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Library News & Notes
September 24, 2004


Notes

Congratulations and best wishes to Jason and Marianne on the occasion of their wedding.

Internet Sites of the Week

Boston Common
A feature of Boston Online, Boston Common aggregates content from a variety of Boston-area weblogs and news sources. A dozen categories such as dining and technology are offered.
(Suggested by a query from Breton Veach)
http://www.boston-online.com/common/

Chemistry of Autumn Colors
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/fallcolr/fallcolr.html
(Source: Librarian's Index to the Internet)

Coolgov
Coolgov is a blog of interesting documents discovered on government websites (not to be confused with Docuticker, from last week's LN&N.) I like “Explaining BBQ to the World.”
(Source: Boing Boing)
http://coolgov.com/index.php

Hurricane Ivan Impact Studies
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ivan/photos/index.html
The USGS hosts a page of aerial photographs showing the Gulf coast before and after the hurricane.
(Source: Daypop)
See also NOAA's page of aerial hurricane photographs:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2320.htm
(Source: The Resource Shelf)

Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services
Gerry McKiernan gives an overview of useful things libraries are doing with RSS, including news and journal content. A certain library known to many of you is mentioned.
http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm
(Source: beSpacific)

The 2004 TR 100
Technology Review posts its annual listing of 100 wunderkinds (under 35 at least) in computing, nanotechnology and biotechnology.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/tr100_1004.asp?trk=nl


NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS

Received September 18 - 24, 2004

Title Author/Editor (Publisher, Year) To be Shelved at: Requested by

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