How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory A chart listing numerous features and the search engines and directories that support them... [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] This is an interesting chart, based on the kind of search one would like to do, not the kind of content one is seeking. It could be useful, but I think I'll still send our students to Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need by Debbie Abilock. 10:03:40 PM     [comment []];[]

Children's Books on Survival The latest CCBC bibliography focuses on survival. The three sections include: "In the Eye of the Storm", "For the Love of Freedom" and "Against the Odds" [Education Librarian] This is great. I've always enjoyed reading and booktalking survival books. This list does, however, show me how many new ones I haven't read in the last few years. 5:53:20 PM     [comment []];[]

Library goers: sleep, study - shut up already! A fun little column from The Daily Northwestern on loud people in the library. "I am speaking on behalf of the Quiet People, those poor introverted souls who for some reason cannot study without some modicum of quiet...." [LISNews.com] From the evidence I see in the high school section of our library, I can only conclude that "the Quiet People" are a dying breed. Sigh. 5:37:51 PM     [comment []];[]

More About Multimedia Searching With Singingfish Source: EContent More About Singingfish Learn more about this search tool that allows you to find and access streaming audio and video content. Singingfish is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thomson. See Also: Direct to Singingfish See Also: "Singingfish Grows As Multimedia Search Provider" (via Search Engine Watch) [The ResourceShelf] 5:28:46 PM     [comment []];[]

The BL Just Opened a Fee-Based Service For Image Content "A new service offers easy access to thousands of unique and unusual images from the illuminated manuscripts, archive photographs, maps and engravings held by the British Library. Images Online (www.bl.uk/imagesonline) enables users to search thousands of items from Library collections and currently contains around 8,000 images, ranging from medieval depictions of witchcraft to Lewis Carroll's original drawings for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." [The ResourceShelf] 5:17:01 PM     [comment []];[]

BUBL LINK Updates for April 2003 now available BUBL LINK Updates for April 2003 now available [Peter Scott's Library Blog] I really like BUBL LINK, but for some reason it isn't at the top of my list of directories to send students to for good sites. Since it's based on Dewey classification, I wonder whether and how I could connect it to our OPAC. I do need to make sure that it's a link on one of the library extranet pages at least. 5:11:49 PM     [comment []];[]

WebJunction, from OCLC WebJunction, launching May 2003, will be an online community where minds meet to share the ongoing successes and challenges of supporting public access computing - OCLC Online Computer Library Center [Peter Scott's Library Blog] Meanwhile, I signed up for their free online courses, but heaven knows when I'll get back to actually work on any of them. It does look like a way to learn more about XML, for example. 5:05:41 PM     [comment []];[]

Reference Update from xref The April 2003 issue of Reference Update from xrefer is now available [Peter Scott's Library Blog] This newsletter includes some interesting news items and articles, including an article on promoting online resources. In the review of web atlas sites as good or better than CIA World Factbook, the latest incarnation of Encarta Atlas receives highest points. 4:31:19 PM     [comment []];[]