RUSA has released their list of best reference sites for 2006. There’s a lot of good stuff here. In particular, I like the site How Things Are Made. In the spirit of the holidays, and in the spirit of the episode of Modern Marvels I watched last night that was all about candy making, you might want to check out this article on the making of candy canes.
As reported on Lifehacker, Pluggd is a new search tool that lets you search for a term inside an audio file. It does it by creating a heat map in the audio file’s proress bar, alerting you to where the search term appears, and with what relevancy. You can try it out at the Pluggd site.
If you haven’t checked out the new Ms.Dewey, the new microsoft search tool, you might want to take a look. Is it just me, or does anyone else find this creepy?
Check out Quotiki. It’s a wiki that allows
you to search for quotes. Of course, since it is user run it is subject to
the same potential accuracy problems as wikipedia. But still, perhaps
another useful resource for hard to find quotes.
Justia.com has two services that might prove useful for law reference: Blawgsearch, which lets you search for blogs
dealing with law topics, and Blawgs.fm, which lets you search for podcasts
on a variety of law topics.
As per LibraryStuff ALA has used Google Co-Op to create a new search tool that searches over 150 “information rich” web sites of interest to librarians. It uses Google’s customizeable search engine.
