Exhibit Ramblings

Three online products I found interesting

The Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus Think of a root systems and words at the ends of roots to visualize how they are related. They are also in Spanish and there is audio so you can hear the words pronounced. Might be a product schools would be interested in.

Need information on different countries of the world? Have you heard about Country Watch? This online database provides information on socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and more about the 192 countries and also non-sovereign nations that make up our world. They have real-time, full-text news articles from the countries and a map gallery. This is an interesting product, which all libraries might want to look at.

And finally a product called SimplyMap from Geographic Research, Inc. They have combined demographic, business and marketing data into a user-friendly interface. Choose a location and click on the choices of data you want. This is a powerful tool.

OK that is all from ALA-Mid-Winter. Next week another topic.