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Library News & Notes —
July 10, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Another reason to publish as Open Access
(Source: Open Access News)
Apollo 11: Why the moon still matters
Are embargoes good for science journalists - and science - or not?
Ask and You Shall Receive (An Answer on Twitter)
The Best Kids' Books Ever
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
Best 22-inch LCD Monitors
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
Biting hands that feed
(Shortened url)
Building a stellar time machine
(Source: Harvard Research)
Cartoons
The Case of the Disappearing Liberal Arts College
Communicating the value of libraries and librarians:
Take a leadership role in the academic enterprise
(Source: Shamsha Damani)
Crap Detection 101
(Source: Howard Rheingold)
The end of news websites
(Source: guardiantech)
Financial Tips for Librarians
(Source: englib)
Free by Chris Anderson
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
The Future of Library User Experience
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
The Future of Publishing
How blogs changed everything
How to Spot an Influential Paper Based on its Citations
In web age, libraries as important as ever
(Source: alanews)
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
(Source: Google)
See also:
Google's war on the PC
(Source: Boing Boing)
See also: Would You Miss Windows With a Google Operating System?
See also: Google's Chrome OS: what it means, why it matters
See also: Dark Cloud
(Source: Jonathan Zittrain)
Is The Desktop PC Dead?
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
LexisWeb
"free legal search engine"
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Librarians on the case:
helping students prepare for job interviews in an uncertain economy
Library 2.0 Revisited
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
LinkedIn v freemasons: Joining the club
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Literary Boston neighborhoods
Low-Tech Computers From Prehistory to Today
Meltdown 101: Shuttered Stores Sites Still Sell
(Source: ResearchBuzz)
New ways to search within a book
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The Old Solutions Have Become the New Problems
Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want
(Source: Library Web)
Parents Magazine and the fuss about parenthood
(Source: Harvard Magazine)
A phone is not just a phone
Positive emotions increase life satisfaction by building resilience
Pubmatch
A social network that matches authors, agents and publishers.
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Report: Ugh, No One Would Care Anyway
(Shortened url)
Research Universities and Innovation
Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard
(Source: Harvard Magazine)
See also: Liquidity and Leverage
Scientific Publishing Will Change. Will you?
(Source: Streamosphere)
SimilarSites.com
(Source: Phil Bradley's weblog)
Social Networks Complicate Relations Between Bosses and Employees
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
See also: We're Using More Social Networking Tools
(Source: Lisa Moricoli-Latham)
See also: If you do one thing this week ... sort out your online presence
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Talkin' 'bout my generation: exploring age-related resources
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
(Source: Boing Boing)
Twitter Comes to the Rescue (Travel)
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Twitter for Scientwists
(Source: charmgp)
University open-access policies as mandates
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
When careers need reinvention
When Doctors Make Mistakes
Where Is Everyone?
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Why Hulu Succeeded As Other Video Sites Failed
Why the Imp in Your Brain Gets Out
The Year the Newspaper Died
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
10 Rules That Govern Groups
(Source: O'Reilly Radar)
10 Ways to Find People on Twitter
(Source: ErikJHeels)
10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business
(Source: guardiantech)
100 Simple, Low-Cost, Soulful Ways to Be More Creative on the Job
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
NEW BOOKS
Received July 4 - July 10, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Handbook of Molecular Biophysics |
Bohr, Henrik G., editor |
(Wiley-VCH, 2009) |
QH 506 .H37 2009 |
G. Eastman |
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