Archive for February 9th, 2004

E-mail Problems

Monday, February 9th, 2004

(totally off the topic)
I discovered over the weekend that one of my e-mail accounts is not delivering e-mail properly and is not bouncing messages back to the sender. I’m not exactly sure what is happening. I think it has something to do with it being a hectic week, my computer coming back to me, and […]

Yes, I Answer.

Monday, February 9th, 2004

Jay typed:

I don’t think she understands what I meant, however. I wasn’t saying that Google Answers could be gateway drug to get people hooked on librarians. I was saying that Google Answers is a good prototype
of a better way of interacting with librarians, one that could be co-opted by librarians or recreated by them.

Jay’s right: […]

Journal of Algorithms Board Resigns Citing Elsevier, Begins New Journal

Monday, February 9th, 2004

The Board of Directors of the Journal of Algorithms, a publication popular among mathematicians and computer scientists, announced its resignation and intention to focus on a new journal, Transactions on Algorithms, because of their frustration that Elsevier makes the publication too expensive for many college libraries to afford. According to the subscriber-restricted Chronicle of Higher […]


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