Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
December 18, 2009
Note: this is the last LNN for the calendar year. The next issue will be posted on January 8, 2010. Happy Holidays to one and all.
Quotes of the Week
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ―Martin Luther King Jr.
(Source: Real Simple)
“Libraries: Unlike banks, we are still lending” – unknown
(Source: oodja)
Books/eBooks
Easy and Inexpensive Mechanics of Creating Your First E-book
How to Destroy the Book
(Source: The Shifted Librarian)
Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Open Content Alliance (OCA) vs. Google Books: OCA as superior network and better fit for an emerging global public sphere
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
See also: Libraries Ask For Oversight Of Google Books Product
(Source: Bernie Sloan)
Preserving business models
(Source: Joseph J. Esposito)
Random House unveils book-excerpt sharing on Facebook
(Source: Library Web)
Women’s 2009 Books Enjoyed a Banner Year
See also: 8 Awesome Books By Women: An ’00s Virtual Bookshelf
Computers and Internet
Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac
Deep Web Research 2010
(Source: beSpacific)
A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
(Source: Michael T. Peper)
Google Collaborates with D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search
How to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive
How to stream your next event live for free in 4 easy steps
(Source: The Shifted Librarian)
If web services were vintage paperbacks
Send Large Files Of Any Size: Guide To The Best Tools And Services To Transfer Large Files
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)
Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for
(Source: Hacker News)
See also: Why We Don’t Care About Information Overload
(Source: MLx)
TeuxDeux: a simple online to-do list manager
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
The Top 10 Gadgets of Decade; Will the Data These Devices Hold Be Accessible in Another 10 Years?
Wave Federation: Building An Open Network
YouTube unveils most-watched, most-searched list for 2009
100+ Sites to Download Everything Online
(Source: Lone Wolf Librarian)
Education
Have the learners leapfrogged the teachers?
(Source: Library Web)
How to Prepare Your College for an Uncertain Digital Future
The Purposes of Learning Technology
Ten Steps to Successful Teaching
(Source: Hacker News)
Libraries and Archives
The All-Digital Library? Not Quite Yet
The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
A Collaborative Learning Experiment: Top Ten Customer Service Skills for Library Staff
Cornell University Library Partners with the Internet Archive
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Daguerreotypes at Harvard
(Source: Jan Merrill-Oldham)
E-Books in the Sciences: If We Buy It Will They Use It
Electronic Scientific Data & Literature Aggregation: A Review for Librarians
How to Read Scientific Research Articles: A Hands-On Classroom Exercise
Librarians: The Secret to Narrative History
Rebecca says “librarians helped make my book possible to write” and “librarians rock!”
(Source: BoraZ)
Managing free and open access electronic resources
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Of Moore and Magic
(Source: Librarian of Fortune)
Provost Addresses Library Changes
Question: What’s the biggest dead-end you ever hit in your research where you suddenly, unexpectedly found a way forward?
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Resource of the Week: A Freebie for Info Pros from ebrary
Search engine use behavior of students and faculty: User perceptions and implications for future research
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Text Message Reference: Is It Effective?
(Source: Library Web)
Widening your Nets, Decentralizing your Web Services
Life, Family, Work and Money
Alphabet Updated With 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters
Ditch the Resume; Make a Chart Instead
The Encyclopedia of Counterintuitive Thought
(Source: The 99 Percent)
How Remarkable Women Lead
(Source: HarvardNews)
How to measure product/market fit
(Source: Hacker News)
Job Hunting During the Holidays
A Long, Elaborate History Of Time
(Source: Randy Reichardt
)
Managing to Learn: The Discussion
Online Privacy and Reputation in Job Hunting
Performance Reviews that Energize
That Hobby Looks Like a Lot of Work
Underrated career skill: Asking questions
What Would a Fashionable Academic Wear to a Job Interview?
(Source: Fashionable Academics)
5 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More
(Source: Girlie Girl Army)
Scholarly Publishing
Author Identification Systems
See also: Credit where credit is due
Citemine: preparations for the publish:filter revolution have begun
Dramatic Growth of Open Access
How do I feel about open-access journals? The president wants to know
(Source: BoraZ)
Open Access Encyclopedias
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Open Their Eyes: How the Open Access Movement has Changed the Scholarly Publishing World for Academics
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Scholars Seek Better Metrics for Assessing Research Productivity
See also: Another idea from the scholarly evaluation metrics workshop
Should Editors Influence Journal Impact Factors?
(Source: Joseph J. Esposito)
Snappy answers to stupid questions: an evidence-based framework for responding to peer-review feedback
(Source: laikas)
Sustaining On-line Research Resources
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Timeline of a scientific article
(Source: BoraZ)
Science and Technology
Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved
(Source: Liz Bryson)
Apollo: Reflections and Lessons
Atomic spins measure ultracold temperatures
The best books of 2009
New Scientist weighs in
A Christmas Reading List
(Source: Boing Boing)
Creating Citizen Scientists
(Source: Science in the News)
Did You Hear the One About the Former Scientist?
Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite
New NIH forms raise concerns
(Source: Science in the News)
Rain or Shine? Computer Models How Brain Cells Reach a Decision
Science-themed cookies for all your holiday baking needs
Scientists Crack ‘Entire Genetic Code’ of Cancer
(Source: Science in the News)
Slowed light breaks record
Lene Hau‘s latest breakthrough
Strange Physical Theory Proved After Nearly 40 Years
stemming.org
“growing the community of girls and women in science, technology and mathematics”
(Source: Under The Microscope)
Top 9 organizations women in science should consider joining
Social Networking
Complete History of Social Networking
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Conference Information: Managing Before, During and After
Facebook Suggests You Lie, Break Its Own Terms Of Service To Keep Your Privacy
A futurist’s view of the “next big thing” in social media
Six scientific steps to social media success
Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Twitter Is a Boon, But with a Catch
(Source: NAE Spotlight on Engineering, Technology, and Policy)
9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media
(Source: CyberlandGal)