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Library News & Notes —
September 11, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Adding Trust to Wikipedia, and Beyond
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The age of enhancement
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Artificial Friends
Career advice: High-tech, healthcare best choices for college students
(Source: ACM Tech News)
Data Sharing
Dealing with Age Bias
(Source: livingwithless)
See also: 2009 Best Employers for Workers Over 50
Economist Intelligent Unit Finds Strong Belief in Business Value of Social Software
(Source: Bill Ives)
Environmental Twitter
By Harvard environmental resources librarian George Clark
Experiment in the Health Sciences
Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
For Teens, Has Texting Replaced Talking?
(Source: Slashdot)
FreeConferenceCall
(Source: Librarian in Black)
From home schooling to 'unschooling'
(Source: Slashdot)
George Whitesides: Writing a Scientific Paper
(Source: charmgp)
Google MP3 Search
(Source: beSpacific)
Hard times resources guide
(Source: Librarian in Black)
Harvard alters financial strategy
(Source: Harvard in the News)
See also: How The Endowment Affects Harvard's Schools
Harvard University Letter in support of Federal Research Public Access Act
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
HBS Elevator Pitch Builder
(Source: brown2020)
Heapr
"search Google, Twitter, Flickr, Wolfram Alpha and others all at once"
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
How to Access Gmail When It's Down
(Source: Publish 2 NYT Technology)
How to Speed Up a Slow Windows Computer for Free
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed
(Source: ResourceShelf)
It's not big and it's not clever
"on the hunt for snark"
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Law Librarians: 'No More Sacred Cows'
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Let the Children Play (Some More)
(Source: Gretchen Rubin)
A Look At The Travel Industry On Twitter
(Source: Danny Sullivan)
The Most Depressing Results in Physics
(Source: materion)
A New Horizon for the News
See also: The Times & the Internet
A New Job Just a Tweet Away
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The New Science of Learning
New Web Tool for Physicists, called AIP UniPHY, Promises to Enhance Collaboration, Speed Science
(Source: Newswise)
New-Breed Browsers Are Harder to Hack
Next Up For Disruption? College
Ohio State U.'s Library Renovation Is 'Stupendous,' Says a Leading Consultant
Open Book Alliance Files Brief Countering Google Books Settlement
(Shortened url)
(Source: Michael T. Peper)
See also: Orphan works and the Google book settlement
See also: House Committee Takes Up Google Books Project
(Source: Digital Koans)
See also: We Must Stop Google Books Because It Will Work!!!
(Source: Cory Doctorow)
See also: Competition That Works: Why the Google Books Project Is Good for Consumers and Its Competitors
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
See also: The relationship between public libraries and Google: Too much information
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
An Open Question
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Optics and photonics: physics enhancing our lives
(Source: physicsworld.com)
Physicists propose 'Schrödinger's virus' experiment
(Source: thepublicdomain)
Prune That Prose: Learning to write for readers beyond academe
Reinventing academic publishing online. Part II: A socio-technical vision
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
A review of peer-review
Rewrite Your Invisible Resume
Rutgers University faculty union approves pay raise delay to avoid layoffs, cuts
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)
Scientists in novels, a growing trend?
(Source: Nature News)
Share Groups of Twitter Users in One Click with TweepML
(Source: Robin Good)
Something to Talk About
"the internet as a communications tool"
(Source: Jay Rosen)
Stimulus Grants Boost Research
Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients' Records
(Source: Lisa Moricoli-Latham)
See also: Digital Health Records: The Hard Road Ahead
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This Could Be the Year of Digital Textbooks, if Students Accept Them
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
See also: Not exactly buy the book: College textbook rentals on the rise
To Multitask Effectively, Focus on Value, Not Volume
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)
Today's Librarian: Hip, Delusional, and Doomed
(Source: LISNews)
See also: Death of a thousand paper cuts
Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" - PM
(Source: Sarah Shreeves)
The University's Crisis of Purpose
(Source: blendedlib)
Vegetarian Restaurants Guide and Directory of Natural Food Stores
(Source: Kathy Freston)
Web 3.0 and Libraries: What is at the Heart of Libraries?
http://bit.ly/18OHwR
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats
(Source: Boing Boing)
What value do users derive from social networking applications?
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Why College Costs Rise, Even in a Recession
You can believe your eyes: new insights into memory without conscious awareness
See also: Memories exist even when forgotten, study suggests
See also: Can you see time?
4 Ways to Fix Communication Breakdown
(Source: Tom Nielsen)
7 Ways to See the World Through Twitter's Eyes
19 Free Web Services That Keep Saving You Money
See also: 21 Ways to Reduce Your Spending Without Making Your Life Miserable
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
60 Sites in 60 Minutes
(Source: iBraryGuy)
The 100 Most Powerful Women
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
NEW BOOKS
Received September 5 - September 11, 2009
No new books received this week.
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