Environmental education resources online with sections on professional resources, class resources, organizations, environmental information, and grants.
July 2003 Archives
Information on various animal conditions, behavior, resources, and online forums.
Stumbled upon this one today. It is definitely worth looking at with a huge collection of portals on a wide variety of subjects from adoption to bodybuilding to religion.
Via Boing Boing comes the
EFF: RIAA Subpoena Database, where you can find out if the RIAA is investigating your username.
Via MRSO comes BLOGinality: weblogger personality types. A lot of fun, and I came out with the same result as more detailed personality tests.
Site for education technology with news, ideas, reviews, products, and articles.
This surfing site offers sections on surf travel, including surf forecasts, photos, and surf links.
Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag mentioned this Summer Reading List for Ages 8-15. Some of my top picks for that age are listed there. Definitely some great reads.
Several lists of recommended books for kids from NPR's All Things Considered.
This is not a dry or lengthy article on cataloging, but a call to action for librarians and vendors. I'm ready for this type of change in library catalogs. Let's go!
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has digitized The Gutenberg Bible. The site has not just the Bible but historical perspectives on it and Gutenberg.
A large health portal with sections on diseases and conditions, drug reference, diet and fitness, babies, beauty, relationships, pregnancy, sexual health, stress, and weight loss.
Autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Another great resource from About.com, featuring diagnosis, therapies, research, organizations, publications, issues, links, and much more.
Well, I did my blogging presentation at WILSWorld yesterday. Hopefully, some of the folks in the audience are trying out RSS Readers and blogging for themselves. WILS will be putting my PowerPoing slides online, so when I find out that they are up, I will post the URL here.
Anemia symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
An online resource for parents of children with asthma offering information on how to prevent asthma attacks.
Information on homeopathy, including a directory of sites, reference library, services, supplies and discussion forums.
Information on aromatherapy with articles, oil profiles, recipes, businesses, schools, book reviews, polls and links.
The Register offers an article on the recent decision by German courts to allow deep linking, meaning that companies cannot force users to link to their front page rather than a specific article on their site. Now if only the U.S. could follow suit.
From ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) comes this feature of a monthly list of recommended books for YAs. Even more books for my ever-growing reading list. I tend to enjoy YA books and children's books more than adult novels, except for science fiction and fantasy. Quirky, huh?
Lycos Offers "Second Opinion" Search Results
SearchEngineWatch offers this review of a new Lycos feature called Sidesearch, which allows users to see results from a Lycos search off to the side. What makes it unique? It runs whenever you do a search in a major search engine. Meaning that when you do a search on Google, it will show Lycos results for comparison. Great idea, if they can get people to install it.
This site offers over 600 printable worksheets on subjects such as English, math, geography, and science.
This site specializes in part time jobs, jobs for teens, and seasonal work.
ForeignFilms.com - The Foreign Film Database
All about foreign films, can be searched by movie title or cast and browsed by country. The site also offers a top ten list, message boards and new releases both in theaters and on video and DVD.
A non-profit art gallery with paintings from art movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries with an emphasis on artists who are more obscure and paintings with a mythological or literary subject matter.
The Bibliography of Crocodilian Biology
Site that catalogs references to all sorts of crocodilians, including crocodiles, alligators, and caimans. It also offers a collection of related links.
Information on the cheetah, including sections on programs, news, photographs, and specifically for children.
Lots of information on the cheetah, including socialization, food, appearance, habitat, history, and conservation.
Mercury News -- Library group cancels meeting on filtering pornography
"...the ALA's immediate past president, Mitch Freedman, had raised objections to it Thursday in an internal e-mail discussion list. The order to cancel came from the group's 13-member executive board, which Freedman sits on, later in the day.
``Simply, having any discussion whatsoever with the filtering companies legitimizes them, thus giving them a legitimacy that ALA has never recognized,'' Freedman wrote to fellow librarians on the ALA Council."
I completely agree that the ALA meeting with filtering companies sent a very mixed message to libraries struggling with this issue.
Information on Jane Goodall and her work with chimpanzees. Includes information on their habitat, social structure and communication.
Website for this conservation group includes information on elephants, ongoing research, links to related sites, photos and videos, maps, and more.
Book reviews and lists of new releases for teens.
Creative Loafing Atlanta -- CAREFUL: THE FB-EYE MAY BE WATCHING
And why did I flee to Canada? Could be instances of the FBI pulling crap like this on normal guys who look a heck of a lot like my bearded husband. Found on Library Stuff.
The Choral Public Domain Library
A website of free sheet music, this site contains over 5,000 scores that can be searched by composer or title or browsed by composer.
Take an online quiz to figure out which candidate is the one for you in 2004.
Bill aims to curb Net censorship | CNET News.com
In a fascinating twist, a bill has been introduced to make it harder for countries such as China and Myanmar to censor Internet access. Fascinating because won't that make it harder for schools and libraries to censor their Internet access through filtering?
Information on opportunities for recent college graduates to work and study abroad, plus sections on travel and housing.
TIME.com: Best Inventions 2002
Want to waste an hour sitting in front of your computer screen saying "Whoa" and "Holy cow" and "Crikey?" Then take a look at this site. I bet you can't help but come away amazed.
Digging for Googleholes is a Slate article being posted all over the Net. I don't see it as examples of how Google is doing badly, but rather examples of how poorly people are searching. Anyone who puts in the word "flowers" as a search deserves to have awful results. In fact, I think I will use it as the new prime example of a bad search in my Internet classes. Everyone who has ever used a search engine understands that they need to be more specific than that!
I also have a problem with their example of how a search for apple is "skewed" towards the Apple Computer Company. No kidding. Try this simple fix. Search for "apples" then you get all the fruit related sites you could ever want.
The lesson learned here? If you can't find what you want on Google, ask a librarian. Even in tiny libraries like the one I work in, we can teach you how to search better and maybe even point you to a book (gasp!) that you might be able to use.
The Oyez Project Releases Inaugural Set of Supreme Court MP3 Files
The first of several sets of Supreme Court oral arguments on MP3 is available for users to download and share. Oyez has digitized 2,000 hours of arguments and has more than twice that to go.
Wired News: Game Makers Aren't Chasing Women
I would definitely agree with this article. As a woman who plays video games, I enjoy puzzle games (Pandora's Box was a favorite) and adventure games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights that let me play whatever type of woman I choose. I definitely would not be interested in a piece of software specifically designed for women. Yuck.
USATODAY.com - TV series can live long and prosper on DVD
Interesting article on TV series being released on DVD. At our library, these are very popular, but some of them are so expensive that we can't afford to purchase them.
Publishers Weekly has the news that the Baghdad Blogger has gotten a book deal. In the same piece, PW mentions that Simon Cowell of American Idol fame is also going to be writing a book. I would expect Cowell's to circ better here, but I want to read the blogger's.
The CCBC has compiled a list of recommended children's books on the arts. This is part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the CCBC. Look for more bibliographies soon!
Finding Balance - seeking the art of being
This site offers hope to those who are chronic dieters, complete with forums, news, expert advice, links and more.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History presents this multimedia site on earth science with sections on gems, rocks, plate tectonics, and the solar system. Requires Flash 6 for the multimedia version of the site.
Hurrah! A new Hemingway site for my List of Links. The old one I had listed was no longer being updated.
The BBC presents this site that uses Flash technology to allow you to explore 5000 years of world history in a customized way. You control the speed of the timeline and how you view it. Must have Flash 6 to view.
Library Stuff cited this article comparing and reviewing a whole batch of RSS Feed Readers.
The Columbus Metropolitan Library has a new and innovative way to allow kids to pay off their fines. They read them off!
Found on LISNews.com.
A list of anti-war children's books built from suggestions by librarians, teachers, parents and kids. Additional suggestions are welcome.
Over 600,000 weblogs are listed on this site, including mine! You can browse by most popular and languages.
Library Journal has some quotes from Entertainment Weekly's July 11th issue with Stephen King's review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Too Sexy for This Store - Wal-Mart's strange decision to blackball Redbook
This article was chosen as today's Library Link of the Day.
"Whatever the reason for the censorship, the loss of the men's magazines and the diminished desirability of the women's titles makes room for a new women's glossy that Wal-Mart has just helped launch: American, a lifestyle magazine with a patriotic thrust. If American reflects the principles Wal-Mart has lately espoused prescriptive religion, sexism, corporate strong-arming to prevent unionization it is bound to be dirtier than Redbook."
PHP developers site with tutorials, design, databases, HTML, functions, setup, XML feeds, forums, and more.
Ahh, to return to those simpler times when Yahoo was not filled with blinking banner ads and when About.com did not generate scores of popups. I was surprised at how clean and simple the site felt with no ads surrounding the screen. Freedom!
This site specializes in travel packages in the off season, a great way to save money on flights and lodgings.
A collection of sites about yoga with additional listings of events, jobs, retreats, and a discussion board.
Book Magazine has created a list of 20 books that have changed America.
I can see that July is going to be a tough month for keeping up blogging. I am in the middle of our popular Summer Reading Program during what is always our busiest month in circulation here at the library. Definitely not complaining! This busy time is my favorite time here, but just isn't great for blogging.
Job site for all types of journalism, including newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio.
Official site for this author.
Links to free sites for building blogs, plus links to sites with tips and tricks for people already running blogs on some of the most popular platforms.
Techdirt: Simple Censorware Built For Libraries
I have seen these articles referenced on several different blogs. This was an idea that occurred to many of us, making a filter and is configurable by the individual library, meaning that it will not overfilter at all.
blogdriverswaltz.com: Confessions of a Spammer
An intriguing look into the job of a spammer. I'm not sure I buy I the idea of him quitting spamming because he suddenly realized how much people hated spam. Duh! But it is interesting to see how he got involved in it.
And I always believed the company's schtick about not using 3rd party ink cartridges! Well, I will have to try out the cheaper versions, saving the library some money. Our real solution has been going to the copier as the main printer for the library. We only have a couple of ink jet printers left, but the cartridges still put a dent in our budget.
Summer Reading Resources - Children's Books
About.com now offers RSS feeds for its site. Children's Books is one of the sections that I read. Finding them pushing Summer Reading programs at public libraries is wonderful!
Microdoc News: Ten Ways to Search Google
Discover ten new ways to approach searches in Google. There were several of them that I would never have tried without the list.
This is one of the best sites I have found for family travel information. It has handy sections like Cheap Sleeps, Mountains and Beaches, complete with articles on specific destinations and current deals.
Search Engine News article about About.com now offering RSS Feeds for each of its subjects! What a great idea!
An article on Internet filtering in public libraries and the power of OPACs.
Foreign Language News and Newspapers
MIT libraries presents this collection of links to electronic journals, newspapers and magazines in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Directory of sites from the UK in 500 categories that can also be searched.
Ameritrade presents this encyclopedia detailing the basics of stocks, securities, mutual funds, investment strategies, and retirement planning.
Earth Science photographs from the American Geological Institute. Images can be browsed or searched.
Boston Globe Online -- Creator of 'Ducklings' dies
Make Way for Ducklings is one of the treasured books of my childhood. It is one of those that I remember so strongly that when I open it I can actually smell and hear my childhood echoing inside.
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Foreward has this article about Marc Andreessen's take on the current state of browsers. I agree, it is sad, and I wonder what were some of the things they had in mind for the future of browsers.
RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory :: hebig.org/blog
In preparing for my upcoming blog presentation, I discovered this list of RSS readers. I look forward to trying some of them out, even though I like using Newz Crawler.
The Blogosphere Power Rankings -- The Most Popular Political Blogs On The Net - Right Wing News
This may be from a right-wing political site, but the rankings include items like Howard Dean's site.
International Snow Leopard Trust
A lovely site for an incredible animal, this site offers facts, programs for survival, news, and photos.
