Collaborative Tools

Collaborative Tools for the training for UNICs reference assistants.

Wikipedia: http://wikipedia.org/

UN Pulse: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/unpulse/

Social Bookmarking: http://del.icio.us/dhlreference

Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/unlegallibrary

Internal Resources (iSeek)

Dag blog: http://unhq-appsdev-cs01/LIB/DagBlog.nsf/

Training Materials: http://iseek.un.org/webpgdept937_3.asp?dept=937

Geneva Wiki: http://lib-100734.unog.un.org/unsgwiki/doku.php?id=start

Commission on Sustainable Development

We did a briefing for delegates to the Commission on Sustainable Development a few weeks ago. Here’s the list of Useful Links from the presentation:

UN Website: http://www.un.org/

Issues on the UN Agenda: http://www.un.org/issues/

Issues on the UN Agenda: Sustainable Development:

http://www.un.org/issues/m-susdev.html

Commission on Sustainable Development Web site:

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/policy.htm

Division for Sustainable Development:

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/index.html

 

UN Documentation Centre: http://www.un.org/documents/

UN-I-QUE: http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf

 

UN-I-QUE record for the Report of the CSD:

http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf/link/R00396

 

Official Document System: http://documents.un.org

 

United Nations Documentation Research Guide:

http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide

 

Journal of the United Nations:

http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/En/lateste.pdf

 

UN News Centre: http://www.un.org/news

UN Press Releases and Meetings Coverage:

www.un.org/apps/pressreleases

Sustainable Development press release symbol: ENV/DEV

UN Webcast: http://www.un.org/webcast

UN Website Search: http://www.un.org/search/

 

UN Website Index: http://www.un.org/site_index/

 

UN system sites: http://www.un.org/aroundworld

Contact the DHLink (Dag Hammarskjöld Library and Knowledge Sharing Centre)  Reference Team:

http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/sendmail/contactform.asp

http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/sendmail/sendemail_unreference.asp

Free Internet Databases

 

15 sites in 15 minutes: Free Internet Databases

This quick seminar will show you a selection of databases for research.

1. Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
2. Librarians Internet Index: http://lii.org/
3. Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/
4. Intute: http://www.intute.ac.uk/
5. INFOMINE: http://infomine.ucr.edu/
6. Social Science Research Network: http://www.ssrn.com/
7. Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
8. GuideStar: http://www.guidestar.org/ and http://www.guidestar.org.uk/
9. Global Legal Information Network: http://www.glin.gov/
10. Jurist: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
11. GlobaLex: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
12. SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute): http://www.sipri.org/
13. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center): http://www.eric.ed.gov/
14. PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
15. Main UN Databases: http://www.un.org/databases/index.html

Prepared by Susan Kurtas, Reference Librarian at United Nations Headquarters New York.

Course materials

I posted the course materials for my classes here directly from docs.google.com.

Pretty cool.

I’ll have to play with the display options. They look big because I increased the font to be visible from the back of the room when I am training.

Also, it didn’t include a link to the page where the document is published on the web.

News Resources: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc8xsd8t_27ccd65

Cool Web Tools: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc8xsd8t_0fc77q2&revision=_published

Anyway, not hard to do and pretty intuitive interaction between google and wordpress.

News Resources: 30 sites in 30 minutes

News Resources: 30 sites in 30 minutes

This seminar introduces a selection of the many excellent Web sites offering free news online.

Aggregate News Sites (many sources through one interface)

1. All Africa: http://allafrica.com/
2. Clusty news: http://news.clusty.com/
3. Drudge Report: http://www.drudgereport.com/
4. Google news: http://news.google.com/
5. News Now: http://newsnow.co.uk/
6. Topix.net: http://www.topix.net/
7. World news network: http://wn.com/
8. World Press: http://www.worldpress.org/
9. Yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/
10. $ News Library: http://www.newslibrary.com (search is free)
    

News Resource Guides (find a specific source online)

1. ABYZ News Links: http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
2. All you can read: http://www.allyoucanread.com/
3. Headline Spot: http://headlinespot.com/
4. Internet Public Library News Page: http://www.ipl.org/div/news/
5. Kidon Media Link: http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.php
6. News Directory: http://www.newsdirectory.com/
7. News Link: http://newslink.org/
8. Online Newspapers: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
9. Radio Locator: http://www.radio-locator.com/
10. UNC Greensboro Library News and Newspapers Online: http://library.uncg.edu/news/

Cool things to do with the News

1. BBC Most Popular: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/graph.stm
2. Buzztracker: http://www.buzztracker.org/
3. Mapped Up: http://www.mappedup.com/
4. News Cloud: http://www.newscloud.com/
5. News Map: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
6. News is Free (RSS Reader): http://www.newsisfree.com/
7. Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
8. Ten by Ten: http://www.tenbyten.org/10×10.html
9. Vanishing Point: http://www.low-fi.org.uk/vanishingpoint/
10. Week in Review: http://www.weekinreview.org/

15 December 2006 Susan Kurtas

Cool Web Tools: 15 sites in 15 minutes

 

Cool Web Tools: 15 sites in 15 minutes

This class introduces some online tools to help you use Internet resources more fully.

Browser

1. Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Search Engines

1. Clusty: http://clusty.com/
2. Good Search: http://www.goodsearch.com/
3. A9: http://a9.com/
4. Rollyo: http://www.rollyo.com/

RSS & Blog Sites

1. All About RSS: http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.php
2. Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/
3. Technorati: http://technorati.com/

Social Networking Sites

1. del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/
2. Flickr: http://flickr.com/
3. You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/

Other Cool Sites

1. Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
2. Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
3. NYC Transit Planner: http://travel.mtanyct.info/
4. How Stuff Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Prepared by Susan Kurtas, Reference Librarian at United Nations Headquarters New York.