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Library News & Notes —
June 9, 2006

Internet Sites of the Week

Esquire: Drinking Database
You can browse and search this database with the variables principal spirit, secondary spirit, mixer, drink name, glass type or scenario.
http://www.esquire.com/foodanddrink/database/frame_main1.html
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history's reach
“Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society's history — from personal correspondence to government documents — may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether.”
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/26409.html
(Source: PAMNET-L)

Intermittent Explosive Disorder Affects Up To 16 Million Americans
“A little-known mental disorder marked by episodes of unwarranted anger is more common than previously thought, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060606092346.htm
(Source: SciTechDaily)

Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging:
How to mark sites so you and others can find them
http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/webbuilding/printpage4519.cfm

Web Citation Index
Harvard has a trial for this offshoot of the Science Citation Index, which tracks publications in web repositories such as arXiv.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:webcitin

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Received June 3 - 9, 2006