For those of you who want a useful free newsletter featuring:
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Holidays - National and International=20
This Day in History=20
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Featured Location of the Month
Obituaries for the month
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Science in the News
Chronology - Events of the month
Offbeat News Stories
Links of the Month
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C World Almanac Education Group. World Almanac E-Newsletter
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http://www.worldalmanac.com/index-m.htm
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Here is the link to the February newsletter:
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http://www.worldalmanac.com/200402WAE-Newsletter.html
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The March newsletter was sent to subscribers and included this feature:
"From The World Almanac: Internet Lingo"
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"The following abbreviations are sometimes used in Internet documents =
and in
e-mail."
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BTW By the way
F2F Face to face; a personal meeting
FCOL For crying out loud
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information
GOK God only knows
GTG Got to go
HHOK Ha, ha - only kidding
INHO In my humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
JK Just kidding
LOL Laughing out loud
OTOH On the other hand
PLS Please
ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
TAFN That's all for now
TTFN Ta-ta for now"
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This is useful when students use this language and we do not know what =
they
are talking about!
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Sybil Finemel
Library Director MLIS.CIO.
Los Angeles CA
Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 Reference Librarian. =20
sfinemel@comcast.net
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"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or =
soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a =
constant,
steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe =
in."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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