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Reports that the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) and the Conservation Division of the Library of Congress have mounted a digital background paper titled `Conservation Implications of Digitization Projects' on the American Memory project's Background Papers and Technical Information Web page. Issue of protecting documents before and after scanning.

The article reports on the release of the DSpace 7.0 digital library software with a new user interface (UI) by LYRASIS in August 2021.

Focuses on the students used of Web sites on citation studies in the U.S. Views of the librarians on using Web sites; Percentage of citations through Web sites; Influence of Web sites on conducting research.

The article reviews several web sites, including the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1955), http://bklyn.newspapers.com/title_1890/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/, from the Brooklyn Public Library, "Harper's Weekly," http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/the-civil-war.htm, from the Lee Foundation, and Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865), http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/index.html, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The article reviews the web site of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) located at www.nimhd.nih.gov. from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

This article focuses on the growing presence of book arts on the Web. In the digital age, the once solitary book artist can now connect to a worldwide online community of artists and ideas. So what exactly is book arts? It is an all-encompassing term used to describe bookbinding, paper making, paper marbling, calligraphy, letterpress printing, as well as artists' books, altered books, and mail art. The resources collected in this guide highlight a selection of book arts resources available online, as of April 2004.

The article reviews the web site Retraction Watch on scientific misconduct in academic publishing, located at www.retractionwatch.com from the Center for Scientific Integrity.

The article reviews the web site of the think tank Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), located at the http://www.iwpr.org.

The article reviews the website of the World Economic Forum at https:// www.weforum.org/ .

The article reviews the website of North Carolina Digital Collections found at http://digital.ncdcr.gov/.

The article reviews several web sites including Debates International, located at http://www. debatesintemational.org, Hunger Notes, located at http://www.worldhunger.org., and Poets & Writers, located at http://www.pw.org.

The article reviews the website of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication at http://climatecommunication. yale.edu/ .

The article presents trivia about topics such as time spent reading on paper compared to on e-readers, frequently banned library books, and information about an archive of concert recordings.

The article focuses on Internet resources on the usefulness of Speculative Realism as a philosophical movement and emerging discipline in academic librarianship. The web site of the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews contains summaries which can be used both as a reference resource and collection development tool for subject specialists. It is stated that the blog Speculative Heresy announces related conferences, calls for papers and participating in philosophical discussions which are published in books and other multimedia related to Speculative Realism.

Presents a guide to selected resources on the World Wide Web that focus on educating students about plagiarism. Plagiarism awareness sites; Academic integrity and honor codes; Plagiarism prevention and detection resources and software; Seminars, workshops, and comprehensive documents; Paper mills and plagiarism promotion sites; Links to bibliographies.

Focuses on cyberplagiarism in the United States. Availability of Web TEMPTs, sites that have posted at least 25 term papers which can be downloaded; Information on Web TEMPT School Sucks; Countermeasures. INSETS: Articles to read.;Web sites to read..

The article reviews the website, https://www.weareoneamerica.org, which has a mission to support immigrants.

The article reviews the web site "Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS)," located at http://www.masshist.org/, which offers the study of personal papers of several U.S. President including Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy, and John Adams.

The article reviews the website, https://www.cbpp.org, developed by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).

The article reviews the web site online Egyptological bibliography (OEB), located at http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/griffith.html, from the University of Oxford's Griffith Institute on Egyptology.

In the article, the author discusses how to use Wikipedia in information literacy instruction. She claims that a growing number of users are using Wikipedia despite controversies over its accuracy and validity. Among the benefits of using Wikipedia are topic development, identification of keywords, and a list of additional resources.

The authors discuss mobile information literacy and how librarians can adapt to changing technology in order to better serve library users. They argue that academic librarians must teach students information literacy on mobile communication devices. The authors suggest that academic librarians become familiar with authoritative mobile information applications, request information from vendors, and displaying mobile interfaces to patrons.

The article reports that Illinois Digital Environment for Access Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) surpassed its one-millionth download. It states that IDEALS is a service launched in 2006 and offered through University of Illinois' University Library and Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services. The repository includes articles, technical reports, and working papers in various digital formats. Moreover, IDEALS aims to provide access to these articles to give them recognition.

The article focuses on the EBSCO databases that provide services to libraries. The Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) include resources focusing on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information science. LISTA has more than 21,000 articles from more than 600 periodicals and includes more than 5,000 conference papers and reports. In the database, there are also cited references and the number of times the source was used can also be found within the database. These are helpful tips in bibliography researching. The database has also several search options including "Basic Search," "Advanced Search," and Indexes." The EBSCOhost interface is simple to use and easy to grasp while LISTA is a free abstract database.

The article reviews several journalism resources online including www.americanpressinstitute.org, www. journalism.org, and www.rcfp.org.

A review is offered for several websites on government documents, oral histories and antiwar movements related to Vietnam War, located at http://www.lbjlibrary.org/research, http://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war and http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/.

The article outlines several online open data resources which examine how knowledge organizations are contributing to the field, getting involved with creating in the next generation web and identify some ways already being used. These include Tim Berners-Lee: The Next Web which explains the concept behind open data and datasets for machine-readable linked. Others include HistoryPin which provides metadata to put photos in their correct context, place and time.

The article evaluates the website of Statistics Canada at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html.

The article discusses the social and economic effects of hosting the Olympic Games as of January 2014. It presents the wide range of Internet resources that address the effect and importance of the games on the Olympic host city, including http://data.un.org from the United Nations and http://www.worldbank.org/ from the World Bank. It cites the major Olympic organizations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOG).

The article reports on the launch by Wayne State University and the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art of the online resource The Story of the Beautiful: Freer, Whistler and Their Points of Contact as a guide to James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room.

The article discusses information about several music-related web sites and online resources including Good Ear at http://www.good-ear.com, American Federation of Musicians (AFM) at http://www.afm.org, and National Jukebox at http://www.loc.gov/jukebox.

The article discusses the card sorting method of usability research in libraries, and examines the relative merits of digital and analog card sorting. The benefits of digital card sorting including the ability of distance learners to participate, the likeliness that participants are in a comfortable environment, and the ease of data collection and analysis are commented on, and the online digital card sorting services OptimalSort.com and WebSort.net are examined. The conclusion that online card sorting is the better choice for many libraries is also presented.

The article discusses online resources in digital humanities. The author includes a brief background by tracing its history, definition, and the challenges it faces in traditional academic environments. Samples of sites, e-publications, tools, tutorials, and organizations are included. These resources are categorized in the article under the fields of general information, associations, collaboratories, funding, web design and programming tutorials, methods and tools, data management tools and protocols, and conferences and institutes.

The article reviews the web site of the Center for Global Development, http://www.cgdev.org.

The article previews several online resources concerning the War of 1812 including "The 1812 History Project" and "War of 1812 in the western district," both from the Department of Canadian Heritage web site, and "Guide to the War of 1812" from the U.S. Library of Congress web site.

The article discusses the Web site Mocoloco.com which offers information and research resources on modern contemporary design. The author describes the scope of the site's content and some of the unique features available, which include blogs and podcasts, as well as browsable indexes. The site is recommended for students of art and architecture. Users of Mocoloco.com can use the site to develop original and creative ideas for research projects; the author relates how one user developed a paper topic on social justice.

This article provides information on the DiversityWeb Web site. It began in 1995 as a collaborative project between the University of Maryland and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC and U). It is, as of 2004, a project of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives of the AAC and U. The site promotes itself as the most comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources about diversity in higher education that you can find anywhere, designed to serve campus practitioners seeking to place diversity at the center of the academy's educational and societal mission. The Web site contains information on innovations in diversity, research and trends, conference and paper postings, diversity resources, and jobs.

Library science news briefs are offered including the online summary of a poll of ACRL members available at www.acrl.ala.org /acrlinsider/archives/16159, the library research website https://libparlor. com, and the signing of U.S. Government Publishing Office preservation steward agreements by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the University of Maine Garbrecht Law Library, St. John’s University School of Law, Rittenberg Law Library, and the State Law Library of Mississippi.

The article reviews the website www.osce.org, from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The article reviews the website of National Museum of African American History and Culture located at https://nmaahc.si.edu.

The article reviews the web site of the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), located at http://www.fao.org/, related to FAO's effort in eliminating world hunger, poverty and promoting sustainable communities.

The article reviews several websites on library organizations including https://freedomhouse.org/ from Freedom House, http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre-performance and http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain.

The article focuses on the release of the digital program Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity by Gale, a publishing company, for the primary source content collection on gender, sexuality and identity.

The article reviews the web site of the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance located at www.idea.int.

The article reviews the web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan at http://www.mofa.go.jp.

The article reviews several websites including Global Biodiversity Information Facility located at www.gbif.org, the Newberry located at www.newberry.org and the Society Pages located at http://thesocietypages.org from the University of Minnesota's Department of Sociology and W.W. Norton & Co. Inc.

The article reviews the web site The National Bureau of Asian Research (http://www.nbr.org).

The article reviews the web site of the reproductive health advocacy group Guttmacher Institute at http://www.guttmacher.org.

The article reviews the web site LiveScience, located at www.livescience.com, from TechMediaNetwork.

The article reviews the peer-reviewed scholarly web site www.rc.umd.edu.