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KudosSpecial kudos to Stuart Basefsky, the senior reference librarian at Catherwood and the director of the IWS News Bureau. The news service he compiles and edits on a daily basis was recognized as the “Resource of the Week” in October by the Resource Shelf, a Web-based service for information professionals produced by Gary Price Library & Internet Research Consulting. Here is the posting in last month’s Resource Shelf: Where do you turn for “real time” information on Workplace Issues? While ResourceShelf.com and Docuticker try to post workplace-related information when possible, they cannot do it all. Consequently, the following resource is recommended in this increasingly important area of public policy. This key resource is the IWS Documented News Service and its related information products. This service was established in 1996, evolving into the current product in April 2002. IWS stands for Institute for Workplace Studies—a “think tank” in New York City associated with the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). The service started out with an internal audience of ILR faculty, students, and staff (which remain the focus of its content) with the intent of being an agent of change. It is now distributed throughout the world as a free resource. Designed primarily as a “push” e-mail service, this product bridges a gap in public policy by providing links to the full-text documentation of government studies, reports, and statistics in “real time” to researchers, practitioners, and the public interested in workplace issues. This e-mail service (sent directly to the blogs listed below) provides the following:
Please note, these blogs are in a temporary form to be improved at a later date. Nevertheless, they are available for public viewing and updated simultaneously with the e-mail postings (no need to receive the e-mails unless you like the “push”). Numerous by-products are produced in part or in whole from the IWS Documented News Service. Consequently, many of the key resources from which the postings originate are found in these synergized guides. For example, most U.S. domestic sources are listed in the Industrial Relations Overview of the U.S., other sources can be found in the ILR Research Portal. Most notable therein is the section on International Information. A special web site of Freely Available Workplace Resources is designed for researchers lacking funds. The service is viewed as a conduit for disseminating intellectual content and has been used as the basis for creating official partnerships between the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR) and international organizations. Among the many key organizations benefiting are:
Mark Funk, AHIP (Academy of Health Information Professionals), has been nominated for president-elect of the Medical Library Association for 2006/2007. Please join us at the Medical Library in wishing Mark a successful candidacy! This past August, the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information won the 2005 ChemLuminary Award for Divisional Activities in 2004. Chemical Information (CINF) established a database of print and electronic resources in support of National Chemistry Week (NCW); co-sponsored a symposium with the Women Chemists Committee focusing on women in leadership roles in both corporations and academia; co-sponsored a career symposium with the Younger Chemists Committee; and held a forum co-sponsored with the Committee on Science. Since several of the outreach activities were coordinated by the Division’s Education Committee, of which Leah Solla is the chair (2003-2005), she was one of two representatives chosen to accept the award.
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