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Library News & Notes —
August 21, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Adding Layers of Skills to a Science Background
(Source: Science in the News)
Alloy Artifacts Tool History Page
(Source: ResearchBuzz)
Appland: How smartphones are transforming our lives
Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
(Source: drkiki)
The Best Time To Buy Guide for 45 Products and Services
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
Better BBQ through chemistry
(Source: ACS Press Room)
Block Hulu's Commercials (And Any Other Ads Online) with Adblock Plus
Consumers Union Report Finds Prepaid Cards Come With High Fees and Weak Protections for Consumers
(Source: Docuticker)
Cory Doctorow interview on librarianship and media
(Source: msauers)
The decline of the landline
(Source: infodiva)
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity
(Shortened url)
Electronic books lack the feel - and the feelings - of paper
(Source: Kim Carter)
See also: I shall not be Kindled
The Eleven Axioms of 21st Century Publishing
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Everyday nanotechnology
(Source: Science in the News)
The Evolution of Blogging
(Source: Publish2 NYT Technology)
Evolution 2.0: On the origin of technologies
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
(Source: Xuemei)
Geochirp
Find people twittering in specific subject areas
(Source: Phil Bradley's weblog)
Getting Your Wireless Network Up to Speed
(Source: Rebecca Skloot)
Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?
(Source: Boing Boing)
How to Publish a Comment
(Source: Faculty of 1000)
How to search all of Craigslist
How to Write an Outreach Grant Proposal
Is There Such a Thing as Free Software? The Pros and Cons of Open-Source Software
(Source: blendedlib)
Keywords From a Librarian
(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)
Learn to Cook in Your Hotel Room
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
A life recorded in bits and bytes
Making the Most of Technology You Already Have
(Source: blendedlib)
The New, Faster Face of Innovation
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
New Tool Predicts Flight Delays
(Source: ResearchBuzz)
Pay Now or Pay Later: Exploring the Hidden Cost of Free Information
(Source: Mary Ellen Bates)
Perishing Without Publishing
Print, beware! Publishers are "on the road" to pure digital
(Shortened url)
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
PubMed Search Strategies
(Source: David L. Rothman)
Pushing Back on Requests for Salary Cuts
Retractions up tenfold
(Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Saving the World's Women
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
Scholars discuss fall-out of Google Book settlement, at Berkman Center conference on open libraries
(Source: Berkman Center)
See also: The Google Book Search Settlement: Static Good, Dynamic Bad?
(Source: Joi Ito)
Lawyer and Author Adds His Objections to Settling the Google Books Lawsuit
See also: The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
See also: UC Profs Have Problems With The Google Books Settlement
(Source: blendedlib)
See also: Books in Limbo
(Source: Google)
See also: Books in and out of copyright
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Scientists invent kitchens that clean themselves
(Source: ACS Press Room)
Scientists' strategic reading of research enhanced by digital tools
Seeing Is Not Believing
"Doctoring digital photos is easy. Detecting it can be hard."
Seeking
"How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous."
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Seeking Work? A Free Online Book Presents Some Good Advice
See also: How the Web Has Changed Job Searching
SETI telescope array produces first science results
Should Thursday Be the New Friday? The Environmental and Economic Pluses of the 4-Day Workweek
(Shortened url)
The social media revolution is going nowhere
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
(Source: Gerry McKiernan)
Sunrise for solar heat power
Symbolism and the $1 Bill
(Source: Yahoo)
Telecommuting grows as alternative option
Things Not to Do With a Book
(Source: Access Science)
A threat to scientific communication
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Top 10 Best Female Science Bloggers
(Source: Living the Scientific Life)
Tracking Down the Forgotten Book Title
What Academic Libraries Contribute to Productivity
See also: Academic libraries are undergoing a quiet revolution
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
See also: Why Academic Libraries Matter
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Why Twitter isn't pointless babble
See also: Addicted to Twitter
See also: The Strength of Weak Ties: Why Twitter Matters in Scholarly Communication
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
See also: How Twitter works in theory
(Source: O'Reilly Radar)
Why Your PC May Be Your Best TV
(Shortened url)
Wiggio
"makes it easy to work in groups"
(Source: Jill Hurst-Wahl)
Women At Arms
(Source: Christina Pikas)
See also: On the Ground
(Shortened url)
Women in IT: Success and Struggle
(Shortened url)
(Source: Sloan Work and Family Network)
Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders: A Guide to Selected Resources.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
12 best places to get free images for your site
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
20 Foods That Make You Smarter
100 Best Twitter Feeds for Librarians of the Future
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
150 things to do when you're bored
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
See also: 20 Indoor Activities for Kids - besides TV
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
2009 Young Innovators Under 35
(Source: Harvard Research)
NEW BOOKS
Received August 15 - August 21, 2009
No new books received this week.
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