Rowland Institute at Harvard
\nLibrary News & Notes
\nOctober 2, 2009<\/p>\n
Note: Author Lisa Moricoli-Latham<\/a> (Harvard ’86) suggested that this weekly list be organized topically. While I’m partial to the element of surprise, it seemed worth a try. Thanks, Lisa.<\/p>\n Internet Sites of the Week<\/p>\n Books\/E-Books<\/strong> Compare and Contrast eBook Readers with the e-Book-Reader-Guide<\/a> Emergence of new business models<\/a> In-Depth Reviews of Four Scholarly e-Book Services<\/a> My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over<\/a> The Next Gen E-Book Reader<\/p>\n <\/a> Computers and Internet<\/strong> EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing<\/a> Internet Speeds Are Often Slower Than What Consumers Pay For, FCC Finds Interview With Stefan Weitz – Putting the Bling Into Bing New IRS Scam E-mail Could Be Costly<\/a><\/p>\n A New Search Engine for Finding Similar Web Sites<\/a> Top 10 Underhyped Webapps<\/a> Three ways to save some cash and repair or upgrade your iPod<\/a><\/p>\n Wanted: Home Computers to Join in Research on Artificial Life<\/a> Wikipedia alternatives: nine other ‘pedias’<\/a> Education<\/strong> HarvardNews<\/a> Mentoring, Texas-Style<\/a><\/p>\n MIT Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree<\/a> Google<\/strong> Google Scholar\u2019s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems<\/a> Google Wave Protocols: Clearing the Confusion<\/a> History Libraries<\/strong> Bars on books jar Harvard students<\/a> The information society: does it need the information professions?<\/a> Margaret Hodge plans home delivery system to rival Amazon<\/a> New scheme makes ‘every library a local library’<\/a> What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization<\/a> 10 Tips to Becoming an Effective Library Patron<\/a> Life, Work, Money, and Family<\/strong> Are you E-gnoring me?<\/a><\/p>\n Asking the better question<\/a> The Best Approach for Avoiding Zombies Boston ranks as 9th-largest economy in U.S. The Death of Multitasking and Rebirth of Unitasking<\/a> Every Person in New York<\/a> How to Beat Information Overload<\/a> How to Work a Conference Looking beyond loans: Where to find financing now<\/a><\/p>\n Number of Top Rated Businesses for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Workers Jumps Despite Tough Economy<\/a><\/p>\n Older Workers: Employment and Retirement Trends<\/a> Recognizing red flags: Signs of workplace stress<\/a><\/p>\n Religious life won’t be the same after downturn Run a Remote Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n Thinking Literally<\/a> Understanding the Anxious Mind<\/a><\/p>\n The Upside of Recessions<\/a> Vacation v. Stress<\/a> 40 Books About Sexuality That You Have to Read<\/a><\/p>\n Scholarly Publishing<\/strong> Data producers deserve citation credit<\/a><\/p>\n Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy<\/a> Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library<\/a> Science<\/strong> A Different Sort of Stimulus Plan at the NSF<\/a><\/p>\n Elsevier Unveils New Grant-Finding Service<\/a><\/p>\n Researchers unravel brain’s wiring to understand memory<\/a><\/p>\n Science Education<\/a><\/p>\n Social tagging in the life sciences: characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics Stay focused<\/a> Why We Really Want to Go Back to the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n Winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel Awards<\/a><\/p>\n Social Networks<\/strong> Court order served over Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook: The New Classroom Commons?<\/a><\/p>\n Man’s Facebook Status Given Book Deal<\/a> My boss fired me, then ‘friended’ me<\/a><\/p>\n Social networks, blogs grab bigger share of Web<\/a><\/p>\n 5 apps get you tweeting from the desktop<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far): An Introduction<\/a>
\n(Source: About Contemporary Literature)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: ResourceShelf)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Thomas, EUI, Florence)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: ResourceShelf)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Randy Reichardt)<\/p>\n
\nWhy the Digital Revolution is Missing the Big Picture<\/a>
\n(Source: ResourceShelf)<\/p>\n
\nCloud computing and the big rethink: Part 1<\/a>
\nSee also: Cloud Computing: A collection of working papers<\/a>
\n(Source: DocuTicker)
\nSee also: Mist computing, even more carefree than the cloud
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\n(Source: jdysart)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Lisa Carlucci)<\/p>\n
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\nSee also: Even More Services To Help Discover Similar Web Sites<\/a>
\n(Source: Om Malik)<\/p>\n
\nTen Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action<\/a>
\n(Source: Robert Scoble)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Science in the News)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Matthew Fraser)<\/p>\n
\nGet it out in the open<\/a>
\n(Source: libram)<\/p>\n
\n“All Harvard feeds, all the time”
\n(Source: Harvard)
\nSee also: Should You Give to Harvard?<\/a>
\n(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
\nSee also: The ‘Veritas’ About Harvard<\/a>
\nSee also: Undervaluing Undergraduate Education?<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardNews)
\nSee also: Budget Plans Proceed Slowly<\/a><\/p>\n
\n(Source: Matthew Fraser)<\/p>\n
\nJudge Adjourns Hearing on Settlement of Google Book Search Dispute<\/a>
\nSee also: The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing and What Are They Saying?<\/a>
\n(Source: ALA TechSource)
\nSee also: My book is mine, not Google’s<\/a>
\nSee also: Save the Google Book Search Deal!<\/a><\/p>\n
\n(Source: ResourceShelf)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: glambert)<\/p>\n
\nAfrican Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts<\/a>
\n(Source: The Scout Report)<\/p>\n
\nAfter Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software<\/a>
\nSee also: The Library-Catalog Wars: ‘Chronicle’ Readers Weigh In
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\n(interesting comments section)
\n(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Erika McNeil)<\/p>\n
\n“All libraries in UK are now public”
\n(Source: Erika McNeil)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: LISNews)<\/p>\n
\nAmerican Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins<\/a>
\n(Source: Bibliosoph)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: The 99 Percent)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: NikKArlil)
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\n(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: ResourceShelf)<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/ibfjm<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Newswise)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Science in the News)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Nature News)<\/p>\n
\nCompact for Open-Access Publishing Equity: Mistaking intent for action?<\/a>
\n(Source: Stevan Harnad)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n
\nA brief guide to DNA sequencing<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n(Source: dullhunk)<\/p>\n
\nAvailable All The Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age<\/a>
\n(Sources: Shirl Kennedy, Matthew Fraser)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Rebecca Skloot)<\/p>\n