Library News & Notes 10/30/09
Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
October 30, 2009
Quote of the Week
“The real point of honor is not to be always right. It is to dare to propose new ideas.” P.G. de Gennes
(Source: materion)
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/eBooks
E-Books: Formats and Future
See also: The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet
(Source: inkyelbows)
Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing?
(Source: Digital Koans)
Latest battle in book price wars
Making your bookshelves Google searchable
(Source: Erika McNeil)
Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby
Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks
(Source: John Dupuis)
Serving Literature by the Tweet
(Source: nytimesbooks)
Why you probably should NOT buy an e-reader this year
(Source: Library Web)
Computers and Internet
The Apple Momentum
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
Augmented Reality Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You
(Source: John Reaves)
Become a PowerPoint Power User
(Seen on Twitter: “Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”
Celebrating 40 years of the net
(Source: ScienceSoWhat)
Compile Software from Source Code
Create an RSS Feed for any website
(Source: Robin Good)
EFF opens the “Takedown Hall of Shame”
Firefox 3.5.4 closes security holes
Five Things You Should Know About Upgrading From XP to Windows 7
See also: Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7
See also: Lifehacker’s Complete Guide to Windows 7
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
Helping Grandpa Get His Tech On
(Source: Teri Vogel)
How to Carry Your Office on a Stick (USB Flash Drive)
iPhone 3GS vs Droid: How Do They Really Stack Up?
(Source: Om Malik)
Netbooks Are Only Part of The Solution
The one where we invent the best search engine ever
Time Travel with Augmented Reality
(Source: twitt_AR)
Why open clouds are more important than open phones
5 Ways to Get Free Tech Advice Online
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump
Culture
Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009
Education
Allston shouldn’t suffer on Harvard’s account
Are College E-Mail Addresses on the Way Out?
Did Harvard Sell At the Bottom?
(Source: Harvard in the News)
Dreams of Better Schools
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Reports Unexpected Surplus
(Source: HarvardTweets)
Hip Hop Law
(Source: Peter Scott)
Inequality goes to college
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)
Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014
New Law To Help University Finances
Queer Student Groups Seek Unity
Steady as She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline
(Source: DocuTicker)
Google Music Search goes live
(Source: raduboncea)
Google Rolls Out New Custom Search Features, Including Wikipedia Integration
(Source: Robin Good)
Google’s new Social Search surprisingly useful
If you’re Googled and the search results are zero, do you exist?
New Google Maps GPS for smartphones spooks competitors
Opinion: Proposed Google book settlement leaves libraries’ rights in question
(Source: Digital Koans)
The Untapped Potential of Google Earth
Why Google Should Fear the Social Web
(Source: Om Malik)
11 years of Google squished into 2 minutes
(Source: digicmb)
Halloween
Harvard Halloween Shopping, Uncovered
Science activities for Halloween!
12 Awesome Social Media Halloween Pumpkin Carvings
(Source: HarvardSocial)
25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted
(Source: Tweed)
Health and Medicine
Covering Health Issues
For journalists, but good general health information
(Source: Donna Cohen)
Forty Years’ War: A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm
Health Care Might Be Ripe for Cloud Computing
Medical Education Evaluated With Twitter
(Source: BoraZ)
OpenTable for Docs Expands to D.C., Other Cities
Over 400 Hospitals use Social Media
(Source: laikas)
Treating H1N1: the innovation behind the science
See also: A Song to Thwart the Flu
A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey
“Turning reseach into practice” – evidence-based medicine
Visiting your doctor online is a virtual reality
(Source: John Reaves)
Libraries
The Accessibility Parodox
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Best of ResourceShelf
(Source: Jane Dysart)
Columbia and Cornell Libraries Announce ‘Radical’ Partnership
How to Print a Document at the COD Library While Avoiding the Zombie Horde
(Source: amndw2)
How To Track Your Library’s Social Media Stats
(Source: Xuemei)
IL2009: Information Overload is the Devil
Library 101
(Source: Erika McNeil)
Library 101 and Getting Deeply Local: videos
Mass cuts state aid to libraries
(Source: taxonomylady
Micro Interactions, Conversations, & Customers: Sweet Tweet Strategies
Moving Beyond Citation Analysis: How Surveys and Interviews Enhance, Enrich, and Expand Your Research Findings
(Source: ALA_ACRL)
My own personal “Chemistry Week”
(Source: Bonnie Swoger)
People Sleeping in Libraries
(Source: srharris19)
Review Almost 5000 Tweets from Internet Librarian 2009
School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’?
(Source: Sarah Kirby)
those people you hate at the library
Life, Family, Work, Money
Any Mini Mentoring Manifestoes Out There?
See also: Old Mentoring Model Replaced by Reciprocal Relationship
See also: Related articles
(Source: thehrgoddess)
Asperger’s at work: Why I’m difficult in meetings
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)
Clothing design, sales and swaps find a home online
Do you keep postponing necessary change?
(Source: thehrgoddess)
The Fashionable Academic
(Source: modernscientist)
Get Started Tips to Navigate Post-Recession, Pre-Recovery Flexible Downsizing
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Research Network)
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn
Getting Started with Disruptive Business Design
Group of Popular Girls Reduces Nation to Tears
(Source: Chris Fike)
How to Stop “Mean Girls” in the Workplace
(Source: MassWomen)
How to work a conference, even before it starts
(Source: MassWomen)
Kierkegaard on the Couch
(Source: Steve Silberman)
The Massachusetts Economy – What’s Next?
The Process
(Source: Carol Phillips)
The “secret sauce” of networking
(Source: thehrgoddess)
Shrinking business: Recession boosts demand for counseling, but cuts ability to pay
Social Learning – Highlights
(Source: HarvardSocial)
Tame the Tween Texting Beast with a Great Parent/Child Contract
Toss Your Resume in the Trash and Tell Employers Your Story
Using Layoff News to Find Job Openings
Will There Be Jobs For The Class Of 2010?
(Source: Heather Huhman)
Women’s Rights in the Human Rights System: the Past, Present and Future
See also: Ending gender inequality in the developing world: the moral battle of the 21st century?
(Source: New York Review of Books)
Work, unplugged: Connected to the office 24/7? Break free from the digital leash
(Source: Cali Williams Yost)
10 best jobs for college students
(Source: Heather Huhman)
13 questions to test potential companies are a good fit for you
(Source: Heather Huhman)
50 office-speak phrases you love to hate
(Source: Gretchen Rubin)
Scholarly Publishing
BU Digital Common
(Source: Peter Scott)
The DeepDyve Initiative: Something Innovative This Way Comes in Sci/Tech Publishing
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Haiku for “The Spirit of Open Access”
(Source: American Scientist Open Access Forum)
Medical Researchers Resort To File Sharing To Get Access To Journal Research
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
The Next-Gen Repository: Part II
(Source: DigitalKoans)
Open Access – Harvard’s success story with Robert Darnton
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
On Open Access
(Source: Grace Baynes)
See also: What is the (Real) Cost of Open Access?
See also: Will Open Access inhibit innovation?
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Q&A Session With Five OA Publishers
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
The Right to Information Access
(Source: Michael Furlough)
Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles
(Source: Digital Koans)
Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Science
Advancing the laser: SPIE honors breakthroughs, applications, possibilities
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
African Science Feels the Pinch
Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School
New profile database, Catalyst, and Grant Central
Bacteria power micro-ratchet
Rowland’s Howard Berg is quoted.
Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second
Cellular secrets exposed in living color
A Conversation with Nobel Women
See also: Winners of women-in-life-sciences award announced
eCAT: Online electronic lab notebook for scientific research
Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge
Fewer Scientists, Not More, Says a New Paper
A group of galaxies has been seen at a record distance from Earth
Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world
Innovation More Critical Than Ever
See also: Outlooks and issues for the biotechnology sector
Integrated Genome Browser software for distribution and exploration of genome-scale datasets
The Laboratory at Harvard
(Source: Harvard Gazette)
Nobels Prizes and Corporate Labs
(Source: genomepop)
The Open Laboratory 2009
(Source: BoraZ)
Physical scientists will apply laws of physics in cancer fight
Science enters the age of Web 2.0
(Source: dullhunk)
SEAS grad student wins award for fuel cell research
(Source: Linda Turner Stern)
Scientists are first to observe the global motions of an enzyme copying DNA
Sensor to detect fear pheromone
(Source: raduboncea)
UMass Boston Announces New “Science in a Changing World” Grad Program
4000 Years of Women in Science
See also: Women in Science (European Commission Research)
(Source: sciencegoddess)
Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability
(Source: BoraZ)
Social Networks
Avoid twitter cluelessness
(Source: HarvardSocial)
Be Wrong
(Source: careerdiva)
Brizzly makes Twitter a Breeze!
(Source: iBraryGuy)
Coming together for those who have split
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Community Relations 2.0
(Source: Sametz)
Do We Really Need So Many Kinds of Social Media?
(Source: glambert)
God twitters creation
(Source: laikas)
Historical Tweets
(Source: raduboncea)
How a Solo Gained More than 600 Facebook Fans for His Fledgling Firm
(Source: Kevin O’ Keefe)
How to control social media
(Source: The Shifted Librarian
)
How-To: Influence Influencers- Bloggers, Tweeters & Others
(Source: Library Web)
Hyping social media is a fad. Using social media is not
(Source: John Dupuis)
Lawyers warn: Bosses who ‘friend’ are begging to be sued
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
New social network founded by HLS alum
(Source: HarvardSocial)
The Next Wave in Social Media
(Source: HarvardSocial)
Should You Be Tweeting?
Cell magazine interviews several tweeting scientists
(Source: girlscientist)
Tweetply – Track popular tweets with a lot of replies
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
Twitter Lists You Should Follow
(Source: raduboncea)
Twitter Users Most Followed by the Web 2.0 Summit Crowd
(Source: refervescent)
What if Microsoft had invented Twitter?
(Source: laikas)
What’s the social semantic web?
(Source: EvidenceSoup)
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