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Library News & Notes —
September 14th, 2007

Internet Sites of the Week

Biographical Memoirs
150 years of NAS' Biographical Memoirs are available at this site.
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MEMOIRS_A&J
(Source: Open Access News)

Goodbye to All That
“The decline of the coverage of books isn't new, benign, or necessary”
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/goodbye_to_all_that_1.php?page=all
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)

Native Plant Database
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/
(Source: ResearchBuzz)

Prism
http://www.prismcoalition.org/
(Source: Open Access News)

PISD
http://pisdcoalition.org/
(Source: Christina's LIS Rant)
Two organizations invested in the integrity of scientific publishing

Reel Research
“Research guide for film studies”
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k1082&pageid=icb.page10156
(Source: Connie Rinaldo)

Second Thoughts About Second Life
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/09/2007091401c/careers.html
(Source: PAMNET)

Virtual or not, libraries are sweet labor
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-schmich14sep14,0,2328342.column
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)

NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS

Received September 8 - 14, 2007