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Library Juice 3:40 - October 25, 2000 Contents: New URL for Cuban Libraries Support Group L.O.O.P. Developing Information Leaders: Harnessing the Talents of Generation X Chronicle of Higher Ed. Forum on library education and reading mclforum Local History & Genealogy Librarian Newsletter Free Scholarly Electronic Journals - How Good Are They? New Pages list of independent bookstores Collected filtering news and views Google Boolean OR? Wired article on e-journals and peer review Ejournals (National Library of Medicine site) Upcoming article on library service to the labor community Librarian job at Small Press Distribution A Selected Bibliography of Literary Erotica on the Worldwide Web Quote for the week: "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." -Gertrude Stein, _Reflections on the Atomic Bomb_ Homepage of the week: Kimberly Rachael Stein http://www.dreamwater.net/missrachael/ _________________________________________________________________________top New URL for Cuban Libraries Support Group The Cuban Libraries Support Group (CLSG) has its web site at a new location: http://libr.org/CLSG/ Please update your links and bookmarks. The site contains a dozen articles; news updates on the organization; background information on Cuban Libraries, literacy, education, and the US blockade; a list of libraries in Cuba, useful for those planning a trip; a list of CLSG partner organizations; and links to the four Library Juice supplements dealing with Cuba. The site contains research debunking the claims of Robert Kent regarding the so-called independent library movement, but CLSG is more concerned with supporting Cuban libraries and developing relationships with Cuban librarians. I hope you will visit the site. _________________________________________________________________________top 2. L.O.O.P. http://internettrash.com/users/imloopy/ ...to educate, inform, and entertain library people through irreverent humor and independent thought Library Employees Unite! Are you an undertrained, underheard, misunderstood member of the underground in your library system? Do you want to rant or rage about the injustices in your library community? Are you tired of being marginalized because you don't have an MLS and/or haven't kissed enuf administrators to get promoted or paid a decent wage? Join the club! What club? Well, not ALA, PNLA or AA, and certainly not WALE, COLT or SSIRT. Thee only club for you, thee only club that supports front-line employees in their war against bureaucratic bullspit--the LOOP. What is the LOOP? Library Organizational Outreach People, Peons, Punks, Pranksters, and Pressmen. Our unofficial, unorganized, unreverent gang is the brainchild of some whacked-out library employees whose sense of humor far exceeds their common sense. The LOOP's mission is to improve communication one scream at time and/or educate, encourage and entertain library employees through irreverent humor and independent thought. _________________________________________________________________________top 3. Developing Information Leaders: Harnessing the Talents of Generation X A book by Marisa Urgo excerpts at: http://www.marisaurgo.com/frontpage.html If you want to see the future of libraries and information centers, take a look at the young people entering the information professions. These men and women represent the future of the profession, and surprisingly their attitudes on work can be quite different from their managers. This often leads to tension, high turnover and disappointment for everyone involved. _Developing Information Leaders_ explores the many facets of this generation gap and how managers can improve morale, reduce turnover, and help recruit and prepare the next generation of information leaders. _________________________________________________________________________top 4. Chronicle of Higher Ed. Forum on library education and reading Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:41:30 -0500 From: Scott.Jaschik[at]chronicle.com To: newlib-l[at]usc.edu Subject: online discussion on librarians, library schools, and why people read An essay in the new issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education says that an important failing in libraries today is that librarians don't know enough about why people read and what they like to read. Wayne A. Wiegand, a professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, writes that librarians "lack a deeper understanding of how libraries already serve readers, and they miss evidence that they could use to convince state legislatures and other sources of financial support that spending money on stories is important." Mr. Wiegand writes that some of the blame for this "tremendous professional oversight" belongs to library schools, which he believes should rethink their programs. The Chronicle invites members of this list to read Mr. Wiegand's essay and to join an online discussion about it at: http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2000/stories/stories.htm Scott Jaschik Editor The Chronicle of Higher Education _________________________________________________________________________top 5. mclforum .. a new discussion list on multicultural library services Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:41:07 +1000 From: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc[at]MAIL.VICNET.NET.AU> To: IFLA-L[at]INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA Reply to: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list <IFLA-L[at]INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA> mclforum The Multicultural Libraries forum (mclforum) has been established to facilitate the discussion of issues and ideas involved in the provision of Multicultural Library Services. It is an international forum for library staff interested in the provision of services to multicultural or linguistically diverse populations. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: the use of technology to facilitate the provision of multicultural library services; multilingual internet technology and web site design; the provision of library services to communities across a diaspora; the effects of globalization on multicultural library services, and the possibilities and opportunities for capitalizing on these changes; and the opportunities for, both formal and informal, international cooperation in the provision of multicultural library services. To subscribe to mclforum go to http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/mclforum The forum will be supplemented by a web site that is currently under construction, the MCL-net (multicultural libraries network) web site at http://www.openroad.vic.gov.au/libraries/ Feel free to explore and test the site as we develop it. The editors would appreciate feedback that would allow us to improve the site and develop it as an international resource. Please send comments and requests for information to andrewc[at]vicnet.net.au or to the mclforum. Ciao Andrew Andrew Cunningham Multilingual technical project officer Vicnet State Library of Victoria andrewc[at]vicnet.net.au _________________________________________________________________________top 6. Local History & Genealogy Librarian Newsletter Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:34:03 EDT From: GenAnnual[at]aol.com To: Reference and User Services Association List <rusa-l[at]ala1.ala.org> Reply to: GenAnnual[at]aol.com New newsletter available for free. The first issue of the Local History & Genealogy Librarian, aimed at keeping archivists and librarians current with news, and book reviews in local history and genealogy will be issued this month. Edited by ALA Genealogy Committee Chair, Tom Kemp, each issue will focus on events, news and reviews of interest to librarians working with local history & genealogy collections. To be added to the mailing list for the Local History & Genealogy Librarian please send your full contact information, including mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail to the editor Tom Kemp at: TKemp[at]HeritageQuest.com or call (800) 760-2455 x1570. _________________________________________________________________________top 7. Free Scholarly Electronic Journals - How Good Are They? http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-summer/refereed.html Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Summer 2000 Michael Fosmire Physics and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Librarian Purdue University fosmire[at]purdue.edu Song Yu Chemical Information Specialist Purdue University syu[at]purdue.edu Abstract Amidst the furor of serials price increases, there is a steadily growing segment of the serials landscape with prices that can't be beat, that is to say, free. Many scholarly journals are freely available in electronic format (no subscription fee or membership required), but there has been little assessment of their impact on scholarly research. A fairly comprehensive list of free scholarly electronic journals in the science, technology, and medical fields was compiled and was examined using citation analyses. The results indicate that, unlike the situation five years ago (Harter 1998), there are several free scholarly electronic journals that have a significant impact on their respective fields. _________________________________________________________________________top 8. New Pages list of independent bookstores From Casey Hill, editor of Newpages.com Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:32:49 -0400 From: "Casey Hill" <chill[at]newpages.com> To: <chill[at]newpages.com> Hey. Greetings from the gray-skied... I've just put up my new list of Independent Bookstores -- still have material to add to it (always work to do!) -- but I'd be interested in any comments you might have about it. It took a couple of months to track all the stores down. Ok! Not "constantly" working on it... I can only stare at the computer screen for 10 or 12 hours a day & then I feel I should go read a book... The list is at http://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/bookstores.htm I'm going to do a mailing soon to all the bookstores. The basic listings will be free. The enhanced listing -- bold type, hotlink to website, and description -- will cost. How much to charge is the real question. I know bookstores won't pony up a huge chunk o change (the yacht will have to wait), but it has occurred to me that I should start earning a living with the NewPages work. So, if YOU were looking for a bookstore, would you find the NewPages Guide a useful starting point? Or should I just put a down-payment on a rowboat? Casey _________________________________________________________________________top 9. Collected filtering news and views .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:49:41 -0500 From: "Don Wood" <dwood[at]ala.org> To: Reply to: member-forum[at]ala.org ALA Washington Office on Filtering "Review our Step-by-Step Guide to Federal Mandates for a preview of what you'll need to know should the current proposals become law." http://www.ala.org/washoff/fltrguide.html http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn9078.html http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn9077.html _______________________ Don Wood Program Officer/Communications American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 312-280-4225 800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 dwood[at]ala.org http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/index.html .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. interNetWorth: Encouraging Values Over Filters http://networth.virtualave.net/ "Filtering technology, once considered by many to be the best solution to the number of accessible adult sites on the Internet, has failed in its mission to purify the Internet and "protect" individuals from undesirable content. Why? Because Artificial Intelligence is centuries away from the complex of common sense and human intuition we collectively enjoy today. Because technology cannot solve a problem so thoroughly human in its abstract origin. Because values cannot be reduced to algorithms. Because morality cannot be automated, ever." .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Study of Average Error Rates for Censorware Programs http://www.peacefire.org/error-rates/ "Using "zone files" from Network Solutions (which list all .com domains in existence), we obtained a list of the first 1,000 active.com domains on the Internet as of June 14, 2000. We tested this list of 1,000 domains using five popular blocking programs: Cyber Patrol, SurfWatch, Bess, AOL Parental Controls, and SafeServer, to see how many sites each program blocked as "pornography", and of those sites, how many were actually pornographic." .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Congress close to vote on Internet filtering for schools, libraries http://199.183.110.96/news/2000/10/2000-10-18-03.htm "Congress could vote this week on legislation that would force schools and libraries to use Internet filtering software or lose federal dollars intended to help buy Web access. But legislators' efforts to promote mandatory filtering are alienating civil liberties groups, conservatives and industry executives." .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. COPA Releases Report on Findings Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:05:24 -0500 From: "Don Wood" <dwood[at]ala.org> To: Intellectual Freedom Action News <ifaction[at]ala1.ala.org> Reply to: dwood[at]ala.org ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 9, Number 84 October 20, 2000 In this issue: COPA Releases Report on Findings Recommendations from the Commission on Online Child Protection (COPA) study on protecting children from harmful material on the Internet were released to Congress today along with a report of the Commission's findings. COPA was formed in 1998 as part of the Child Online Protection Act to study methods that would help reduce access by minors to "harmful" Internet material. The commission studied available methods and technologies used to protect children from inappropriate Internet content, including, among others: filtering and blocking software, labeling and rating systems, acceptable use policies and family contracts. The Commission's findings support broadly available education rather than mandatory filters. The report reads, "no technology or method provides a perfect solution, but when used in conjunction with education, acceptable use policies and adult supervision, many technologies can provide improved safety from inadvertent access from harmful to minors materials." Instead of recommending the mandated use of filtering software, the Commission holds that a "combination of public education, consumer empowerment technologies and methods, increased enforcement of existing laws, and industry action" are needed to address the issue of protecting children from inappropriate Internet content. Following are the Commission's Recommendations. The full text of the report is available and downloadable at: http://www.copacommission.org/report/. Government and the private sector should undertake a major education campaign to promote public awareness of technologies and methods available to protect children online. Government and industry should effectively promote acceptable use policies. The Commission recommends allocation of resources for the independent evaluation of child protection technologies and to provide reports to the public about the capabilities of these technologies. The commission recommends that industry take steps to improve child protection mechanisms, and make them more accessible online. The Commission encourages a broad, national, private sector conversation on the development of next-generation systems for labeling, rating, and identifying content reflecting the convergence of old and new media. Government should encourage the use of technology in efforts to make children's experience of the internet safe and useful. Government at all levels should fund, with significant new money, aggressive programs to investigate, prosecute, and report violations of federal and state obscenity laws, including efforts that emphasize the protection of children from accessing materials illegal under current state and federal obscenity law. The Commission recommends that state and federal law enforcement make available a list, without images, of Usenet newsgroups, IP addresses, World Wide Web sites or other Internet sources that have been found to contain child pornography or where convictions have been obtained involving obscene material. The Commission recommends that the Federal agencies, pursuant to further Congressional rulemaking authority as needed, consider greater enforcement and possibly rulemaking to discourage deceptive or unfair practices that entice children to view obscene materials, including the practices of "mouse-trapping" and deceptive meta-tagging. Government should provide new money to address international aspects of Internet crime, including obscenity and child pornography. The Commission urges the ISP industry to voluntarily undertake "best practices" to protect minors. The Online Commercial Adult Industry should voluntarily take steps to restrict minors' ready access to adult content. Action Needed: Filtering provisions still exist as riders on the Labor-HHSEducation Appropriations bill. It is imperative that library supporters contact their legislators to alert them to the prominence of education and consumer empowerment in COPA's findings. Urge your legislator to heed the wisdom of the ideologically diverse Commission members whom Congress itself appointed to examine this issue. The Capitol Switchboard number is: 202.224.3121. ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc[at]ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc[at]ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash[at]alawash.org; Web site: http://www.ala.org/washoff. Executive Director: Emily Sheketoff. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Mary Costabile, Peter Kaplan, Miriam Nisbet and Claudette Tennant. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Jennifer Hendrix, Carrie Russell and Saundra Shirley. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/15/1320206&mode=nested Conservative Groups Oppose Library Filtering posted by cicero on Sunday October 15, [at]08:13AM from the it-can-happen-to-us-too dept. A small selection of conservative groups has written to Congress to oppose Internet filtering legislation. They're taking an it-can-happen-to-us approach: "Filtering is not exclusive to pornographic content; it can also be used to target First Amendment protected speech... CyberPatrol, the largest filtering software manufacturer, ruled that the American Family Association's web site would be subject to filtering by their software program because of their long-standing opposition to homosexual activism." The sensible organizations signing last week's letter include the Free Congress Foundation, Americans for Tax Reform, and some state groups. Note who isn't there: Dogmatic national groups such as Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, and the American Family Association, who have substantially different ideas. The proposal in Congress, which would force such software on public libraries and schools that receive federal funds, has been glued on to a must-pass spending bill. See the letter below. The letter from the groups: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/15/1320206&mode=nested .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. filtering overview Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:01:25 -0700 From: Lincoln Cushing <lcush[at]sims.berkeley.edu> To: PLGnet <PLGNet-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu> Reply to: lcush[at]sims.berkeley.edu PLG colleagues- I've just finished trying to summarize the issues involved in filtering in public libraries, with an emphasis on review of legal issues; draft viewable at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~lcush/LibWeb.htm It is complicated, and I think that it's important to not dismiss parent's real concerns about children's exposure to wierd stuff on the Internet. It is a new challenge for all - kids, librarians, and parentsto come up with a realistic and productive solution. Lincoln Cushing, Docs Populi .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Re: filtering overview Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:22:04 -0700 From: Mark Wieder <mwieder[at]well.com> To: Lincoln Cushing <lcush[at]sims.berkeley.edu> Cc: PLGnet <PLGNet-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu> Reply to: Mark Wieder <mwieder[at]well.com> I would also like to point out: "GLAAD's Updated Report Explores Impact of Filtering Technology on Lesbian and Gay Community and Youth" http://www.glaad.org/org/press/index.html?record=186 Peacefire.org has some amusing reports on what sites are blocked by various pieces of filtering software: http://peacefire.org/censorware/SurfWatch/first-1000-com-domains.html [About four non-pornographic domains blocked by SurfWatch as "Sexually Explicit", for every one pornographic domains blocked.] http://peacefire.org/censorware/Cyber_Sentinel/cyber-sentinel-blocked.html [The search result listing was blocked because of the first listed article, titled "Appeals court rules against Net porn law". Cyber Sentinel listed the trigger word as "PORN".] http://peacefire.org/censorware/FamilyClick/familyclick-blocked.html [A very comprehensive dictionary of AIDS-related terms, in Spanish.] Also from http://peacefire.org : [Our second report, on BAIR, was a follow-up to our first report released in June, which showed that BAIR's "image-blocking artificial intelligence" had no ability at all to block images (Exotrope said at the time they would fix the problem within a month). The new report shows that although BAIR can now block 2/3 of randomly selected pornographic images, it also blocks 2/3 of randomly selected pictures of people's faces as well.] The Digital Freedom Network http://www.censorware.net/ has a "Foil the Filters" contest: [Sherril Babcock's case is a classic example. One Web site's filtering software prevented the Los Angeles attorney from entering the site last month with her real name because it detected the word"cock"; but the censorware did nothing when she successfully registered as "Babpenis" days later.] And lastly, if you can handle wading through slashdot, there are some good comments buried in the discussion at: http://slashdot.org/features/00/08/04/047224.shtml .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Miscellaneous thoughts on filtering Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:38:11 -0500 From: "Harvey Hahn" <hhahn[at]nslsilus.org> To: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom List <alaoif[at]ala1.ala.org> It would certainly be nice if Dr. Laura's web site writers (herself??) could get their "facts" straight. At <http://www.speakout.com/coop/drlaura/libraries.asp>; under "History & Facts" it states: "The Communications Decency Act of 1996 criminalized the transmission of ...." Both its inclusion and its wording make it sound as if the CDA is the law of the land, just as if we might say, "The Copyright Act of 1976 criminalized ...." A more accurate and less ambiguous wording would have been "... attempted to criminalize ...." As I hope all Dr. Laura's followers know, the CDA is not the law of the land because it was declared unconstitutional (and so none of the things mentioned are criminalized). I think Dr. Laura, the AFA, etc., ought to be very careful of what they wish for. If they should ever succeed in mandating filtering on library computers for children, libraries will have the (enjoyable?) job of pointing the finger right back and being able to say, "Kids are still finding porn on the computers you made us put filters on. We did what you wanted, and the problem is still there. It's not our problem any more--it's yours!" That's probably a bit on the nasty side, but I'm feeling a little testy right now after reading a bunch of pro-censoring stuff (the AFA's "How safe is your public library?"), and I haven't had a chance to calm down yet. My point is that Dr. Laura's site, for example, states, "New state of the art filtering technology can effectively protect children from exposure to dangerous pornographic sites." <http://www.speakout.com/coop/drlaura/>; What does "effectively" mean? On her TV "Lewd Libraries" episode I believe the figure "95% effective" was mentioned regarding filters with an approving comment from Dr. Laura. But that means 5% of the time the filter *isn't* effective and lets the very same pornography through that is decried by her and others. This acceptance of a small amount of pornography viewed by children as being within the realm of "OK" seems a bit hypocritical when her own web site approving quotes Senator Spencer Abraham when he says, "And [our children] should be able to conduct their Internet searches without the risk that they might suddenly find themselves caught in a thicket of pornographic advertisements. Yet, today, this risk is very real." This sounds like 0% tolerance to me, and yet Dr. Laura accepted a 5% tolerance limit--that's 3 minutes of porn per hour. (Most pro-filtering advocates seem to acknowledge that a percentage of porn sites will still make it through the filters--to children--but they never seem to publicize their acceptance of that "failure rate" and the significance of that acceptance. How would you feel, as a parent, if you trusted these people and the filters they defended and proposed, and then (after you may have been involved in making the library's computers be filtered) your children accessed porn on the so-called "filtered" computers? I don't know about you, but I think I would feel betrayed. And yet that's what parents are going to have to accept when computers get filters--there is no perfect filter *and there never will be*. Everybody agrees to that, except nobody tells that to parents and other civic groups. A perfect filter is an impossibility, because the computer program would have to be equivalent to a human who can always make perfect decisions and judgments--and humans aren't perfect. Nor do they necessarily agree on which choice might be the "perfect", right choice. Since many filtering proponents are also conservative Christians, they cannot support the existence (because of sin) of a perfect human ability to make decisions and judgments. (Perfection only comes in heaven, and then you won't need filters!) So people need to be thinking and talking reality rather than some unattainable pie-in-the-sky goal. Parents need to talk with (not "to") their children about values, why they value the things they do, and why they want their children to have similar values. Parents need to talk with their children about sexual love: the biological facts aren't the most important thing (they'll often find out and figure those out on their own)-- again, it's a matter of values, what does it mean to love another person, and stressing and discussing this from toddlerhood on in language and topics appropriate to the age. Parents need to talk with their children about how to act/behave/live when the parents aren't around, what their trust and expectations are for the best from their children based on their family values. (This aspect would help their children cope with and responsibly handle unexpected Internet-related events and unexpected events in general.) Most of all, parents need to listen to their children (especially between the lines) and use these clues as discussion starters. The job of a parent is to enable their child to develop into a beautiful butterfly that can fly from place to place on his/her own rather than to keep him/her protected within a cocoon from the world around. <Hmmm, somehow I seem to have stepped onto a soapbox. I think I'd better step down again.> BTW, bravo, Melora, on your October 11 remarks relating to "On the offensive???" Wonderful thoughts and ideas there! Harvey -- Harvey E. Hahn, Manager, Technical Services Department Arlington Heights (Illinois) Memorial Library Desk: 847/506-2644 -- FAX: 847/506-2650 -- E mailto:hhahn[at]nslsilus.org Personal web pages: http://www.anet-chi.com/~packrat _________________________________________________________________________top 10. Google Boolean OR? >From Tara Calishain's Research Buzz: 10/16/00 Does Google Now Support Boolean OR? Google has millions of fans all over the world, but a frequent complaint about the search engine is that it doesn't support the Boolean OR. Has that changed? A reader (thanks, GH!) tipped me to the fact that using a capitalized OR does not cause the "Google does not support OR" error that it did before. Try it yourself. In the Google search box, type lobster or roller coaster. You'll get the following error message: "The word "or" was ignored in your query -- for search results including one term or another, use capitalized "OR" between words." WOW. Looks like Boolean OR is supported to me! Now, go look at the help pages: http://www.google.com/intl/en_extra/help/basics.html#and . Note that it still says that Google doesn't support the OR operator. Grrgh. In any case, this is excellent news. Other Google news: users who rely on the cache may have noticed that now each search term in your query has its own highlight color. I plugged in eight terms and they all had unique colors in the cache. A fine idea; it'll make the cache easier to use. Also, Eric Rumsey has posted more information about how he did his search for medical-related directories in Google. You can find an updated article and his table of search terms at the following pages: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/notes7.html http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/notes7c.html A total Google research nut? Check out this exhaustive study from the folks at Search Engine World, which gets into things like URL slash counts, top level domains, document size, and file types! Whew! http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/ . _________________________________________________________________________top 11. Wired article on e-journals and peer review Story Posted by Blake on Friday October 20, [at] 02:14PM from the Peer-Reviewed dept. Wired has a nifty Story on E-Journals. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,39323,00.html With the big puch to E-Publish Journals some insist that simply publishing electronically is not enough --and that open, free access to the full content is needed. Critics insist that peer review is critical to ensure quality control and patient safety. Without peer review, researchers may exaggerate their findings. Some people say that faster publication time compromises quality, others insist that the benefits of electronic publication remain unparalleled by print. So far, few online-only journals have managed to survive. From LISNews.com _________________________________________________________________________top 12. Ejournals (National Library of Medicine site) http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/libinfo/ejournals/ This resource page is full of links to information about electronic journals. They include an explanation of ejournals; directories of ejournals; directories of publishers and vendors; copyright, collection development, and licensing information; directories of library consortia; poster sessions on ejournals in libraries; and additional reading from professional journals on this subject. This is a very useful source for librarians dealing with the proliferation of information available in electronic format. - bb >From Librarians' Index to the Internet - http://lii.org _________________________________________________________________________top 13. Upcoming article on library service to the labor community ===This message originated from Ann Sparanese (to LIBREF-L) <sparanese[at]englewoodlibrary.org>=== To my Public Library Colleagues, I am currently working on an article to be included in an issue of _Labor Trends_ that will be devoted to the overall subject of "Educational Services to the Labor Community: The Library's Role in an Evolving Partnership." My article has to develop a public library perspective on this topic. If you or your public library has initiated any programs or services that fit this description, I would love to know about them. I'd like to note the work of as many libraries as I can in the article. These could include special programming, educational programs, collections, partnership with unions, special outreach intiatives, etc. Thanks for for any help or leads ...and please excuse cross-postings. Ann Sparanese, MLS Englewood Public Library Englewood, NJ sparanese[at]englewoodlibrary.org 201-568-2215 ext 229 fax 201-568-6895 _________________________________________________________________________top 14. Librarian job at Small Press Distribution LIBRARIAN CONSULTANT POSITION Project Date: October 2000-May 2001 Project Stipend: Negotiable Application Deadline: Open Until Filled Small Press Distribution, Inc. (SPD) seeks a Consultant Librarian to help organize The BookSpot. The BookSpot is a collaborative library project between SPD and WritersCorps providing on-site libraries at four social service agencies with WritersCorps programs. The program is beginning its third year. The Consultant Librarian will work with the Project Coordinator and the WritersCorps teachers at the four agencies. This is not a full-time position, and hours are flexible. Primary responsibilities of the Consultant Librarian include: providing periodic evaluation of the four sites and advising site staff and program coordinator on efficiency of circulation and check-out systems, collection development, assistance with development of a reading incentive program, and preparing youth and site staff to manage their libraries after the pilot phase ends. The ideal candidate will also have the following skills and experience: -- Experience with youth, library development and/or community arts -- A thorough and working knowledge of library systems -- Knowledge of contemporary literature and young reader interests -- Organizational and communication skills -- Ability to work independently SPD is a non-profit arts organization providing services to publishers, literary audiences and writers via its book distribution activities, public programming and literary advocacy. WritersCorps is a city community service program that seeks to transform individuals through the written word. They improve the learning attitude, ability and self-sufficiency of under-served youth in low-income neighborhoods. TO APPLY: Please email resume and a brief cover letter describing your interest in the project to: karen[at]spdbooks.org (For more information please contact Karen Garman at 415-285-9145) Laura Moriarty Acquisitions & Marketing Director Small Press Distribution laura[at]spdbooks.org www.spdbooks.org (510) 524-1668 ex 306 _________________________________________________________________________top 15. A Selected Bibliography of Literary Erotica on the Worldwide Web Compiled by Kimberly Rachael Stein - missrachael42[at]yahoo.com You can also view a (simplified) online version at http://www.dreamwater.net/missrachael/erotica.htm Erotic E-Zines http://members.nbci.com/amoret/ - Amoret - A journal of erotic flash fiction, featuring stories on general, lesbian, and bdsm themes. http://www.cleansheets.com - Clean Sheets - Considered by some to be the premier online erotic zine. Articles, fiction, poetry and reviews. http://www.eroticandy.com/home.html - ErotiCandy - Lots of visual erotica in addition to their small selection of erotic fiction. http://members.aol.com/myfrthal/JoD/ - The Journal of Desire - Quarterly journal of erotic writing, criticism and commentary. No graphics. http://www.magdaleneandthemarquis.com/ - Magdalene and the Marquis - A confusing but aesthetically pleasing amalgamation of graphics and text. http://www.peacockblue.com/index2.html - peacockblue - Fiction, poetry, reviews and audio erotica. http://www.mindcaviar.com/ - Mind Caviar - A tribute to sensual pleasures of all kinds. Includes fiction and poetry, as well as visual erotica and even recipes. http://www.redshoediaries.com - Red Shoe Diaries - Yes, this is a promotional site for the Showtime series, but it does include some erotic fiction. http://www.guillermobosch.com/saucebox/sb_html/sosbox_17.html - SauceBox - Honestly, the design is shoddy and so is much of the (erotic fiction) content, but there are a few gems. http://www.scarletletters.com/ - Scarlet Letters - A journal of femmerotica, this site is updated weekly and includes sophisticated written and visual erotica. http://www.sexythinking.com/ - Sexy Thinking - Stories, poetry and photography displaying a wide range of quality and taste. Also fairly laden with tasteless ads. http://www.venusorvixen.com/ - Venus or Vixen? - Voted the best intelligent and genuinely shocking web zine by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1999, this veritable pornucopia of slickly-produced erotica is updated weekly. Single Author http://www.susiebright.com - Susie Bright: Full Exposure - Writer, sexologist and cultural icon. http://www.accelnet.com/victoria/< /A> - Victoria Claire - This writer of erotic poetry and fiction pushes her books heavily on this site, but she also provides some free samples. http://www.mamohanraj.com/ - Mary Anne Mohanraj - Her site features almost all of her published work, as well as an erotic diary which she updates frequently. http://www.carolqueen.com/ - Carol Queen - Writer, sexologist, and director of continuing education at Good Vibrations. Her site is under construction. _________________________________________________________________________top L I B R A R Y J U I C E | http://libr.org/Juice/ | | Library Juice is supported by a voluntary subscription | fee of $10 per year, variable based on ability and | desire to pay. 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