Rowland Institute at Harvard
\nLibrary News & Notes
\nOctober 9, 2009<\/p>\n
Quote of the week: “I need to use my most important investigative tool: my library card.” – Detective Robert Goren, aka “Turtleman,” Law & Order Criminal Intent<\/p>\n
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Books\/eBooks<\/strong><\/p>\n Buy a Scholarly Book<\/a> Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included<\/a> How Apple Can Dominate the Education Market With the iTablet<\/a> On the Smell of Old Books<\/a><\/p>\n Reading Detectives<\/a> Robert Darnton: Reading, Now and Then<\/a> Will Books Be Napsterized?<\/a> Computers and Internet<\/strong><\/p>\n Blogger marks 10 year milestone<\/a><\/p>\n College technology ‘catching up’ with students<\/a> Everyday life, online: U.S. college students\u2019 use of the Internet<\/a> HotPrints Launches Totally Free Photo-Book Printing<\/a><\/p>\n How to Create & Broadcast a Podcast With Garageband<\/a> Is cloud computing the Hotel California of tech?<\/a> Mapping Languages in the United States and More Research Tools<\/a> New Computer Graphics Systems Give Reality a Convincing Makeover<\/a><\/p>\n Online Writing Tips: Interviewing for the Web 101<\/a><\/p>\n PBS and NPR Add to Trove of Free Online Lectures<\/a><\/p>\n Print Publishers May Create a \u201cHulu for Magazines”<\/a> Real-Time Search Engines Compared<\/a> Ruby on Rails workshop for women<\/a> Serendipity Of Search<\/a> Surgery<\/a> Trove of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online<\/a><\/p>\n Where’s My iPod Made? SourceMap Has the Answer<\/a> Why Blog?<\/a> A Windows to Help You Forget<\/a><\/p>\n 48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons to Touch Paintings<\/a><\/p>\n Ten biggest magazines closing in 2009<\/a> Cracks in the Future<\/a> Harvard buys Updike archive<\/a><\/p>\n Harvard, Resentment, Legacies, Class Size, Etc.<\/a><\/p>\n Leaner Times at Harvard: No Cookies<\/a> Thomas M. Menino: Harvard must build housing on Allston site<\/a><\/p>\n Google<\/strong><\/p>\n Advantage Google<\/a> An Army vs. Google Books<\/a> Google adds even more search options<\/a> Google Apps: A Long Road Ahead<\/a><\/p>\n Google Book & Internet Archive Tips<\/a> The Google Book Project- What Effect Will It Have On Your Library?<\/a> Google Claims to Be the Lone Defender of Orphans; not lone, not defender<\/a> Google Wave 101<\/a> A Library to Last Forever<\/a> November deadline for new Google Books deal<\/a><\/p>\n Health and Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n Adding Health Advice to Online Medical Records<\/a> An agenda for personalized medicine<\/a><\/p>\n Eldercare and aging: Online information for librarians and caregivers<\/a><\/p>\n Fall Allergies and How to Avoid Them<\/a> The Future of Healthcare Is Social<\/a> H1N1 Flu Self-Evaluation<\/a> ITdotHealth<\/a> Mind Body Stress Management Program for Parents of Behaviorally Challenging Children<\/a> Must-Read Health Blogs<\/a> NLM’s Pillbox, a new pill identification system<\/a> Power to the patients<\/a><\/p>\n Start-Ups Aim to Transform Visits to the Doctor<\/a> Law<\/strong><\/p>\n Cambridge cops: Public safety trumps transparency<\/a><\/p>\n Gov. seeks measures to close budget gap<\/a><\/p>\n Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n The Agent of Library Instruction<\/a> The blended librarian in the learning commons: New skills for the blended library<\/a><\/p>\n The college library in the 21st century: Reconfiguring space for learning and engagement<\/a><\/p>\n Decreasing budgets and increasing costs \u2013 working with faculty to mitigate the damage<\/a> The Dewey Dilemma<\/a> Discoverability .. a report that’s worth a look<\/a><\/p>\n Educate Don’t Alienate<\/a> How Personal Should a Library Be in Social Media?<\/a><\/p>\n How To Customize Your Library Facebook Page<\/a> Library Access to Scholarship<\/a> LJ’s Bubble Room blogger identifies 13 cultural shifts libraries can turn into opportunities to reach patrons<\/a> New Project Launched to Support Libraries’ Outreach to the Struggling Workforce<\/a> Our Evanescent Culture and the Awesome Duty of Librarians<\/a> Things That Keep Us Up At Night<\/a> Web 2.0: What Comes Next? Using This Knowledge And Preparing For The New Wave of Web Technology<\/a> Life, Work, Family and Money<\/strong><\/p>\n Are Your Best Female Employees a Flight Risk?<\/a> Changing Careers: 5 Steps to Moving Beyond Single Industry Experience<\/a> Credit Union Credit Cards – A Prudent Alternative<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook Activities Haunting Job Seekers <\/a> For Americans, Plastic Buys Less Abroad<\/a><\/p>\n The High Price of Being a Gay Couple<\/a> How to Stop Buying Clothes You Never Wear<\/a> In praise of verbal ‘turn signals’<\/a><\/p>\n One nagging thing you still don’t understand about yourself<\/a> Poll: More Americans plan to work past retirement age<\/a><\/p>\n Sunsets from around the world<\/a> Turn performance review into enlightened encounter<\/a><\/p>\n When Your Man (or Woman) Gets Laid Off<\/a> Wholesome Guide to Misbehaving<\/a><\/p>\n Work-Search Scams on the Rise in Recession<\/a> 13 Fantastic Female Personal Development Bloggers<\/a> 21 Secrets to Save on Travel<\/a> 40 inspirational speeches in two minutes<\/a> Scholarly Publishing <\/strong><\/p>\n Akawiki<\/a> Cross-linking between repositories<\/a> Few tips on conducting a literature review<\/a><\/p>\n Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice<\/a> Journal Cost-Effective Index for Legal Periodicals<\/a><\/p>\n Journal pricing in these hard times: are publishers listening?<\/a><\/p>\n nature.com OpenSearch<\/a> Open access bill stalls in Congress<\/a> Reviewers Prefer Positive Findings<\/a><\/p>\n Ten challenges for open-access journals<\/a> What’s the opposite of a phyrric victory? Lessons learned from an open access defeat<\/a> Where to publish your paper?<\/a> Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n An Artist’s Secrets? Projection and Photoluminescence<\/a> The Big Microbe Knit<\/a> An emotional response: Using computers to analyse sentiments Are you asleep? Exploring the mind’s twilight zone<\/a><\/p>\n Big Splash in Bug-Splatter Research<\/a><\/p>\n Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone<\/a> Communicating Science: Giving Talks<\/a> Data on Federal Research and Development Investments: A Pathway to Modernization<\/a><\/p>\n The eScience Revolution: Rensselaer Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms for Massive Scientific Collaboration<\/a> The Elements of Humanity: a Fascination with Science and Technology<\/a> Evolution of the Cell Phone<\/a> Failed takeoff leaves entrepreneurs with orphaned IP<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Robin Good)<\/p>\n
\nSee also: Study: Amazon and Google rule the cloud<\/a>
\nSee also: Forget Google and Amazon, the DoD Shows Off What a Real Cloud Platform Can Do<\/a>
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\nEducation (mostly Harvard)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n(Source: Diane Williams)<\/p>\n
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\nSee also: BusinessWeek Dives Deep Into Google’s Search Quality<\/a>
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\n(Source: Anna Laura Brown)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Eric Rumsey)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Robin Good)
\nSee also: What is Google Wave<\/a>
\nSee also: VIDEO: Google Wave Gets Explained<\/a>
\n(Source: Bibliosoph)
\nSee also: Could Google Wave Replace Course Management Systems?<\/a>
\n(Source: lapsedluddite)
\nSee also: Will Google’s Wave Replace E-Mail & Facebook?<\/a>
\n(Source: Andrew Spong)
\nSee also: The first google wave search you should do<\/a>
\n(Source: Tim O’Reilly)
\nSee also: The Point You\u2019re Missing About Google Wave<\/a>
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\nGoogle\u2019s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles<\/a>
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\n(Source: Harvard Medical School)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Gosia Stergios)
\nSee also: Emerging Consensus to Create a \u2018Health Internet\u2019 With Broad Consumer Engagement<\/a>
\nSee also: NHIN: the New Health Network?<\/a>
\nSee also: The Health Information Technology Platform Meeting<\/a>
\n(Source: ITdotHealth)<\/p>\n
\n(I recommend this – excellent teacher, great course materials, highly useful. GE)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Andrew Spong)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Information Wants to Be Free)
\nSee also: Who should teach library instruction?<\/a><\/p>\n
\n(Source: Bonnie Swoger)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Librarian in Black)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Digital Koans)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Library Journal)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: infoneer.net)<\/p>\n
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\nUgly battle has librarians in Oak Brook turning to Teamsters<\/a>
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\n(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Boing Boing)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Manisha Thakor)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: lifeisawesome)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)<\/p>\n
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\n“web 2.0 scholarly communication tool”
\n(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Sarah Shreeves)<\/p>\n
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\nhttp:\/\/snipr.com\/se989
\n(Source: Science in the News)<\/p>\n
\n(Source: brown2020)<\/p>\n
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\n(Source: Tim O’Reilly)<\/p>\n
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\nSee also: Survey: Bostonians value cell phones over sex
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