From: Karen Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LIIWEEK] May 23, 2002 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:39:48 -0700
********************************************************************** lii.org: Librarians' Index to the Internet NEW THIS WEEK for May 23, 2002 ********************************************************************** SHARE YOUR LII.ORG SUCCESS STORY! http://lii.org/search/file/success Or just go to lii.org and click on "Share Your lii.org Success Story!" Has the Librarians' Index to the Internet made a difference in your life, or in the lives of people you know or work with? Share your story with us! 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Bookmark a list of Grammar Hotlines for when you is stumped. Finally, remember all who have served with a site about the Women In Military Service For America Memorial. In 36 more sites, in More New This Week (at http://lii.org/mntw ), Hobnob with Beatrice "Madame" Alexander. Learn more about acronyms, African American history, the Catholic Church, cancer, chess, green buildings, and maple syrup. Soothe your eyes with gorgeous gold-stamped book covers, then browse the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica. Get with the rhythm of taiko (percussive Japanese drum playing), take a watery ride on the R.M.S. Lusitania, travel to Indonesia, play tennis in LA, and mull over medieval military history. Have a safe and fun Memorial Day Weekend! Karen G. Schneider, Coordinator, lii.org Martha Gifford, Wendy Hyman, Pat Fell, & Bill Moseley And over 130 indexers! ********************************************************************** lii.org (Librarians' Index to the Internet) is funded by the Library of California,www.library.ca.gov/loc with additional grant funding from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. ********************************************************************** A View from the Back of the Envelope "These pages are about approximation, and some of the fun it enables." Examples, exercises, and links to help you grasp concepts of magnitude and scale, such as large and small numbers, the size of the world, and expressions of length, area, volume, and speed. There are sections on simplifying numbers, exponential notation, Fermi problems, using your body as a ruler, and other ways to help visualize size and scale. http://www.vendian.org/envelope/ Subjects: Mensuration... Created by: mg AirportMonitor Los Angeles International Airport This interesting site monitors aircraft arriving and departing from LAX in realtime. Altitude and aircraft type are identified by clicking on a particular airplane. A map of the area can be expanded from 6 miles to 96 miles. Previous days and times can also be replayed. http://www1.passur.com/lax.html Subjects: Los Angeles International Airport... Created by: ec Australian Authors and Illustrators Links to web sites with information about Australian authors of books for children and young adults. From Australian School Library Association, New South Wales (NSW). http://www.asla.nsw.edu.au/ausauthors.htm Subjects: Authors, Australian... Created by: sf Bound For Glory: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie Devoted to folksinger Woody Guthrie, this site "integrates history, music, photographs, essays, poems, letters and drawings." Profiles Guthrie's early years in Oklahoma and time spent in California, the Pacific Northwest (Grand Coulee Dam songs), and New York (Almanac Singers). Includes sheet music for a few of Guthrie's well-known songs. From the Museum of Musical Instruments. http://www.themomi.org/museum/Guthrie/ Subjects: Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967... Created by: tm DOE Nevada: Photo Library A collection of photographs from the Nevada Office of the Department of Energy (DOE) displaying nuclear explosions, craters, nuclear test preparation, waste management, and more. http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/photolib.htm Subjects: Nuclear weapons -- Testing... Created by: dl Google Labs This experimental site from the Google search engine "showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time." Play with keyboard shortcuts, telephone searching, a glossary (thesaurus), and more. http://labs.google.com/ Subjects: Web search engines... Created by: kgs Grammar Hotline Directory "A list of phone numbers or E-Mail addresses or Web sites which you can contact for answers to short questions about writing." Arranged alphabetically by state. Maintained by the Tidewater Community College Writing Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia. http://www.tc.cc.va.us/writcent/gh/hotlinol.htm Subjects: English language -- Grammar Category: Directories Created by: mg Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide "The following essay is a critical reflection by a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in response to demands by Native Californians for the repatriation of ancestral remains and sacred artefacts that are part of the permanent collections kept in the Hearst (formerly Lowie) Museum of Anthropology." From the February 2001 issue of Anthropology Today, presented in PDF format. http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Research/hughes/Ishi.pdf Subjects: Ishi, d. 1916... Created by: wh James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center "The Gay and Lesbian Center is a research center devoted to the documentation of lesbian and gay history and culture by collecting, preserving and providing access to material on all aspects of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered experience." Resources available on the Web site include notices and photographs of exhibits, bibliographies, subject headings, and related links. The center is part of the San Francisco Public Library. http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/glcenter/home.htm Subjects: Special libraries -- California -- San Francisco... Created by: jhg Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) This project indexes the holdings of a number of California repositories which document the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. There are over "10,000 digital images [which] have been created [and which are] complimented by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of document and oral histories." Although somewhat difficult to use, the results are richly rewarding for students and anyone else interested in these events. From the California Digital Library. http://jarda.cdlib.org/ Subjects: Japanese Americans... Created by: dlm Jump the Shark An interactive Web site dedicated to the "defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak." Votes are contributed by readers and the site authors. Browsable in over a dozen categories, such as Birth, Death, and Same Character, Different Actor; also searchable. Readers can subscribe to a free newsletter, Shark Bait. http://www.jumptheshark.com/ Subjects: Television programs... Created by: kgs LibraryHQ.com: Resources for the Wired Librarian This site provides access to "library-related current information, including unique databases and organized hotlinks to other informative websites." Professional job advertisements, classified ads, news, and books are featured. Browse using the site map. A commercial site from librarian Katherine Garstka. http://www.libraryhq.com/ Created by: rv Ling Lung Women's Magazine: Shanghai, 1931 to 1937 Digitized images of nearly all issues of this magazine which was published (in Chinese) in Shanghai in the 1930s "at a time when women's role in society, at least in that sophisticated and foreign-influenced metropolis, was in rapid transition." The magazine featured "articles on fashion, interior decoration, pop psychology, and new careers; and also advice columns on love, sex, and marriage, as well as lavish illustrations of local and Hollywood celebrities." From Columbia University Libraries. http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/linglung/ Subjects: Women -- China -- Periodicals... Created by: tm Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator Includes photos, interviews, and "a brief life history of Mary McLeod Bethune including her founding of the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls" (now Florida's Bethune-Cookman College). Also features resources for teachers. From the Florida Memory Project. http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/learning/Bethune/ Subjects: Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955... Created by: tm MIT Media Lab If you've heard of the exploits of this famed lab and wondered what they are currently up to, this site is for you. The lab, founded in 1980, has been involved in a wide range of innovative and visionary technology projects. Two of the most intriguing parts of this content-rich site are Research (descriptions and individual Web sites of current projects and a projects list) and Publications (highlights new books by Media Lab researchers). http://www.media.mit.edu/ Subjects: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... Created by: bw Molly Picon A biography of Yiddish theater and film star Molly Picon, who "helped keep Yiddish culture alive by bringing it out of the shtetl and into mainstream American culture." There are photographs of the actress, her performances, her family, and her husband, producer Jacob "Yonkel" Kalich. From the Jewish Women's Archive. http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/picon/ Subjects: Picon, Molly... Created by: tm Muslims Site "examines Islam's worldwide resurgence through the stories of diverse Muslims struggling to define the role of Islam in their lives and societies." Includes interviews with Muslim scholars, an overview of major themes (Islam and women, Islam and the West), frequently asked questions, and portraits (with video clips) of ordinary Muslims from around the globe. Companion to an episode of the PBS series Frontline. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/ Subjects: Muslims... Created by: blw National Environmental Publications Internet Site A searchable database of over 9,000 documents published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Documents may be viewed, printed, or ordered from the EPA (up to five free documents). Documents no longer available from the EPA may be ordered from several other government sources for a fee. http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/nepishom/ Subjects: United States. Environmental Protection Agency... Created by: dl Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, has compiled a list of poems that can be read aloud to students every day school is in session. At present (May, 2002) not all 180 are listed as they are awaiting permission from the individual poets. Each poem has publishing and copyright information related to it. From the Library of Congress site. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Subjects: Poetry... Created by: smb... Roxcy Bolton, Pioneer Feminist Devoted to a tireless activist, this site includes brief biographical information, an essay, photos, letters concerning Bolton's successful 1969 challenge of "men only" public dining areas, and resources for teachers. From the Florida Memory Project. http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/learning/Roxcy/ Subjects: Bolton, Roxcy, 1926- ... Created by: tm RWM Vocational School Database A directory of "Private Postsecondary Vocational Schools in all 50 states." Entries are arranged by state and by occupational field within the state; all have address and telephone number, some have additional information, and many have links to the school's Web page. All the listed institutions "are State Approved/Accredited." There are also links to distance education schools, state education departments, licensing agencies, and other relevant state and regional resources. http://www.rwm.org/ Subjects: Trade schools... Created by: mg The Valley Forge Muster Roll About 30,000 men spent all or part of the winter of 1777-1778 with General Washington at the Valley Forge encampment. This database from the National Park Service attempts to list all those men. In addition to the searchable Muster Roll, this site contains an organizational chart of the Continental Army at Valley Forge and brief biographical information on Washington, his generals, and his aides-de-camp. http://www.nps.gov/vafo/mropening.htm Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783... Created by: dlm UIC: Uranium Information Centre "Information on nuclear energy for electricity, and uranium for it." There are briefing papers and educational articles dealing with such topics as mining, uses of nuclear energy, health concerns, waste disposal, etc. The complete text of Uranium, Volume 5 in the Introduction to Australia's Minerals (ITAM) series, is available and there are links to additional Australian and worldwide resources. "The Centre is funded by companies involved in uranium exploration, mining and export in Australia." http://www.uic.com.au/ Subjects: Uranium... Created by: mg Vietnam Passage: Journeys from War to Peace Tells the stories of six Vietnamese people and an American journalist: their connection to the Vietnam War and their lives since. Also has a lot of information about Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), tourism in contemporary Vietnam, a teacher's guide, and links to other resources. Companion site to a PBS documentary of the same title. http://www.pbs.org/vietnampassage/ Subjects: Vietnam... Created by: blw Virtual Reality Panoramas of the California Missions Take virtual reality tours of many Californian missions. See gardens, cemetaries, adobe walls, courtyards, interiors, and more. The Web site offers no information other than the mission's location and date founded, but the panoramic photography is terrific. http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/ThematicLists/CaliforniaMissions.html Subjects: Missions -- California... Created by: cl1 WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics An extensive categorized, annotated, and searchable directory of economic resources. (Note: For best search options, click on the "Search" link at the bottom of the menu.) A Virtual Library site. http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/ Subjects: Economics Created by: mg Who Was Ishi?: A Source of Surprise, Humility and Humanity A brief biography of the Yahi Indian Ishi and his years at Alfred Kroeber's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Published in 1998 in Daybreak, an online newsletter from UCSF. http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1998/10/02_ishi.html Subjects: Ishi, d. 1916... Created by: wh Women In Military Service For America Memorial This site describes the Memorial (in Washington, D.C.), recounts and honors the stories and struggles of military women "who have served in our nation's defense during all eras and in all services." It features women commemorated on US postal stamps, educational resources, news, and a bibliography. It provides for entering a name into The Register, "an interactive computer database that allows Memorial visitors access to military histories, photographs and memorable military experiences of registered servicewomen." http://www.womensmemorial.org/ Subjects: Women in Military Service for America Memorial... Created by: jh Women Who Dared Biographies and quotes from twelve "contemporary Jewish women activists" (Ruth Abrams, Lynn Amowitz, Renee Brant, Peggy Charren, Judi Hirshfield-Bartek, Shulamit Izen, Hannah Jukovsky, Margaret Lazarus, Susan Maze-Rothstein, Betsy Shure Gross, Gertrude Webb, Rebecca Young). These lawyers, educators, filmmakers, physicians, environmentalists, and others "address their experiences as Jews, as women, and as activists." Includes audio. From the Jewish Women's Archive. http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wwdared/new_home/wwdHome.html Subjects: Jewish women... Created by: tm Writers Write An all-purpose writers' resource and searchable database. Includes information on different markets for various writing types and genres (medical writing, poetry, e-publishing, technical writing, songwriting, screenwriting, fiction, greeting cards, business writing, research, journalism) as well as daily and archived news, author interviews, message boards, job listings, bestseller lists, writers groups, Webrings, organizations, contests, conferences, reference materials, books for sale, retreats and writing services etc. A comprehensive Writer's Market type resource. Browsable and searchable. http://www.writerswrite.com/ Subjects: Authorship... 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