"Statistics about the number of public library bookmobiles in the United States for 1989 through 2003, and for 1950. Data from the annual report, Public Libraries in the United States, published by the National Center for Education Statistics." (via LII)

note on how to find times select content via lexisnexis and/or factiva

powerpoint

"In this "technology hour" workshop we will cover the basics of what, exactly, RSS is (Really Simple Syndication), how to receive RSS news feeds and related podcasts, which news aggregator to use, how blogs fit in to the RSS picture, and how to create your own RSS feed."

penn library workshops

"This is an excellent source of information about RSS, and includes directories, readers, blogs about RSS, etc."

article from BBC on what is RSS, how to use it, etc.

Contains links to organizations, agencies, guides, databases and publications focusing on the health of minorities with emphasis on Hispanic/Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and Asian-Americans.

article defining/describing/commenting on web 2.0

"This bibliography presents selected English-language electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project."

"This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005."

open access to C&RL journal (six month delay)

"This guide is intended to assist in doing basic film and video research. Included in the list are print and non-print sources, as well as library resources and services that will help you with your research."

"purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards"

"designed for use by those interested in the theories and criticism used to analyze children's literature. It is not a resource for book reviews in the represented periodicals, nor is it a source for the full-text of the articles. The annotations are, so far, almost all written by Lisa R. Bartle, and may be cited and used for purposes of scholarship and education, not for profit."

a community list of library related blogs with link ranking and stats

blog post and comments about future of library use (google, participation age vs. information age, etc)

article reporting on study done about IM use by college students...focus on gender differences and speech patterns

PDF version of a presentation given at Loyola University on November 3, 2005...discusses "how and why libraries should use blogs and RSS, especially to create community, encourage conversation, and make their web sites more dynamic."  found through Shifted Librarian.

"FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists.

article on museums' use of tagging to help users access images (community cataloging, they say)

"The letter (PDF) was written by Theodore Bergstrom (University of California - Santa Barbara) and R. Preston McAfee (California Institute of Technology)."

"website that lists the price per article and the price per citation for about 5,000 academic journals. Using these statistics, we have constructed an index of costliness for each journal in each of several broadly defined disciplinary areas"...created by UCSB and CalTech...see this article http://www.hss.caltech.edu/%7Emcafee/Journal/OpenLetter.pdf