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Daily Archives: November 20, 2006

New on LLRX.com for November 2006 – Part 2

The complete November 2006 issue is available at www.llrx.com
There are 15 new articles in total, so please visit the homepage for links to and abstracts of all this month’s content. Many thanks to all the authors, and have a safe and happy holiday.

  • Leveraging Blogs, RSS, News Alerts and Different Search Engines to Expand Your Research, by Sabrina I. Pacifici
  • Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets!, by Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina I. Pacifici and Aaron Schmidt
  • The Directorate of Legal Research at the Library of Congress: A Treasure Hidden Under a Bushel Basket, by Michael Ravnitzky
  • The Government Domain: A Cornucopia of Government Search Engines, by Peggy Garvin
  • Commentary: Mountaintop Removal Sites – “Strip Mining on Steroids”, by Beth Wellington
  • Burney’s Gadgets for Legal Pros – Reviews: Dragon Speaking Naturally 9 and Adobe Acrobat 8, by Brett Burney
  • DHS Privacy Office Annual Report to Congress Released After One Year Delay

    EPIC: “The Department of Homeland Security finally released the Privacy Office Annual Report, July 2004 – July 2006 (38 pages, PDF) to Congress. The Department is required by law to provide the report each year “on activities of the Department that affect privacy, including complaints of privacy violations, implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974,… Continue Reading

    Pew Survey Identifies Public Use of Internet Newsgathering on Scientific Issues

    Press release: A “national survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the Exploratorium benchmarks how the internet fits into people’s habits for gathering news and information about science…Fully 40 million Americans use the internet as their primary source of news and information about science and 87% of online users… Continue Reading

    Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives

    Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives, (November 2006) “A product of NASCIO’s Health IT Committee, this compendium provides a state-by-state “snapshot” of progress that each state has made in the health information technology (HIT) implementation process. Each individual state profile highlights the steps that states are taking in regards to HIT issues, from Executive… Continue Reading

    Information Sharing Environment Implementation Plan Report Sent to Congress

    “The Director of National Intelligence, John D. Negroponte, has submitted to the U.S. Congress the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Implementation Plan Report (186 pages, PDF). ISE is an approach that facilitates the sharing of terrorist-related information among local, state, federal, tribal, and private sector entities, as well as our foreign partners. The Implementation Plan Report… Continue Reading