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Library News & Notes —
September 12, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

America's Most Dangerous Librarians
http://www.motherjones.com/news (Shortened url)
(Source: Library Juice)

A black eye for Google?
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ (Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07 (Shortened url)
(Source: Techdirt)

Congressional Hearing Over Public Access Filled With High Drama
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php (Shortened url)

The future of search may be personalized, but what about your privacy?
http://www.pandia.com/sew/705- (Shortened url)
See also: Google Promises Privacy Fixes in Its Chrome Browser
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ (Shortened url)

Google aims to digitize more old newspapers
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/09/08 (Shortened url)

Internet capacity growing along with traffic
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/ (Shortened url)

Social Networking: A Research Tool
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3196
(Source: SLADSOL)

The web's future is a 'village'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7562475.stm

When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/technology/ (Shortened url)

Your Research in the Headlines: Dealing With the Media
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org (Shortened url)

 

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Received September 5 - 12, 2008