Elsewhere classified: Occasional writings and oddball links
Z88 Resource Page, for users of Sir Clive's versatile laptop, pictured above.
Zoological Society of London Library. Largest private zoological library in the world.
Zoological Society of San Diego Library and catalog.
Worldcat, the OCLC database, accessible on the web, with tagging, personalization, and other web 2.0 features.
Wildlife disease blog. The real deal, from a conservation pathologist who has been on the front lines. As of January 2007, this blog seems inactive but perhaps will be revived.
WCS Working Papers A new page listing technical reports from the Wildlife Conservation Society. Many are available as downloads.
usb printer/scanner trouble? Two trouble shooting tips for win2k and xp.
TinyUrl. Replace long, easily broken URLs with short URLs, which are less easily broken.
Timeline, Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895 as New York Zoological Society. Bronx Zoo-based WCS has been around and involved in nature conservation longer than most non-governmental organizations. I find it amusing and telling that non-zoo based organizations such as Conservation International and the Wildlife Trust have affiliated with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, the trade association for zoos and aquariums in the United States.
Scholarly communication and knowledge management in American Zoos, doctoral thesis, 2006, by Julia Innes, former librarian, Brookfield Zoo.
SAAMUS-L Museum Archives discussion list, sponsored by Society of American Archivists.
Rules for eating according to bicyclist, grandmother and mother.
Open J-Gate, links and indexes to more than 3,000 freely accessible journals, including both open access journals and otherwise free content posted by non-open accessible sources. Mix of peer-reviewed and other content.
Open Access Text Archive, Internet Archive.
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. A tool for use in determining when copyright expires, based on either years after death of author or publication date, as applicable, and for determining existence of online ediions of public domain works.
Natual History Caucus Discussion List, low volume list sponsored by SLA's Natural History Caucus. Anyone may subscribe; SLA membership not required.
Letter from Belize, 1993. I did not ride a touring bike in Belize.
Laws of archivy. As Foghorn Leghorn would say, "It's a joke..."
iSpecies.org, a species search engine generating web pages on the fly, drawing on Yahoo, PubMed, and other web sources.
ISBN conversion, 10 digit to 13 digit, courtesy of Booksprice.com.
IOBA Standard, journal of the Indepenent Online Booksellers Association. Articles about used bookselling and used booksellers, a good read also for those who only buy used books.
ISBN barcode symbols, free, generated online, while you wait... Produced using bookland.py, a Python program for creating Bookland EAN-13 bar codes. Source code also available for download under GNU Public License. A service of College Park Press.
Information Outlook, monthly magazine of SLA. Back issues freely available via FindArticles.
Herb Society of America Library Catalog. Another Caspr customer.
A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology, edited by Richard Pearce-Moses. Society of American Archivists, 2005. Includes historical illustrations of usage and changes of meaning.
Free Full Text, list of more than 7,000 journals which permit free access to some or all content. Many more sample issues than open access journals, but sometimes useful. I more often use ProQuest or the Ebsco collections via the public libraries at which I am a registered borrower.
The FRBRization of Humphry Clinker. A case study in the application of IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).
Findarticles.com, aka LookSmart. Eclectic, increasingly useful aggregation of journal and newsletter content. Even with embargos on recent content, FindArticles can be helpful as substitute for document delivery and interlibrary loan. I was surprised to see back runs of American Scientist, Endangered Species Update, Environment, International Wildlife, Journal of Environmental Education, National Wildlife, Natural History, and Whole Earth (including the last issue, never printed or distributed to subscribers).
Ezproxy discussion list, for users of the remote authentication software tool.
Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies. Six practices exempt from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, under new ruling from Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Also, eleven proposals rejected for exempt status.
e-archivaria, publication of the Association of Canadian Archivists.
Dynix Institute Web Seminars Archive. Replays of web-based audio seminars by Pat Wagner, Marshall Breeding, and other names familiar in library land. Convenient way for information professionals to find replays of online seminar recordings, free of charge, courtesy of Dynix.
Copyright Renewal Database. U.S. copyright renewals for years 1923-1963. Simplifies determination of U.S. copyright status for works published between 1923 and 1963.
Center for Study of Public Domain. Duke University Law School. Papers, talks, and even a comic book on the public domain in relation to intellectual property law, creativity, economic development, etc.
Center for Study of Intelligence, place to find the unclassified edition of Studies in Intelligence and other CIA publications.
Bronx Zoo Library Catalog, test of the new LibraryWorld.net service, one of the least expensive ways to put a library catalog on the web.
Bronx Zoo Library Catalog via remote authentication server, a test of running all catalog queries through the remote authentication server, providing remote access to licensed resourced included in the remote authentication database and the library catalog.
Boston Consulting Group makes many of their big picture publications freely available for download. If your organization's CEO gets advice from Boston Consulting Group, you should also be reading their publications. If your CEO doesn't get advice from Boston Consulting Group....ditto.
Bicycling in Oregon, September 2002.
AZA-LSIG. Discussion list of AZA's Librarian's Special Interest Group.
American Kennel Club Library Catalog.
American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Records, 1963-1992. Folder level finding aid for 68 boxes of AAZPA records. Vernon Kisling and I surveyed and boxed these records for shipment to the Smithsonian Institution back in 1994 and 1995, in the attic of AAZPA's former headquarters in Oglbay Park, Wheeling, West Virginia. The Smithsonian Institution Archives cleaned up and formatted the finding aid, which began as a list of folders and boxes on my Z88 laptop computer.
Airedale-L: website of the airedale terrier discussion list. For owners of dogs such as ...A List apart. "For people who make websites." Long established site by and for professional web designers. Useful reality check.
Graphic: Cambridge Z88 laptop computer, made in Scotland, circa 1988. It weighs two pounds, runs 20 hours on 4 AA batteries, and stores programs and files in ROM, EPROM and RAM. Software supplied in ROM included diary, calendar, spreadsheet, wordprocessing, and terminal emulation. When Clive Sinclair was asked why he put an 8 bit CPU, a Z80, in the Z88, he allegedly said he couldn't find a 4 bit chip that he liked. As in the case of similar laptop computers--the Tandy 100/102 comes to mind--the Z88 attracted a coterie of devoted users, despite the fragility and the quirkiness of the device. More recently, ubiquitous handheld personal digital assistants seem to have co-opted the niche for an ultra lightweight computer with real keyboard and non-Windows operating system.
Updated: 2007 Jan 10. Added e-Archivaria. 2006 Dec 29. Added Open J-Gate. 2006 Dec 22. Added IOBA Standard, journal of the Independent Online Bookseller's Association. 2006 October 10. Added Ezproxy discussion list. 2006 June 7. Added TinyURL. 2006 April 13. OCLC "free group catalogs" deleted. 2005 Dec 15. Added SAAMUL-L, Museum Archives discussion list. Nov 24. Added New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. Nov 18. Added iSpecies.org. Sept 2. Added authenticated link to Bronx Zoo Library catalog. July 19. Added Zoological Society of London Library and San Diego Zoo Library. June 13. Added Dynix Institute link. 2004 Dec 14. Added AKC link. Nov 19. Added Bookland barcode link. Nov 9. Added FindArticles link. Oct 11. New WCS Working Papers link. July 21. Added AZA-LSIG link. 28 May. WCS Working Papers link added. May 7. WorldCat links added. March 2. Newsindex.com deleted, Information Outlook added.