Houston animal shelter rejects pet adoption offer TX [Dallas Morning News] (why screw up an impressive 94% kill rate... )

Petco in the dog house over cyber insecurity: Up to 500,000 credit card numbers were vulnerable to cyber hackers from February, 2001 to June 2003.. "At PETCO.com, protecting your information is our number one priority, and your personal information is strictly shielded from unauthorized access."  Other companies exposing customer data in recent past: Eli Lilly, Microsoft, Guess, and Tower Records have also reached settlements for 'security breaches that appeared at odds with claims made in company privacy policies...' [Guardian, UK] ( uhoh, maybe I shouldn't be using Blinkx, a desktop searching tool with peer to peer (p2p) access built right in; despite assurances that 'private data never leaves your desktop', I had to block a lot of incoming 6336 port probes, right after installing Blinkx; hmmm... )

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Google releases new scholarly research service:  Animal Shelters, animal advocacy groups and non-profits will find this service to search scholarly work on the web invaluable. Examples:

A Google scholar search for "canine study dog" reveals 40,000+ scholarly papers, many readily downloadable as html and pdf  (Adobe) files. Many of the remaining papers can be located at libraries...

A Google scholar search for "animal shelter" reveals 401 papers, a veritable gold-mine for animal shelters to research pressing  problems: emerging diseases in the shelter environment, the risk factors for surrendering pets to an animal shelter, management issues and more...

Hooray for Google. Google Scholar has enormous potential to save us from our past mistakes, and pave the way to create better animal shelters in the future... [Yahoo! News]

Followup: The Big Bang! Google Scholar: 'My antennae are tingling--actually, clanging is more accurate. I think Google Scholar is (to use a really over-used phrase) a paradigm shift.'. [Scanblog.blogspot.com] (I tried to post a comment back to this blog by the 3 OCLC Online Computer Library Center staff, but blogger.com was down for upgrades... everything seems to be down today).

My comment is this: yes, yes, yes... Alane got it exactly right! I saw what Google Scholar could do for us, the little folk, who are struggling with very difficult issues, life and death issues, not just for animals, but for people too...

and I thought, gee, I GET this, why not make a real world example of it, so everyone else, those of us who aren't brilliant librarians, can GET it too. Google Scholar can change the world! and I can help to point the way... knowledge is power, leveraging knowledge to your goals is even more powerful. Thanks, google! and Alane: you made my day. Subscribed to the feedburner 3 OCLC  news feed.

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