Gary Price checking-in with links to a few (just a few) of the most recent postings on ResourceShelf.
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The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources
http://digbig.com/3yrf
National Archives--United Kingdom
Source: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Just Released Report, Listening to the Past, Speaking to the Future: The Report of the Archives Task Force
From a Resource news release, "The report, Listening to the Past, Speaking to the Future, comes at a time when unprecedented numbers of people at home and overseas are beginning to use the UK's archives for genealogy or to explore the history of their community. It highlights the importance and remarkable diversity of British archives and points to ways in which access to these resources can be developed."
http://digbig.com/3ysp
Information Retrieval--Visualization
"Sketchy Information"
A look at graphical search interfaces.
http://digbig.com/3yrn
Reference Services
Source: OCLC
Web cast: Next Generation Reference Services
"Five experts discuss next-generation reference services at the OCLC
Symposium held on January 9, 2004 during ALA Midwinter.
http://digbig.com/3yrg
Source: Info today News breaks
New from Hobo:
Index and Search Your Computer, ASS Feeds, and the Web With New Desktop From an overview article that I've co-authored with Barbara Quint, "Lycos has launched a free toolbar search product [IE, Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP] from HobO, their search service, which the company says is 'the first product to integrate traditional desktop search with Web search within the browser.'"
http://digbig.com/3ygr
Reference Shelf
Population
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, U.S. Census Publishes World Population Estimates
http://digbig.com/3yrj
Search Tools
New Versions of Grunet Available, Now Accessible Without the No Need to Download Software
Until today you needed to download and install a small application to access Guru net's impressive list of 150 reference sources. That's all changed.
http://digbig.com/3yhq
News Search--Yahoo
Yahoo's New and Improved News Search is Now Out of Beta
On January 15th ResourceShelf was one of the first sites to report that Yahoo had launched a beta test of an improved news search engine. Today, news that the beta is over and the new version is live at news.yahoo.com.
http://digbig.com/3yht
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