Welcome to Virtual Library Zine #42

Welcome to Virtual Library Zine #43 http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au 23 December 2002

It is aimed at staff in public libraries and anyone interested in Web and electronic resources. If you think you know someone who would like to receive this publication, forward it, or let them know they can join by sending a message to [email protected] . Leave the subject blank and in the body of the text write subscribe vvlzine [email protected]

Holiday Edition of The Zine has arrived- a bumper edition to keep you occupied while you're on leave, or at work.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with compliments, comments and helpful suggestions with the new look of the Virtual Library. We are always re-evaluating the website and your comments are welcome!

New on the Virtual Library… Tips and Tricks http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/tips_tricks.cgi

Tips and Tricks is one of the new features of the Virtual Library. It is aimed at those interested in issues such as Filtering, Anti-Virus software and Web Site design.

Professional reading with Library News http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/infonet/newsfeeds.cgi

View the latest news from sites such as The Resourceshelf, and OSS4Lib. The links on the Library News Feeds should change daily.

Who said Librarians were the retiring type? http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-pri-oldest- librarian1211dec11,0,5467037.story

An article from Newsday which describes a library in Alabama with a 93 year old as the librarian, who still checks out books on file cards, and regards videos with horror.

The filtering saga continues… http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipacomplaint.pdf

In the United States the Children's Internet Protection Act, has been taken to the Supreme Court on the grounds it is unconstitutional and it violates the First Amendment. Read the complaint written by a group of American libraries who have taken this act to court. Thanks to Guy Puglia from Hobsons Bay for this contribution.

Get the lowdown on Christmas http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/christmas.asp

The Urban Legends reference Pages has a Christmas section. You can find out how many wise men there were, if Jesus was born on December 25, and why Boxing Day signifies more than just empty packages.

Holiday Reading for Christmas http://hometown.aol.com/DSimple/xmasbooks.html

Christmas books come out of storage for the season. These books are ones which can be purchased through Amazon and stored at home in the same way. I like the "Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month" title myself! Thanks to Tania Barry for this contribution.

Anyone for leftovers? http://www.buzztoolbox.com/google/goocookin.shtml For those with Christmas leftovers, or for when you have three things in the fridge and you don't know what to do with them. Cooking with Google allows you to enter ingredients in a search field, which then uses Google to search a range of recipe websites for recipes to fit your requirements. Thanks to Tania Barry for this contribution.

What you were searching for this year http://www.irconnect.com/askjinc/pages/news.mhtml?d=34661 http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Both Ask Jeeves and Google have published their searches for 2002. For Ask Jeeves you'll find, among other things, the most 25 frequent searches of 2002 (baby names scoring just a few spots above pregnancy.), top news-related searches, top health-related searches, and top product-related searches.

Google provides several more categories of information here, including a graph charting the "Las Ketchup" craze. Other categories include the top gaining and declining categories, top athletes, top news stories, and the top queries for several different countries including France and Japan.

Libraries of the Future- Library Technology Developments http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?id=3433

An article which highlights evolving technologies in libraries in the United States. Thanks to Frances Savage for this article

A Happy Christmas and New Year to you all. Thank you to all library staff who have contributed to the Virtual Library Zine, and to all who have contributed to Victoria's Virtual Library, Hot Topics, Reference Bookshelf and the Infonet.

The Online Projects Team- Brendan Fitzgerald, Frances Savage, Peter Schmidt, Andrew Cunningham and Stephanie McGlinchey