Library News & Notes 12/11/09
Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
December 10, 2009
Quote of the week
“What a man hears he may doubt, what he sees he may possibly doubt, but what he does himself he cannot doubt.”
Seaman Knapp, as quoted in Atul Gawande, Testing, Testing: The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?
Rowland News
The upper surface of an Escherichia coli swarm is stationary
A new paper from the Berg lab, 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.”
Apex Green Roofs – New England Eco-Roof Installation-The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/eBooks
The End of Book Publishing As We Know It
(Source: inkyelbows)
Formula to detect an author’s literary ‘fingerprint’
(Source: bibliothekarin via ResourceShelf)
inkmesh
“Find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader and more!”
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Is an e-book a book?
(Source: bibliothekarin)
Jeff Bezos on Kindle & e-Books
(Source: Om Malik)
Ode to Books, or Why E-Book Readers Will Never Replace Them
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Some Things I Like the Best and the Least About eBooks
(Source: ResourceShelf)
10 strangest books in English
(Source: Amanda McNeil)
Computers and Internet
An App for Those With Airport Time to Kill
Firefox note-taking add-ons are Web supersaver
Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube
See also: Quiet Tube
removes comments and adds from YouTube videos
(Source: Technology Tidbits)
The future of WiFi: gigabit speeds and beyond
Germany pays to fix Microsoft users’ computers
Google Visual Search Coming To Android
(Source: vroblespac)
Google, Washington Post and N.Y. Times create news tool
Great expectation for cutting-edge tech firms
How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top
How Search Engines Cope With Real-Time Data
How to be the world’s greatest ISP
How to fit a pharmacist in your pocket
Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite
A periodic table of visualization methods
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)
See also: Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization
(Source: aabibliographer)
Readability
“Readability is a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids).”
(Source: Christina Pikas)
A review of the main reference management softwares
(Source: tweeterpeter)
Stephen Wolfram: ‘I’m an information pack rat’
Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies of 2009
(Source: Xuemei)
The Virtual Private Library and Deep Web
What the Real-Time Web Can Deliver
When Google Runs Your Life
(Source: msauers)
See also: Search Me
(Source: Jill Lagerstrom)
See also: Google Magazine
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
When Real Time Is *Not* Fast Enough: The Intention Web
(Source: Lone Wolf Librarian)
WhoCrashed Explains Why Your Windows PC Crashed
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Why Websites Are Lost (and How They’re Sometimes Found)
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Libraries
Faculty Calls For Library Funding (Harvard Crimson)
See also: Weiss to guide Library Implementation Work Group
The Implications of Web 2.0 for Academic Libraries
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
See also: Social media adoption, policy & development
(Source: shamsha)
Increasing Retention Rates in Minority Librarians Through Mentoring
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Jumping onto the Bandwagon: New Librarians Navigating the Science/Technology Librarianship
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Staffless “library” opens up in King County
The USA PATRIOT Act and academic libraries: An overview
(Source: twittbraries)
Life, Family, Work and Money
The Hidden Business Cost of Mental Illness
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)
How to Never Be Late For Work or Anything Again
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
How To Research A Legal Problem: A guide for non attorneys
Internet resources on violence against women
(Source: twittbraries)
New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths
Thoughts on the Future of Work
Three Ways to Keep Your Ego in Check
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Scholarly Publishing
Digital Repositories : An investigation of best practices for content recruitment to academic digital repositories and the conditions for their livelihood
(Source: DigitalKoans)
Does Reviewing Your Peers Create Better Results Than Peer-Review?
(Source: Joseph J. Esposito)
”Free” Open Choice – beware of Greeks bearing gifts
(Source: Ingegerd Rabow)
How to Cite Twitter and Facebook
Source: Amanda Clay)
Hybrid OA journals: A progression or a destination?
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
International Standard Name Identifier
(Source: Ahmed Hindawi)
Missing Web References — A Case Study of Five Scholarly Journals
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Overcoming barriers: access to research information
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Scholarly Communications must be Mobile
(Source: BoraZ)
What is the impact of discovery tools on researcher self-archiving behavior?
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Science
Bohr-Einstein Debates
(Source: Ars Physica)
Calculating how to tell atoms where to send their photons
Caltech Archives Presents “50 Years of ‘Plenty of Room'”
(Source: Dana Roth)
The Circular Logic of the Universe
Funding science research as a sustained enterprise
See also: Science Matters: It pays to fund research
(Sources: sciencegoddess; Steve Silberman)
He Must Be Joking
(Source: Catharine Zivkovic)
History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Hubble peers deeper than ever into the universe
Mental health issues for researchers
More on proximity to industry – and similar ideas
New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future
(Source: Steve Silberman)
New Project Promotes Virtual Science Labs, Despite Skepticism
Physics-Online.ru
Russian physics network
(Source: Lev Malov)
A scientist talks about requirements for social software for scientists
Scientists Create World’s Smallest Snowman
Should we talk about disciplines?
Why Bother?
ACS has a social networking site
Social Networks
the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks
(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide)
Facebook, Twitter and More: The New Rules of Social Networking
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
Faux Friendship
See also: Social networking is not killing friendship
HOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat
(Source: AAUW)
Is Social Media Worth Your Time?
(Source: nahumg)
A Tale of Three Conferences
(Source: Simon J. Bains)
Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says
Twitter Really Works: Makes $6.5 Million in Sales for Dell
Jony
December 31, 2009 @ 3:28 pm
Hey thanks a million, I love ebooks and reading and there’s nothing better than free stuff. I have to say my favorite for non fiction ebooks so far has been http://www.zbooc.com because they have both free downloads and visitor’s reviews – Thanks again!