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December 31, 2000

• Electronic Journals in Librarianship and Information Science is another excellent Web resource from the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales Aberystwyth. For each entry, you can see their annotation or go directly to the journal. The links are checked each month. Annotations thoroughly cover things such as dates available, if software is required and if there is a print version. Indexes are arranged alphabetically, geographically and by topic. When we are looking for a LIS e-journal, this is the site we will be checking.

  AcqWeb Site: Journals : Directories

• Used Book Search is a software agent indexing second hand books worldwide. It currently covers over 25 million used books. Based in the United Kingdom, it can restrict searches to the UK or worldwide.

  AcqWeb Site: Verification : Antiquarian Agents : Europe

• AcqWeb's Publisher Email Address Directory has just been updated. Many thanks, as always, go to David Marshall and Barbara Karpel for their work on the Email Directory. A special thank you goes to Beth Wellington, who reported the email changes for the Gale Group companies. As a result, all the email addresses and links for the Thompson company entries were updated.

  AcqWeb Site: Publishers : Email Directory

• Two new resources for the virtual reference shelf:
  • Free ZIP code Lookup, which is international; and
  • The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Jane Straus

  AcqWeb Sites: Reference :
  Geographic Info and Style Guides

December 28, 2000

• Campaign for America's Libraries: The American Library Association will unveil this promising new Web site in two weeks, during ALA Midwinter. It's part of a five-year public education effort to promote the value of libraries and librarians. As well as facts and goals, it includes "The brand: @your library™," which can be used in a wide variety of ways, and downloadable logos, such as this one.

• Open eBook Forum is a standards organization for electronic books. Its members are "hardware and software companies, publishers, authors and users of electronic books and related organizations." The latter includes ALA and Library of Congress.

  AcqWeb Sites: Library Science : Hot Topics : Electronic Publishing

December 26, 2000

• WordReference.com is a dictionary and free browser plug-in based on the Collins translating dictionaries from HarperCollins Publishing. It includes English, Spanish-English, French-English, German-English and Italian-English dictionaries.

  AcqWeb Sites: Reference : Multilingual Resources

December 15, 2000

• PRESS RELEASE: YBP Announces the Core 1000. They are listed in an article in the current issue of Academia.

• PRESS RELEASE: Swets Blackwell Becomes CrossRef's First Subscription Agent Affiliate.

December 3, 2000

• Library Juice Collected Quotes for the Week is a delightful hodgepodge gathered by Rory Litwin from his email news digest Library Juice.

  AcqWeb Sites: Reference : Quotation Sites

December 2, 2000

• Be sure to check out Google Toolbar (BETA) if you are a Windows user browsing the Web with Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. As well as giving you instant access to a Google search (our latest favorite in engines), you can try searching sites you are currently browsing. We tried it with AcqWeb and it worked beautifully. This is a beta version and Google is looking for feedback: "So, use it. Abuse it. Dress it up in funny clothes and take it dancing. And then let us know if you had a good time." We have no doubt us library-types can give them the feedback they need, so have at it.

• Also on the search engine front: qbSearch is a meta-searcher, which covers news sites as well as the usual search engines. It also has an unusual and promising "QuickLinks" option, allowing you to gather a group of links into one page, thought the number of cookies it uses is daunting.

  AcqWeb Sites: Search Guide

November 28, 2000

• PRESS RELEASE: YBP Library Services announces partnership with Alibris.

November 26, 2000

• The World Time Server calculates current world times, including daylight savings adjustments

  AcqWeb Sites: Reference : Time & Date Sites

November 16, 2000

• The Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms by Dr. Howard S. Hoffman is a useful addition to the toolbox -- for those times when we have to delve into the mysteries of statistics.

  AcqWeb Sites: Reference : English Dictionaries

November 13, 2000

• LibDex - The Library Index by Peter Scott is "is a worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links." At last count in had links to over 13,300 libraries, and it's growing rapidly.

  AcqWeb Sites: Verification : Catalogs

November 12, 2000

• ONIX International was the talk of the Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition last week. ONIX is "the international standard for representing and communicating book industry product information in electronic form." While this may sound dry, in fact it created quite a buzz because the data it is standardizing is so rich, including, for example, multilingual capabilities and data elements to link to image/audio/video files, such as book covers. It has the potential to really light up our catalogs.

  AcqWeb Sites: Library Science : Hot Topics

November 11, 2000

• AcqWeb's Directory of Collection Development Policies on the Web. We are delighted to announce this new AcqWeb resource, edited by Beth Mazin, Assistant Director, Memorial Hall Library, Andover, Massachusetts. Our goal is to list a potpourri of policy types, to help libraries of all sorts with their varying needs. Thus it includes a variety of library types: public, community college, college, university, academic special collections, government, and school. Some of the policies are brief, some detailed, some graphically sophisticated, some relatively austere. Also its geographic scope extends beyond the U.S. to Canada, the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia.

  If you would like your library's collection development policy to be included, please email your link to <bmazin@mhl.org>.

  Many thanks to Beth Mazin for her hard work finding and organizing collection development policies found on the Web.

  AcqWeb Site: Library Science :
  Collection Development : Policies

Until next time, wishing you all a pleasant cyber-day,