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Library News & Notes —
October 10, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Asia trumping US on science R&D
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/(Shortened url)

Being smart about Web mail
http://news.cnet.com/r(Shortened url)

Big Brother Google: Don't drink and email
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/(Shortened url)

Cost to Drive
http://www.costtodrive.com
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

Developing a Research Plan
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/(Shortened url)

E-Science: Massive experiments, global networks
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/(Shortened url)

The Future of Reading - Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/(Shortened url)
(Sources: Library Web; j's scratchpad)

Government report: Data mining doesn't work well
http://news.cnet.com/8301(Shortened url)
(Source: Boing Boing)

I want to
http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/
(Source: Librarian of Fortune)

More Without Homes in City
http://www.thecrimson.com/(Shortened url)

The Read Menace
"Communist Library Threat"
http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/(Shortened url)

Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/(Shortened url)
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)

Virtual worlds carve out new path
http://news.bbc.co.uk/(Shortened url)

Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/(Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

 

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Received October 4 -10, 2008