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Library News & Notes —
May 15, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Ahead of the pack
Are humans cruel to be kind?
(Shortened url)
Are You Ready for the Electronic Book War?
The Charlie Rose Science Series
(Source: Bill Romanos)
Common Chemistry
Conflicts of Interest Taint Medical Studies
The Death of Print?
(Shortened url)
See also: The decline and fall of books
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library
(Source: PAMNET)
DoubleX
(Source: Lisa Moricoli-Latham aka The Naughty Bride)
FAS Announces Broad Array of Budget Cuts
See also: List of FAS Budget Measures, May 11
Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals: A Practical Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and Librarians
(Source: PAMNET)
Finding right formula for family and science
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow
(Source: baranLLC)
Google Digs Deep to Refine Search
(Source: SLA-DSOL)
How Are You Coping with Uncertainty?
How To Nail An Interview
(Source: Helen Curry)
Internet is fostering a 'want it now' culture among students
(Source: Kept-Up Academic Librarian)
See also: Not Enough Time in the Library
Investing Made Simple
IQSS Dataverse Network
(Source: Merce Crosas)
Is Your PC Ready For Windows 7?
(Shortened url)
It's Not Just the Data, But What You Do With It
(Shortened url)
Library Protesters to Ohio State U.: Digital's OK, but Save Our Books!
(Shortened url)
The Library Rebooted
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Lifelike robots mimic animals, find use in medical, defense
(Shortened url)
Life's First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory
(Source: drkiki)
Mass. company says it has H1N1 vaccine
See also: Swine Flu Was No Lab Accident, W.H.O. Says
(Source: The Great Beyond)
More Fake Journals From Elsevier
(Source: Boing Boing)
See also: Why ghostwriting, ghost management, and fake journals could be pernicious
My Personal Credit Crisis
(Shortened url)
See also: What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?
(Shortened url)
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
The Next Age of Discovery
(Source: Library Web)
Niche Social Network Sites: A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK
(Source: PAMNET)
Nile Guide brings web travel planning under one roof
(Shortened url)
A Nimbus Rises in the World of Cloud Computing
Physics for Humanists
(Source: PAMNET)
Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Rowland Institute Names Two Junior Fellows
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Scholarly community gives feedback regarding Wikipedia
Science, Spirituality, and Some Mismatched Socks
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Science Teaching as a Profession: Why It Isn't How It Could Be
(Source: sciencebase)
See also: Benchmarks Online
(Shortened url)
(Source: Bill Romanos)
Scientific Communication and the Dematerialization of Scholarship
(Source: oa.new)
Scoopler
"real time search"
(Source: beSpacific)
Selfish Scientists Won't Share New Findings
(Shortened url)
Small business owners' frontline view of the Great Recession
Spiral swimmers may be new workhorses
See also: Spiral swimmers may prove micro workhorses (w/Video)
State looks to use stimulus bucks to expand broadband
Students Skeptical Kindle DX Can Replace Paper Chase
(Source: Kept-Up Academic Librarian)
Survey: Consumers prefer DVDs to downloads
Take a Walk on the Wired Side
Technology and books: Is the novel too much for our technology-addled brains?
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
Ten beautiful computers
Text Is Cheap
(Shortened url)
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
Twitter Bible
(Shortened url)
(Source: SLA-DSOL)
Unexpected benefits
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
University To Freeze Property Purchases
What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About You?
What Makes Us Happy?
(Source: Boing Boing)
Where There's a Will There's a Way?: Survey of Academic Librarian Attitudes about Open Access
(Source: Open Access News)
Why Darwin?
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Why We're Not Obsolete
(Source: Boing Boing)
Women Bullying Women at Work
(Source: Lynn Hubbard)
Your (r)evolution will be digitized: online tools for radical collaboration
(Shortened url)
(Source: Useful Chemistry)
6 ways to protect your privacy on Google
(Source: google)
12 Geeky Techniques to Stop Yourself Slacking Off
(Source: pulseproject)
12 online tools for price-conscious shoppers
NEW BOOKS
Received May 9 - May 15, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Progress in Optics, v. 52 |
Wolf, Emil, editor |
(Elsevier, 2009) |
QC 351 .P7 v.52 2009 |
Standing order requested by M. Burns |
| Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Systems and Processes |
Zaman, Muhammad H., editor |
(Cambridge, 2009) |
QP 517 .T48 S73 2009 |
H. Berg |
| Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell |
Bray, Dennis |
(Yale, 2009) |
QH 581.2 .B736 2009 |
H. Berg |
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