Marylaine Block, Internet Trainer, Webmaster, Librarian, and Writer, provides us with neat new Internet sights to check out each week!   Visit her column in this week's issue of the RBLS newsletter Current Comment to see Marylaine's picks for this week. 
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Neat New Stuff From Past Weeks (http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html#past)

Billboard Music Information Search (http://www.northernlight.com/billboard/)  Uses the Northern Light search 
engine to go through all kinds of resources:  Billboard's own articles, web sites, Northern Light's journal collection, news stories, and more. 
FOOTAGE.net (http://www.footage.net/search/) A searchable database of downloadable film footage on the net. 
Hershey Foods Online Cookbook (http://www.hersheys.com/cookbook/)  Home of recipes for fudge truffle cheesecake, cocoa rum balls, chocolate covered strawberries, cocolate almond biscotti and much much more. 
Kid Report (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/current/index.html) From the producers of The Scout Report, a version for kids by kids. 
Library Web Managers Reference Center (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/current.html) Allows you to search for articles in a variety of internet and computer journals--Current Cites, Net-Happenings, Inter@active Week, Scout Report, Server Watch, TechWeb, Web Developer, etc. 
Pathway Services, GPO (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/new.html) Announcements of new government documents on the web. 
USA Today's Hot Sites (http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/ch.htm) Updated daily, with an archive - 4 to 5 briefly annotated choices. 
WebData (http://ns4.webdata.com/main.htf) A guide to databases on the net by subject. 
What's New This Week (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/) Click on "new this week" for the neat stuff a team of California librarians found this week, updated every Monday. If you want to see everything new added by Librarian's Internet Index, More New This Week is the place to go. Both are available by free e-mail subscription. 
Yahoo's Cool Sites (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Cool_Links) 
Yahoo! Internet Life (http://www3.zdnet.com/yil/) A great source of information on Internet tools and techniques as well as an alerting service for useful new sites. The Charts feature chooses a few sites from many different "sites of the day" sources. 

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