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Library News & Notes —
October 31, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

As print media decline, so does the amount of available information
http://www.iht.com/articles/(Shortened url)
(Source: beSpacific)

Author's Rights, Tout de Suite
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/(Shortened url)
(Source: Charles W. Bailey)

Bosses 'should embrace Facebook'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/(Shortened url)
(Source: Slashdot)

Campuses find going green can be tough
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/(Shortened url)

'Digital Dark Age' may doom some data
http://news.illinois.edu/news/(Shortened url)
(Source: Slashdot)

Diplodocs "Find your user manual, user guide, instruction
manual, or product manual instantly!"
http://safemanuals.com
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

E-Speech: The (Uncertain) Future of Free Expression
http://www.truthdig.com/report/(Shortened url)
(Source: Boing Boing)

Event Networking Etiquette: A Step-by-Step Plan for Working the Room
http://www.cio.com/special/(Shortened url)
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)

Google Now Indexes Scanned Documents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/(Shortened url)

Google, Publishers, and Authors Settle Huge Book-Scanning Lawsuit
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/(Shortened url)
See also: Harvard-Google Online Book Deal at Risk
http://www.thecrimson.com/(Shortened url)
See also: Still Searching
http://insidehighered.com/news/(Shortened url)
See also: Digital librarian criticizes Google's settlement with booksellers
http://www.mercurynews.com/(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

Jacking into the Brain:
Is the Brain the Ultimate Computer Interface?
http://www.sciam.com/article(Shortened url)
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

PALINET Launches Mass Digitization Collaborative
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/(Shortened url)


Picking Up the Pieces: 12 of the Best Resources
for Investors in Tough Times
http://www.investoreducation.org/(Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Soovle This site offers searching suggestions
and a choice of sites to search.
http://www.soovle.com
(Source: Phil Bradley's Weblog via Pandia Search World)

Supporting the "Scholarship" in E-Scholarship
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/(Shortened url)
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Tech initiative aims to protect privacy, free speech online
http://news.cnet.com/(Shortened url)


Top 10 Scariest Movies Ever
http://www.livescience.com/culture/(Shortened url)

The Tower and The Cloud
http://www.educause.edu/thetowerandthecloud/(Shortened url)
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

Unintended Consequences: Ten Years Under the DMCA
http://www.eff.org/files/DMCAUnintended10.pdf(Shortened url)
(Source: beSpacific)
See also: 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA
is the Law That Saved the Web
http://blog.wired.com/(Shortened url)
(Source: Slashdot)
See also: 10 Years of the DMCA
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1815(Shortened url)
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

A Universe of Books: Borges's 'Library of Babel'
http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-universe-of-books-borgess-library-of-babel/(Shortened url)
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)

Yotify
http://www.yotify.com
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

7 Fantastic Internet Hoaxes
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/(Shortened url)

15 Tools to Make Your PC a Multimedia Powerhouse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/(Shortened url)