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Library News & Notes —
August 28, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Additional Budget Cuts
Amazon Reviewers Take On the Classics
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
The anatomy of Twitter: an 8 point strategic guide
Are recent developments in scholarly communication relevant to undergraduates?
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere
(Source: O'Reilly Radar)
August 2009 InfoTip: Google Squared
Avoid These Crazy Harvardians
Breaking free from the Web: New rehab caters to Internet addicts
(Source: Rebecca Skloot)
Co-Browsing Tools: Guide To The Best Online Services
(Source: Robin Good)
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition?
(Source: Boing Boing)
CPU, Heal Thyself
Does College Really Matter? The History of Undergraduate Education, Why It's In Trouble, and What to Do About It
(Source: UChannel)
Even with cruel choices, cities can sustain libraries
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
The Evolution of Retweeting
Finding Experts By Using the Internet
Friends or Acquaintances? Ask Your Cell Phone
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
(Source: Danny Sullivan)
HelloTxt
"Save time managing your status update for all your social networks."
(Source: Candy Schwartz)
How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media
How to Get a Job Without Experience
(Source: Gretchen Rubin)
How To Write When You Think You Can't
(Source: Gretchen Rubin)
The impact factor's "Matthew" effect: a natural experiment in bibliometrics
(Source: Michael Nielsen)
Infinite Playlist: New Frontiers in Digital Sound
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
See also: How to discover new and interesting music online
See also: What your iPod playlist says about you
See also: Where Did I Hear That Song? Ask ScreenTunes
Information Overload - It Isn't Just Too Much E-mail
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Internet Seen Leveling Opportunities for Scientists
Is quantum mechanics messing with your memory?
(Source: guardianscience)
Librarians accused of creating culture of flashy buzzwords to make their jobs seem more glamorous
(Source: Erika McNeil)
Libraries As Microcelebrities
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
The Lumpy Shape of Science Publishing in the not too Distant Future
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Microsoft and Yahoo try to stop Google from becoming an ebook dealer
See also: Google Rises to Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon Google Book Search Challenge
(Source: Pandia Search World)
More shoppers are having second thoughts in checkout line
Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
My 2 Weeks without TV News & Newspapers
(Source: The 99 Percent)
Networks are Killing Science
(Source: LabSpaces)
Newcomers should take the lead in making introductions
Online relationships: Quality versus quantity
(Source: CMac123)
pdfpirate.net
"free, online and no limits pdf restrictions remover"
(Source: O'Reilly Radar)
Printers that can do it all
Public libraries as impartial Spaces in the 21st Century
(Source: libraryfuture)
The Real-Time Library
Research Trove: Patients' Online Data
Saving Special Libraries in a Recession: Business Strategies for Survival and Success
(Source: OPL Plus)
Scholarly Communications must be Open
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Scholas
"social file sharing for academics"
(Source: Xuemei)
The science of Google Wave
Scientists Discover Portal To Outside World
SLA Alignment Project Results
Social Education - Where Are We Going and How Fast Are We Getting There?
Social Media & Family: Finding the Balance
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)
Social Networking Literacy Competencies For Librarians
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(Source: Candy Schwartz)
Stanford U. Offers Special Exhibits in Second Life
Step Outside Yourself: See Yourself as the Internet Does
(Source: grrlscientist)
Taken for Granted: Doing Something About the Postdoc Mess
Task Ninja: Form the Action Habit
TinEye
"reverse image search engine"
(Source: O'Reilly Radar)
To each his own: Consumers and self-designed products
Top 10 Tips to Maximize Your Mentoring
Top 25 physics films unveiled
Transforming Current Awareness Through RSS: How two projects (ticTOCs and Gold Dust) are using RSS to improve the information landscape for the 21st century researcher
(Source: David L. Rothman)
Twitsume: Share your resume with the world
(Source: sciencelib)
Twitter and health care -- can a tweet a day keep the doctor away?
Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
Virus Protection for the Mind
Visa Delays Put Science Careers at Risk
What Do You See
What is a Scientific Paper?
What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality
When the Internet breaks, who ya gonna call?
(Source: Science in the News)
Why does this e-book cost $14?!
(Source: Techdirt)
Why Recruiting Has to Go Video
Wikipedia to Add New Level of Editorial Oversight
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
See also: The 15 Biggest Wikipedia Blunders
(Source: infodiva)
Wolfram Alpha Has Grown a Lot. You Should Try it Out Again
(Source: uMCLE)
NEW BOOKS
Received August 22 - August 28, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Pili and Flagella |
Jarrell, Ken F. |
(Caister Academic, 2009) |
QR 78 .P55 2009 |
H. Berg |
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