Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
January 22, 2010
This is the final issue of Library News & Notes. I am grateful to have served as librarian in the Rowland Institute these past twelve years. The science keeps getting better and better. Thank you.
Quotes of the week
There is no way unless you’re dead, and even then there is still a question, that you’re not going to offend somebody. There’s always someone that’s going to get offended over something that somebody does. -Frank Zappa
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you got to spill the news … – Sonic Youth “Winner’s Blues”
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/eBooks
E-books bibliography
(Source: Anna Akerberg)
E-readers: the compatibility conundrum
How Copyright has Banished Millions of Books to History’s Scrapheap
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
The Writing on the Wall for Independents
Computers and Internet
Doing Real Time Search? Watch Your Word Order
Five for Friday (Five4Five) #1: A Casual Roundup of the Best Online Research Tools
(Source: Roy Kenagy)
How is the Internet changing the way you think?
(Source: bibliothekarin)
Logan airport planning free wi-fi rollout
See also: Passive Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots
(Source: A Cup of Jo)
PDFmyURL Generates PDFs from Any Web Address
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
ShowMeWhat’sWrong
for remote PC troubleshooting
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)
Thoughts on To-Do Lists & Personal Information Management (PIM)
Tweaking an old router to extend a wireless network
5 Google Wave Search Tips for Research, Trends & Tracking
(Source: Pandia Search Engine News)
Libraries
Bite-Size Marketing
(Source: The ‘M’ Word – Marketing Libraries)
Bridging the Silos: Creating sustainable research infrastructure with implications for digital scholarship
(Source: Bill Mayer)
The Condition of U.S. Libraries: Trends, 1999-2009
(Source: beSpacific)
Cornell Library Proposes New Model to Keep arXiv Going
Discovering Primary Source Material
(Source: markemoran)
Finding American Treasures With The New Archivist
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The Full Spectrum Librarian
(Source: SonjaandLibrary)
Harvard Library Twitter feed
(Source: Gloria Korsman)
Library IPhone apps – a short list
Most Interesting Libraries of the World
(Source: bibliothekarin)
Science Online 2010: Scientists and librarians
Stop Freaking Out and Head to the Library!
Or, to quote @oodja, “1999 called. It wants its business model back.”
Why Libraries Exist
(Source: Christina Pikas)
yes, and…
(Source: sharon370)
See also: think in other categories
Scholarly Communication
LaTex Search Tool (beta)
Springer lit search w/LaTex strings
(Source: Robin Dasler)
Very quick note on things that are used but not cited
Science and Technology
The Back-Channel of Science
(Source: John Dupuis)
Blogs you should be reading
women in sci-tech
Gathering clouds and a sequencing storm
How Soon Was Now?
Polaroid
Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy
Powering the national labs as engines of discovery
The Promise and Peril of Big Data
(Source: The Scout Report)
Science and Engineering Indicators 2010
(Source: Docuticker)
A tale of two qubits: how quantum computers work
Time Crunch for Female Scientists: They Do More Housework Than Men
When science asks, what if
(Source: Science in the News)
Social Networks
Gary’s Social Media Count
(Source: Joseph Esposito)
How to Stop Boring Your Readers To Sleep
(Source: kbloemendaal)
7 Lessons for Better Networking with Social Media
(Sources: Library Web and Ellyssa Kroski)
That’s Life
Eight Tips for Maintaining Friendships
It Is Who You Know and Who Knows You
The Slow Issue
(Source: sustainable)
We’re taking Xavier home with us
Tags: Harvard libraries, Library News & Notes, Social networks
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