It will not be continued online, although there is talk about a pilot project for publishing some of the data, not all of which is available to the public even if researchers wanted to make their own data compilations.
1) What is (or was) the U.S. Statistical Abstract? (You may remember the book, but the data is (or was) also online.) (See the Wikipedia entry also.)
It’s never too late to think ahead to springing ahead.
For more time change information:
NIST: In 2011, March 13, 2011 (see Current Time Change Rules and some answers to the Why time change? questions). Here is a Time Change grid for those who plan ahead.
[And don’t forget to look at the ABC blog post: “How Many Different Ways Can You Spell ‘Gaddafi’?” They list 112 ways to spell Gaddafi!!]
If you are a researcher, then you know that using the very literal Internet for your research means that you need to know multiple spellings for names and words.
The Library of Congress has an Authority File that is a useful tool for this purpose. For example, if you were researching Mr. Qaddafi, here are some of your options (and this is a “Name Authority Headings” example).
Fix Oregon’s budget problems with the:
“Can You Balance the Oregon Budget?” widget.
Oh, if only it was this easy! But if Dave’s accountant could balance the federal budget, why not some of you householders and business owners with your own debt-free, balanced budgets?
How many times can that library book be checked out – how many “circulations” can a library get out of a single book?
One publisher says 26 is the number for an ebook. Public libraries that buy this publisher’s ebooks will get only 26 “checkouts” before the book vanishes from cyberspace – and the library has to purchase it again.
Library Journal article: HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations,” by Josh Hardro, Feb. 25, 2011:
The O(range) C(ounty) Bar Association monthly OC Lawyer Magazine, once again brings us Justice Bedsworth so brace yourself for a laugh and an education:
“Bunting for Boilerplate,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
Excerpt: “My late father was not a sports fan. He was whatever the opposite of a sports fan is. He used to say, “I hate sports the way people who love sports hate common sense.”
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But I was a mama’s boy, and Mom loved sports. She took me to the Little League tryouts, played catch with me in the front yard, and went to hockey games with me well into her eighties.
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So when I tell you this column is about sports contracts, at least you know I recognize the subject matter does not guarantee that it will be interesting. I may or may not be able to make it interesting, but it won’t be for lack of understanding that sports talk does not automatically light up your PET scan.
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But that’s not my complaint today…..
Civil disobedience, and its close cousin, civil resistance, has existed for centuries, maybe longer. The recent Gene Sharp article in the New York Times (2/17/11) had a long list of related links for further research, including a link to his Albert Einstein Institution and his e-book, “From Dictatorship to Democracy.”
We all know the most visible of the nineteenth and twentieth century peace-makers, Thoreau, Gandhi, King, but there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of others, some of whom have won Nobel Peace Prizes (as Gene Sharp may very well do next year) and most who have not.
Clarence Jones, lawyer to Martin Luther King, wrote his own book recently about a peacemaker and it is a wonderful read. It is a deeply moving account of a missing piece of our recent history: “Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation.”
I was able to answer a reference question the other day with a Jack Ohman cartoon – the one about redistricting in Sunday’s (2/6/11) Oregonian – very funny. The patron was pleased.
I’m not the only law librarian who says that “reference” duty is the best job in a library. It also helps if you read widely, including political cartoons. (I grew up, so to speak, with Herblock and it’s nice now to be in Jack Ohman territory (Oregonian-home).
Political cartoonists are amazing people – political, literary, artistic, comedic, disquieting, and not infrequently sources of reference information.
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