{"id":425,"date":"2009-10-30T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/?p=425"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:26","slug":"library-news-notes-103009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2009\/10\/30\/library-news-notes-103009\/","title":{"rendered":"Library News & Notes 10\/30\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rowland Institute at Harvard<\/a>
\nLibrary News & Notes
\nOctober 30, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quote of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The real point of honor is not to be always right. It is to dare to propose new ideas.” P.G. de Gennes<\/a>
\n(Source: materion<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

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

E-Books: Formats and Future<\/a>
\nSee also: The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet<\/a>
\n(Source: inkyelbows<\/a>)
\n<\/p>\n

Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing?<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Latest battle in book price wars<\/a><\/p>\n

A Look at the Vook<\/a><\/p>\n


\nMaking your bookshelves Google searchable<\/a>
\n(Source: Erika McNeil<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby<\/a><\/p>\n

Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks<\/a>
\n(Source: John Dupuis<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Serving Literature by the Tweet<\/a>
\n(Source: nytimesbooks<\/a>)
\n
\nWhy you probably should NOT buy an e-reader this year<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

The Apple Momentum<\/a>
\n(Source: Eric Rumsey<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Augmented Reality Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You<\/a>
\n(Source: John Reaves<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Become a PowerPoint Power User<\/a>
\n(Seen on Twitter: “Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”<\/p>\n

Celebrating 40 years of the net<\/a>
\n(Source: ScienceSoWhat<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Compile Software from Source Code<\/a><\/p>\n

Create an RSS Feed for any website<\/a>
\n(Source: Robin Good<\/a>)<\/p>\n

EFF opens the “Takedown Hall of Shame”<\/a><\/p>\n

Firefox 3.5.4 closes security holes<\/a><\/p>\n

Five Things You Should Know About Upgrading From XP to Windows 7<\/a>
\nSee also: Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7<\/a>
\nSee also: Lifehacker’s Complete Guide to Windows 7<\/a>
\n(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)<\/p>\n

Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years<\/a>
\n(Source: Sharon Hayes<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Helping Grandpa Get His Tech On<\/a>
\n(Source: Teri Vogel<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How to Carry Your Office on a Stick (USB Flash Drive)<\/a><\/p>\n

iPhone 3GS vs Droid: How Do They Really Stack Up?<\/a>
\n(Source: Om Malik<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Netbooks Are Only Part of The Solution<\/a><\/p>\n

The one where we invent the best search engine ever<\/a><\/p>\n

Time Travel with Augmented Reality<\/a>
\n(Source: twitt_AR<\/a>)<\/p>\n

When the Internet Over Reacts<\/a><\/p>\n

Why open clouds are more important than open phones<\/a><\/p>\n

5 Ways to Get Free Tech Advice Online<\/a>
\n(Source: Beyond the Black Stump<\/a><\/p>\n

Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allston shouldn\u2019t suffer on Harvard\u2019s account <\/a><\/p>\n


\nAre College E-Mail Addresses on the Way Out?<\/a><\/p>\n

Did Harvard Sell At the Bottom?<\/a>
\n(Source: Harvard in the News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Dreams of Better Schools<\/a>
\n
\nFaculty of Arts and Sciences Reports Unexpected Surplus<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardTweets)<\/p>\n

Hip Hop Law<\/a>
\n(Source: Peter Scott<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Inequality goes to college<\/a>
\n(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Is Your ‘Fiscal Crisis’ Real?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kids Are All Right<\/a> <\/p>\n

Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

New Law To Help University Finances<\/a><\/p>\n

On hiring<\/a><\/p>\n

Queer Student Groups Seek Unity<\/a><\/p>\n


\nSteady as She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline<\/a>
\n(Source: DocuTicker<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Google<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google Music Search goes live<\/a>
\n(Source: raduboncea<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Google Rolls Out New Custom Search Features, Including Wikipedia Integration<\/a>
\n(Source: Robin Good<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Google’s new Social Search surprisingly useful<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re Googled and the search results are zero, do you exist?<\/a><\/p>\n

New Google Maps GPS for smartphones spooks competitors<\/a><\/p>\n

Opinion: Proposed Google book settlement leaves libraries’ rights in question<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Untapped Potential of Google Earth<\/a><\/p>\n


\nWhy Google Should Fear the Social Web<\/a>
\n(Source: Om Malik<\/a>)<\/p>\n

11 years of Google squished into 2 minutes<\/a>
\n(Source: digicmb<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Halloween<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard Halloween Shopping, Uncovered<\/a><\/p>\n

Science activities for Halloween!<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 Halloween Movies<\/a><\/p>\n

Where do ghosts come from?<\/a><\/p>\n

12 Awesome Social Media Halloween Pumpkin Carvings<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardSocial<\/a>)<\/p>\n

25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted<\/a>
\n(Source: Tweed<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

Age and Aging<\/a><\/p>\n

Covering Health Issues<\/a>
\nFor journalists, but good general health information
\n(Source: Donna Cohen<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Forty Years’ War: A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHealth Care Might Be Ripe for Cloud Computing<\/a><\/p>\n

Medical Education Evaluated With Twitter <\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ<\/a>)<\/p>\n

OpenTable for Docs Expands to D.C., Other Cities<\/a><\/p>\n

Over 400 Hospitals use Social Media<\/a>
\n(Source: laikas<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Treating H1N1: the innovation behind the science<\/a>
\nSee also: A Song to Thwart the Flu<\/a><\/p>\n

A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey<\/a>
\n“Turning reseach into practice” – evidence-based medicine<\/p>\n

Visiting your doctor online is a virtual reality<\/a>
\n(Source: John Reaves<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

The Accessibility Parodox<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best of ResourceShelf <\/a>
\n(Source: Jane Dysart<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Columbia and Cornell Libraries Announce ‘Radical’ Partnership<\/a><\/p>\n

Do Law Schools Still Need Academic Law Librarians to Support Faculty Scholarship in This New Cash-Strapped Digital Age?<\/a><\/p>\n

Faculty Voices Library Unease<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Print a Document at the COD Library While Avoiding the Zombie Horde<\/a>
\n(Source: amndw2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How To Track Your Library’s Social Media Stats<\/a>
\n(Source: Xuemei<\/a>)<\/p>\n

IL2009: Information Overload is the Devil<\/a><\/p>\n

Library 101<\/a>
\n(Source: Erika McNeil<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Library 101 and Getting Deeply Local: videos<\/a><\/p>\n

Mass cuts state aid to libraries<\/a>
\n(Source: taxonomylady<\/a><\/p>\n

Micro Interactions, Conversations, & Customers: Sweet Tweet Strategies<\/a><\/p>\n

Moving Beyond Citation Analysis: How Surveys and Interviews Enhance, Enrich, and Expand Your Research Findings
\n<\/a>
\n(Source: ALA_ACRL<\/a>)<\/p>\n

My own personal \u201cChemistry Week\u201d<\/a>
\n(Source: Bonnie Swoger<\/a>)<\/p>\n

People Sleeping in Libraries<\/a>
\n(Source: srharris19<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Review Almost 5000 Tweets from Internet Librarian 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’?<\/a>
\n(Source: Sarah Kirby)<\/p>\n

those people you hate at the library<\/a><\/p>\n


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

Any Mini Mentoring Manifestoes Out There?<\/a>
\nSee also: Old Mentoring Model Replaced by Reciprocal Relationship<\/a>
\nSee also: Related articles<\/a>
\n(Source: thehrgoddess<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Asperger’s at work: Why I’m difficult in meetings<\/a>
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network<\/a>)
\n
\nClothing design, sales and swaps find a home online<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you keep postponing necessary change?<\/a>
\n(Source: thehrgoddess<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Don’t Forget To Use the Phone<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fashionable Academic <\/a>
\n(Source: modernscientist<\/a>)<\/p>\n

From Biologist to Life Coach<\/a><\/p>\n

Get Started Tips to Navigate Post-Recession, Pre-Recovery Flexible Downsizing <\/a>
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network<\/a>)<\/p>\n


\nGetting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting Started with Disruptive Business Design<\/a><\/p>\n

Group of Popular Girls Reduces Nation to Tears<\/a>
\n(Source: Chris Fike<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How to Stop “Mean Girls” in the Workplace<\/a>
\n(Source: MassWomen<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How to work a conference, even before it starts<\/a>
\n(Source: MassWomen<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Kierkegaard on the Couch<\/a>
\n(Source: Steve Silberman)
\n<\/a>
\nThe Massachusetts Economy – What’s Next?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Process<\/a>
\n(Source: Carol Phillips<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The “secret sauce” of networking<\/a>
\n(Source: thehrgoddess<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Shrinking business: Recession boosts demand for counseling, but cuts ability to pay<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Learning \u2013 Highlights<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardSocial<\/a>)<\/p>\n


\nSweet Deals in the Square<\/a><\/p>\n

Tame the Tween Texting Beast with a Great Parent\/Child Contract<\/a><\/p>\n

Toss Your Resume in the Trash and Tell Employers Your Story<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Unfair or Deceptive\u2019 Credit Card Practices Continue as Americans Wait for New Reforms to Take Effect<\/a><\/p>\n

Using Layoff News to Find Job Openings<\/a><\/p>\n

Will There Be Jobs For The Class Of 2010?<\/a>
\n(Source: Heather Huhman<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Women’s Rights in the Human Rights System: the Past, Present and Future<\/a>
\nSee also: Ending gender inequality in the developing world: the moral battle of the 21st century?<\/a>
\n(Source: New York Review of Books<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Work, unplugged: Connected to the office 24\/7? Break free from the digital leash<\/a>
\n(Source: Cali Williams Yost<\/a>)<\/p>\n

10 best jobs for college students<\/a>
\n(Source: Heather Huhman<\/a>)
\n
\n13 questions to test potential companies are a good fit for you <\/a>
\n(Source: Heather Huhman<\/a>)<\/p>\n

50 office-speak phrases you love to hate<\/a>
\n(Source: Gretchen Rubin<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

BU Digital Common<\/a>
\n(Source: Peter Scott<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The DeepDyve Initiative: Something Innovative This Way Comes in Sci\/Tech Publishing<\/a>
\n(Source: Andrew Spong<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Haiku for “The Spirit of Open Access”<\/a>
\n(Source: American Scientist Open Access Forum<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Medical Researchers Resort To File Sharing To Get Access To Journal Research<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Next-Gen Repository: Part II <\/a>
\n(Source: DigitalKoans<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Open Access \u2013 Harvard\u2019s success story with Robert Darnton<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

On Open Access<\/a>
\n(Source: Grace Baynes<\/a>)
\nSee also: What is the (Real) Cost of Open Access?<\/a>
\nSee also: Will Open Access inhibit innovation?<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Q&A Session With Five OA Publishers<\/a>
\n(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Right to Information Access<\/a>
\n(Source: Michael Furlough)<\/p>\n

Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles<\/a>
\n(Source: Digital Koans<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

Advancing the laser: SPIE honors breakthroughs, applications, possibilities<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

African Science Feels the Pinch<\/a><\/p>\n

Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School<\/a>
\nNew profile database, Catalyst, and Grant Central<\/p>\n

Bacteria power micro-ratchet<\/a>
\nRowland’s Howard Berg<\/a> is quoted.<\/p>\n

Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second<\/a><\/p>\n

Cellular secrets exposed in living color<\/a><\/p>\n

A Conversation with Nobel Women<\/a>
\nSee also: Winners of women-in-life-sciences award announced<\/a><\/p>\n

eCAT: Online electronic lab notebook for scientific research<\/a><\/p>\n

Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge<\/a><\/p>\n

Fewer Scientists, Not More, Says a New Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

A group of galaxies has been seen at a record distance from Earth<\/a><\/p>\n

Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world
\n<\/a>
\nInnovation More Critical Than Ever<\/a>
\nSee also: Outlooks and issues for the biotechnology sector<\/a><\/p>\n

Integrated Genome Browser software for distribution and exploration of genome-scale datasets<\/a><\/p>\n

The Laboratory at Harvard<\/a>
\n(Source: Harvard Gazette<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A Life Lived Backwards<\/a><\/p>\n

The many hats of science<\/a><\/p>\n

Nobels Prizes and Corporate Labs<\/a>
\n(Source: genomepop<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Open Laboratory 2009<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ<\/a>)
\n
\nPhysical scientists will apply laws of physics in cancer fight<\/a><\/p>\n

Returning to Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Science enters the age of Web 2.0<\/a>
\n(Source: dullhunk<\/a>)<\/p>\n

SEAS grad student wins award for fuel cell research
\n<\/a>
\n(Source: Linda Turner Stern<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Scientists are first to observe the global motions of an enzyme copying DNA<\/a><\/p>\n

Sensor to detect fear pheromone<\/a>
\n(Source: raduboncea<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Ten Simple Rules Collection<\/a><\/p>\n


\nUMass Boston Announces New “Science in a Changing World” Grad Program<\/a><\/p>\n

4000 Years of Women in Science<\/a>
\nSee also: Women in Science<\/a> (European Commission Research)
\n(Source: sciencegoddess<\/a>)<\/p>\n


\nWhy Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

Avoid twitter cluelessness<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardSocial<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Be Wrong<\/a>
\n(Source: careerdiva<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Brizzly makes Twitter a Breeze!<\/a>
\n(Source: iBraryGuy<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Coming together for those who have split<\/a>
\n(Source: Matthew Fraser<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Community Relations 2.0<\/a>
\n(Source: Sametz<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Crankster<\/a><\/p>\n

Dynamic Sharing<\/a><\/p>\n


\nDo We Really Need So Many Kinds of Social Media? <\/a>
\n(Source: glambert<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Gartner Says 80 Per Cent of Enterprise Collaboration Platforms Will Primarily Be Based on Web 2.0 Techniques by 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

God twitters creation<\/a>
\n(Source: laikas<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hacks hooked on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Historical Tweets<\/a>
\n(Source: raduboncea<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How a Solo Gained More than 600 Facebook Fans for His Fledgling Firm<\/a>
\n(Source: Kevin O’ Keefe<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How to control social media<\/a>
\n(Source: The Shifted Librarian<\/a>
\n)
\n
\nHow-To: Influence Influencers- Bloggers, Tweeters & Others<\/a>
\n(Source: Library Web<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hyping social media is a fad. Using social media is not<\/a>
\n(Source: John Dupuis<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Lawyers warn: Bosses who ‘friend’ are begging to be sued<\/a>
\n(Source: Law Librarian Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

New social network founded by HLS alum<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardSocial<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Next Wave in Social Media<\/a>
\n(Source: HarvardSocial<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Should You Be Tweeting?<\/a>
\nCell magazine interviews several tweeting scientists
\n(Source: girlscientist<\/a>)<\/p>\n

State of the Blogosphere 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Tweeting Back @ Harvard<\/a><\/p>\n

Tweetply – Track popular tweets with a lot of replies<\/a>
\n(Source: Sharon Hayes<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Twitter Lists You Should Follow<\/a>
\n(Source: raduboncea<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Twitter Users Most Followed by the Web 2.0 Summit Crowd<\/a>
\n(Source: refervescent<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What if Microsoft had invented Twitter?<\/a>
\n(Source: laikas<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What’s the social semantic web?<\/a>
\n(Source: EvidenceSoup<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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