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Library News & Notes —
December 12, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Addictionary
http://www.addictionary.org
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Apple Computer: The (Very) Early Years
http://computershopper.com/feature/Shortened url
(Source: Slashdot)

Attention Must Be Paid
http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/11/26/mclemee
(Source: SciTechDaily)

Battling Information Overload in the Information Age
http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud120108-goldsborough.shtml

Best Novels of 2008
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/12/02/best-novels-of-2008/
See also: Best Nonfiction of 2008
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/12/01/best-nonfiction-books-of-2008/
The Best Business Books of 2008
http://www.fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/books-2008.html
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Better Learning with Sites and Sound
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/03/audio

Can you ditch Google for a metasearch engine?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10114454-2.htmlShortened url
(Source: Library Stuff)
See also:The future of search: Do you ask Google or the gaggle?
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/12/10/Shortened url

College Radio Maintains Its Mojo
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/arts/television/Shortened url
(Source: Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Content and Its Discontents
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/magazine/07wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
(Source: Open Access News)

Do We Overrate Basic Research?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30ping.html

Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/technology/internet/01facebook.html
See also: Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy
http://works.bepress.com/james_grimmelmann/20/
(Source: Boing Boing)
See also:Facebook...beware the scams and viruses
http://slaconnections.typepad.com/info_center_blog/Shortened url

FBI Compiles List of Most-Coveted Library Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/Shortened url
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Financial Crisis Causing Students to Drop Out
http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2008/12/Shortened url

Fuel Economy Guide 2009
http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=5640
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Google Book Search Bibliography
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
(Source: Libadmin)

Google SearchWiki - A Beginner's Guide
http://websearch.about.com/od/focusongoogle/ss/googsearchwiki.htm
See also: Google Introduces SearchWiki, But Does It Have a Downside?
http://webtrends.about.com/b/2008/11/21/Shortened url

Google vs. the libraries
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/12/02/google_vs_the_libraries/
(Source: Harvard in the News)

Google's gatekeepers
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/30/technology/google01.php
(Source: beSpacific)

Key to Research Success: Asking the Right Questions
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/3374
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Linking Up With LinkedIn
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=51756

Matrix helps students weigh internet research
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=56296
(Source: ResourceShelf)

myExperiment
http://www.myexperiment.org
(Source: Christina's LIS Rant)

MyHealthCareOptions
http://hcqcc.hcf.state.ma.us
(Source: iHealthBeat)

New 'Learning Commons' defies commonplace
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2008/12/08/Shortened url
(Source: Library Stuff)

Newegg
http://www.newegg.com
See also: eCOST
http://www.ecost.com
(Source: Andrew Pacilli)

Obama Transition Web Document Describes Science, Technology, STEM Education Agenda
http://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/115.html

Oh, grow up "Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream"
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12566826
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
(Source: Slashdot)

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
http://www.thepublicdomain.org
(Source: Boing Boing)

Salon's 2008 Gift Guide
http://www.salon.com/gift_guide/2008/2008/11/28/gift_intro/index.html
See also: Holiday Tech Guide
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/Shortened url
See also: Holiday Gift Guide
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/Shortened url

The Science & Entertainment Exchange
http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/index.html
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11192008

SciFeeds
http://www.scifeeds.com
(Source: Internet Resources Newsletter)

Search and find magazines on Google Book Search
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html
(Source: beSpacific)
See also: How to find out how many issues of a magazine Google has in Google Book Search
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2008/12/Shortened url

The Seed State of Science 2008
http://seedmagazine.com/stateofscience/index.html
(Source: SciTechDaily)

SeerSuite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeerSuite
http://citeseerx.sourceforge.net
(Source: American Scientist Forum)

Shopping.com "Never Miss a Sale Again!Get Alerts When Price Drops"
http://shoppingnotes.com
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

Solar Devices To Power Wireless Access in Square
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525889

Tag That Image: Visual Bookmarking Sites Worth Browsing
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/Shortened url

Ten ways to save the world
http://www.newscientist.com/article/Shortened url

Web 2.0? Or Is It More Like Web 16.0?
http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=59931&source=newsletter

What Don't We Know About The Bailout?
http://www.openthegovernment.org/article/articleview/342/1/115/?TopicID=
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Who is listening? What do they hear?
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/Shortened url

Young Librarians, Talkin' 'Bout Their Generation
http://chronicle.com/multimedia/
(Source: Reference Notes)

You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html?_r=1

7 Things You Should Know About Zotero
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/Shortened url
(Source: ResourceShelf)

The 10 Most Influential People in Science
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/26-the-10-most-influential-people-in-science
(Source: Open Access News)

10 Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Presentations
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/Shortened url
(Source: Library Web)

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools
http://crazeegeekchick.com/blog/27-free-must-have-online-collaboration-tools/
(Source: Library Web)

 

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Received November 29 - December 12, 2008