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Thursday, March 15, 2012

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NewsBreaks
Gale Adds Massive Directory Data to DemographicsNow
by Barbara Quint
Sometimes you want to find overall information about people and/or businesses in a certain geographic area. Sometimes you want to find geographic areas based on specifics of overall information. Sometimes you just want to find specifics on particular people and/or businesses by name. Sometimes you want to find the names based on the specifics of general information. And, sometimes you want to do all of the above, gliding from statistics to directory data and back again. That can get tricky. But Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, just released an upgraded platform for its DemographicsNow service called DemographicsNow: Business & People that will do all of the above—if, that is, your local public or academic library subscribes to it.

Weekly News Digests
Tutor.com Online Tutoring App Now Available Through Boopsie
Tutor.com, an online tutoring provider, and Boopsie, a mobile solution for universities and libraries worldwide, announced the availability of Tutor.com through the Boopsie platform. The partnership will make it easy for library patrons whose libraries subscribe to both services to access a live tutor anytime, anywhere through the Boopsie native mobile app.
Occupational Health Content Integrated into EBSCO’s ExPub Databases
Managing the impact of chemicals on employees in the workplace is now easier for health and safety professionals thanks to a new agreement adding Haz-Map to the ExPub database from EBSCO Publishing. Haz-Map is designed to assist professionals seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biological agents in the workplace.
Ex Libris Adds New bX Services Based on Scholarly Usage Data
Ex Libris Group announced the addition of three new services to the suite of bX usage-based services. Released in 2009, the first member of the bX suite—the bX Recommender—is deployed in more than 1,000 institutions worldwide.

NewsLink Spotlight
Update on Political Fact-Check Websites
by Paula J. Hane
As I write this, the U.S. is in the midst of a hotly contested GOP presidential primary. The countdown to "Super Tuesday" is 6 days, and the countdown to the election is 251 days. Some days, I think I've just had enough election news. It's exhausting for a voting individual to examine all the claims and statements made by the candidates. How do we keep up with who said what and check to see if it contradicts their earlier statements or twists the facts/statistics? Hardly a day goes by that I don't see an article that questions or outright refutes something said in a speech or debate. But which sites can we believe?

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Bookshelf
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
by Heather Hedden
Foreword by Stephanie Lemieux
The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.

In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new chapter on ontologies, emphasizes the SKOS model of concepts over the traditional thesaurus model of terms, and provides new insights into taxonomy development techniques. She presents fresh survey data; new screenshots and examples; and updated information on software, career opportunities, and resources for taxonomists.

2022/502pp softbound/ISBN 978-1-57387-586-8 | $47.50


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