles Willett [Charles Willett, publisher of CRISES Press, Inc., is former Coordinator of the Alternatives in Print Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association and editor of its new review journal, Counterpoise. He has exhibited alternative press materials at each ALA conference since 1991. He formerly worked in acquisitions and collection management at the Harvard College Library. SUNY/Buffalo, and the University of Florida. This article is based on the talk he gave at the meeting of the Collection Management in Academic Libraries Discussion Group (ALCTS/CMDS) at the January 1998 ALA Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans.] (EXCERPT): LIBRARY MANAGERS' BLIND SPOT Meanwhile, the ALA leadership doesn't seem to recognize that the alternative press exists. Pore over ALA Goal 2000 and Beyond: A Strategic Path to 2001. The words "alternative press" are not mentioned. U.S. libraries and ALA ignore the fact that America is steeped in propaganda and misinformation and is in deep economic, political and social crisis. Look at the miserable statistics about rape, murder, suicide, divorce, prisoners, illiteracy, children in poverty, people without health insurance, homelessness, hunger, racism, sexism and classism. Look at the figures of what has happened to unions, jobs and wages of working people during the past 25 years, while the top one-tenth of one percent of the population has become insanely rich. Look at the details about how many people in unworthy countries (North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor, Philippines, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Angola, Nigeria, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatamala, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and many more) have been killed, maimed, starved, sickened, tortured, disappeared, falsely imprisoned, or driven off their land as the direct or indirect result of U.S. government and mega-corporate policies-all this in flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is rarely taught, discussed or even printed in this country. We have reached the point where all our public institutions are in disarray and under great economic and political pressure to capitulate to corporate elites. The library is the last truly free public space in America. And now some of its administrators are privatizing selection and publishing articles like "Why Outsourcing Is Our Friend: Only the Outsourced Will Survive in the Growing Clamor for Lean Mean Service Machines," as Ronald Dubberly recently wrote in American Libraries. He is the retired director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, co-owner of Dubberly Associates, Inc., and a member of Library Systems and Services, Inc.'s Advisory Council, which is now administering the totally outsourced materials selection and cataloging contract for the enormous public library system in Riverside County, California. Look at book vendors and consider the source. See what happened last year to the Hawaii State Public Library System, as reported in the presentation by the Hawaii Working Group at the ALA conference in June 1997. See what is happening now with federal libraries, as described by R. Lee Hadden of the U.S. Geological Survey Library. See the ten points summarized in the sidebar "Hidden Consequences of Outsourcing Library Selection and Cataloging." See what happens when librarians abandon their professional responsibilities. Then look at the alternative press. Look at the directory, Alternative Publishers of Books in North America. Look at the reviews and articles in Counterpoise. Consider the many conscientious authors, editors and publishers who put content ahead of profit. Acknowledge librarians' duty to make alternative materials available for use and to secure the independence, integrity and accountability of America's libraries. ____________________________________________________________________________top 11. Contribute to ALA's Core Values codification project From: Highsmith Press <hpress[at]highsmith.com> To: ALA Council List <alacoun[at]ala1.ala.org> Subject: Core Values Task Force Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:00:33 -0500 To: Members of Council and subscribers to the Council discussion list. This is written in response to the comments that recently appeared on the Council discussion list pertinent to the Core Values Task Force. In addition to the development of a statement on core values, the task force is also charged with the responsibility to seeking input from all sectors of the profession on the draft statement. I would invite any member of Council, especially chapter and division representatives, and any member of the Association, to send your suggestions, concerns or questions with regard to core values to my attention. If your unit has adopted a statement on core values, or if you have personal feelings on the topic, please forward these statements or comments. I will share these with the other members of the Core Values Task Force. In addition to reviewing the documents collected by the Congress on Professional Education on core values, we have requested assistance from the ALA Office of Research and Library on previously published articles and research on core values, and sample statements developed by other professions. The Task Force is meeting in Chicago during Nov. 19-21, and we hope to develop a draft statement by the close of that meeting. We intend to disseminate that draft to the ALA divisions, roundtables, chapters, affiliates and other library-related organizations prior to and during the ALA Midwinter conference to gain their advice. The members of the task force are affiliated with many of these organizations, and we will seek to establish contacts with as many of the governing bodies of these groups as possible. Copies of the draft will be distributed during Midwinter at the ALA literature distribution center and published in Cognotes for the members. We have also requested a room for a hearing on the draft at the Midwinter Conference. Don Sager, Chair ALA Core Values Task Force ***************************************************************** Donald J. Sager, Publisher, Highsmith Press, P.O. Box 800, Ft. Atkinson, WI 53538-0800. Tel. 920/563-9571. Fax: 920/563-4801. E-mail: <dsager[at]highsmith.com>. Web: http://www.hpress.highsmith.com ____________________________________________________________________________top 12. Justin Winsor Prize Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:40:27 -0500 From: H-LIS Editor <malone[at]alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> Subject: ANN:Justin Winsor Prize To: H-LIS[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU This is a slightly edited version of the announcement at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/ors/winsor.html on the American Library Association Website. --ed. ********************************************************* Justin Winsor Prize The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is accepting submissions for the 2000 Justin Winsor Prize for the best library history essay. The application deadline is February 1, 2000. The award, named in honor of the distinguished 19th century librarian, historian, and bibliographer who was also ALA's first president, consists of a $500 cash award. It includes an invitation to have the winner's paper considered for publication in _Libraries and Culture_ (http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jlc.html). The winner will also be invited to present a summary of the paper at ALA's 2000 Annual Conference in Chicago, July 6-12. Manuscripts submitted should not be previously published, previously submitted for publication, or under consideration for publication or another award. To be considered, essays should embody original historical research on a significant topic in library history, be based on primary sources materials whenever possible, and use good English composition and superior style. Essays should be organized in a form similar to that of articles published in _Libraries and Culture_, with footnotes, spelling and punctuation conforming to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Papers should not exceed 35 typewritten, double-spaced pages. Three copies of the manuscript should be submitted. The name and other information identifying the author should appear only on a separate cover letter. Submit manuscripts to Mary Jo Lynch, American Library Association/LHRT, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Decisions will be made by LHRT's Justin Winsor Prize Committee. ____________________________________________________________________________top 13. Discovering America As It Is (book) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:03:34 -0700 From: "Rolanda Petkute" <rolanda[at]mail.be> To: Juice[at]libr.org Subject: New Book Reveals America As It Is Dear reader, The book I would like to bring to your attention is Discovering America As It Is by Valdas Anelauskas, a monumental study of the devastating effect American-style ultra-capitalism is having on the American people -- something that people in other countries, and Europeans in particular, need to know, as the American Way is going global. This book raises serious questions concerning America's role as a leading model for development, and even as to its future capacity to compete due to the deterioration of its "human capital" -- the American people -- resulting from its anti-social domestic policies. Valdas Anelauskas is a Lithuanian journalist and former anti-Soviet dissident who was expelled from the USSR for his human rights activities. He was received in the U.S. as a high profile political dissident, and initially even addressed American audiences alongside powerful right-wing American politicians like Newt Gingrich. While many anti-Soviet human rights activists turned to the United States to champion their cause, and many even emigrated to the USA, few have publicly exposed their view of human rights as practiced in the United States. That fact, in itself, would make DISCOVERING AMERICA AS IT IS an important book, coming as it does from someone of this background. Ten years of observation of American reality has led Anelauskas to conclude that the U.S. extreme capitalist system represents an even greater threat than Soviet mock-communism to the well-being of the world. He paints an extraordinary portrait of the America he discovered -- the true America, as it exists in actuality, for most Americans. His book explores with shock and indignation the lot of vast millions of ordinary people in the richest country in the world, which surely could treat its citizens at least as well as other industrialized nations do, but refuses to. Thirteen highly documented chapters -- on poverty, crime, health, education, homelessness, income inequities and the replacement of welfare by "workfare" (which appears to be reintroducing slavery to America) -- detail the public disarray which results from an unfettered system of great wealth where the rich determine the social priorities. This is hardly the America of the movies and the slick magazines which be! dazzle the world with images of American prosperity. This blistering reality is not "one man's opinion," but rather has been scrupulously culled - in nearly 600 pages with literally thousands of citations -- from the very latest researches by international organizations, domestic and international NGOs, independent U.S. think tanks and experts, and even from American government and business sources. While most critiques focus on one social sector or another, Anelauskas' multidimensional study brings them all together, and the impact is staggering. What this book enables us to grasp -- both intellectually and emotionally -- is the predatory and wasteful operation of unbridled capitalism as practiced in America, and the needless, preventable injury it is wreaking upon millions. Anelauskas' study makes detailed comparisons between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, and also, even more tellingly, with the capitalist countries of Western Europe. What people need to consider is: Does capitalism have to weigh upon people so mercilessly -- or is the American version more extreme, more pitiless than that of other industrialized nations? Anelauskas found the U.S. shockingly deficient in the areas of economic and social human rights, and extensively documented the extent to which citizens of all other industrialized countries generally fare far better than, actually, most Americans. So... how long will the relative prosperity of the citizens of other industrial nations be able to continue, in face of the extension of the American model? Truly, should the countries of the world be rushing to follow the American example -- or rather, moving strenuously to protect their social structures from the future that America seeks to impose, as forewarned in Anelauskas' final chapter, "The New World Order Takes Shape." This culminating chapter provides a clearer understanding of the true source of America's "know-how" as it relates to accumulating wealth and to maintaining it. From the expropriation of Indian lands, and the exploitation of African slave labor, to a taste for empire which spread to the continental rim, then jumped across many waters in a hundred-year history of invasions all around the globe, culminating at last in the hegemonic military-economic grip on the world by what many in the world view as a Rogue Superpower -- from the loot of domestic co! lonialism to that of colonialism, then neocolonialism abroad -- this is America as it is. Perhaps the popular vision of America has been wrong for a very long time, as the book's Foreword by international legal specialist, Y.N. Kly, suggests? Famous American historian Howard Zinn (Professor Emeritus, Boston University and author of A People's History of the United States) wrote about this book as follows: "This is an extraordinary book, especially startling not because it is a diligently researched and scathing critique of contemporary America, but because it is written by a Soviet dissident who arrived here with great expectations and discovered a sobering reality. The scope of the book is breathtaking, a sweeping survey, factually precise and philosophically provocative, which deserves to be compared to de Tocqueville's 19th century classic. I hope it will be widely read." According to David Gil, Director of the Center for Policy Change at Brandeis University, Anelauskas' book is "a veritable tour de force... a rich source for understanding the forces which shape the quality of all our lives." Well-known American Indian author and activist, Ward Churchill, writes: "If just one-in-ten lifelong Americans had ever bothered themselves to learn as much about their country as has this recent Lithuanian immigrant, the horrors he writes about would never have existed. This is must reading for the entire population." This is why I took liberty of bothering you with this information. If you would like to find out more about DISCOVERING AMERICA AS IT IS, you can visit the website of the publisher, Clarity Press, Inc., at: http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity http://www.efn.org/~rolanda/discovering/america.html Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, ROLANDA PETKUTE ____________________________________________________________________________top 14. NEW BOOKS ON THE WTO The World Trade Organization: A Citizenís Guide, by Steven Shrybman (CCPA/Lorimer publishers) As environmental lawyer and leading trade specialist Steven Shrybman says in the preface to his new book on the WTO, "remaining uninformed about issues that so directly bear on so many aspects of contemporary life is a luxury no democratic society can afford." His book is a must read for all who wish to participate in the much needed debate about international trade in general and the WTO in particular. The World Trade Organization: A Citizen's Guide is available at major bookstores in Canada or from the CCPA. Steven Shrybman is Executive Director of the Vancouver-based West Coast Environmental Law Association. For more information including an excerpt from the book, visit the CCPA web site at: http://www.policyalternatives.ca or call: 613-563-1341. [This from: Bruce Campbell, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Suite 410, 75 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 Tel: 613-563-1341 Fax: 613-233-1458 mailto:brucec[at]policyalternatives.ca http://www.policyalternatives.ca ------------------------- Book on Human Rights and the WTO INCHRITI (the International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and Investment) is to lauch the following book, published in co-operation with the Global Publications Foundation and ICDA, shortly before the Seattle Ministerial Conference: "Human Rights and Economic Globalisation: Directions for the WTO", Mehra, M. (Ed.), Global Publication Foundation, Sweden. November 1999. ISBN 91-973739-0-7. Description: "Do human rights matter to international trade policy in a globalising economy? Or are they a distraction better left to specialist bodies and kept well out of international economic bodies such as the World Trade Organisation? Copies of the book, with a Foreword by Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be given to all Head of Delegations at the WTO as well Heads of National Commissions for Human Rights to connect the trade and human rights policy communities. INCHRITI is also planning other activities at Seattle and beyond - details will be sent out in due course. For review copies or more information, please contact: Malini Mehra, INCHRITI/ PDHRE mailto:malinimehra[at]aol.com ------------------------------ Whose Trade Organization Corporate Globalization & the Erosion of Democracy by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza. Whose Trade Organization is a ground-breaking book which documents the five year record of the powerful World Trade Organization(WTO). Based on a year of intensive research, this book reviews the specific cases and outcomes that have made the WTO increasingly controversial worldwide. Not one public health, safety or environmental policy that has been challenged before the WTO has been upheld; all have been found to be "trade barriers," which must be eliminated. Most Americans are unaware that such decisions are being made behind closed doors at the WTO without the most basic due process guarantees. For more information, contact: Margrete Strand Rangnes, Public Citizen Global Trade Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Washington DC, 20003 USA mailto:mstrand[at]citizen.org, 202-454-5106 ____________________________________________________________________________top 15. New WTO meeting website (anti-WTO) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:58:38 -0400 From: Margrete Strand-Rangnes <mstrand[at]citizen.org> To: Multiple recipients of list MAI-INTL <mai-intl[at]essential.org> Subject: (wto) WTO Web Site Launched! Check it out! Your "one-stop" WTO web site is now up and running: www.seattle99.org The calendar of all the events planned for Seattle are posted here, you can sign up to volunteer, find housing during the Ministerial, learn more about the WTO and globalization, find tons of great links to organizations, and find out what YOU can do to STOP the WTO! This page will be updated almost daily, so make sure to bookmark it and check it often. A special thanks goes out to Communicopia (www. communicopia.com) for donating the time and resources to make the great design of the page. We hope the site is useful to you, and inspires you to join us in Seattle Nov. 26 - Dec. 3. for an historic confrontation between civil society and corporate rule. If you have suggestions and additions for the page, contact BillAal at waal[at]toolsforchange.org Global Trade Watch Public Citizen and the Citizens Trade Campaign as well as People for Fair Trade not to mention Network Opposed to the WTO ========================= NEW CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION! On the Internet at http://www.tradewatch.org/publications/gtwpubs.htm FOR MULTIPLE COPIES CONTACT PUBLIC CITIZEN 202-588-1000 OR GO TO http://www.citizen.org/newweb/publicat.htm ********************************** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Margrete Strand Rangnes MAI Project Coordinator Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington DC, 20003 USA mstrand[at]citizen.org 202-454-5106 202-547 7392 (fax) To subscribe to our MAI Listserv send an e-mail to mstrand[at]citizen.org, or subscribe directly by going to our website, www.tradewatch.org (Please indicate organizational affiliation if any, and also where you found out about this listserv) Search the MAI-NOT & MAI-INTL archives at http://lists.essential.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 16. Seattle General Strike Project (1919 general strike info) The Seattle General Strike Project is an on-line resource center for information about the 1919 General Strike and related labor history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. It offers original research reports, published articles, photographs, political cartoons, document facsimiles, and extensive bibliographic and archival guides. Among the more interesting links are an IWW maintained map of general strikes around the world and a guide to the music and lyrics of the rock opera "Seattle 1919" recorded in 1985 by the FUSE. Sponsored by the University of Washington Labor Studies Center, the page is coordinated by Professor James Gregory and features among other things research reports written by students in his History 498 senior seminar. http://depts.washington.edu/pcls From: Seth Wigderson <sethw[at]maine.edu> __________________________ To subscribe to AGITPROP NEWS, the LAMP weekly digest of news and humor for artists and activists: Send to: listserv[at]email.rutgers.edu Message: subscribe agitprop_news Your Name ____________________________________________________________________________top 17. The Official U. S. Time http://www.time.gov >From the site description: "This public service is cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United States: a Department of Commerce agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO). Readings from the clocks of these agencies contribute to world time, called Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time maintained by both agencies should never differ by more than 0.000 0001 seconds from UTC." According to the site, time provided "should generally be accurate within 1 second." Related resources are available here as well under "Time Exhibits": http://www.time.gov/exhibits.html Please note: This service uses Java. For more information on this service see http://www.time.gov/about.html Submitted by: The ResPool Listowner rjtiess[at]warwick.net http://rtiess.tripod.com From ResPool - http://members.tripod.com/~rtiess/respool.htm ____________________________________________________________________________top 18. The Dollar Stretcher - http://www.stretcher.com/ Subtitled Your weekly resource for simple living, this site contains a newsletter each week with articles (many contributed by readers) covering the range of ways to "live better for less." Recent topics covered include: review of WebTV, car warranties, Halloween costume ideas, gas saving tips, first time moms, and healthy freezer meals. The articles are archived back to April, 1996 and arranged in several helpful ways. You can find them listed by subject (Reference Library), Problem, Date, and Author. In addition, Tips, Quips & Quotes contains hundreds of suggestions from readers on each topic covered. - et Subjects: home economics | consumers | shopping Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 19. Open the Doors (poem) Poem for the Grand Opening of the Ridgedale Library (MN) by Chris Dodge and Solveig Nilsen Open the Doors We the people of this place, Having set ourselves to the task, Having planted an idea and nurtured it into action, Having committed our resources to the re-creation of this shape-shifting library, We the people of this community, now open its doors to all. We the numerous ordinary folks of this place near the shores of Lake Minnetonka, Immigrants and native people of the upper Mississippi Valley, In the county of Hennepin, the state of Minnesota, We citizens, inhabitants of Mother Earth, Open the doors of this library to extraordinary worlds within and outside its walls. We had a vision, and we made it live Brick upon brick, Glass set in frame: A building reborn. We humans did this. We architects and planners and taxpayers and construction workers, We had a vision, and we did the work. We humans did this. We the excavators, backhoe operators and pile drivers, We the pipe fitters and cement masons and tin knockers, We the drywall tapers and layers of tile, We the interior designers and project planners say: "Open these doors!" We the shelvers of books, we networkers, We the catalogers, the computer technicians, We circulation workers say: "Open 'em wide!" We had a vision and we did the work, Glass set in frame: a building reborn. We the painters, we plumbers, We the rough and finish carpenters, We glaziers, we electricians, We had a vision, and we made it live. We dreamers and doers, We had a vision, and we made it live. We the proofreaders, we the poets, We the people say "Open these doors!" We the writers, we the children, We builders, we the elders say: "Open 'em up!" We citizen readers, we watchers of films, We students, we teachers, We askers of questions, We the publishers, we printers, we musicians, We the diggers, we skiers and skaters and wheelers and dancers, We the mothers, the daughters, the sons and the fathers, say "Open the doors!" Open these doors for the better, to the laws of physics and the lives of the lives of the saints, Open these doors to the languages of the world: Laotian, Norwegian, Swahili, and Russian, and to the Spanish tongue, and the Ojibwe, Open these doors to images of art and to all the recorded sounds of every time and place, of animals and birds, and drums and flutes, solos and symphony. Open these doors to high and low, history and myth, sacred and secular, fact and theory. To all these worlds of possibility: Open the doors most joyfully! To a world of true diversity: black and green, red and white, rural and urban, serious and silly, To seekers and reachers, to curvy and straight, to those who suffer and all those outside the lines, we say: Open these doors with utmost pride and pleasure! Finally! It's ready! Come on in! Shout praise and cheer! To liberty! Shout praise and cheer! To the library! We say: Let this place spark our imagination into flame! Let it fuel our dreams! We say: Sound the drums! Open the doors! Let's celebrate today! Celebrate! [Note from the editor - Chris Dodge has just quit his inhospitable job at Hennepin County Library, where he had worked happily with Sandy Berman for years before things got hairy, and has now joined the staff of the Utne Reader, where he will be a great resource and find inspiration in his environment. Congratulations, Chris!] ____________________________________________________________________________top 20. Three Sites for Ghouls and Goblins Halloween Online http://www.halloween-online.com/ Jack-o-Lantern.Com http://www.jack-o-lantern.com/ HorrorFind.com http://www.horrorfind.com/ The scariest night of the year is almost upon us, and these three sites will help users get into the proper "spirit." The first, Halloween Online, is simply put a massive Halloween resource, with decorating and costume tips; a guide to carving and displaying your pumpkins; a selection of featured articles and interviews; Halloween recipes; downloadable graphics ("Scream Savers") and music files; e-cards; online games; and a large collection of links, among other offerings. The second site covers one subject, and it covers it well: Jack-O-Lanterns. At the site, users can learn the history of Jack-O-Lanterns, pick up carving techniques, download free printable patterns, read a FAQ, and browse a gallery. While not strictly a Halloween site, Horrorfind.com will help any users out for a spooky fix. This searchable metasite indexes a variety of horror-related sites, grouping them by topic, such as Ghosts, Werewolves, Halloween, Vampires, etc. Each link is briefly annotated, and users are invited to rank them. Also included at the site are What's New and Top Rated lists and electronic horror greeting cards to send to your fiends. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.ed ____________________________________________________________________________top 21. The Pond Better seen than described, The Pond: http://home.earthlink.net/~thepond ____________________________________________________________________________top L I B R A R Y J U I C E | http://libr.org/Juice/ | | Original material and added value in Library Juice | is copyright-free; beyond that the publisher makes | no guarantees. Library Juice is a free weekly | publication edited and published by Rory Litwin. | Original senders are credited wherever possible; | opinions are theirs. Your comments and suggestions | are welcome. Juice[at]libr.org This page was created by SimpleText2Html 1.0.3 on 26-Oct-99.