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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib , xml4lib , currentcites@webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/> or email subscription at http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites

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-- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list XML4Lib@webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com http://www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant < mailto:Roy.Tennant@ucop.edu Roy.Tennant@ucop.edu

, xml4lib < mailto:xml4lib@webjunction.org xml4lib@webjunction.org , mailto:currentcites@webjunction.org currentcites@webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years

Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib < mailto:web4lib@webjunction.org web4lib@webjunction.org old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month.  Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One.  That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley.  The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science.  Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system.  Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web.  Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians.  Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch.  This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public.  Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity.  Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years."  Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/

or email subscription at http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites . -- The Current Cites Team

XML4Lib mailing list mailto:XML4Lib@webjunction.org XML4Lib@webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."