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Library News & Notes —
August 14, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Adding a New Ball to the Juggling Act: Balancing Work, Family and Education
(Shortened url)
Advice on designing scientific posters
(Source: Boing Boing)
After the boom, is Wikipedia heading for bust?
(Source: Publish2Technology)
And You Thought a Prescription Was Private
(Source: beSpacific)
Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
As eBook Readers Heat Up, Standardization Will Be Critical
(Shortened url)
(Source: ALA TechNews)
As ye 'so,' so shall ye speak
Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0
(Source: Xuemei)
Books Aren't Obsolete Yet
(Source: msauers)
A Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Coffee Can Wait. Day's First Stop Is Online
Cooperative Intelligence: Help Yourself by Helping Others
The Complete Guide to Going Paperless
(Source: Xuemei)
Contract research on the rise
Embedded Librarianship: What Is It and Why Should I Care?
Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing
See also: Publishers cooperating with the Harvard OA policy
(Shortened url)
Farewell to e-mail
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction: Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Marriage
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~srick/Fatal%20(Fiscal)%20Attraction.pdf
(Source: Sloan Work and Family Network)
Get Your Resume in the ‘Yes' Pile
Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google
(Source: libraryfuture)
See also: What Scares Google
See also: Is Google playing by the book?
See also: Is Google killing general knowledge?
(Source: Xuemei)
Harvard Isn't Poor
See also: The IRS's New Target: College Endowments
(Source: Harvard in the News)
How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the
Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future
(Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation via Paul T. Jackson)
How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network
(Source: Xuemei)
How I use social media
(Source: Howard Rheingold)
How Much of Your Memory Is True?
(Source: Rebecca Skloot)
How to find jobs through social networks
How to get something out of hotel, flier points
See also: Airlines Set to Ask More of Passengers
How to find work with a flexible schedule
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
How the Internet Is Changing Healthcare
(Shortened url)
(Source: David L. Rothman)
Is Your Printer Stealing From You?
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
(Source: Reference Notes)
A Laboratory of Collaborative Learning
(Shortened url)
Learning to Text: Don't LOL at Death, and Other Tips
(Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Librarians in the Hall: Instructional Outreach in Campus Residences
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The Lowdown on Lightweight Laptops
Moving Into a Digital Future, Where Textbooks Are History
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Orphan Works: A Statement of Best Practices
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
Pentagon Loses Hard Drive With All The Movies On It
Physics Jobs: Job Seekers - Career Resources
See also: Big bucks for physicists
The Pros and Cons of Open-Source Software
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Publishing possibilities: assessing the publish -> filter model
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Quit Managing Your Time ... and Start Managing Your Attention
Reference Desk: Tips on Using Your Wits
References Wanted
Requests for articles that are not freely available on the web
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Reinventing academic publishing online Part 1: Rigor, relevance, and practice
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Remember Where You Parked Your Car and More: 35 Practical Uses of a Digital Camera
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Researchers offer tools for eavesdropping and video hijacking
Shut Out at Home, Americans Seek Opportunity in China
Sitting Down To Read
(Source: Library Web)
Six ways bosses can cut your pay - and what to do about it
Speech Accent Archive
(Source: Internet Scout Weblog)
Speedcine
"The fast way to find legal movies online."
(Source: Laurel Graham)
Spotify is the Best Desktop Music Player We've Ever Used
(Shortened url)
Study Shows Temptation Stronger Than We Realize
Tech gives humans animal senses
Tech meccas: The 12 holy sites of IT
(Source: Tim O'Reilly)
Techies dispel 'socially awkward' stereotypes
Ten mysteries of you
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Ten observations about cloud computing
Tilting at Internet Barrier, a Stalwart is Upended
U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration
Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone: The Scientific Paper in the Age of Twitter
(Source: Gerry McKiernan)
What is a Denial of Service Attack?
(Shortened url)
(Source: digg)
See also: Joe job
(Source: Howard Rheingold)
When Do You Use Twitter Versus Facebook?
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Which came first, the idea or the words for it?
Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag
5 Tips for Shopping for a Mortgage
(Source: Docuticker)
5 ways to get the most out of your music collection
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
The 10 best book websites
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
10 tips for progress in the lab
(Source: scientistlady)
10 Ways to get more wear out of your clothing
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
NEW BOOKS
Received August 1 - August 14, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Optical Processes in Semiconductors |
Pankove, Jacques I. |
(Dover, 1975) |
QC 612 .S4 P193 |
Replacement copy donated by P. Fischer |
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