{"id":467,"date":"2009-12-11T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/?p=467"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:25","slug":"library-news-notes-121109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2009\/12\/11\/library-news-notes-121109\/","title":{"rendered":"Library News & Notes 12\/11\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rowland Institute at Harvard<\/a>
\nLibrary News & Notes
\nDecember 10, 2009<\/p>\n

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

\u201cWhat a man hears he may doubt, what he sees he may possibly doubt, but what he does himself he cannot doubt.\u201d
\nSeaman Knapp, as quoted in Atul Gawande, Testing, Testing: The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?<\/a><\/p>\n

Rowland News<\/strong><\/p>\n

The upper surface of an Escherichia coli swarm is stationary<\/a>
\nA new paper from the Berg lab<\/a>, where they “deposited MgO smoke particles on the top surface of an E. coli swarm near its advancing edge, where cells move in a single layer, and then followed the motion of the particles by dark-field microscopy and the motion of the underlying cells by phase-contrast microscopy.”<\/p>\n

Apex Green Roofs – New England Eco-Roof Installation-The Rowland Institute at Harvard<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

The End of Book Publishing As We Know It<\/a>
\n(Source: inkyelbows<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Formula to detect an author\u2019s literary \u2018fingerprint\u2019<\/a>
\n(Source: bibliothekarin<\/a> via ResourceShelf<\/a>)<\/p>\n

inkmesh<\/a>
\n“Find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader and more!”
\n(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Is an e-book a book? <\/a>
\n(Source: bibliothekarin<\/a>)<\/p>\n


\nJeff Bezos on Kindle & e-Books<\/a>
\n(Source: Om Malik<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Ode to Books, or Why E-Book Readers Will Never Replace Them<\/a>
\n(Source: ResourceShelf<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Some Things I Like the Best and the Least About eBooks<\/a>
\n(Source: ResourceShelf<\/a>)<\/p>\n

10 strangest books in English<\/a>
\n(Source: Amanda McNeil<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

An App for Those With Airport Time to Kill<\/a><\/p>\n

Dreaming of EDU Apps<\/a><\/p>\n


\nFirefox note-taking add-ons are Web supersaver<\/a><\/p>\n

Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube<\/a>
\nSee also: Quiet Tube<\/a>
\nremoves comments and adds from YouTube videos
\n(Source: Technology Tidbits<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The future of WiFi: gigabit speeds and beyond<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany pays to fix Microsoft users’ computers<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Visual Search Coming To Android<\/a>
\n(Source: vroblespac<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Google, Washington Post and N.Y. Times create news tool<\/a><\/p>\n

Great expectation for cutting-edge tech firms<\/a><\/p>\n

How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top<\/a><\/p>\n

How Search Engines Cope With Real-Time Data<\/a><\/p>\n

How to be the world’s greatest ISP<\/a><\/p>\n

How to fit a pharmacist in your pocket<\/a><\/p>\n

Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite<\/a><\/p>\n

A periodic table of visualization methods<\/a>
\n(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse<\/a>)
\nSee also: Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization
\n<\/a>
\n(Source: aabibliographer<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Readability<\/a>
\n“Readability is a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids).”
\n(Source: Christina Pikas<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Ready for a Web OS?<\/a><\/p>\n

A review of the main reference management softwares<\/a>
\n(Source: tweeterpeter<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Stephen Wolfram: ‘I’m an information pack rat’<\/a><\/p>\n

The Top 10 Gadgets of the Decade; Will the Data These Devices Hold Be Accessible in Another 10 Years?<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies of 2009<\/a>
\n(Source: Xuemei<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Transfer VHS Tapes to DVD<\/a><\/p>\n

The Virtual Private Library and Deep Web<\/a><\/p>\n

What the Real-Time Web Can Deliver<\/a><\/p>\n

When Google Runs Your Life<\/a>
\n(Source: msauers<\/a>)
\nSee also: Search Me<\/a>
\n(Source: Jill Lagerstrom)
\nSee also: Google Magazine<\/a>
\n(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)<\/p>\n

When Real Time Is *Not* Fast Enough: The Intention Web<\/a>
\n(Source: Lone Wolf Librarian<\/a>)<\/p>\n

WhoCrashed Explains Why Your Windows PC Crashed<\/a>
\n(Source: Beyond the Black Stump<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Why Websites Are Lost (and How They\u2019re Sometimes Found)<\/a>
\n(Source: ResourceShelf<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

Faculty Calls For Library Funding <\/a>(Harvard Crimson)
\nSee also: Weiss to guide Library Implementation Work Group
\n<\/a>
\nThe Implications of Web 2.0 for Academic Libraries<\/a>
\n(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog<\/a>)
\nSee also: Social media adoption, policy & development<\/a>
\n(Source: shamsha<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Increasing Retention Rates in Minority Librarians Through Mentoring<\/a>
\n(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jumping onto the Bandwagon: New Librarians Navigating the Science\/Technology Librarianship<\/a>
\n(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Staffless \u201clibrary\u201d opens up in King County<\/a><\/p>\n

The USA PATRIOT Act and academic libraries: An overview<\/a>
\n(Source: twittbraries<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

Group Creativity<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hidden Business Cost of Mental Illness<\/a>
\n(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How to Never Be Late For Work or Anything Again<\/a>
\n(Source: Beyond the Black Stump<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How To Research A Legal Problem: A guide for non attorneys<\/a><\/p>\n

Internet resources on violence against women<\/a>
\n(Source: twittbraries<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The New Bootstrapping<\/a><\/p>\n

New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths<\/a><\/p>\n

Thoughts on the Future of Work<\/a><\/p>\n

Three Ways to Keep Your Ego in Check<\/a>
\n(Source: Matthew Fraser<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Tis the Season for Acceptance<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Digital Repositories : An investigation of best practices for content recruitment to academic digital repositories and the conditions for their livelihood<\/a>
\n(Source: DigitalKoans<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Does Reviewing Your Peers Create Better Results Than Peer-Review?<\/a>
\n(Source: Joseph J. Esposito<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201dFree\u201d Open Choice \u2013 beware of Greeks bearing gifts<\/a>
\n(Source: Ingegerd Rabow<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Google Campus Talks?<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Cite Twitter and Facebook<\/a>
\nSource: Amanda Clay)
\n<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHybrid OA journals: A progression or a destination?<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

International Standard Name Identifier<\/a>
\n(Source: Ahmed Hindawi)<\/p>\n

Missing Web References \u2014 A Case Study of Five Scholarly Journals<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Overcoming barriers: access to research information<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Scholarly Communications must be Mobile<\/a>
\n(Source: BoraZ<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What is the impact of discovery tools on researcher self-archiving behavior?<\/a>
\n(Source: Open Access Tracking Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

Bohr-Einstein Debates<\/a>
\n(Source: Ars Physica<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Calculating how to tell atoms where to send their photons<\/a><\/p>\n

Caltech Archives Presents “50 Years of ‘Plenty of Room'”<\/a>
\n(Source: Dana Roth)<\/p>\n

The Circular Logic of the Universe<\/a><\/p>\n

Funding science research as a sustained enterprise<\/a>
\nSee also: Science Matters: It pays to fund research<\/a>
\n(Sources: sciencegoddess<\/a>; Steve Silberman<\/a>)<\/p>\n

He Must Be Joking<\/a>
\n(Source: Catharine Zivkovic<\/a>)<\/p>\n

History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive<\/a>
\n(Source: ResourceShelf<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hubble peers deeper than ever into the universe<\/a><\/p>\n

Mental health issues for researchers<\/a><\/p>\n

More on proximity to industry \u2013 and similar ideas<\/a><\/p>\n

New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future<\/a>
\n(Source: Steve Silberman<\/a>)<\/p>\n

New Project Promotes Virtual Science Labs, Despite Skepticism<\/a><\/p>\n

Physics-Online.ru<\/a>
\nRussian physics network
\n(Source: Lev Malov)<\/p>\n


\nA scientist talks about requirements for social software for scientists<\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists Create World’s Smallest Snowman<\/a><\/p>\n

Should we talk about disciplines?<\/a><\/p>\n

What impact do posters have on academic knowledge transfer? A pilot survey on author attitudes and experiences
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Bother?<\/a>
\nACS has a social networking site<\/p>\n

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

the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks<\/a>
\n(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Facebook, Twitter and More: The New Rules of Social Networking<\/a>
\n(Source: Sharon Hayes<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Faux Friendship<\/a>
\nSee also: Social networking is not killing friendship<\/a><\/p>\n

HOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat<\/a>
\n(Source: AAUW<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Is Social Media Worth Your Time?<\/a>
\n(Source: nahumg<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Personal Learning Networks<\/a><\/p>\n

A Tale of Three Conferences<\/a>
\n(Source: Simon J. Bains<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter Really Works: Makes $6.5 Million in Sales for Dell<\/a> <\/p>\n

8 Tips For Managing a LinkedIn Group <\/a>
\n(Source: Robin Good<\/a>)<\/p>\n

10 Ways Bloggers Can Use Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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