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Library News & Notes —
August 1, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

At Libraries, Taking the (Really) Long View
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/23/preservation


Americans ditching the car
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/28/news/economy/driving/(Shortened url)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Thinking About Morality
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=thinking-about-morality

A Big List of Sites That Teach You How to Do Stuff
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tutorial_sites.php
(Source: Librarians' Internet Index)

The Britney Spears Problem
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/4/(Shortened url)
(Source: SciTechDaily)

China becomes biggest net nation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7528396.stm

Cloud computing bursting on the corporate scene
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/07/28/weekly8(Shortened url)


Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hirtle/07hirtle.html
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Cuil
http://www.cuil.com
(source: Boston Globe)
See also:
Search site aims to rival Google
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7528503.stm


Cuil Launches - Can This Search Startup Really Best Google?
http://searchengineland.com/080728-000100.php
(Source: ResourceShelf)


The Search Engine Litmus Test
http://www.slate.com/id/2196253/?from=rss


Will Cuil Search Engine Make Searching the Web Cool?
http://webtrends.about.com/b/2008/07/28/will-cuil(Shortened url)


Engineers' Dreams
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysong08/dysong08_index.html
(Source: Slashdot)


Federal Forms Catalog for Citizens
http://www.forms.gov/bgfPortal/main.do
(Source: ResourceShelf)


First It Was Song Downlaods. Now It's Organic Chemistry
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/technology/27digi.html(Shortened url)


Free Access to Science Papers Found Not to Increase Citations
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php(Shortened url)


The future of reading - digital vs. print
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2008076763_reading28.html
(Source: Science in the News)


Harvard University Library Office for Scholarly Communication
Includes a FAQ for publishers
http://hul.harvard.edu/osc.html
(Source: Open Access News)


How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life
http://www.wired.com/medtech/stemcells/magazine/16-08/ff_church


Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide
http://www.albany.edu/~knee/docs/JLA_2006article.pdf
(Source: PAMNET)


A Librarian's Lexicon For the Layperson
http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)


MIT researchers suggest life-changing ideas for a tough economy
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/07/28/focus3-MIT(Shortened url)


NASA: 50 Years of Towering Achievement
http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/07/nasa_mainbar


See also : NASA Images
http://www.nasaimages.org/
(Source: beSpacific)


New University Education Model Needed
http://www.livescience.com/technology/080725-sb-education-future.html
(Source: Slashdot)


Privacy Resources
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/privacy_resources.htm
(Source; Neat New Stuff on the Net)


The Road to the Information Age
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807u/google-flashback


Semantic Medline
http://www.semanticmedline.com/
(Source: Information Today)


Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained at Border
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/(Shortened url)
(Source: Boing Boing)


With Security At Risk, a Push to Patch the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/technology/(Shortened url)


Wood block to ebook
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/27/ebooks5
(Source: Library Web)


7 Ways Your Public Library Can Help You During a Bad Economy
http://consumerist.com/5027723/7-ways(Shortened url)
(Source: j's scratchpad)


10 Things to Scratch from Your Worry List
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/science/29tier.html(Shortened url)
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)