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Library News & Notes —
September 18, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
ALA Study Finds Public Libraries Often the Primary, Perhaps Only Source of Free Internet Access for Communities
Almost ten science search engines
(Source: libram)
America's Most Promising Young Companies
(Source: deanie7)
AOL Strikes Back
Are You Linked In?
The Art of Giving Praise
Article-level metrics at PLOS - addition of usage data
(Source: Gerry McKiernan)
See also: PLOS rolls out article-level metrics
See also: The importance of individualized article-specific metrics for evaluating research productivity
Biotech Tries to Shrug Off Setbacks
Book titles if they were written today
(Source: Boing Boing)
Can Twitter Serve as a Personal Knowledge Management Tool?
(Source: Bill Ives)
Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Citation Tracker: Monitoring Citations to your Publications
Clicker: A New TV Directory for Online Content Set to Debut on the Web
A Compact for Open-Access Publication
See also: HOPE Makes It Work at Harvard
(Source: Peter Kosewski)
Depositing Checks By Email
(Source: ErikJHeels)
Facing brain cancer, professor works to find cure
(Source: Allison Joseph)
Five essential things to know about evolution
FoodSafety.gov
(Source: ResourceShelf)
For Visual Searches, Try a Few Different Approaches
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Futurity
"News from leading research universities"
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)
Get your questions answered with these resources
(Source: Library Web)
Getting into Print
(Source: AL Direct)
Google Fast Flip
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Google "liberates" data, makes it easier to leave the cloud
See also: How I Use Google To Organize My Entire Online Digital Life
(Source: Zen Habits)
Goollery - Collection of Google Related Projects
(Source: Marcus Zillman)
Guidance for university researchers on data management
(Source: scilib)
Harvard's largest school halves projected budget shortfall, dean says
(Source: Harvard in the News)
HerCampus Launches Online
How Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
How to be less busy in a busy busy world
(Source: Zen Habits)
How To Find Time For ...Everything!
(Source: bywave)
Information overload and how information professionals lend a hand
(Source: kowalskibob)
Is Happiness Catching?
(Shortened url)
(Source: Harvard in the News)
Is This a Scam?
(Source: Marcus Zillman)
Laptopia! The World's Weirdest Portable Computers
(Source: Salon)
Legal Implications of Cloud Computing - Part One (the Basics and Framing the Issues)
(Source: beSpacific)
Let's Talk: Journalism and Social Media
(Source: Jay Rosen)
Libraries need to focus on transliteracy
(Source: Amy Kearns)
A major price drop for solar panels
(Source: George Clark)
Make your own ringtones online
Masons and the Making of America
(Source: Boing Boing)
Musings on Fair Use
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
No Villains
"Threatened cuts and partial restorations point out the ambiguous politics of library funding"
Patent Lens
(Source: libram)
Phone calling coming to Twitter
Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research
(Source: dullhunk)
Reframing Google Books
(Source: Digital Koans)
reQall
"the best way to remember what's important to you"
(Source: Mary Ellen Bates)
Sci-fi special: The fiction of now
'Severe' doc shortage seen hiking wait time
(Source: Boston Business Journal)
Student Employment Hit By Budget Crunch
A tale of two papers: peer review under the microscope
Tight budgets affect scholarly information market
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Top Ten Things Library Administrators Should Know About Technology
(Source: jdysart)
The Trouble with Wikipedia as a Source for Medical Information
(Source: ResearchBlogs)
See also: Wikipedia Contributors Mostly Male
(Source: amcaffee)
The Truth About Book Marketing
(Source: Zen Habits)
Understanding Users of Social Networks
(Source: Bill Romanos)
A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
What is the Scientific Paper? 1: Observations
What is the scientific paper? 2: What's wrong?
(Source: BoraZ)
What's your idea worth? Ask the matrix
When scholars face threats, this global networker finds them safer places to do their work
Where will the e-reader revolution take publishing?
(Source: Digital Koans)
See also: e-books, e-book readers, but what about end users?
(Source: Lisa Carlucci)
See also: Facts, Errors, and the Kindle
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
See also: Why Apple's Tablet Will Eat Kindle's Lunch
(Source: libraryfuture)
5 Apps Tap the Internet's Infinite Playlist
7 Steps to Finding a Job Online
10 Google Services That Failed and Why
(Source: ResearchBuzz)
10 People You Won't See on Twitter Anymore
(Source: ErikJHeels)
12 iPhone and iPod touch Web Browsers
14 Great Cheat Sheets & Posters to Make You a Software Wizard
(Source: AL Direct)
50 best things to eat
(Source: Lance Knobel)
NEW BOOKS
Received September 12 - September 18, 2009
No new books received this week.
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
|
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Active Motion and Swarming |
Erdmann, U., et al, editors |
(EDP Sciences; Societa Italiana di Fisica; Springer, 2008) |
(European Physical Journal Special Topics; v.157) |
QC 133 .A37 2008 |
Requested by H. Berg |
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