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Daily Archives: June 8, 2004
AmLaw Tech Library Survey
The June 2004 issue of The American Lawyer includes an AmLaw Tech Library Survey: Books, Bytes and Budgets. Subtitled, “Caught between paper and PCs, librarians struggle to speed services and corral costs.” Continue Reading
Links to Wide Range of Annual Statistical Reports
From Eyebeam R&D (the group that brought you FundRace 2004), this plain vanilla but nevertheless very useful chart of links to statistical information from dozens of government, foundation, commercial and academic websites. Resources range from reports on crime and terrorism to law firm rankings, CEO compensation and national election studies. Continue Reading
One Firm’s Experience With Implementation of Online Helpdesk Software
Law firm CIO David Erwin discusses his firm’s successful implementation of an online helpdesk application. Continue Reading
Searchable Database for Transportation Related Sources
From the National Transportation Library, this link to search the digital collection by key words or browse by topic. In addition, this link to the Transportation Libraries Catalog (TransCat), the “OCLC catalog of transportation-related books and other materials held in government, university and other transportation libraries.” [Managing Information] Continue Reading
Federal Gov’t Outsourcing FOIA Requests
On FOIA Front, More Agencies Contract Out: Private Firms Have Growing Role in Handling Backlogs of Requests for Government Records Related reference: see the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, which “works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.” Continue Reading
Two New Articles on RSS
RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal approaches evaluating RSS in the context of e-learning as well as KM, with useful resource links and additional value added by a discussion of the Open Archives Initiative. News on Demand: “Tired of browsing around the Web for timely information? RSS readers deliver exactly the news you need–fast.” Continue Reading
