Rowland Institute Library Blog

The National Academies announced election of 72 new members and 18
foreign associates on Tuesday.  (Source: Chronicle of Higher
Education Daily Update)  Some familiar names include Philip
Bucksbaum of Michigan (cold atoms;) Nancy Hopkins (biology/MIT, who
also urged MIT to see its discrimination against female scientists;)
Charles Lieber of Harvard University; George Oster of Berkeley, who has
studied molecular motors, among other phenomena; and Maria Zuber of
MIT, earth and planetary sciences, whose rise has been meteoric to say
the least. 

It ain’t easy, but Christina Pikas of Johns Hopkins offers several
precise tips, whether using Google or Yahoo or one of multiple services
specializing in blog searching.  (Source: beSpacific)

a checklist …

Peter Scott has compiled an excellent directory of library weblogs and a bibliography on blogging for libraries.  (Source: Tame the Web via Library Stuff)

Would only a CAD suggest it?  Wired News investigates. 

Cheap RAM not persistent (Source MacMerc)

which searches the web, Amazon’s Search Inside the Book and the Amazon
site.  Also features a toolbar for Windows IE users.  Still
in beta.

the American Chemical Society recently launched Nanofocus, a companion
site to Chemical & Engineering News.  Evidently it will deal
with the industry and science of all things nano.  It’s got an RSS
feed to boot.  (Source: Small times)

Do you suppose they are situationists??(Source; Chris Stokes)