Latest Links – The Currency $ite, etc….

(Posted September 15, 1998; Archived October 1, 1998)

mb.gifThe Currency $ite http://www.oanda.com/

This site has an Interactive Daily Table with rates for multiple currencies and a free Historical Currency Table with low/high/average. 164 currencies are covered. There is also a currency converter. The site is produced by OANDA which is the Internet arm of Olsen & Associates, a company that produces advanced forecasting technology for the financial markets with operations in Zurich and Frankfurt.

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Subjects: Internet Resources - Web Links, Latest Links

Notes from the Technology Trenches – September, 1998

Notes from the Technology Trenches By Elizabeth H. Klampert

Elizabeth H. Klampert is the Director of Library Services for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Klampert was formerly a litigator for five years, specializing in professional liability litigation. Before attending law school, she was a corporate librarian for twelve years, holding management positions in libraries in a number of large organizations, including Rainier National Bank in Seattle, Deloitte & Touche, and Merrill Lynch, both in New York. She received both her BA in English and MLS from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her JD at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

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Subjects: Notes from the Technology Trenches, Technology Trends

Features – Mining Mailing Lists

Mining Mailing Lists By Kenneth E. Johnson

Kenneth E. Johnson is Information Services Project Leader at Mayer, Brown and Platt in Chicago. He is the author of “Lawyers Quick Guide to E-Mail” and “The Lawyer’s Guide to Creating Web Pages“, published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section. He is vice-chair of the LPM Computer and Technology Division, TechShow WebMaster, and editor on the LPM Newsletter Board.

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Subjects: Features, Internet Mailing Lists

Features – What’s the Jurisdiction on that One? A quick tour of Internet and print resources for determining federal jurisdictional questions in the United States.

What’s the Jurisdiction on that One? A quick tour of Internet and print resources for determining federal jurisdictional questions in the United States By Roger Vicarius Skalbeck

Roger Vicarius Skalbeck is currently the Library Systems Specialist at the Washington, DC firm of Williams and Connolly, and is the Assistant Chair for the Web Committee of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. Current work activities include efforts to develop creative solutions to technology-based legal research problems, from a librarians point of view.

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Subjects: Features, Legal Research

Features – Electronic Rule Making: Broadcast List Servers, Hypertext Manuscripts, Proprietary Formats and Tagged Email

Electronic Rule Making: Broadcast List Servers, Hypertext Manuscripts, Proprietary Formats and Tagged Email By Phillip A. McAfee, Esq.

Phillip A. McAfee is an attorney with a Masters Degree in Health Law from Loyola University in Chicago. He is also the owner of the Health Hippo Web site, which has provided deep and extensive links to government documents related to health law, policy and regulation since 1996.

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Subjects: Features, Government Resources

Extras – Product Review – MARCit: Web Site Cataloging Made Easy

Product Review – MARCit Web Site Cataloging Made Easy By Cathy Adamo

Cathy Adamo is currently a cataloger for Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. She’s worked previously in academic, special and public libraries as a cataloger, dealing with both print and nonprint materials. She received my MLS from the University of Pittsburgh, and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Education from West Virginia University.

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Subjects: Cataloging, Extras

Newstand – August 1998

(Posted August, 1998; Archived September 1, 1998)

newstand.gifThe New York Times on the Web, August 16, 1998

Big Web Sites to Track Steps of Their Users. Feel like you are leaving a visible trail as you navigate among major Web sites to purchase consumer products or just request information about them? This article will explain why privacy advocates are concerned about new databases that track Web activity with great detail.

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Subjects: News (Newstand), Newstand
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