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Library News & Notes —
May 23, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may08/monnich/05monnich.html
(Source: Library Web)

Biotech Breakthroughs: 15 Developments That Will Eventually Affect Your Life
http://technutnews.com/2008/05/18/biotech (Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

Classic Articles in Context
http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/PALE:ClassicArticles (Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/05/facebook-google.html

A 'Frozen' Wikipedia Could Be Better for College, Founder Says
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3007/ (Shortened url)

Harvard/MIT Engineering Rivalry
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=382

How Amazon Could Change Publishing
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/16/ (Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)

How Do We Fight Corporate Control of the Internet?
http://www.alternet.org/stories/86205/

How to Get a Job in Academia
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/ (Shortened url)

The Library in the New Age
by Robert Darnton
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 (Shortened url)
(Source: PAMNET)

The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-orgasmic-mind
(Source: Boing Boing)

Shops track customers by mobile phones
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ (Shortened url)
(Source: beSpacific)

Universities and industry find roadblocks to R&D partnering
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/ (Shortened url)

When disasters strike, citizen journalists turn to Twitte
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/05/21 (Shortened url)

Why the Next President Needs a Powerful Science Adviser
http://www.sciam.com/article (Shortened url)
(Source: SciTechDaily)

YouTomb
This site tracks and identifies videos removed from YouTube for copyright violations
http://youtomb.mit.edu/
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

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