The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), an affiliate organization of the Council of State Governments, recently issued a report titled Trends in State Terrorism Preparedness. The report "is not intended to be a comprehensive assessment of states' terrorism preparedness activities, but rather a snapshot picture that gives a sense of both common and unique approaches to addressing domestic preparedness."

The states, territories and District of Columbia were surveyed with the responses organized by geographic regions in six primary areas: Terrorism Preparedness, Planning Initiatives, Incident Command, Protection of Critical Infrastructures, Legislative Activity and Key Issues. The report may be accessed by visiting the NEMA web site at www.nemaweb.org

LINKS
The State Resource Center, is one of the categories of LexisOne's free Legal Internet Guide, a collection of 20,000 links organized into 32 categories. For each of the fifty states, the State Resource Center provides extensive lists of links to statewide offices, the state's legal branches, its counties, its rules of court, important legal forms, and more. This is an excellent place to start to research information on the states, District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories.

www.lexisone.com/legalresearch/legalguide/states/states_resources_index.htm

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently launched a Spanish-language web site that helps consumer's track down reliable health information quickly and easily on the Internet. A unique feature of this service is the ease with which users can switch between Spanish and English versions of the same information.

To view this site visit www.healthfinder.gov/espanol

The Internet Archive: Building an 'Internet Library' offers free and permanent access to public records in digital format. In conjunction with the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and other institutions, this collection allows researchers, historians, and scholars to access historical collections that might otherwise disappear into the past.

Part of the Internet Archive is the Wayback Machine, a web service that allows people to surf web pages from the past. The Wayback Machine contains over 10 billion pages archived from 1996 to the present. This service utilizes a database that is over 100 terabytes in size, proclaimed to be the largest database in the world.

View the site at www.archive.org

New in Our Library
The New York State Education Department's Office of Professions recently issued a special report on the Nursing Shortage in their publication The Update. Highlighted are excerpts from a Regents report that defined the factors driving the nursing shortage; details on the recommendations of the Regents Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future of Nursing; and, an overview of supply and demand issues in all professions. The entire report may be viewed at www.op.nysed.gov/news.htm

Arch Lustberg who spoke at the CLEAR conference in San Antonio has a new book from which much of his presentation was derived. It's titled How to Sell Yourself - Winning Techniques for Selling Yourself...Your Ideas...Your Message. It retails for $14.99 and is available on the web from Amazon.com (get a 20% discount) or at Barnes & Noble. There is a chance Arch will appear at the Las Vegas conference in September and would be happy to autograph books at that time. His web site is www.lustberg.net

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