INFORMATION UPDATE March 2006 Number 72 Welcome to INFORMATION UPDATE, a monthly resource for information seekers and users. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IN THIS ISSUE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ => Do It Yourself - Internet Archive => Did You Know? - Hoover's => Notes, News and Announcements => Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information ************************************************************ DO IT YOURSELF - Internet Archive ************************************************************ Have you ever wished you could go back in time and look at what a web page *used* to look like? Maybe you're trying to retrieve a bit of information you once saw on a company or organization web site. Maybe you need to prove a point for legal purposes. Web sites are extremely dynamic; change and updates are the name of the game. Well, lucky for us, there is an organization that has worked diligently since 1996 to archive web pages from the Internet. The Internet Archive provides the Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org. The idea is to be able to display the Web as it looked on a given date. So, the Internet Archive stores "snapshots" of the Web. In addition to web sites, the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, moving images, and software. The Web Section of the archive is by far the largest, with 55 billion pages. The text section includes 26,736 texts such as The Canada Year Book 1921, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, and The Council of the Vatican and the Events of the Time. The Audio Section includes over 76,000 items in subsections such as Live Music Archive (03,821 items), Presidential Recordings Collection (129 items), Conference Proceedings (81 items), and 78 RPMs (781 items.) As I write I'm listen- ing to John Philip Sousa's band playing the Liberty Bell March (aka Monty Python Theme Music.) The Moving Images section contains over 31,000 movies in categories such as Open Source Movies (17,967 items), Feature Films (631 items) and popular television programs like Computer Chronicles (571 items.) The Software Archive contains 34,275 items. This section contains "rare or difficult to find, legally downloadable software titles and background information on those titles." The Internet Archive is currently developing an Open Educa- tional Resources section with coursework, study guides, exercises, and recorded lectures. The featured lecture today is "Fun with Mathematics: Some Thoughts from Seven Decades." The Internet Archive is a valuable research source and, like most libraries, also offers entertaining and informative browsing. Happy Searching! ************************************************************ DID YOU KNOW? - Hoovers ************************************************************ For company research, Hoovers is hard to beat. Now owned by Dun & Bradstreet, the Hoovers company database contains information on 12,000,000 companies, covering 40,000 in depth. Over 80 researchers and editors keep the information current with daily updates. Subscribers can create targeted contact lists, custom company reports, and hard to find information on small businesses. Hoover's also offers specialized collections of companies in categories such as IPO Central and the Business Boneyard. IPO Central tracks companies as they progress through the pro- cess of "going public" through an Initial Public Offering. The Business Boneyard "includes records of thousands of companies...that no longer exist." This handy feature describes the fate of companies that were either purchased, merged, or otherwise gone out of business. 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