Chemical Market Reporter survey

Recieved in the email today a survey request from Chemical Market Reporter. Since I have written to them in the past about their dropping of the prices from the print issues, I thought I would fill it out.

After the first 3 questions on CMR, and about 5 more on company size etc. they started asking about what car I drive, how much I travel, do I have a plasma TV, an IPod.

At this point I closed out and did not submit.

"Industrial Librarian" had a good post on survey completion but this is something he did not mention.

So can anyone tell me what my car and my TV has to do with the quality of CMR???

Library Boy: Globe and Mail: ProQuest Shutting Down Canadian Operations

From Library BoyLibrary Boy: Globe and Mail: ProQuest Shutting Down Canadian Operations: "Globe and Mail: ProQuest Shutting Down Canadian Operations
The Globe and Mail is reporting that American database and reference book publisher ProQuest is planning to shut most of its Canadian operations by the end of this year.

Staff at the Toronto offices of the Micromedia ProQuest subsidiary have apparently been told that 'most of the operation will be moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., affecting roughly 70 jobs at its Canadian business ...'


This reminds me of a "rumour" I heard last week that Thompson is shutting down the Toronto offices of Dialog.

An oldie but a goodie -- Special Issues - Gary Price's List of Lists

Special Issues - Gary Price's List of Lists: "List of Lists

Back to the List of Lists

Price's List of Lists (LOL) was started around 1998 and maintained by Gary Price for many years. The LOL grew, and Gary's commitment to other projects and speaking engagements made the upkeep of the LOL impossible. In late 2000, Gary approached Trip Wyckoff, of Specialissues.com, about taking over the upkeep and expansion of the LOL. By 2002 the online database and structure to maintain and organize the LOL was in place and in October 2002 the LOL was transferred to Specialissues.com.

The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet. Content comes from a number of sources including: Specialissues.com, Gary Price's 'ResourceShelf' and individual users of the LOL.

The LOL is organized by subject headings based on the two-digit 1997 U.S. NAICS Codes. There is hope to expand the subject headings to include more detail, but at this time these are only headings.

There is no formal 'search function' for the LOL. However, one can search for content within each of the subject headings using your browser's 'Find' function. There is also a masterlist of all magazines available in the LOL. The masterlist entry pulls all of a magazine's rankings from all of the different subject headings into one place.

The LOL is a free service of Specialissues.com and no password is needed to access the LOL. Price and Wyckoff feel this is an important resource to the Internet community and will maintain it as such. If you would like to monetarily support this endeavor,either through advertising or cash donation, please contact Trip Wyckoff.

The LOL is copyrighted and data comes from a number of sources. Permission is granted to link to the LOL without wr"

Government On-Line 2006

Government On-Line 2006 1 / 18: "From Government On-Line toward Harnessing the Full Potential of Information Technology

On behalf of all the partners who worked collectively on the Government On-Line initiative, I am very proud to declare mission accomplished. The goal of the Government of Canada of making the 130 most commonly used services available on-line, anywhere, anytime, and in both official languages has been achieved.
Government On-Line is one of Canada's real success stories. Canadians, Canadian businesses, and international clients have wholeheartedly adopted web-based services and continue to give them high marks for value."

Access to Statistics Canada's electronic publications at no charge

The Daily, Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Access to Statistics Canada's electronic publications at no charge: "
Effective April 24, all electronic publications on Statistics Canada's Web site will be available free of charge.
The Agency has been steadily increasing the volume of free content on its Web site to respond to the information needs of Canadians. This latest move makes available at no charge more than 150 electronic publications for which fees were previously charged.
Statistics Canada will continue to charge for print versions of publications and for other electronic products and services, such as CD-ROMs, specialized data tables and customized retrievals from CANSIM and the Canadian International Merchandise Trade database.
For more information, contact Fran�ois Bord� (613-951-2808), Communications and Library Services Division."

Gale * National Library Week 2006 * Home

Gale * National Library Week 2006 * Home: "Thomson Gale honors the nation's libraries by hosting free, unlimited access to diverse databases during National Library Month, April 2006.
Use our library toolkit to help you host and promote free access to Thomson Gale databases in your library and on your Web site, and find more free resources to help market your library here.
Access now:

Available databases � Here's a list of all the databases that will be available free during National Library Month:
General Knowledge (includes Spanish-language and Health)
Associations Unlimited
Consulta (Spanish-language)
CPI.Q
Custom Newspapers
Declassified Documents Reference System
Expanded Academic ASAP
Gale Virtual Reference Library (with Xrefer plus)
General Reference Center Gold
Health & Wellness Resource Center
�Informe! (Spanish-language)
InfoTrac OneFile
InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy
LegalTrac
PROMT
Social Science Electronic Data Library
Student/Homework Reference
ClassTrac
Corbis Images for Education
Discovering Collection
Junior Reference Collection
Kids InfoBits
LitFinder
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Science Resource Center
Student Resource Center
WEB FEET
History, Biography and Literature
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center: African Americans
Book Review Index Online Plus
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Women's Issues
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf
History Resource Center - U.S.
History Resource Center - World
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: The Middle East Online"

The Conversations Network � Our Mission

The Conversations Network: a non-profit online publisher of recordings of spoken-word events.

"Every day scores of educational, inspirational and entertaining conference sessions, lectures and other spoken-word presentations are lost. They simply evaporate because no one records them. Some of these presentations are by the greatest and most inspiring minds of our time, and many would be important to people in the far reaches of the planet, if only they could hear them.The Conversations Network (a California non-profit corporation) captures presentations, processes the recordings, and publishes them online for free under Creative Commons licenses. "