Library Juice 2:42 - Library Juice is now a book and a blog

Library Juice 2:42 - November 3, 1999 Contents: 1. PubSCIENCE 2. Independent Publishing Resource Center 3. News Resources 4. Democracies Online Newswire 5. LC now calling clitoridectomy "female circumcision" 6. Northern Light Search Alert Service 7. Discussion of "Earth's Largest Library" on GAY-LIBN 8. Bruno's Laws 9. Medici Archive 10. Three History Resources 11. Attitudes 12. Wilhelm Reich died on this day 13. Some final thoughts on research 14. The Rumour: A Cultural History Quote for the week: "Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech & press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law -- no opinion a crime." ---Alexander Berkman Home page of the week: Daniel Tsang http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 1. PubSCIENCE http://pubsci.osti.gov/ Modelled after the National Institutes of Health's PubMed, this new database developed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) allows users to search across abstracts and citations of multiple publishers in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines for free. Currently, the database indexes more than 1,000 scientific and technical journals. Users can search by keyword or publisher, or perform a multiple option advanced search. Search returns include author, title, journal title and number, date, and a fair-sized abstract. Some returns also contain links to the full text, which will come up immediately if the user or his/her institution has a subscription to the journal. Otherwise, information on pay-per-view or subscription access is provided. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 2. The Independent Publishing Resource Center of Portland, OR [A model local effort - ed.] http://scribble.com/iprc The Independent Publishing Resource Center maintains a library of self-published and independently produced materials available for check-out to members and the general public. Operating as a free lending library, it represents materials that have been denied entrance to public libraries and that may be lost forever without our cataloging and archiving efforts. The library's database allows users to research, browse, discover and locate its ever expanding collection of small publications from around the world. Located on its shelves are comics, chap books, novels, catalogs, zines and more. A comprehensive reference section includes artists books, guides, criticism, history and how-to information available to examine and use in the library. To provide a record of the center's activity and diversity, the library archives all work published at the Center. The archives also house ephemera and rare publications that need special attention and care. Materials in the archive are available for limited use at the Center by appointment. Checking out materials is easy. Simply stop by the Center and fill out a borrower's application to get your library card which enables you to check-out up to 10 publications for 2 weeks. The collection is easy to browse as it is clearly labelled and categorized by subject and alphabetized by title. Extensive effort has gone into cataloging the collection, enabling library users to search by title, author, publisher, date, subject and contents. The library's only source for acquisitions is through the donations of individuals, editors and publishers -- without their generosity our shelves would be empty. We ask if you are able to make a monetary donation to please do so as it enables us to purchase important publications that we are unable to get through donations and help defray the costs of operating the library. We welcome donations of your publication and/or collection. Inquiries and donations should be sent to: IPRC Library 917 SW Oak Street #304 Portland OR 97205 ph/fax 503.827.0249 ___________________________________________________________________________top 3. News Resources .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. U.S. News Archives on the Web http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html These pages provide links to United States news archives available on the Web. Papers are arranged by state. We provide the dates of the archive, along with the cost to retrieve the full text of articles. Unless noted, searching is free. Charges may apply to retrieve stories. Archives of non-US newspaper archives are also available. If the paper you want to search isn't listed, try one of our Other Sources. Pages maintained by News Division volunteers of the Special Libraries Association. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Online Newspapers of the World links to over 4,000 newspapers and magazines around the world and has an efficient search engine as well URL: http://www.metagrid.com/ Submitted by Eddie Burke >From ResPool - http://members.tripod.com/~rtiess/respool.htm .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. There's an even more comprehensive resource at http://pppp.net/links/news -- 10,000 newspapers and magazines, organized by country (and state/province). Very nice. Donna F. Cavallini Manager of Competitive Knowledge Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800 Atlanta, GA 30309-4530 TEL 404-815-6282 FAX 404-815-6500 dcavallini[at]kilstock.com >From ResPool - http://members.tripod.com/~rtiess/respool.htm .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. The Paperboy - http://www.thepaperboy.com/ Over 2500 online newspapers from around the world are accessible from this site. Available in three versions: Newspaper Search, the entry page, featuring world wide searching by paper name and city/country; US Edition, featuring US news links, state headlines and weather, sports news, and a directory of papers by state; and UK Edition, featuring news links for England, Wales, Scotland, and North Ireland; UK sports news and weather; UK radio news links; and UK news services. There are also subject and current event links and a "Top Drawer" selection of the "best" newspapers for each edition. Some sites require audio or video plug-ins. - jp Subjects: newspapers Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Two News Tools moreover http://www.moreover.com/ Headlinez.net http://www.headlinez.net/ These two new sites, both in beta development, will help users stay current by linking to a wide selection of headlines and news stories. The first and much larger site, moreover, currently offers the top stories from over 1,500 sources, grouped into 150 categories. The home page features the latest top stories worldwide, as well as the major news in business, finance, Internet, media, and technology. Headlines are also organized in a variety of general categories, by industry, and by region or country. News stories can be freely accessed from the site's main page, or after free registration, users can create their own customized news page with the moreover Publisher. With the Publisher, they can select which new sources will be monitored, tweak the layout of the page, and for those integrating the headlines into their own site, add their own HTML. The second site is, at present, a much more modest, but also more focused, resource, featuring breaking Internet, technology, and computing news only. Users can read headlines by source or select any number of sources to create a customized page. An internal keyword search engine is also provided. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz points out NewsNow: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/ It indexes 1000 sources and a searchable archive of 70,000 headlines for the past month. Sources are international but anglo-american heavy. It looks useful. ResearchBuzz is at http://www.researchbuzz.com .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Gary Price, one of the all-time great web resource compilers, has a page of news resources: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/newscenter.htm .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Daniel Tsang, alternative research guru at UC Irvine, has a page of news resources at http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/netnews1.htm This url is the low-bandwidth back-door to Tsang's news resources, which I am using here because his redesigned site has an image file on its front pages that's a half a megabyte - way too big. I hope he will see fit to slim down that file so low-tech users like myself can handle it. ___________________________________________________________________________top 4. Democracies Online Newswire Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:29:04 -0500 From: Steven Clift <slc[at]publicus.net> Organization: http://www.e-democracy.org/do Subject: Democracies Online Newswire To: GOVDOC-L[at]lists.psu.edu Please feel free to join and pass this along to other library related lists in your state or country. Steven Clift ------------------------------------------------------------------- Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do ------------------------------------------------------------------- DO-WIRE is a low volume, moderated, e-mail announcement list covering the convergence of democracies and the Internet around the world. Around 1 to 5 "best of" posts are forwarded each week from civic, political, academic, government, media, and private sector sources. Posts highlight articles, calls for papers, new projects, online events, online resources, research, conferences, and URLs to important news stories. Launched in late 1997, over 700 of the world's leading democracy/politics online experts, practitioner, and journalists subscribe to this free service. Join them today. A searchable web archive is available: http://www.e-democracy.org/do To SUBSCRIBE for e-mail delivery, send a message to: LISTSERV[at]TC.UMN.EDU In the message body, write: SUB DO-WIRE "Your Name (Place)" Please note that you will be asked to confirm your subscription via e-mail. DO-WIRE submissions are encouraged. Please send your proposed posts to: DO[at]PUBLICUS.NET 28 OCT 99 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do ------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________top 5. LC now calling clitoridectomy "female circumcision" The Cataloging Service Bulletin Sep 1, 1999 reports that LC has changed Clitoridectomy-Law and legislation to Female circumcision-Law and legislation. The two are hardly the same thing. A better change would have been to add Female Genital Mutilation with a see reference from Clitoridectomy. Not having seen this issue of the Cataloging Service Bulletin myself but learning of it by email, I am not aware of when this change was made or what the formal justifications of it were. -Ed. ___________________________________________________________________________top 6. Northern Light Search Alert Service http://standard.northernlight.com/cgi-bin/cl_alert.pl?cb=200 Northern Light has recently announced the beta release of a new free service that will notify users via email whenever new information meeting their search criteria is found in Northern Light's daily updates to its database of 150 million Webpages and 8 million Special Collection articles. After setting up a free Northern Light account, users can enter their own topic for Search Alerts or choose from a number of topics listed on the advanced search forms (Power Search, Industry Search, Current News, Investext, and WEFA - Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates Report). Users can also preview sample results before registering their alert. From the email notification, users can launch a results list with the new information, although Special Collections articles may only be read after paying a fee. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 7. Discussion of "Earth's Largest Library" on GAY-LIBN Previous coverage of the Coffman thing in Library Juice, at: http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol2/LJ_2.33.html#6 http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol2/LJ_2.35.html#4 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. >>> J. McRee Elrod <mac[at]slc.bc.ca> 10/28 5:08 PM >>> Perhaps some have read Steve Coffman's article on this subject. Today at noon he spoke on a video conference hookup to sites across the United States and Canada on "Building Earth's Largest [Virtual] Library". His vision of all libraries sharing a common electronic catalogue something like OCLC with enriched records somewhat like Amazon.com is exciting. If realized, we might see our business at SLC changing from making many MARC records to creating fewer enriched ones. Some questions occur to me however. Coffman seems to assume that local cataloguing would not exist, and that acquisitions would attach locations to existing big fat records. In our experience, some special libraries acquire material 50% of which is not on OCLC. Just how these enriched records (with scanned covers, etc.) could be created when they don't exist was not mentioned. No attention was given to how the classed searching function served by shelf browsing would be replaced if we all do our searching online. I assume RLIN, MARCit, etc., would be road kill. Anybody else attend a session? The idea of all of us participating was a tease wasn't it? __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (mac[at]slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing http://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:38:11 -0400 From: "Don Yarman" <yarmando[at]columbus.rr.com> Mac wrote: > Perhaps some have read Steve Coffman's article on this subject. Today > at noon he spoke on a video conference hookup to sites across the United > States and Canada on "Building Earth's Largest [Virtual] Library". Mac, you are such a chronocentrist. Coffman spoke at 2:00 CDT. For those of you who haven't read the article, it and assorted responses are available at http://www.incolsa.net/HTML/teleconf/coff.htm. > His vision of all libraries sharing a common electronic catalogue > something like OCLC with enriched records somewhat like Amazon.com is > exciting. Exciting, but flawed. There are tremendous issues of local autonomy and patron privacy that Coffman ignores. His numbers are very, very bad. Still, I think he's opened up an important discussion and presented us with a vision of the toward which direction we should be moving. His bad numbers anger me, because if we dismiss his thesis on the basis of bad math, we throw out a vibrant, visionary baby with the bathwater. > Coffman seems to assume that local cataloguing would not exist, and that > acquisitions would attach locations to existing big fat records. I didn't get that at all. The discussion didn't get deep enough to probe all the different ways ELL might work. In fact, the only way I think it ~can~ work is with automation systems that bridge a central bibliographic database and private, local holdings, patron, and circulation databases. > Just how these enriched records (with scanned covers, > etc.) could be created when they don't exist was not mentioned. > > No attention was given to how the classed searching function served by > shelf browsing would be replaced if we all do our searching online. No attention was given to a lot of stuff, Mac. It was only an hour long. Obligatory Gay Content: Accessories. Steve Coffman was in dire need of fashion advice. Look, I am hardly the person to consult on issues of appearance, but I think if you're going to be on TV, spend a few bucks on a haircut and wear a jacket. Having had the interesting ironic experience of seeing the presentation at OCLC, I remain a cautious fan of the ELL idea and your obedient servant, Don Yarman yarmando[at]columbus.rr.com .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:18:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Arro Smith or David Gentry <arro[at]io.com> I was very disappointed in the panel. None of these guys addressed the fundamental problems with his article. He ignores cherished principles of librarianship: He would like the catalogue record to be more like Amazon.com's, including reviews and readers' comments. Librarians strive to make their catalogue records objective--a surrogate record. If we start including reviews and comments, whose do we include? Favorable, Christian, Moslem, critical? He would like the catalogue to remember the patron and suggest things they might like to read. Librarians are required by many state statutes to "forget." It's a first amendment issue of freedom to read--anything, anonymously. He wants libraries to be more like a bookstore and cater to the popular whim--let ILL take care of the unpopular tomes. So what libraries are going to stock the undesirable, but important, research materials? And part of the art of librarianship is collecting not just the books people want; but the books they are going to need. Sure we buy the best-sellers; but most of our collection development time is spent carefully poring over reviews of books that will never make the best-seller list. It's our job to buy the books that contain accurate information. We need to have those on the shelf and in our catalogues for patrons to use. Instead of having the patron go through hundreds of pages of World cat to find a book on the Amer. Revolution, a good library should have at least a couple of well-reviewed copies on the shelf. He says he called 10 libraries attempting to find a book from the '20s and none of them offered him an ILL. What planet were these libraries on? Or did he state during the reference interview that he was not a resident in their jurisdiction? Did he ask his local public library for the book? Also, his ideal, Amazon.com, has yet to make a single dollar of profit. Enough, A. Arro Smith San Marcos (Tex.) Public Library .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:01:05 -0400 From: "Don Yarman" <yarmando[at]columbus.rr.com> Arro wrote: > I was very disappointed in the panel. None of these guys addressed the > fundamental problems with his article. Absolutely. Entirely too much time was given over to Coffman to make his case. Given the controversial nuances of the topic, a debate format would have worked much better. > He ignores cherished principles of librarianship: [like objectivity, confidentiality, and authority] True. It's unfortunate that Coffman has such tunnel vision, such a narrow understanding of the principles involved here. But I think the ELL project could move forward with ~better~ values than Coffman's. It should be locally decided what reviews, if any, are included with the objective bibliographic record; my library might decide, for example, to only offer LJ and SLJ reviews with the titles. My library would certainly decide not to track patrons' reading habits and offer them automated advice, and we happily explain why not to anyone who asks. If we were part of a nationwide or global ILL system, our collection development would not change in the slightest: we would still buy the material that meets the diverse needs of our community -- we would just be able to offer much more. > It's our job > to buy the books that contain accurate information. We need to have those > on the shelf and in our catalogues for patrons to use. Instead of having > the patron go through hundreds of pages of World cat to find a book on the > Amer. Revolution, a good library should have at least a couple of > well-reviewed copies on the shelf. I don't see why being connected to a world cat precludes having several well-reviewed American Revolution titles on the shelf. And a good catalog would retrieve local holdings first, but make wider searches readily accessible. > He says he called 10 libraries attempting to find a book from the '20s and > none of them offered him an ILL. What planet were these libraries on? That's what I was thinking. Bad librarians happen to good people, but they shouldn't. > Also, his ideal, Amazon.com, has yet to make a single dollar of profit. Immaterial. I hope no one is suggesting that ELL should be a for-profit venture. On the other hand, we should be striving to offer good customer service, regardless of whether we call library users "customers" or not. The problem is that Coffman seems to be saying "Be like Amazon." The real challenge is to be inspired by Amazon to be better. Finding it unspeakably ironic that out of all the e-lists I subscribe to (including pacs-l, web4lib, and syslib-l), only gay-libn is discussing this, I remain your obedient &c., Don Yarman yarmando[at]columbus.rr.com .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Forwarding... kt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:05:33 -0500 From: jeanne hickling <jeanne[at]incolsa.net> Subject: Re: Earth's Largest Library Well, as a employee of INCOLSA, the sponsoring agency of the Coffman teleconference, I had mixed feelings about the entire thing. I knew that with 250 sites, that hardly anyone would be able to comment. But it did continue the conversation of the ELL. My office processes interlibrary loan for about 150 INCOLSA member libraries. I know that an ELL would work for some, but for others it would be a nightmare. And his version of an ELL never addresses photocopies, and how that would be handled. And not all small libraries could afford the $6000 a year that is his projection for the shared cost. Jeanne Hickling jeanne[at]incolsa.net .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:29:41 -0400 From: "Sheidlower, Scott" <S.Sheidlower[at]BrooklynPublicLibrary.org> I've been reading this on the network. Mac's statement that some special libraries collect material no one else does or would or would catalog is important to us as GLBT peoples. I volunteer (when library school doesn't get in the way) at the Parker Russo Library at the Gay center in NYC. We, like many other gay libraries collect titles that no main stream library does. We have a large collection of Fiction by Badboy Press for instance. This is soft core erotica. NYPL purchases things ike the NAMBLA newsletter. This posting is not about NAMBLA but about stuff that wouldn't be collected because maybe only 100 libraries on Earth has it. And how is LC's cataloging of Erotica going? Gay, straight, it doesn't make a difference but if there is only a single catalog we're going to loose this stuff. This is part of our culture. Scott Sheidlower Library Student at Queens College & BPL member .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:44:00 -0400 From: "yarmando" <yarmando[at]columbus.rr.com> Apparently I am the champion of ELL on this list. Please feel free to email me privately and ask me to desist. I suspect I would be happy to comply. Scott Sheidlower wrote: > Gay, straight, it doesn't make a difference > but if there is only a single catalog we're going to loose this stuff Why? If an ELL project gets off the ground and the Parker Russo Library participates, then its catalog will be part of ELL, erotica and all. There is no chance that the Grandview Heights Public Library will buy _Tag Team Studs_ (Badboy, 1997), but I could borrow it from the Parker Russo Library if both of us were part of ELL. When I die and my books are given to the Library, they won't have to create an original record for my copy of _Mike and Me_ (Badboy, 1992), should they choose to add it to the collection, because you'll already have done the cataloging. But you've raised an issue I haven't thought about, Scott: censorial backlash against the easy availability of all titles. You just ~know~ some parent somewhere in the Great Plains is going to happen upon a borrowed copy of _Meatmen Volume 19_ in a teenager's book bag, find out it was borrowed at the Smallville Public Library (on loan, no doubt, from the GHPL Yarmando Memorial Collection), and start a jihad. Suddenly curious about what really will happen to my Meatmen collection when I'm gone, I remain your widely read servant, Don Yarman yarmando[at]columbus.rr.com .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:01:53 -0700 From: "bkworm" <bkworm[at]ix.netcom.com> > Apparently I am the champion of ELL on this list. > Please feel free to email me privately and ask me > to desist. I suspect I would be happy to comply. I am delighted with the discussion thus far. Anyone is free to contribute but if they don't........ censorial backlash against the easy availability > of all titles. You just ~know~ some parent somewhere > in the Great Plains is going to happen upon a borrowed > copy of _Meatmen Volume 19_ in a teenager's book bag, > find out it was borrowed at the Smallville Public Library > (on loan, no doubt, from the GHPL Yarmando Memorial > Collection), and start a jihad. I haven't completely digested this but I'm wondering if the censorship issue would be less of a problem *precisely* because the geographics will not be so obvious. The Smallville Public Library can shift blame (?) to GHPL. I mean, Smallville doesn't have it in their collection, someone else does, so go picket them. And to comment on another point re Amazon. It really DOES matter whether they are successful or not. For the concept to gain credence, it must succeed at its stated goals. pam in rainy dallas ___________________________________________________________________________top 8. Bruno's Laws 1. Never Assume - Anything about anything or anyone. Typically, the user who says "I've looked in the catalog and you don't have the book" or the colleague who says "I've checked every conceivable source." Skepticism as process. 2. Get Off Your Duff - Pointing has its place, Emily Post to the contrary, but the skilled librarian never simply points the user to a complex or "iffy" source. If there is any doubt that the user might run into problems, MOVE. 3. Attempt to Answer the Original Question - During the reference interview, it often turns out that the question is reformulated. This is fine, but take care to respond to the question as asked. Example: Original question: "Where are the books on England?" Reformulated question: "Where can I find information on the Gunpowder Plot?" Somewhere, early into the interview if possible, indicate that if the user truly does wish to browse the stacks, many books on England can be found in the DA section on the fifth floor. In this way he/she perceives that the request for help has been fully heard. 4. Never Take Anything Interesting to Read With You to the Desk - Not terribly interesting, anyway. If you're absorbed, with head lowered, you'll appear to be unapproachable. 5. Make it a Practice to Follow up on Unresolved Questions - This applies to questions you feel could have been answered better, even if the user has long since left the building. For several reasons: Sometimes the user returns. The question, or one like it, will probably come up again. It's a good device for testing new sources ("I wish I'd known about this last week.") A back burner, for odd moments on rainy Tuesdays, is a fine device. 6. Keep in Mind - You may have heard the question a thousand times, but it's the first time the user has ever asked it. 7. Dress Comfortably. 8. Avoid Library Jargon Like the Plague - If you tell someone to look under the main entry, the chances are good that he/she will find it -- and leave through it. 9. Be Prepared to Drop all Conversations with Colleagues the Instant a User Shows Up - No one will be offended by this standard practice. 10. Before Coming to the Desk, try to Take a Few Minutes for Mental Calisthenics - The desk shift should be approached for the fun and challenge that it is. 11. Always Pass Along any Useful Information You Encounter in a Search. (Library Juice doesn't know the provenance of these laws or who Bruno was. Got an answer? Let the editor know: editor[at]libr.org ) ___________________________________________________________________________top 9. Medici Archive - http://www.medici.org/ Established by Grand Duke Cosimo I in 1569, the archive consists of nearly 3 million letters that offer a "panorama of two-hundred years of human history, as told in the words of the people most immediately involved." This developing, searchable project currently contains 2,600 pages of sample document reports. Areas are: Arts & Humanities, including antiquities, arms, art, books, ceramics, coins, drawings, animals, food, fortification, furniture, sports, gardens, glassware, jewels, maps, medicine, music, theater, timepieces, and more; Jewish History (religion and culture); and the history of Costume and Textiles. Documents in Italian, with English translations. - dl Subjects: history - 17th century | history - 18th century | jews | history Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 10. Three History Resources The History Guide http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/index.html History Department Guidelines for Papers http://www.Colorado.EDU/history/papguide.htm History Department Guidelines for Referencing http://www.Colorado.EDU/history/refdoc.htm Created by Steven Kreis, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Meredith College, The History Guide is aimed at secondary and undergraduate students in History courses, studying for the A.P. test, or considering majoring in History. The core of the site is a collection of full text lectures from three university courses on Ancient and Medieval, Intellectual, and Twentieth Century European History. Also included are A Student's Guide to the Study of History, nine syllabi from courses Kreis has taught, a sizable collection of annotated links, and Kreis' own intellectual autobiography, which is presented for students considering graduate school in history. The remaining two resources are offered by the University of Colorado at Boulder History Department. Both guides offer essential advice for undergraduates writing papers for History courses. Both are clearly organized and provide numerous examples. University instructors will find these pages an excellent resource to link to from their online course pages or syllabi. > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________________top 11. Attitudes From Councilor Michael Golrick to member-forum... ATTITUDES Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my eduction, my bankroll, my successes or my failure, fame or pain, what other people think or say about me, my circumstance or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. by Charles R. Swindoll ___________________________________________________________________________top 12. Wilhelm Reich died on this day in 1957 -- US: Wilhelm Reich, whose books have been seized & burned by US federal agents, dies in prison for refusing to stop selling orgone accumulators. Author of The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Sex-Pol Essays, Function of the Orgasm, etc. "The truest and most important concepts of the era . . . are precisely marked by the organization around them of the greatest confusions and the worst misrepresentations. Vital concepts are simultaneously subject to the truest and the most false uses . . . because the struggle between critical reality and the apologetic spectacle leads to a struggle over words. . . . The truth of a concept is revealed not by an authoritarian purge, but by the coherence of its use in theory and in practical life." ---Internationale Situationniste #10 http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/Reich.htm http://www.orgone.org/ http://id.mind.net/community/orgonelab/xawreich.htm This is from the Daily Bleed, an eclectic calendar of events in history: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm ___________________________________________________________________________top 13. Some final thoughts on research >From Noel Peattie's SIPAPU, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1993 When a distinguished friend, whom we knew as a graduate student, called us up to announce that she had finally been awarded the doctorate, and to thank us for assisting her with her research, it occurred to us that librarians are really the best informed people in the nation, only nobody knows about it, and very few care. We -- and not only we, but librarians nearly everywhere -- can tell you who was king of Denmark in 1599 (and what voyage he undertook in that year, and why); we can tell you the date of the first discovery of a frozen mammoth, and the present location of the mummified body of James, earl of Bothwell, former husband of Mary, queen of Scots; we can give you the details of the flag of the Byzantine Empire, send you to an explanation of the Zeemann effect, tell you the similar but not simultaneous, fates of Mount Mazama, the French cruiser _Bouvet_, and Ernest's friend Bunbury; show you how to get to the Skeleton Coast, and how to avoid a boomslang; locate the largest bell in the world, and the home of the world's smallest bird; describe the crime of Count Libri, the disappearance of Olav I, king of Norway, and the bizarre reign of Pope Benedict IX; discuss the disabilities of the Japanese emperor Taisho, and how to avoid the disease calle _kuru_; detail the Tichborne Case, and the Fashoda Incident; properly assign to its correct author the play _Vortigern_, falsely attributed to Shakespeare, and the Sympohny in C ("Jena"), wrongly assigned to Beethoven; disentangle Sabellianism from Sebastianism, and tell you just what a monk saw happen to the Moon in the year 1065. The problem is, as we found, that nobody ever asks these questions. The students want help doing a report on the legalization of marijuana; the businessmen want the figures on the stock performance of Amalgamated Pup. The librarians are all dressed up with no place to go. So they involve themselves with committees on the revision of rules. *All* the rules. We checked ourselves out of the library, put on colorful T-shirts instead of ties, and - here we are. Free at last. ___________________________________________________________________________top 14. The Rumour: A Cultural History Next month we publish a unique study of communication: "The Rumour: A Cultural History" see our website for more information http://www.fa-b.com and kindly add this to your information database or link page, thank you. 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