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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Leadership in Customer Service: Building the Trust
Press release: “Leadership in Customer Service: Building the Trust (108 pages, PDF) is Accentures seventh global report on government service delivery. The report showcases insights from in-depth interviews with 45 high-ranking government executives from the 11 countries that consistently top Accentures annual survey of governments’ use of technology in customer service: Canada, the United States,… Continue Reading
Librarian Mediated Search Best Option for Cancer Patients According to Study
From PERC: Patient Education Resource Center [U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center], “lists of information sourcesrelating to a specific cancer diagnosis or issue. The purpose is to help newly diagnosed patients and their loved ones find sources of information and support. The guides are not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to provide starting points for information… Continue Reading
More Annual Reports Lacking Financial Statements
As reported by USAToday.com, marketing objectives are displacing statistical data in a growing number of corporate annual reports, whose appearance may now be slanted toward style over substance, at least from the researcher’s perspective. [D.C.] Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?, by Susan Nevelow Mart Beyond Google and Yahoo: Advanced Search, by Tom Mighell and Sabrina I. Pacifici. CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com – Congressional Scandals, Corruption and Misbehavior, by Paul Jenks Setting… Continue Reading
Domestic Telephone Surveillance Documents Add to Controversy
Follow-up to recent postings, EFF Can Use Critical AT&T Documents in Surveillance Lawsuit and Does Domestic Telephone Surveillance Violate Communications Act?, today Wired published Whistle-Blower’s Evidence, Uncut [note related link, 29 pages, PDF, documenting domestic surveillance program activities and technical descriptions] Related news and documents: Studs Terkel, Other Prominent Chicagoans Join Together to Challenge AT&T… Continue Reading
Joint Effort By Industry to Promote Wireless Web Browsing
WSJ free feature: New Domain Name — .Mobi — Could Spur Wireless Web Continue Reading
Israel: Background and Relations with the United States
Israel: Background and Relations with the United States – Congressional Research Service Report, Updated 5/18/2006 (19 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
FTC Issues Report on Gas Price Increases Post Katrina
FTC Releases Report on its “Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases” The Federal Trade Commission Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases: A Commission Report to Congress (Spring 2006) – Text of the Commission Report, 222 pages, PDF Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Concerning the FTC… Continue Reading
AG States Prosecution of Journalists for Leaks is Legal
ABC News This Week, May 21, 2006: “Gonzales also defended the NSA wiretapping program, insisting the Justice Department has not been reviewing the “content” in journalists’ phone records without a court order. The attorney general reiterated that the rights of a free press cannot trump national security but added, “I understand very much the role… Continue Reading
UN Releases Final Report on 50th Session of Commission on Status of Women
The Final Report on the fiftieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women is now available. CRS Report – The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): Congressional Issues, updated December 14, 2006 Continue Reading
Internet Freedom Preservation Act
Press release, May 19, 2006: “U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced legislation that would preserve the open and democratic character of the Internet. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (9 pages, PDF) would ensure that all content, applications and services are… Continue Reading
