Family, Friends and Technology: Teens and Technology

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/63/presentation_display.asp

In this presentation, Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet & American Life project "looks at the growing role of technology in teens' lives, the way they use their gadgets, their expectations about how to find and use information, and the social consequences of their use of technology." Essential reading for librarians serving teens (or for parents of teens). Alan

New book coming out on rose windows. Here is the web site for it. http://www.therosewindow.com/

Cathy

Medicare Source: Kaiser Family Foundation

New, An In-Depth Examination of Formularies and Other Features of Medicare Drug Plans

"This study examines formularies, drug costs and utilization management tools in drug plans offered by 14 national and near-national organizations. Collectively, these organizations account for 1,222 of the 1,429 packages available to Medicare beneficiaries." Full Text (58 pages; PDF) (via DocuTicker.com)

http://www.kff.org/medicare/upload/7489.pdf

Alan

Here is a state-by-state assessment of mental health care:

http://www.nami.org/gtsTemplate.cfm?Section=Grading_the_States&lstid=676

Rather sad results. Cathy

The National Science Digital Library Website at http://nsdl.org

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Audrey Borus, Circulation

Another great site for primary sources

National Security Archive out of George Washington University

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/index.html

Georgina

Choice recommends: RedLightGreen from RLG (formerly the Research Libraries Group) (more than WorldCat)

example: title "Capitalism and freedom" shows 14 editions, including those in Chinese, Russian, and Portuguese

Member libraries: scroll down to see Membership Roster

http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=382

Cathy

Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/

http://www.acronyma.com/

NitLingo http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm

NOAA Arctic theme page -- excellent and timely links and information

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/index.shtml

Cathy

http://www.cybercrime.gov/s&smanual2002.htm#_IC2_

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. Use http://ben.clusty.com/ , the new Benjamin Franklin web portal to find out more: a comprehensive, one-stop site that includes carefully curated educational resources, Franklin's own writings and proverbs, and tens of thousands of websites scattered throughout cyberspace.

Susan C.

Special Projects related topic on terrorism and preparation:

National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine

http://my.acep.org/site/PageServer?pagename=wp1_homepage

Cathy

Early modern philosophers' texts in understandable English by a well known philosopher. also includes a sketch of the philosopher with birth & death dates.

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/

Cathy

www.omniglot.com

It shows "all" languages, ancient & modern, with a sampling of the alphabet in non-roman letters if appropriate.

Shows the usual languages plus:

shorthand, flag semaphore, runes, chinese braille, Native American languages, palm pilot graffiti, Tolkien's scripts

Sharon

Tired of those endless IVR prompts? Try this from Boston area software developer who figured out how to get to a human being quickly.

http://paulenglish.com/ivr/

Cathy

http://www.ScienceCareers.org offers lots of information specializing in careers in Science and other info. Karen