{"id":406,"date":"2009-10-23T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/?p=406"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:26","slug":"library-news-notes-102309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2009\/10\/23\/library-news-notes-102309\/","title":{"rendered":"Library News & Notes 10\/23\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rowland Institute at Harvard
\nLibrary News & Notes
\nOctober 23, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet Sites of the Week
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books\/eBooks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Academic Libraries, Publishers, and Digital Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon, Wal-Mart battling over book pricing<\/a><\/p>\n

See also: Get more out of your Amazon shopping experience<\/a><\/p>\n

Are We on the Verge of an E-book Explosion?<\/a>
\n(Source: Erika McNeil)<\/p>\n

Brains, books, and the future of print<\/a>
\n(Source: Bohyun Kim)<\/p>\n

Building a Netflix for Books<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans)<\/p>\n

HathiTrust Launching Full-Text Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey, Google: Check out this ultra-fast book scanner<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans)
\nSee also: Do It Yourself Book Scanning<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n


\nHow e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars<\/a>
\n(Source: Amy Kearns)<\/p>\n

In some classrooms, books are a thing of the past<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n

Internet Archive’s BookServer could ‘dominate’ Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Barnes & Noble’s Nook a Kindle killer?<\/a>
\n(Source: Erika McNeil)
\nSee also: Barnes and Noble Nook gets a reception fit for a king<\/a><\/p>\n

The one with the publisher’s e-book strategy<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

Scans of Google Books with fingers in them<\/a><\/p>\n

What Is the Best Book Your Book Club Has Read?<\/a><\/p>\n

Why E-Books are Hot and Getting Hotter <\/a><\/p>\n

Why Google will Win Books Settlement & Why that’s a Good Thing<\/a>
\n(Source: Eric Rumsey)<\/p>\n

Computers and Internet<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell<\/a>
\n(Source: griffey)<\/p>\n

Best MP3 players for audiobooks<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

Bringing the Internet to the Wilderness<\/a><\/p>\n

Building a brain inside a supercomputer<\/a><\/p>\n

Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 5<\/a>
\nSee also: Legal Implications of Cloud Computing – Part Two (Privacy and the Cloud)<\/a>
\n(Source: beSpacific)<\/p>\n

Domain Name Theft and Where is the Literature?<\/a><\/p>\n

Funeral Webcasting Is Alive and Well<\/a><\/p>\n

The Future of Supercomputers is Optical<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHolyoke data center project targeted for 2011 completion<\/a><\/p>\n

How the Internet is Changing the Way We Will Watch TV<\/a><\/p>\n


\nIntel Explains How an Internet Addiction Can Offend Everyone This Holiday Season<\/a> <\/p>\n

Merging Video with Maps<\/a>
\n(Source: ResourceShelf)<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s Bing adds Twitter search (update: Google will too)<\/a>
\nSee also: Bing is bringing Twitter search to you<\/a>
\n(Source: Danny Sullivan)<\/p>\n

Migrate to Windows 7–Slowly<\/a>
\nSee also: Figure Out Which Windows 7 Edition Has the Features You Need<\/a>
\n(Source: lifehacker)
\nSee also: The Six “Wow” Features of Windows 7<\/a><\/p>\n

Missing Links: The Enduring Web<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

New Google Music Service Launch Imminent<\/a><\/p>\n

Newslink Founders Launch \u201cYouTube for business\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

No elder left behind: Researchers say designers can help close tech gap<\/a><\/p>\n

Online places to find public-domain multimedia<\/a>
\n
\nResearchers Find Way to Reduce Energy Used by Computer Processors<\/a><\/p>\n

Search User Interfaces<\/a>
\n(Source: beSpacific)<\/p>\n

Stinky Teddy “Real-Time Gossip Powered Search”<\/a>
\n(Source: msauers)<\/p>\n

Super-Sized Memory Could Fit Into Tiny Chips<\/a>
\n(Source: mullam)
\n
\nThis Just In: The Mobile Web Isn\u2019t the PC Web<\/a>
\n(Source: libraryfuture)<\/p>\n

We’re All Fact Checkers Now<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s Next In Augmented Reality? <\/a>
\n(Source: twitt_AR)<\/p>\n

Wolfram Alpha’s Second Act<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?<\/a><\/p>\n

Win An Internet Flame War<\/a><\/p>\n

The World Wide Web project<\/a>
\n(Source: thenextwomen)<\/p>\n

5 Web Office Considerations: Beyond the Buzz<\/a><\/p>\n


\nEducation<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Brief History of Black Education in America<\/a><\/p>\n

But I Don’t Want to Teach My Students How to Use Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare<\/a>
\n(Source: Paul T. Jackson)<\/p>\n

Colleges with the Highest Total Student Cost<\/a>
\n“Harvard is practically a bargain”
\n(Source: HVClub)<\/p>\n


\nFacebook Apps for Education<\/a><\/p>\n

Finances Put HMS Programs On Hold<\/a><\/p>\n

Harvard Alumni Seek Disclosure of Bonus Retractions<\/a>
\n(Source: Harvard in the News)<\/p>\n


\nHarvard president: school adjusting to tight times<\/a>
\nSee also: Harvard may alter some expansion plans<\/a>
\nSee also: Harvard’s Annual Financial Report Fully Details 2009 Losses<\/a> <\/p>\n

Higher Education Is Increasingly Class Stratified<\/a>
\n(Source: blendedlib)<\/p>\n

How Good Is Windows 7 for Colleges?<\/a><\/p>\n

In Hard Times, It Pays to Increase Benefits, Colleges Are Advised<\/a><\/p>\n

Literally Doomed<\/a>
\n(Source: Condensed Concepts)<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s Vision for Higher Ed and Lecture Capture<\/a><\/p>\n

Mostly bad news for educational fair use<\/a><\/p>\n

Online Education’s Great Unknowns<\/a><\/p>\n

Remotely There<\/a><\/p>\n


\nScreen Reading and Print Reading<\/a><\/p>\n

SEAS Dean Charts Course<\/a><\/p>\n

tinkering schools for kids and adults<\/a><\/p>\n

University Sues Student Blogger<\/a><\/p>\n

The Writing Center at Harvard University<\/a>
\n(Source: The Scout Report)<\/p>\n

25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009<\/a>
\n(Source: Xuemei)<\/p>\n

Health and Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brigham and Women’s names new president<\/a><\/p>\n

Comparative Effectiveness Research About to Hit Prime Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing<\/a><\/p>\n

Electronic records, boosted by stimulus, rush hospitals into unchartered territory<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHow to use Google Wave in Healthcare<\/a>
\n(Source: laikas)<\/p>\n

How will medicine and its regulation adapt to the information age?<\/a>
\n(Source: Rebecca Skloot)<\/p>\n

More Hospitals Are Using Video to Connect Patients With Specialists Far Away, Speeding Treatment<\/a>
\n(Source: Diane Williams)<\/p>\n


\nReflections on the Current H1N1 Flu<\/a><\/p>\n

Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blogging: An opportunity for librarians to communicate, participate and collaborate on a global scale<\/a>
\nSee also: Libraries Blog Survey<\/a>
\n(Source: joeyanne)
\nSee also: Defining blogs and blogging<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ)<\/p>\n

Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated and Revised<\/a>
\n(Source: beSpacific)
\n
\nCory Doctorow at Internet Librarian International 2009<\/a>
\n(Source: Cory Doctorow)<\/p>\n

Does the chance of finding a job increase or decrease depending on where you get your degree?<\/a><\/p>\n

Finding the Phoenix: Feathers, Flight & the Future of Libraries<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

GSLIScast – Audio Content from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n

How to Interpret PubMed Queries and Why It Matters<\/a><\/p>\n


\nInventing the Future of Librarianship<\/a>
\n(Source: libraryfuture)<\/p>\n

Libraries and Web 2.0<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n


\nLibraries to Enrich Lives in 12 U.S. Communities Through Expansion of Digital Access<\/a>
\n(Source: Bill Mayer)<\/p>\n

Library helps memoirists capture their experiences<\/a>
\n(Source: Sarah Kirby)<\/p>\n


\nMore Libraries and Librarians Get Creative on YouTube<\/a>
\n(Source: Xuemei)<\/p>\n


\nOpen Access Week: Profile of Sarah Shreeves<\/a>
\n(Source: Next Generation Science)<\/p>\n

Open, social and linked – what do current Web trends tell us about the future of digital libraries?<\/a>
\n(Source: aabibliographer)<\/p>\n

The Role of Libraries in Emerging Models of Scholarly Communication<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n

STELLA! Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action!<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ)<\/p>\n

Top 100 Jobs Where Librarians\/Information Professionals Can Help<\/a>
\n(Source: Eric Rumsey) <\/p>\n

Useful Twitter Searches<\/a>
\n(Source: Mary Ellen Bates)<\/p>\n

Using social media in libraries<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

What can libraries learn from retail?<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

What Libraries Should Know Before Creating a Facebook Page \u2013 Libraries & Facebook Update 2<\/a><\/p>\n


\nLife, Money, Work and Family<\/strong><\/p>\n

alice<\/a>
\ndeal finder, delivery service, budget helper, etc.
\n(Source: Daily Worth)<\/p>\n


\nCar-free getaways around NYC<\/a>
\n(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide)<\/p>\n

Child Care Resource Center <\/a>
\n(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)<\/p>\n

Conference Do\u2019s and Don\u2019t\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall Maintenance Tips for Your Home <\/a>
\n(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)<\/p>\n

Female Farmers<\/a>
\n(Source: modernscientist)<\/p>\n

Find quality recipes<\/a><\/p>\n

Forbes Entrepreneurial Stories of Women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s<\/a>
\n(Source: UKRC)<\/p>\n

Free meeting spaces crop up in Greater Boston<\/a><\/p>\n

How Can Young Women Develop a Leadership Style?<\/a>
\n(Source: MassWomen)<\/p>\n

How Skype Is Changing the Job Interview<\/a>
\n(Source: Maxine Clarke)<\/p>\n

How Smart Leaders Talk About Time<\/a>
\n(Source: The 99 Percent)<\/p>\n

How to Deliver Bad News to a Group <\/a><\/p>\n

How to Find Holiday Jobs<\/a>
\n(Source: MassWomen)<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a (blank), and I sometimes put my career before my family\u201d<\/a>
\n(Source: Manisha Thakor)<\/p>\n

The improvised life<\/a>
\n(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide)<\/p>\n

In connections, face to face still counts<\/a><\/p>\n

Job Searching on the Job<\/a><\/p>\n

Manhattan Street Corners<\/a>
\n(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide)<\/p>\n

Massachusetts lost 110,200 jobs during the past year<\/a>
\nMinimalist Travel: What’s in My Suitcase <\/a>
\n(Source: thegoodhuman)<\/p>\n

Personal Online Portfolios<\/a>
\n(Source: Tom Nielsen)<\/p>\n

Practice “Radical Financial Clarity”<\/a><\/p>\n

Report details extra problems women face in military careers<\/a>
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)<\/p>\n

The rise of the virtual workspace<\/a>
\n(Source: Matthew Fraser)<\/p>\n

Separate Yourself from Your Stuff<\/a>
\nSee also: What Our Stuff Says about Us<\/a>
\n(Source: ScienceSoWhat)<\/p>\n

Set the Employment Blender to ‘Liquify’ <\/a><\/p>\n

So You Want to Start a Startup? 5 Places to Start<\/a><\/p>\n

The State of the American Woman<\/a><\/p>\n

Stop the Clock<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking a closer look at women\u2019s networking<\/a><\/p>\n


\nTough Questions for Financial Planners<\/a>
\n(Source: Manisha Thakor)<\/p>\n

Tuesday at 3pm Is the Most Agreeable Meeting Time<\/a>
\n(Source: The 99 Percent)<\/p>\n

“A Woman’s Nation” Demands Workplace Flexibility<\/a>
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)<\/p>\n

Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents?<\/a><\/p>\n

Who’s in a Starring Role, Who’s in a Walk-On Role? All of Us<\/a>
\n(Source: Gretchen Rubin)<\/p>\n

Woot! 23 Million Employed by Women-Owned Businesses<\/a>
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)<\/p>\n

6 Ways To Look At Negative Feedback<\/a>
\n(Source: taxonomylady)<\/p>\n

10 TV Shows You Have to Watch to Understand the World<\/a><\/p>\n

14 Who-Knew? Uses for Your Microwave<\/a><\/p>\n


\n500 years of portraits of women in three minutes<\/a>
\n(Source: MassWomen)<\/p>\n

Scholarly Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assessing Open Access<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans)<\/p>\n

The Depot<\/a>
\nfor authors w\/out an institutional repository<\/p>\n

Institutional Repository Bibliography<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans)<\/p>\n


\nThe Next-Gen Repository: Part I <\/a>
\n(Source: Roy Tennant)<\/p>\n

Open Access and Vanity Publishing<\/a>
\n(Source: Joe Esposito)<\/p>\n

Open access: are publishers \u2018double dipping\u2019?<\/a>
\n(Source: dullhunk)<\/p>\n

Open Access Week: a researcher’s perspective<\/a>
\n(Source: BLugger)<\/p>\n

Open Access Week event at Harvard Law 10\/19\/09: Q & A<\/a><\/p>\n

Recommendations on RSS Feeds for Scholarly Publishers<\/a>
\n(Source: Maxine Clarke)<\/p>\n

Who Should Pay? Does Open Access Mean Free Access<\/a>
\n(Source: Eric Rumsey) <\/p>\n

Yale students call for OA<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ)<\/p>\n

10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents<\/a>
\n(Source: libram)<\/p>\n

Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMSER Science Reader Monthly<\/a>
\n(Source: The Scout Report)<\/p>\n

BBC Wildlife Finder<\/a>
\n(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)<\/p>\n


\nThe Best BlackBerry Accessories<\/a><\/p>\n

The Biology of Memory: A Forty-Year Perspective<\/a>
\n(Source: brown2020)<\/p>\n

BioSciEdNet<\/a>
\n(Source: The Scout Report)<\/p>\n

Electrons reveal DNA without destroying it<\/a><\/p>\n

FiO: Notes from the Crucible<\/a>
\n“On scientific research and academic conferences”
\n(Source: lsmarshall)<\/p>\n

Four locals among PopSci\u2019s \u2018Ten Young Geniuses\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n

From Web 2.0 to the Global Database<\/a>
\n(Source: Timo Hannay)<\/p>\n

Gender Schemas Affect Women in Science, Says Expert<\/a><\/p>\n

Going mobile<\/a>
\nscientists and mobile technology<\/p>\n

Gornick: “Things get better and better” <\/a><\/p>\n


\nGoWeb: a semantic search engine for the life science web<\/a><\/p>\n

The Growth of Citizen Science<\/a>
\n(Source: Jay Rosen)<\/p>\n

Helping to Unravel the Hidden Web of Neuroscience Information
\n<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n

How Bill Gates is turning the tables in favour of young researchers<\/a>
\n(Source: TimesScience)<\/p>\n

I’d like to teach the world to blog<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ)<\/p>\n

Increasing NIH funding means jobs and reputation for New England<\/a><\/p>\n

Innovation via genetic \u2018googling\u2019<\/a>
\n(Source: Nature)<\/p>\n

Intelligence Explained: Tracking & understanding complex connections within the brain<\/a>
\n(Source: brown2020)<\/p>\n

Medline\/PubMed revisited: new, semantic tools to explore the biomedical literature<\/a>
\n(Source: Laurel Graham)<\/p>\n

Memory and Brain Systems: 1969\u20132009<\/a><\/p>\n

Milestones in Light Microscopy<\/a><\/p>\n

NERM 09 session on Chemistry on the Web<\/a><\/p>\n

New Neurological Evidence That the Internet Makes People Smarter<\/a><\/p>\n

New works of science nonfiction<\/a><\/p>\n

Physicists are discovering ways to build rogue waves out of light<\/a>
\n(Source: lsmarshall)<\/p>\n

Questions, questions, questions<\/a><\/p>\n

Researchers Bring Avatars and People Together for Virtual Meetings in Physical Spaces<\/a><\/p>\n

Safety Song: musical number about lab safety<\/a><\/p>\n

Science Papers That Interest You<\/a>
\n(Source: library_zone)<\/p>\n

Scientists announce planet bounty<\/a>
\n(Source: sciencegoddess)<\/p>\n

Scientists get the measure of how weather shapes our body clocks<\/a>
\n(Source: ScienceSoWhat)<\/p>\n

Selected Internet Resources in Science and Technology (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)<\/a>
\n(Source: Xuemei)<\/p>\n

Seeds of collaboration<\/a><\/p>\n

Ten Technologies You Can’t Afford to Ignore<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n


\nTimewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension<\/a>
\nSee also: A head of time<\/a>
\n(Source: MITNews)<\/p>\n

Top 10 Boston tech community locales<\/a><\/p>\n


\nTV Moving Closer to Mobile Phones and the Web<\/a>
\n(Source: Bill Ives)
\nSee also: Digital TVs competing with PCs as media hubs
\n<\/a><\/p>\n


\nVolunteering Computers for Science<\/a>
\n(Source: Diane Williams)<\/p>\n

Why Women Drop Maths<\/a>
\n(Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted))
\nSee also: Math Geek Mom: Women in Science and Math<\/a><\/p>\n

Windfall warning<\/a>
\n(Source: bmahersciwriter)
\nSee also: The Science of Spending Stimulus Money Wisely <\/a>
\n(Source: Steve Silberman)
\nSee also: Stimulus funds provide research boost<\/a><\/p>\n

Work Group Sees Challenges in Electronic Exchange of Lab Data<\/a><\/p>\n

5 New Technologies That Will Change Everything<\/a>
\n(Source: twitt_AR)<\/p>\n

10 tips for techies: How to network effectively<\/a><\/p>\n

50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)<\/p>\n

Social Networks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Community is the new content<\/a><\/p>\n

Eight billion minutes spent on Facebook daily<\/a><\/p>\n

faceanimals<\/a>
\n“Faceanimals helps you connect and share with the animals in your life.”
\n(Source: Phil Bradley)<\/p>\n

Facebook for scientists gets millions in funding<\/a>
\nSee also: National Network of Scientists to Transform Biomedical Research<\/a>
\n(Source: krafft)
\nSee also: Scientists Still Not Joining Social Networks
\n<\/a>
\n(Source: modernscientist)<\/p>\n

Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face<\/a>
\n(Source: Matthew Fraser)<\/p>\n

Google Wave \u2013 first Meh, then Wow!<\/a>
\nSee also: What problems does Google Wave solve?
\n<\/a>
\n(Sources: oodja; Publish2NYT Technology)
\nSee also: Google Wave: Best New Tool or a Waste of Time?<\/a>
\n(Source: Roy Tennant)
\nSee also: Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication<\/a>
\n(Source: Gosia Stergios)<\/p>\n

Hoaxes Highlight Accountability Issues with Real-Time Web<\/a>
\nSee also: How to spot a hoax Twitter account \u2013 a case study<\/a>
\n(Source: careerdiva)<\/p>\n

How Local Businesses Can Benefit From Mobile Social Networks<\/a>
\n(Source: The Shifted Librarian)<\/p>\n

How to Extract Your Contacts from LinkedIn and Facebook<\/a>
\n(Source: hrouda)<\/p>\n

How to Market an Offline Event Online<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

How to use LinkedIn to find a job<\/a>
\n(Source: Robin Good)<\/p>\n

Linden Lab CEO on Second Life’s growth, future<\/a>
\n(Source: HBSmktg)<\/p>\n

Microblogging v. Blogging: Complimentary or mutually exclusive?<\/a><\/p>\n

New Network for Chinese Researchers<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook<\/a>
\n(Source: Howard Rheingold)<\/p>\n


\nSneak peek at Strings: A social tracker with a twist<\/a><\/p>\n

Social media strategy: How I Became an Expert in Three Days<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Network Use in the Office Could Spur Better Enterprise Technology<\/a><\/p>\n


\nTech Addictions: Email and Texting Top Social Media in Gen Y [Study]<\/a><\/p>\n

The Three Faces of Social Media<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web)<\/p>\n

Three Tweets for the Web<\/a>
\n(Sources: Timo Hannay; Library Web)<\/p>\n

Top 5 Twitter Trends to Watch Right Now: Twitter’s future looking brighter<\/a>
\n(Source: BrianLibrarian)<\/p>\n

Twitter and Status Updates<\/a>
\n(Source: beSpacific)<\/p>\n

The Twitter Book<\/a>
\n(Source: Diane Williams)<\/p>\n

Video makers find audience on YouTube<\/a>
\n(Source: mekeiser)
\nSee also: We Watch More YouTube Videos than We Conduct Google Searches<\/a>
\n(Source: Pandia Search World)<\/p>\n


\nWhen Twitter Trumps E-mail <\/a>
\n(Source: friendsofdave)<\/p>\n

You Facebook, you tweet \u2013 now lifelog<\/a><\/p>\n


\nYou\u2019re Probably on a Bunch of Twitter Lists and Don\u2019t Even Know it<\/a>
\n(Source: hrouda)
\nSee also: Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ)<\/p>\n

Writing
\n<\/strong>
\nBuilding an Internet Presence to Enhance Your Author Platform
\n<\/a>
\n(Source: inkyelbows)<\/p>\n


\nEscaping From the Garden of Meaning Over the Wall<\/a>
\n(Source: Condensed Concepts)<\/p>\n

Essential plot twists for writers<\/a><\/p>\n

A Writing Revolution<\/a>
\n(Source: Lisa Spiro)<\/p>\n

NEW BOOKS<\/strong>
\nReceived October 17-23, 2009<\/p>\n

No new books received this week.<\/p>\n

These books will be displayed on the new books cart (near the newspaper and journals tables) for approximately one week. The person who requested the book has priority for checking it out during the first week.<\/p>\n

Earlier editions of Library News and Notes are available<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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