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Web-Savvy:
Keeping
Current with Web-based Resources
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This page contains
invaluable tools for anyone with an interest in keeping up with new and
great web-based resources. Your suggestions are welcomed!
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Recommendation:
read immediately and often!!
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Freepint
http://www.freepint.co.uk/index.html
Free Pint is a free email newsletter written by and for
information professionals in the UK. Included are: " tips, tricks and articles
on how and where to find reliable Web sites and search more effectively."
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Internet
Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html
Editor Roddy MacLeod keeps this newsletter, published
by: Heriot-Watt University - Internet Resource Center, a wonderful resources
on the latest sites of interest to academics and researchers. Also updates
on the great e-lib projects and Internet in print.
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LII New
This Week Mailing List
http://lii.org/search/file/mailinglist
Sign up to receive the email version of "What's New
This Week" at the Librarians Internet Index. This listing of sites
newly added to the to LII database complete with annotations is not
exactly a newsletter, but essential just the same.
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ResearchBuzz
-- Internet Research News
http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/
Subscribe to Tara Calishain's ResearchBuzz
to get a weekly e-letter filled with tips.
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The Internet Tourbus
http://www.tourbus.com/
"Net gurus Bob Rankin and Patrick Crispen (aka the "Click
& Clack" of the online world) explain Internet technology in plain
English, with a dash of humor." Browse the archives or sign-up for the
twice-weekly emailing.
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Web
Searching Newsletter
http://websearch.about.com/internet/sites/websearch/gi/pages/mmail.htm
by Chris Sherman for About.com. Empowers searchers!
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Updates
to Extremely Useful Resources
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Best
of the "Announcement" Services...
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Updates
to Extremely Useful Resources
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Current
Cites
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
"An annotated monthly bibliography of selected articles,
books, and digital documents on information technology" edited by Teri
Andrews Rinne. Extremely useful: "Bibliography on Demand" and "Article
Search."
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Kids Report: Kids
Identifying and Discovering Sites
http://kids.library.wisc.edu/
A biweekly publication by K-12 students as a resource
for students and their teachers. originally modeled and mentored by the
folks who produce the Scout Report (at the University of Wisconsin - Madison).
Past issues are searchable.
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Ex Libris
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/index.html
is a new weekly e-zine for librarians by "the Librarian
without walls" and established columnist Marylaine Block.
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Updates
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The Bot
Spot
http://botspot.com/
Everything you every wanted to
know about 'bots ... "the Spot for All Bots on The Net." News and interesting
info.
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Web Search Page at About.com
http://websearch.about.com/internet/sites/websearch/mbody.htm
An Excellent Site! Find out news and trends about search
engines as well as how and which search engines to use. Particularly useful
-- articles on trends.
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Search Engine
Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
Danny Sullivan 's site is *the* place to go for everything
you ever wanted to know about searching and search engines, including:
the latest news on our favorite search tools, information on search engines
and how they work, power searching tips & charts, and web searching
tutorials.
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Traffick: The Guide to
Portals
http://www.traffick.com/
Latest news and events on portals and search engines
including reports reporting on portal offerings in a variety of categories
including productivity and services, family and business.
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The Informant
http://informant.dartmouth.edu/
"The Informant is a FREE! service that will save your
favorite search engine queries and web sites, check them periodically,
and send you email whenever there are new or updated web pages."
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On
the Net: Internet Current Awareness
http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1999/net3.html
Article by Greg Notess appearing in the March 1999 issue
of Online in which he discusses current awareness services.
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Web4Lib
archive
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html
Search the archives by keywords; limit by date
or search the subject lines only (Boolean-enabled searching; truncation).
Browse by month.
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Web
Current Awareness Sites
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Best
Information on the Net (BIOTN)
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Librarians/new.htm "chosen by librarians at O'Keefe
Library,
St. Ambrose University, an excellent listing of "What's New on the Net:
Announcement Services and Site Reviews."
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Current
Awareness Resources from the Library Web Manager's Reference Center
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/current.html
Nice set of tools for Web Managers and others. Very useful:
ability to search sources directly such as "Current Cites," "Scout Report,"
and "Web Review."
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El
Dorado County Library: What's Hot on the Internet This Week
http://www.eldoradolibrary.org/thisweek.htm
Annotated listing of the best new (and updated) sites
on the Web.
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Internet
101
http://www.internet-101.com/bookmrks/bookmrk4.htm
Companion web site to the 1/2 weekly television program
of the same name. Hosted by Marcus P. Zillman.
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Current
Awareness ( Librarians Resource Centre: The Toolbox)
http://www.sla.org/chapter/ctor/toolbox/resource/index.html
Eclectic compilation of extremely useful sites from the
Web journal Wired West of the SLA Western Canada Chapter including
a summary from the BUSLIB-L .
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Keeping
your Research up to date - New Internet Resources
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/aware/newnet.html
Excellent collection of Current Awareness services for
Internet Resources. Includes links to many of the British e-lib sites.
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S.O.S.:
School Site of the Day
http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide/sos.html
School site of the day highlights sites of interest to the
education community (Sept.-June). From Kathy Schrock of the "Guide for
Educators."
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Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html
The venerable Scout Report is a weekly web publication
(or email) containing an annotated listing of new sites of interest to
the research and academic community. There are also subject specific Scout
Reports: Social Sciences, Business and Economics and Science and Engineering
including a "Current Awareness Metapage."
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Stay
Current in Cyberspace
http://www.JennysCybrary.com/current.html
Very useful listing of current awareness tools from Librarian
Jenny Levine. Includes: Ezines & Web Sites, Internet Technology
& Culture & Mailing Lists. Nice site!
Worth a visit....
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Librarian.Net by Jessamyn
West
http://www.librarian.net
News and pointers from a "'raring" Librarian....
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Copyright © 1998-2001,
Angela
Elkordy, Director of Learning Technologies, MIA
techteacher1@mediaone.net
Last Update 11/28/01
http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibaries/cybecurr.html
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