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Topics in this special issue:
1. RESOUR> [DIG_REF] Defining Digital Reference
2. MISC> NASA RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING TOOLS TO HELP TRACK AND PREDICT WEST
NILE VIRUS
3. K12> Super Galactic Learning adventure for young students
4. K12> Math-lets
5. K12> [WWWEDU] Message not approved: Teachers: Program Violating Law (fwd)
6. MISC> [DIG_REF] Nominate Exemplary Digital Reference Services for VRD 2002
Award
7. MISC> NEWS: President George Bush, Senator Mark Dayton and the Government
Printing Office
8. MISC> ARTICLE: Baker's Cyst and Chinese Concentration Camps and Agricola
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:11:54 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [DIG_REF] Defining Digital Reference
From: Dig_Ref [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sloan,
Bernie
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DIG_REF] Defining Digital Reference
Over on the "livereference" list, someone was looking for a definition
of
"virtual reference". I came up with a few for them, and then I started
wondering how many other definitions people may have come up with. I
sent
them the following, but I would be interested in hearing about more:
Here's a definition, from my Digital Reference Services Bibliography:
"...the provision of reference services, involving collaboration between
library user and librarian, in a computer-based medium. These services
can
utilize various media, including e-mail, Web forms, chat, video, Web
customer call center software, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),
etc."
See: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html
The American Library Association's Reference and User Services
Association
(RUSA) has an ad hoc committee that is developing guidelines for
implementing and maintaining virtual reference services. The current
draft
of these guidelines defines virtual reference as "...reference service
initiated electronically, often in real-time, where users employ
computers
or other Internet technology to communicate with librarians, without
being
physically present. Communication channels used frequently in virtual
reference include chat, videoconferencing, VoIP, e-mail, and instant
messaging."
The State Library of North Carolina's Virtual Reference Advisory
Committee
notes: "Virtual reference, which is also known as 'digital reference',
is
basically computer-mediated reference service. The term covers a
spectrum
of services from email reference to online web forms to live chat. Some
libraries define virtual reference as services or products that are
available via their web sites 24 hours a day. This would include such
things as online catalogs, bibliographies and pathfinders, and online
tutorials." See:
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/vref/definition.html
The Washington Virtual Reference Project says: "For the purposes of the
project, "Virtual Reference Service" includes all electronic methods by
which libraries fulfill customers' information needs: email, online
forms,
interactive chat and web-browsing software." See:
http://wlo.statelib.wa.gov/services/vrs/aboutvrs.cfm
Joann Wasik adds: "Digital reference and AskA services are
Internet-based
question-and-answer services that connect users with experts in a
variety of
subject areas. In addition to answering questions, experts may also
provide
users with referrals to other online and print sources of information."
See:
http://ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-1999-04.shtml
Thanks!
Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:13:33 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> NASA RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING TOOLS TO HELP TRACK AND PREDICT WEST
NILE VIRUS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:30 AM
Subject: NASA RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING TOOLS TO HELP TRACK AND PREDICT
WEST NILE VIRUS
David E. Steitz
Headquarters, Washington October 8, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1730)
Krishna Ramanujan
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-3026)
RELEASE: 02-195
NASA RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING TOOLS
TO HELP TRACK AND PREDICT WEST NILE VIRUS
NASA researchers are conducting Earth Science research
that may one day allow public health officials to better
track and predict the spread of West Nile Virus. NASA's goal
is to provide people on the front lines of public health with
innovative technologies, data and a unique vantage point from
space through satellites, all tailored into useful tools and
databases for streamlining efforts to combat the disease.
NASA's Public Health Applications Program focuses the results
of research occurring at different NASA centers. The program
is designed to eventually supply public health agencies with
access to NASA's cutting-edge capabilities in formats they
can use to better understand how and where West Nile Virus
spreads, focus resources and stave off the disease more
efficiently.
"The goal of the program is to extend the benefits of NASA's
investments in Earth system science, technology and data
toward public-health decision making and practice," said
Robert Venezia, program manager at NASA Headquarters,
Washington.
West Nile Virus, first reported in the United States in 1999,
causes flu-like symptoms that may lead to fatal encephalitis
in people with compromised immune systems, like the elderly.
Though not yet proven, scientists believe the disease may be
spread across the country by infected birds traveling along
their migration routes. Mosquitoes that act as a vector carry
the virus and pass it on when feeding on hosts like birds,
livestock, other animals and people.
Based on what is known about the disease, NASA centers,
including the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.,
and Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., are
researching methods to identify environmental indicators from
data acquired on NASA Earth Observing Systems, packaged in
ways that highlight factors relevant to West Nile Virus
transmission.
For example, NASA's Healthy Planet program is researching
approaches to publicly disseminate information from NASA
Earth-observing satellites and data archives, scientific
research and communications networks.
Healthy Planet has helped Pennsylvania implement the PA West
Nile Virus Surveillance System (PAWNVSS), a state-wide
Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping program that will
verify and validate the use of NASA weather, climate and
land-use data to identify areas ripe for mosquitoes and West
Nile Virus. The database contains information about dead bird
findings, and human health reports of West Nile Virus.
Pennsylvania agencies are currently using the PAWNVSS system
to make daily decisions on the best places and times to spray
for mosquitoes.
"NASA's help has allowed us to understand climate change and
to predict the beginning and end of the mosquito season
across Pennsylvania," said Eric Conrad, Deputy Secretary for
Field Operation at the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection. "This information allows us to know
when to start our mosquito-surveillance season and when to
consider the season over."
Another NASA program, called the International Research
Partnership for Infectious Diseases (INTREPID), is developing
information products and databases derived from satellite
data to show nation-wide temperatures, distributions of
vegetation, bird migration routes and areas pinpointing
reported cases. The combined data help scientists predict
disease outbreaks by showing when and where habitats are
suitable for the insects to thrive and where the disease
appears to be spreading.
NASA's Center for Health Applications of Aerospace Related
Technologies is evaluating how NASA technologies like remote
sensing and GIS can be used to locate habitats in
California's Sacramento valley with favorable conditions for
both birds and mosquitoes. The project specifically seeks to
track encephalitis, caused by a virus very similar to West
Nile Virus that also primarily infects birds through mosquito
vectors. These technologies may then be combined with surveys
of infected birds and bird migration paths, obtained from
radio transmitters placed on birds, to create temporal and
spatial risk maps that may help public health personnel.
These examples from the Public Health Applications Program
typify how NASA Earth Science research results are being
evaluated for future use in providing decision-support for
dealing with a broad range of diseases.
These efforts are in conjunction with federal, state and
local public health agency initiatives. NASA is planning a
joint public health and Earth Science peer review with
agencies responsible for addressing national concerns on West
Nile Virus. These agencies include the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health,
Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological
Survey and state health departments.
For more information, see:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020828phap.html
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:15:46 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Super Galactic Learning adventure for young students
From: K-12 Educators Interested in Educational Administration
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bonnie Bracey
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Super Galactic Learning adventure for young students
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/avhome.html
Grades: 5 - 8
Synopsis: No, this is not a new minivan--but it is a super galactic
learning adventure in which young visitors learn about what makes the
planet Earth habitable for humans. Students explore careers of NASA
scientists as they create their own life-supporting planets.
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:18:16 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Math-lets
From: K-12 Educators Interested in Educational Administration
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bonnie Bracey
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Math-lets
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/index.html
Math-lets are math applets you can use to explore math and create
interactive lessons. See:http://illuminations.nctm.org/imath/index.html
(You can find some college-level mathlets in the Mathematical=
Association of America's online journalhttp://www.joma.org/ )
The Illuminations Math-lets are available for public use-provided that
they
are used only for educational, nonprofit purposes and that the NCTM=
Illuminations Project is appropriately credited. See:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/Terms_of_Use.html
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:24:43 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [WWWEDU] Message not approved: Teachers: Program Violating Law
(fwd)
From: tednellen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:19 AM
To: The World Wide Web in Education List
Subject: [WWWEDU] Message not approved: Teachers: Program Violating Law
(fwd)
How many people saw this?
Looks promising. now maybe teachers will get it and act positively
instead
of react. better they were proactive instead of reactive...
http://www.ctnow.com/news/education/hc-computer1004.artoct04,0,2636638.s
tory?co$
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Teachers: Program Violating Law
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Educators Say Students Taught By Computers
By ROBERT A. FRAHM
Courant Staff Writer
October 4, 2002
Many schools rely on computers to bolster classroom lessons, but
teachers in one small Connecticut district alleged Thursday that their
school has gone too far.
Ted Nellen 8-)
Cybrarian http://www.tnellen.com/ted/
CyberEnglish http://www.tnellen.net/cyberenglish/
CyberSchool http://www.tnellen.com/alt/
One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know
it, you have no certainty until you try.
~ Sophocles ~ (BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet)
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:05:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIG_REF] Nominate Exemplary Digital Reference Services for VRD
2002 Award
From: Dig_Ref [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of VRD
Conference
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DIG_REF] Nominate Exemplary Digital Reference Services for VRD
2002 Award
Hello,
Each year, the Virtual Reference Desk Project recognizes libraries and
organizations that provide high quality digital reference service to
their
users. VRD is currently seeking nominations for the VRD Exemplary
Services
2002 Award. Winners will be honored at the VRD 2002 Conference, during
the
Reception and Awards Ceremony on November 11, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois.
Award winners will be selected based on quality characteristics and
features as outlined in the Facets of Quality for Digital Reference
Services (http://www.vrd.org/facets-10-00.shtml).
Please nominate a digital reference service for the 2002 Exemplary
Service
Award using the form at:
http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/vrd2002/exemplary_service.htm
Nominations will be accepted until October 18, 2002.
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Past Exemplary Digital Reference Service Award Winners include:
-QandAcafe
-Ask a Librarian (Houston, TX Public Library)
-InfoPoint (University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities)
-KnowItNow (Cleveland Public Library and CLEVNET Consortium)
-Ask the Internet Public Library
-Ask Us! Online, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR.
-Ask a Hurricane Hunter, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, U.S. Air
Force Reserve
-Morris County Library (NJ)
-KidsConnect, American Association of School Librarians
-EARL's Ask a Librarian
-Ask Dr. Math, The Math Forum
-How Things Work, University of Virginia Department of Physics
-MAD Scientist Network, Washington University School of Medicine, St.
Louis
-Ask Shamu, Sea World, Inc. and Busch Entertainment Corp.
-National Museum of American Art Reference Desk, the Smithsonian
Institution
-Ask A Volcanologist, VolcanoWorld, University of North Dakota
-AskERIC, Educational Resources Information Center
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Thank you for your participation!
Joann
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Joann M. Wasik
Research Consultant & Communications Officer
The Virtual Reference Desk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.vrd.org
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VRD 2002 Charting the Course of Reference: Toward a Preferred Future
November 11-12, Chicago, IL
http://vrd.org/conferences/VRD2002/
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:41:08 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> NEWS: President George Bush,
Senator Mark Dayton and the Government Printing Office
From: David P. Dillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:35 PM
NEWS: President George Bush, Senator Mark Dayton and the Government
Printing Office
The controversy between the Congress and the Executive Branches of
Government in the United States over the future role of the Government
Printing Office is raising some very serious constitutional questions as
can be noted in reading opening remarks by The Honorable Mark Dayton at
the Hearing On Nomination Of Bruce R. James, Of Nevada, To Be Public
Printer. In other words these hearings determine whether Bruce R. James
will be the head of the Government Printing Office.
There is an interesting article regarding these issues in GovExec:
Daily Briefing
October 3, 2002
Senator blasts White House over printing issue
By Brian Friel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1002/100302b1.htm>
The White House does not have the authority to declare unconstitutional
a
law requiring federal agencies to go through the Government Printing
Office to buy printing goods and services, a U.S. senator said this
week.
Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing,
said he is disappointed by statements from the White House and the
Office
of Management and Budget that claim the executive branch can ignore the
century-old printing law.
It might serve [the administration] well to read the Constitution,
Dayton
told Government Executive Tuesday. The executive branch doesnt have the
right to declare a law unconstitutional. Its a terrible example to set
for
the country.
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The full article may be read at the URL above.
The entire opening remarks at the Hearing made by The Honorable Mark
Dayton are well worth reading and may be seen in the public archive of
the
GOVDOC-L discussion group at this specific URL:
<http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0210b&L=govdoc-l&F=&S=&P=142
6>
Here is a very interesting excerpt from Senator Dayton's comments:
When Mr. James came to visit me, I facetiously asked him why in
the world he would want to take on this assignment, not because, as I
agree with Senator Ensign, of the enormous importance of this position
but
because of the turmoil which is surrounding it. And I must say I have
been even more in the last several days concerned about the way in which
this matter has been pursued.
Now is has gotten so that the Office of Management and Budget
spokeswoman a week ago is saying that a 1996 Justice Department opinion
said the Congress cannot force the Executive Branch to go through the
Government Printing Office, which is a Legislative Branch agency, and
she
is quoted as saying then, "The provision is unconstitutional and will,
therefore, be treated as nonbinding."
I was really anxious to meet this person in OMB because, you
know, I never realized that there was somebody there who had the
authority
to declare matters of law unconstitutional. So I was actually going to
go
try to find her, and then I received a copy of the statement made by the
President when signed into law the continuing resolution. And I have
known the President for many years. He was a year ahead of me in
college.
And we didn't spend a lot of time discussing the Constitution there, but
I
have known him for all those years, and his career in public service,
and
I know that he is a man of honor and a man who takes his oath of office
very seriously, as I do. I was, frankly and I know that he is concerned
with very important matters affecting this country and this world these
days, and I don't think that he writes and has a chance to review the
matters that he signs. But to have a statement issued in his name that
says that this section in the continuing resolution which restates this
law that has been in place for over 100 years, that it would the
longstanding position of the Executive Branch memorialized in a May,
1996,
opinion of the Department of Justice is that this language violates the
Constitutional principles of separation of powers and, therefore, is not
binding on the Executive Branch, referencing a memorandum from an
Assistant Attorney General May 31st of 1996. I think it is probably the
first matter decided by the Department of Justice during that
Administration that somebody in this Administration agrees with.
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I hope that the above remarks of Senator Mark Dayton in his full speech
will draw attention to the importance of the issues at stake in this
matter of Congressional publication of executive branck government
documents through the facility of the Government Printing Office.
Assured
public access to information about their government, both in printed
document form and on the internet, is an important part of this debate.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:41:37 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> ARTICLE: Baker's Cyst and Chinese Concentration Camps and
Agricola
From: David P. Dillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:36 PM
Baker's Cyst, also called a popliteal cyst, is a cyst found behind the
knee. A cyst is a fluid collection. One can get a good start in finding
out about this cyst from the Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia:
Bakers cyst
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001222.htm
A search in medical, education, sports and other databases finds a
substantial body of articles that discuss this medical condition.
If one looks in the National Library of Agriculture's database Agricola'
which is available on the internet at no cost, for this condition,
Baker's
Cyst, one finds only one article.
ARTICLE RECORD
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/cgi-bin/agricola-ind?bib=1635-60260&conf=010000
++++++++++++++>
NAL CALL NO RC620 A1J6
Author Lee, B.Y.
ArticleTitle Nurtritional disorders in a concentration camp.
Source Info Journal of the American College of Nutrition.Aug 1997. v.
16
(4) (ABBREV TITLE = J. Am. Coll. Nutr.)
Pages p. 366-375.
Note Includes references
CAB Subject deficiency diseases.
CAB Subject thiamin.
CAB Subject riboflavin.
CAB Subject vitamin a deficiency.
CAB Subject vitamin deficiencies.
CAB Subject prisoners.
OtherSubject concentraiton camp prisoners
Geographic china.
Other Author Thurmon, T.F.
Abstract Objective: Observations on nutritional disorders were made by
a
physician inmate in a concentration camp before and during the Great
Starvation in China. Methods/Results: Based on therapeutic response,
many
unique abnormalities should be considered as a part of clinical picture
of
malnutrition, such as mucocutaneous pigmentation, nail layering
phenomena
and intranail hemorrhage, palmar/plantar fissures, vegetative system
crisis, avitaminostic fevers, multiple premature beats, and enlargement
of
cartilage, lymph nodes, and submandibular glands. Discussion: Thiamin
deficiency should be also considered as one, if not the only, etiologic
factor of several common disorders, including submandibular gland cyst,
Baker's cyst, stenosing tenosynovitis, direct inguinal hernia, among
others.
Agricola Search Page
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/english/index-advanced.html>
Search Statement Performed in Any Keyword mode without the quotation
marks:
"baker's cyst"
Now who would guess that the United States Department of Agriculture
would
have an article about nutrition in Chinese concentration camps and that
that article would mention a condition like Baker's cyst? Next,
perhaps,
we will locate a detailed guide to using HTML in the complete works of
Shakespeare, perhaps perchance.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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