Hello from Washington!
I have just returned to the U.S. after five days in the U.K. attending and
presenting at Internet Librarian International.
Plenty of interesting and useful material added to The Virtual Acquisition
Shelf & News Desk over the past week.
Your weekly highlight list follows. Please stop by throughout the week for new
resources and news of interest to the information professional.
The Usual
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Remember that this is just a sample of what you will find on the page.
A Favor
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Please let others know about the VAS&ND.
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Thanks for the continued support!
cheers,
gary
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Weekly Highlights #4
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
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Cool Tools
Need to Create a Simple Graph? Here is an Interactive Online Tool
Info Industry--Infonautics
Infonautics (Electric Library, Company Sleuth) and Tucows Announce Merger
Canada--Parliament--Lists
Two historical lists from the Canadian Library of Parliament in Ottawa.
Senators--1867 to Date--Prime Ministerial and Premiership Experience
Members of the House of Commons--1867 to Present--Prime Ministerial and
Premiership Experience
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Tuesday, March 27, 2001
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Libraries--Technology
A Library and a Robotic Arm
Climate--Database--Invisible Web--World
From the National Climate Data Center
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / GCOS Surface Network (GSN) Databases
Now Online
Full-Text Document Shelf
Health--Women--United States
Smoking--Women--United States
Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General-2001
Education--Statistics--United States
The 2000 ed. of the Digest of Education Statistics is now online.
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Monday, March 26, 2001
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Libraries--Web Site--Canada
A redesigned version of the Canadian Agriculture Library site is now available
online
U.S. Government Resource--Updates
Research and Development (R&D)--United States
National Patterns of R&D Resources: 2000
Presidents of the U.S.--William J. Clinton
Last week, the GPO added Vol. 1 (Jan-Jun, 1999) to The Public Papers of the
Presidents of the United States searchable database.
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Saturday, March 24, 2001
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Cool Resource Alert
Historic Events--World--Streaming Media
Newsplayer
Web Navigation
"Antarcti.ca aims to map the Web"
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Friday, March 23, 2001
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Full-Text Report Shelf
Students--Social Characteristics--United States
Students--Economic Characteristics--United States
Source: U.S. Census
School Enrollment-Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October
1999 P20-533
Cataloging--MARC--U.K.
U.K. Libraries to Use MARC21
Food--United States--Statistics
Source: USDA
FoodReview: The 1990's: A Dynamic Decade for the U.S. Food System
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Thursday, March 22, 2001
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Full-Text Report Shelf
Online Museums--Virtual Collections--Canada
The Virtual Museum of Canada is Now Online
Search Engines--AltaVista
Problems with AltaVista Phrase Searching
African American Owned Businesses in the U.S.-1997
Hispanic Owned Businesses in the U.S.-1997
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End Weekly Highlights #4
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
George Washington University
Virginia Campus Library
Gelman Library
Ashburn, VA and Washington, D.C.
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703-726-8235
703-726-8237 (fax)
Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
George Washington University
Virginia Campus Library
Gelman Library
Ashburn, VA and Washington, D.C.
[log in to unmask]
703-726-8235
703-726-8237 (fax)
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