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The article discusses a follow-up study to a 2006 study of organizational arrangements of information resources in top-rated academic business library web sites, and offers an evaluation of those organizational arrangements. The study looks at the uses of academic business library web sites and their purpose as a gateway to library collections, how information is presented, access points available, and measures the benefits of the online collection organization by documenting how quickly information can be accessed. The article reports that alphabetical listing of databases is the most common method of web site organization, but academic business libraries have increased user-oriented features such as frequently asked questions (FAQ).

Purpose - This paper aims to describe the development of a fiction web service which will serve as a tool for information searches, and a place for saving and sharing tacit knowledge of and experiences with fictional works. Key partners are the Turku City Library, the Semantic Computing Research Group, Libraries.fi editorial staff and Vaasa City Library. Design/methodology/approach - The system's technical infrastructure was built in the autumn of 2010: database, data storage platform and content description. Base data have been converted, data-saving protocols created and system data verified in order to stay up to date. Information on the project has been widely distributed to libraries, book industry actors and other potential partners, even at the international level. Design of the user interface has begun, and with its construction it will become apparent how well the project targets are being met, i.e. to make available a user-friendly service that offers library fiction collections and their attendant expertise and inspires service users to read, make recommendations and evaluate fiction by the spring of 2011. Findings - Fiction is an integral part of Finnish library collections. However, its information search and help desk resources are lacking, and the content of older works of fiction has not been systematically described. Where fiction customer service is concerned, the librarian is largely left to rely on their own reading, memory and associations. This Kirjasampo Project will provide better access to fiction collections. Content description is done using ontologies, thus requiring the ontologisation of Kaunokki, the Finnish fiction thesaurus, as part of the project. In addition to Kaunokki, time, place, language and nationality ontologies are used. Originality/value - In the wide-ranging and multidisciplinary Finnish Kirjasampo Project, thought has been given to how these problems can be solved using modern technologies. Because the service will have a large number of features that cannot be realised with existing library systems, it will be done using semantic web tools. A fiction metadata schema, which defines the necessary fields in information models, was developed for the service. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) was applied in the information models, with the content of each work being described ("abstract work") and the various versions and institutions ("physical works") linked to it. This information is saved in the RDF database using a Kirjasampo-SAHA annotation editor, which is a browser-based and user-friendly metadata-saving tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that the document "From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909" has been added to the online collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, which information available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/.

Brief reviews for multiple web sites and internet references for historical materials made available in 2012 are presented, including the "War of 1812 in the Collections of the Lilly Library," found at http://collections.libraries.iub.edu/warof1812, "Baltimore 68: Riots and Rebirth. Special Collections University of Baltimore," found at http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr, and "Civil War Diaries and Letters. University of Iowa Libraries," found at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cwd.

Lists the latest American history collections available on The Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program online site.

The article reviews the Web site Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History created and maintained by the Special Collections division of the Valley Library of the Oregon State University, available at http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/index.html.

The article presents Web sites, computer network resources, and electronic information resources on the history of medicine and public health in the U.S. History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links provides links to electronic reference sources. The National Library of Medicine provides access to electronic catalogs. 60,000 images from the print and photograph collections of the National Library of Medicine are available. There are also sites specific to particular subjects including women in medicine, Madison Avenue advertising, and medical eugenics.

The article focuses on the digitization of the journal "Virginia Libraries." The authors announces that electronic collections, access, and resources will be available at the journal's electronic version available at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/. They also apologize for the misspelling of Sarah Hand Meacham's name which occurred in the review of her book "Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake."

The article reviews several Web sites including the American Memory Map Collections from the U.S. Library of Congress, available at memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml, National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventure available at www.nationalgeographic.com/toolsforadventure, and Global Trek, available at teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek.

The article reviews the Web site Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 created and maintained by the Open Collections Project of Harvard University Library, available at http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/.