The most recent Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology features the theme “From bacterial chemotaxis to cellular systems biology,” in tribute to Dennis Bray. It includes Rowland’s Howard Berg’s commentary The Gain Paradox.
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Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
November 6, 2009
Quote of the Week
““The question once was, ‘What can a library be?’ Today the question is, ‘What can a library do?’ Formerly it was a question of resources, of number of books, of wealth, of material. Now, it is rather a question of effectiveness, of vitality, of influence in the community.”
—Springfield (Mass.) Public Library Director John Cotton Dana, 1898, in Chalmers Hadley, John Cotton Dana: A Sketch (Chicago: ALA, 1943), pp. 40–41.
(Source: Judith Seiss)
Also – from Highwire Press publishing symposium in DC (10/28/09 – OK, it’s last week): Question about open access rep at Harv – from publisher “Do the faculty like the policy that their bad version is published in Dash?”
(Source: Bill Mayer)
Also – A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere-Groucho Marx
(Source: CliftonWiens)
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/eBooks
Dream of a Universal Bookstore
E-Readers May Not Solve Publisher Woes Yet
E-readers: To be open or not to be open — that is the question
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
The Future of Reading
(Source: beSpacific)
Getting the best read on your smartphone
(Source: Library Web)
Harvard Square book stand back, despite lack of permit
Computers and Internet
Bend Your Browser: Customize Firefox 3.6
Combine search, bookmarks and RSS with 43 Marks
Convert Photos To PDF
(Source: Beyond … The Black Stump)
For Web Search, the Time Is Now
(Source: Library Stuff)
Google looking to grow in Cambridge’s Kendall Square
See also: Google CEO Schmidt: On tech, innovation, Google Wave and Maps Navigation
See also: Google Takes on the World
See also: Google’s new revenue stream: books and music
See also: Google providing better view of personal data
The Government Domain: A Handful of Classics
(Source: beSpacific)
Harvard students win mobile app contest
How To Charge Your Laptop
(Source: NYT Technology Journalists)
Listen, watch, read — computers search for meaning
MassTLC honoree Beranek traces a trail of tech and business achievement
Now we know where we stand, and it’s about time
See also: GPS Is Destroying Your Brain
Seven secrets of a Steve Jobs presentation
Startup lets you pick up dinner with the flip of a phone
Triple Boot Mac OS, XP, and Linux on a Mac
Ultimate jukebox is next step in net music
Where Next for Openness?
See also: State of open source software at 25
Where to Download the Latest Windows 7 Drivers
Windows 7 Pins – Pin and Unpin in Windows 7
Windows 7: What You Should Know About XP Mode
50 Common Mac Problems Solved
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
Education
Another Reason to Dislike Harvard Alums
A day in the life of President Faust
See also: Leadership Without a Secret Code
(Source: Harvard in the News)
Harvard Kennedy School: Social Media, Blogs and RSS
(Source: Kennedy_School)
Harvard to become largest institutional buyer of wind power in New England
Harvard Women’s Soccer earns 9th Ivy title!
(Source: HVClub)
How to Talk Like an Intellectual
Minority Students Earned Greater Number of Academic Degrees in Fiscal Year 2006
15 Questions with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
45: 45: 10
Research Teaching Service ratios
Health and Medicine
Global Library of Women’s Medicine
(Source: Internet Resources Newsletter)
Healthcare’s Google-Facebook-Twitter Platform
(Source: amcunningham
Hospitals Make Slow Progress in Harnessing the ‘Social’ Aspects of Social Media
Privacy is Contextual
(Source: omowizard)
Libraries
Collaborating in the Clouds: Selecting Tools
From the Stacks
Interview with Lisa Johnston, science librarian at University of Minnesota
(Source: Kristine Fowler)
Have a Very Merry Library Christmas!
(Source: Library Web)
Internet Librarian 2009: Librarians Get Enterprising
Is There a Future for Special Libraries?
Library Camp: How to Run an Unconference at Your Library
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)
Living Digital: The Future of Information and the Role of the Library
(Source: Pamela Bluh)
New Laws
Featuring “the 5 laws of library catalogs for the 21st century”
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)
New library should make Cambridge feel proud
NIH Library AllPlus Search Demo
(Source: kowalskibob)
Public libraries and the Internet 2008-2009: Issues, implications, and challenges
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Public Libraries Step Into Job-Search Niche
Purpose, Values and All That Jazz
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Rare Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Shanachie interview with the Librarian in Black
SLA Recognizes Five Early-Career Information Professionals as Rising Stars
Sneaking the social web into your library
Surviving in the New Information Ecology
See also: Neither Black Nor White, but Survival
(Source: Eric Rumsey
Tweeting Harvard librarians and libraries
Life, Family, Work, Money
Actively cultivate champions to advance your success
Bank Notes: a collection of Bank Robbery Notes
(Source: Boing Boing)
Brother Blue dead at 88; Was storyteller to generations
He was a fixture in Harvard Square and admired my daughter’s blue eyes when she was a baby.
Effective communications take employees from survive to thrive
Facebook your way to a new job?
FAQ: Should I buy that extended warranty?
Find the VALUE in formalizing informal mentoring
First, be honest about what you want
How Do I Make My Resume Stick?
How to Be Assertive Without Being Arrogant
(Source: Beyond … The Black Stump)
Need a Job? Talk to a Stranger
(Source: ACM Career News)
Neurodiversity & The Workforce (Asperger’s)
Race, Politics and American Media
Rethinking Laundry in the 21st Century
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
Retirement Revised
“Retirement planning, retirement investing and retirement jobs”
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
Shareable
(Source: Boing Boing)
Staying Connected After a Layoff
Women, Peace and Security: Challenges Ahead
10 Tried-and-True Tips for Switching Industries
(Source: ACM Career News)
12 keys to becoming a power networker
50 job interview questions and answers: How you never should but always wanted to answer them
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
Scholarly Publishing
AAU Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Status Report
(Source: Ann Okerson)
Buying PDFs: truth and consequences
(Source: Open Access News)
Cloud Computing and Repositories: Fedorazon: Final Report
The End of Impact Factors as a Measure of Research Quality
The last stand of non-open access scholarly journal publishers
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Open Access Week – Interview with Peter Suber
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
What’s the future of OA?
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Science
The Benefits of Investments in Basic Research
Chemistry in Second Life
(Source: Useful Chemistry)
Frontiers in Crystalline Matter: From Discovery to Technology
How to Reject a Paper: Advice from a Chain Letter
The importance of stupidity in scientific research (and in writing)
(Source: ccziv)
Industry support of academic life science research may be dropping
The New Science of Temptation
(Source: Science in the News)
New wrinkle in old approach
Harvard SEAS researchers gain new insights about glass formation
Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science?
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Posted Science and Engineering Jobs Continued to Decline in October
Shunning science for higher-paying careers
Stop selling out science to commerce
US Science and Engineering Festival
Social Networking
An Application to Help Scrub Those Regrettable Photos From Facebook
Getting political on social network sites: Exploring online political discourse on Facebook
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Google’s Twitter Algorithm
(Source: HarvardSocial
The Greatest Generation (of Networkers)
(Source: John Palfrey)
How to Avoid Malware on Facebook and Twitter: 8 Best Practices
(Source: raduboncea)
How To Rip Video From Facebook
(Source: Robin Good)
How to Think Of Blog Posts
(Source: GeekGirlCamp
HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists
See also: Twitter Lists – No RSS Feed?? No Problem!!
(Source: glambert)
A Look At NASA’s Social Media Program
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter
(Source: raduboncea)
The one where we launch TWOOTER!
(Source: Library Web)
Plocky
manage all social network profiles in one place
(Source: I want to)
Protect Your Kids from Profanity-Laden YouTube Comments
Six Social Media Trends for 2010
Social Isolation and New Technology
(Source: beSpacific)
Transform the business’s image through social media
Tweetajob: A new service to help people find work via Twitter
7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave
(Source: Xuemei)
14 social media lessons we can all learn
(Source: Sharon Hayes)
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)
Prof. Jianhua Ren from the University of the Pacific visits Joel Parks’s Trapped Ions Group this month. Ren’s work at Pacific includes mass spectrometry experiments on organic and biological molecules and she will assist the Parks group with their experiments on gas-phase biomolecules.
Two new Junior Fellows joined us at Rowland this fall.
The Junior Fellows are selected from a pool of applicants each year. Scientists in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering and related fields are encouraged to apply. The fellows are supported by the Institute for five years.
Chris Richards launched the Propulsion Physiology Lab to explore the physiology of “swimming machines,” with frog mechanics as a model. Among his group’s activities is to design a robotic frog (”frobotics”.)
Yuki Sato leads the Applied Superfluidity Group, focusing on novel superfluid matter interferometry devices.
Both the Richards and Sato labs offer employment opportunities.
Rowland is accepting applications for new Junior Fellows through November 30, 2009. A FAQ is available.
Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
October 16, 2009
Quote of the week: “Keep your options open, baby! Don’t say yes, don’t say no, if you can say maybe.” – Edwin H. Land
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/eBooks
ALPSP Survey on Scholarly Book Publishing Practice – ‘First Findings’
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery
Books: Get Them While They’re Hot
Does the Brain Like E-Books?
(Source: Steve Silberman)
Does Your Library Have a Vision on e-Books?
Five NEW Feminist Books Not to Be Missed
http://girlwpen.com/?p=1745
From Blogs to Books – A History of the Web in Print – Timeline
(Source: Publish2Technology NYT)
He not busy being born is busy dying
(Source: John Dupuis)
New E-Book Company to Focus on Older Titles
A Novel in a Year
pt. 1
pt. 2
pt. 3
pt. 4
(Source: inkyelbows)
Rare books from China to be digitized
(Source: Harvard in the News)
Remixing the Book
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
The slow rise of e-books
(Source: srharris19)
Subject: Our Marketing Plan
(Source: Steve Silberman)
Top 10 First Novels for Youth: 2009
Weird Kindle tricks: screensavers, screenshots, and games
Computers and Internet
Apps on my iPhone
(Source: Librarians Matter)
See also: 25 Items the iPhone Has Rendered Useless
(Source: digg tech_news)
Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More
(Source: Danny Sullivan)
Berners-Lee ’sorry’ for slashes
The Complete Guide to Video Blogging
(Source: Library Web)
Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years
Consumer Groups: Tell the Truth on Cell Phone, Internet Bills
Disinformation.com Renovates for Web 2.0
DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
Factual: Parting The Curtains Of The Invisible Web
(Source: Danny Sullivan)
Finding a Guide for Online Networking
Five More Search Tools You Should Know
(Source: Danny Sullivan)
Four different ways to sync your cellphone with the cloud
genderIT.org
(Source: twittbraires)
How to blog everyday
(Source: Kevin O’Keefe)
hulu publisher tools
(Source: ResourceShelf)
IJustMadeLove.com: Tell the World Where You’ve Had Sex, Via Google Maps
Is Augmented Reality Just the Beginning of the 3-D Revolution?
(Source: twitt_AR)
Microsoft Windows 7 learns a lesson in usability
Metaphors of news at the Guardian
(Source: aabibliographer)
New Schemes for Powering Processors
Online tools for more productive blogging
Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social Networks and Blogs
(Source: John Sack)
Transform any image into an interactive map with Umapper
(Source: Robin Good)
The Value Proposition of Netbooks Is Getting Overlooked
Why Email No Longer Rules
(Source: Bill Ives)
See also: Why Twitter and Facebook Will Never Kill E-mail
With Augmented Search, Xmark Sees New Service, Revenues
(Source: Om Malik)
16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models
(Source: The Shifted Librarian)
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words
Culture
Modernism and the little magazines
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Securitate in all but name
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Education (mostly Harvard)
A Year Later, a Texas University Says Giving Students iPhones Is an Academic Success
ConnectYard Widget Talks to Social Networking Sites from CMS
EthicShare: A Model for Virtual Research Communities
Expanding the Canon
(Source: NewMuse)
The future of college may be virtual
Going Backstage in Students’ Lives
See also: Q & A on Harvard’s financial report
(Source: Dean Michael D. Smith)
Harvard FML
(Source: HarvardTweets)
HarvardTweets
(Source: Harvard)
Is Hiring More Rational in the ‘Real World’?
Millennial Muddle: How Stereotyping Students Became an Industry
(Source: taxonomylady)
Naming Opportunities at Harvard Law School
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students’ writing
Students Find Free Online Lectures Better Than What They’re Paying For
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Students’ use of research content
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
18 and under – Texting, Surfing, Studying?
BusinessWeek Takes an In-Depth Look at Google’s Search Quality Team
A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave
(Source: omowizard)
Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive
Google Books is not a library
(Source: AtYourLibrary)
Google Books: Scanning the Future
(Source: beSpacific)
Google “Suggested Items” Tells a Story About Our Hopes, Fears, And Desires
(Source: omowizard)
Google to launch Google Editions platform
Google Wave: A Complete Guide
(Source: BoraZ)
Google Wave’s Best Use Cases
(Source: digg_technews)
Integrate Google Wave Into Your OS X System with Fluid
(Source: Kenley Neufeld)
The psychology of Google Wave
(Source: hrouda)
Wave New World
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
5 Tips for Parenting with Google Wave
5 Ways Google Can Save You Money
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
Government and Law
Against Transparency
(Source: Harvard News)
Gov. Patrick: Three Mass. proposals for broadband stimulus funds
Governor Patrick creates Mass. STEM council
Law.Gov: A Proposed Registry and Repository of All Primary Legal Materials of the United States
(Source: beSpacific)
Patrick warns of 2,000 job cuts
(Sources: Cassandra Eckhof; Boston Business Journal)
To Do More With Less, Governments Go Digital
Who’s in Big Brother’s Database?
Health and Medicine
Body Computing Is a Glimmer of Hope in the Health-Care Chasm
Customer-Driven Medicine: How to Create a New Health Care System
(Source: DocuTicker)
A Doctor’s Advice On How To Read Health News (And Know Whether It’s Full of Crap)
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Hospital Wait Times Delivered Via RSS Feeds
How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors
Million Dollar Question: Who Owns Your Genetic Data?
Study: Majority Of ‘Calm Downs’ Ineffective
Top 15 Women in Pharma
(Source: Andrew Spong)
Using Simple Genome, Researchers Move Personalized Medicine Closer to Reality
Virginia Tech Receives NIH Grant for Infectious Disease Database
What Percentage of U.S. Adults Use Social Media for Health Care and Medical Purposes?
Libraries and Archives
College Library Directors Protest Huge Jump in ‘Scientific American’ Price
(Source: englib)
The evolution of Paul Courant reshapes a library
(Source: Bohyun Kim)
Implementing a 23 Things Type Program at Your Library
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)
Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multi-disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Librarians still have vital role in the Web 2.0 era
(Source: rightforyou)
Libraries and Transliteracy
(Source: Library Web)
Libraries Face Possible Changes (Harvard)
Library Locator iPhone Application
(Source: Bohyun Kim)
LibraryWikis
(Source: Bohyun Kim)
Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices
(Source: twittbraires)
#savethelibrary
(Sources: roselovec; taxonomylady)
Technology Trends: Waxing and Waning
(Source: ALA Tech_Source)
UC Berkeley students stage library sit-in
(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)
Wanted: Info Revolutionaries: an Info Pro Manifesto
Web Services for Underfunded and Understaffed libraries
Web 2.0, Web 3.0 – Where Will CERN Library Go?
(Source: Joe Kraus)
2009 SLA All Sciences Online Poster Session
(Sources: Irene S. Laursen and Catherine Lavalee-Welch)
Life, Work, Family and Money
Autumn scenes
(Source: Manhattan User’s Guide)
Best places to launch a small business
Book of Odds
(Source: Mass High Tech)
Building a Recession-Friendly Wardrobe
(Source: HarvardTweets)
See also: Guilt-Free Shopping
See also: Fashion Lessons for Graduate Students
Decide to Say Sorry: The “Peace Process” for Growing Your Business
Failing bosses sabotage to boost ego
Five Burning Questions About How to Work With Headhunters
Getting Hired, Never a Picnic, Is Increasingly a Trial
Good employees work toward their strengths
Here’s where stimulus money is putting people to work
How to Defeat Burnout and Stay Motivated
(Source: The 99 Percent)
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)
IRA vs. 401K – What’s the Difference?
Job Interview Questions and Best Answers
(Source: careerdiva)
Motherhood After Tenure: furloughs and invisible work
The Natural Way To Clean Everything In Your House
Rethinking the Older Woman-Younger Man Relationship
ReturnMyPants Ensures You Get Loaned Items Back
SBA offers help to women business owners
Self-Promotion for Introverts®: Get Heard More. Even If You Talk Less
Seven Tips If You’re Chronically Late
Should Unemployed People Work for Free
(Source: webdoyenne)
Socially Responsible Investing Does Not Mean Lower Returns
Sustainability, The Complete Concept: Environment, Healthcare, and Economy
Top 5 Mistakes We Make Teaching Kids About Money
Top 10 Reminder Tools for Forgetful Minds
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
What it’s like to love someone with depression
(Source: omowizard)
When a Colleague’s Mistakes Affect You
(Source: Bohyun Kim)
Women mentor male bosses as Dell joins push to smash glass ceiling
Women Warriors: Supporting She ‘Who Has Borne the Battle’
4 Tips for de-Stressing Your Job Search
(Source: careerdiva)
7 Ways to Build & Maintain a Personal Network that Works for You
(Source: just_social)
14 Ways to Improve Your Body Language Today
(Source: Nik Karlil)
50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again
(Source: msauers)
Scholarly Publishing
Creative Commons: access and knowledge sharing
(Source: Xuemei)
Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers: The STM Report
(Source: Grace Baynes)
Measuring citations: calculations can vary widely
(Source: Jill Lagerstrom)
On the contribution of publishers
Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told
(Source: Bernie Sloan)
Open Access Week Event: Open Access at Harvard Q &A
(Source: Sue Kreigsman)
Right to Research Coalition
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
SPARC Campus Open Access Advisory Group
Spinning the Science: Big Pharma’s Not Alone
(Source: Andrew Spong)
The 2009 STM Frankfurt Conference
(Source: Andrew Spong)
The Subscription Model Lives and Thrives
(Source: John Sack)
Science and Technology
Cell Phone Stuck In 2-Year Contract With Local Man
The Chemistry of Information Addiction
Earth’s 10 least hospitable places for life
(Source: amcaffee)
An Electron Microscope For Your Home?
Essentials of Genetics: a guided introduction to many of the key concepts of genetics
(Source: Grace Baynes)
See also: How genetics works
(Source: Om Malik)
Giant Ribbon Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System
How video games are good for the brain
(Source: taxonomylady)
The (im)permanance of online biological resources
(Source: Theo Bloom)
Leaving academia for the freelance world has its rewards
Let’s Have An Awesome Time Publishing Science
(Source: BoraZ)
Losing America’s secret weapon
(Source: Steve Silberman)
Massively collaborative mathematics
Microbes as Computers
(Source: TheScientistLLC)
Nanoscale
New journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Neuroscience
A Nature news special
New Jersey Outshines Most Others in Solar Energy
(Source: Slashdot)
See also: Solar Living, Without Compromising on Lifestyle
New Wi-Fi technology to let gadgets talk directly
See also: Wi-fi ‘to get a whole lot easier’
On the future of scientific communication
(Source: BoraZ)
Open Research: The personal, the social, and the political
(Source: BLugger)
Parc overflowing with new ideas
Polaroid Classic Instant Cameras to Make a Comeback
(Source: digg tech_news)
Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals
Respectfully Letting Data Die A Natural Death
Scans show learning ’sculpts’ the brain’s connections
(Source: brown2020)
Schmidt fund to advance science through support for transformative technology
(Source: Steve Silberman)
Science Grrl: It’s been a busy month for science grrls!
See also: On Winning a Nobel Prize in Science
See also: Conversation with Beth Shapiro, biologist and MacArthur Fellow
See also: Do women have the brains to be great scientists?
(Source: sciencegoddess)
See also: National Medal of Science Winners
The Science of Slumber
See also: Top 10 Wired.com Sleep Photos, Decided by You
Scientists do it in the lab—here’s how
Scientists on Twitter – SciencePond
(Source: Christina Pikas)
Sixty Symbols
(Source: The Scout Report)
Speaking of Speaking
See also: 10 Ways To Conquer Fear of Public Speaking
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
Tell Me a Story of Science
(Sources: BoraZ and razoobe)
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
(Source: Science in the News)
Two good reasons to always read the methods section of a scientific paper
(Source: modernscientist)
Using cellphones to change the world
Video camera that records at the speed of thought
The way things work (science funding)
We must revolutionize our communication of science to non-scientists
(Source: girlscientist)
We see problems, they see solutions
Supplement
8 Ingenious Ways Animals Outsmart Predators
(Source: Bill Romanos)
50 Years of Space Exploration
(Source: sciencebase)
Social Networks
Bigola – Meta Search Tool Searching Digg, Twitter, Technorati, FriendFeed and YouTube
Cold turkey for a Facebook addict
The Democratization of Online Social Networks
The Evolving Uses of Twitter
(Source: Steve Silberman)
Facebook is no fad
“Social networking is a basic human need”
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)
Five Essential Apps for Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page
(Source: Librarian in Black)
The Five WORST Excuses for Not Using Twitter
(Source: Librarian in Black)
Gary’s Social Media Count
(Source: hrouda)
Gender Trouble in Web 2.0. Gender Perspectives on Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs
How To Create Friends Lists on Facebook
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
HOW TO: Organize an Event on Facebook
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
In a Generation That Friends and Tweets, They Don’t
Politics and Twitter: Inside the Political Twittersphere + An In-Depth Look at the Twitter World
Popular Twitter Client TweetDeck Adds New Features
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Seniors finding social media exhilarating
(Source: libraryfuture)
Twitter’s becoming an important tool for job seekers and employers
Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools for the Next Generation of Public Service
(Source: John Reaves)
Where, How, and Why Harvard University Uses Twitter
Who Is On the Other End of Facebook?
7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation
(Source: ResourceShelf)
10 tools for presenting with Twitter
(Source: laikas)
Travel
Airlines Cook Up a New Batch of Fees
(Source: infodiva)
Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn’t
Dark-Sided: 10 Hauntingly Beautiful Hotels, Homes, and Restaurants
http://bit.ly/3V7whQ
Expect Delays: An Analysis of Air Travel Trends in the United States
(Source: DocuTicker)
NEW BOOKS
Received October 10 – 16, 2009
The Art of Being a Scientist
Sneider, Roel and Ken Larner
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Q 147 .S64 2009
Requested by G. Eastman
Cold Molecules: Theory, Experiment, Applications
Krems, Roman V., et al, editors
(CRC Press, 2009)
QC 794.6 .C6 C635 2009
Requested by A. Speck
Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics
Hinterdorfer, Peter and Antoine Van Oijen, editors
(Springer, 2009)
QH 505 .H36 2009
Requested by G. Eastman
A Physicist’s Guide to Mathematica, 2nd ed.
Tam, Patrick
(Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008)
QC 20.7 .E4 T36 2008
Requested by M. Burns
These books will be displayed on the new books cart (near the newspaper and journals tables) for approximately one week. The person who requested the book has priority for checking it out during the first week.
Earlier editions of Library News and Notes are available
Rowland Institute at Harvard
Library News & Notes
October 9, 2009
Quote of the week: “I need to use my most important investigative tool: my library card.” – Detective Robert Goren, aka “Turtleman,” Law & Order Criminal Intent
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/eBooks
Buy a Scholarly Book
(Source: Digital Koans)
Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included
(Source: ResourceShelf)
How Apple Can Dominate the Education Market With the iTablet
(Source: Erika McNeil)
Reading Detectives
(Source: Library Web)
Robert Darnton: Reading, Now and Then
(Source: srharris19)
Will Books Be Napsterized?
(Source: Gerry McKiernan)
Computers and Internet
Blogger marks 10 year milestone
College technology ‘catching up’ with students
(Source: Erika McNeil)
Everyday life, online: U.S. college students’ use of the Internet
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
HotPrints Launches Totally Free Photo-Book Printing
How to Create & Broadcast a Podcast With Garageband
(Source: Robin Good)
Is cloud computing the Hotel California of tech?
See also: Study: Amazon and Google rule the cloud
See also: Forget Google and Amazon, the DoD Shows Off What a Real Cloud Platform Can Do
(Source: infoneer.net)
Mapping Languages in the United States and More Research Tools
(Source: ResourceShelf)
New Computer Graphics Systems Give Reality a Convincing Makeover
Online Writing Tips: Interviewing for the Web 101
PBS and NPR Add to Trove of Free Online Lectures
Print Publishers May Create a “Hulu for Magazines”
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Real-Time Search Engines Compared
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Ruby on Rails workshop for women
(Source: Jessica Baumgart)
Serendipity Of Search
(Source: Publish2Technology NYT)
Surgery
(Source: Boing Boing)
Trove of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online
Where’s My iPod Made? SourceMap Has the Answer
(Source: Publish2Technology NYT)
Why Blog?
(Source: ResearchBlogs)
48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money
Culture
Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons to Touch Paintings
Ten biggest magazines closing in 2009
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Education (mostly Harvard)
Cracks in the Future
(Source: Diane Williams)
Harvard, Resentment, Legacies, Class Size, Etc.
Leaner Times at Harvard: No Cookies
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
Thomas M. Menino: Harvard must build housing on Allston site
Advantage Google
(Source: Digital Koans)
An Army vs. Google Books
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
Google adds even more search options
See also: BusinessWeek Dives Deep Into Google’s Search Quality
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Google Apps: A Long Road Ahead
Google Book & Internet Archive Tips
(Source: srharris19)
The Google Book Project- What Effect Will It Have On Your Library?
(Source: Anna Laura Brown)
Google Claims to Be the Lone Defender of Orphans; not lone, not defender
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
Google Wave 101
(Source: Robin Good)
See also: What is Google Wave
See also: VIDEO: Google Wave Gets Explained
(Source: Bibliosoph)
See also: Could Google Wave Replace Course Management Systems?
(Source: lapsedluddite)
See also: Will Google’s Wave Replace E-Mail & Facebook?
(Source: Andrew Spong)
See also: The first google wave search you should do
(Source: Tim O’Reilly)
See also: The Point You’re Missing About Google Wave
(Source: laikas)
Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles
(Source: ResourceShelf)
A Library to Last Forever
(Source: ResourceShelf)
November deadline for new Google Books deal
Health and Medicine
Adding Health Advice to Online Medical Records
(Source: brown2020)
An agenda for personalized medicine
Eldercare and aging: Online information for librarians and caregivers
Fall Allergies and How to Avoid Them
(Source: Harvard Medical School)
The Future of Healthcare Is Social
(Source: BoraZ)
H1N1 Flu Self-Evaluation
(Source: rachel_w)
ITdotHealth
(Source: Gosia Stergios)
See also: Emerging Consensus to Create a ‘Health Internet’ With Broad Consumer Engagement
See also: NHIN: the New Health Network?
See also: The Health Information Technology Platform Meeting
(Source: ITdotHealth)
Mind Body Stress Management Program for Parents of Behaviorally Challenging Children
(I recommend this – excellent teacher, great course materials, highly useful. GE)
Must-Read Health Blogs
(Source: Andrew Spong)
NLM’s Pillbox, a new pill identification system
(Source: laikas)
Start-Ups Aim to Transform Visits to the Doctor
(Source: libraryfuture)
Law
Cambridge cops: Public safety trumps transparency
Gov. seeks measures to close budget gap
Libraries
The Agent of Library Instruction
(Source: Information Wants to Be Free)
See also: Who should teach library instruction?
The blended librarian in the learning commons: New skills for the blended library
The college library in the 21st century: Reconfiguring space for learning and engagement
Decreasing budgets and increasing costs – working with faculty to mitigate the damage
(Source: Bonnie Swoger)
The Dewey Dilemma
(Source: David Weinberger; see )
Discoverability .. a report that’s worth a look
Educate Don’t Alienate
(Source: Librarian in Black)
How Personal Should a Library Be in Social Media?
How To Customize Your Library Facebook Page
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Library Access to Scholarship
(Source: Digital Koans)
LJ’s Bubble Room blogger identifies 13 cultural shifts libraries can turn into opportunities to reach patrons
(Source: Library Journal)
New Project Launched to Support Libraries’ Outreach to the Struggling Workforce
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Our Evanescent Culture and the Awesome Duty of Librarians
(Source: infoneer.net)
Things That Keep Us Up At Night
(Source: srharris19)
Ugly battle has librarians in Oak Brook turning to Teamsters
(Source: Boing Boing)
Web 2.0: What Comes Next? Using This Knowledge And Preparing For The New Wave of Web Technology
(Source: Xuemei)
Life, Work, Family and Money
Are Your Best Female Employees a Flight Risk?
(Source: taxonomylady)
Changing Careers: 5 Steps to Moving Beyond Single Industry Experience
(Source: AtYourLibrary)
Credit Union Credit Cards – A Prudent Alternative
Facebook Activities Haunting Job Seekers
(Source: careerdiva)
For Americans, Plastic Buys Less Abroad
The High Price of Being a Gay Couple
(Source: roselovec)
How to Stop Buying Clothes You Never Wear
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)
In praise of verbal ‘turn signals’
One nagging thing you still don’t understand about yourself
(Source: Boing Boing)
Poll: More Americans plan to work past retirement age
Sunsets from around the world
(Source: laikas)
Turn performance review into enlightened encounter
When Your Man (or Woman) Gets Laid Off
(Source: Manisha Thakor)
Wholesome Guide to Misbehaving
Work-Search Scams on the Rise in Recession
(Source: careerdiva)
13 Fantastic Female Personal Development Bloggers
(Source: lifeisawesome)
21 Secrets to Save on Travel
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)
40 inspirational speeches in two minutes
(Source: webdoyenne)
Scholarly Publishing
Akawiki
“web 2.0 scholarly communication tool”
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Cross-linking between repositories
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Few tips on conducting a literature review
Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Journal Cost-Effective Index for Legal Periodicals
Journal pricing in these hard times: are publishers listening?
nature.com OpenSearch
(Source: Nascent)
Open access bill stalls in Congress
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Reviewers Prefer Positive Findings
Ten challenges for open-access journals
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
What’s the opposite of a phyrric victory? Lessons learned from an open access defeat
(Source: Sarah Shreeves)
Where to publish your paper?
(Source: grrlscientist)
Science and Technology
An Artist’s Secrets? Projection and Photoluminescence
(Source: lsmarshall)
The Big Microbe Knit
(Source: scientistlady)
An emotional response: Using computers to analyse sentiments
http://snipr.com/se989
(Source: Science in the News)
Are you asleep? Exploring the mind’s twilight zone
Big Splash in Bug-Splatter Research
Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone
(Source: brown2020)
Communicating Science: Giving Talks
(Source: razoobe)
See also
Data on Federal Research and Development Investments: A Pathway to Modernization
The eScience Revolution: Rensselaer Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms for Massive Scientific Collaboration
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The Elements of Humanity: a Fascination with Science and Technology
(Source: Tim O’Reilly)
Evolution of the Cell Phone
(Source: digg_technews)
See also: Survey: Bostonians value cell phones over sex
Failed takeoff leaves entrepreneurs with orphaned IP
Gallery: Science Confirms the Obvious
(Source: sciencegoddess)
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
(Source: newswise)
iLabs: Revolutionizing High School Science
Inside the Nobel Prize: How a CCD Works
Introduction to Scientific Filmmaking
(Source: phylogenomics)
Key for Future Investment: Researchers’ Response to America’s Recovery Act
A look inside
“Scientists have deciphered 3-D structure of the human genome”
Mass High Tech, Women to Watch 2009
MHT names record number of ‘tech citizens’
Mixed Signals
others see us differently than we see ourselves
NFL Scientists Postulate Theoretical Down Before First Down
Out of your head: Leaving the body behind
Petite Pictures: The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners
Peter’s Digital Reference Shelf: Scitation
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The Recession’s Silver Lining
IEEE Spectrum on the semiconductor industry
Reproducibility of Computational Science
Research points to potential chink in cancer’s armor
http://tinyurl.com/ybg2f7s
Resting-state brain networks are stable
(Source: stevesilberman)
Rethinking the Shape of Everyday Life
(Source: BoraZ)
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts
Science’s answer to the Backstreet Boys
The Self-Control Costs of Moral Flexibility
(Source: HarvardResearch)
Startup Bootcamp
(Source: Jessica Baumgart)
Text Messaging Shows Promise as a Survey Tool
Unrevealed Analysis Weakens Claim of AIDS Vaccine “Success”
(Source: Science in the News)
The Un-Scientific Method: or, how good science becomes bad press
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Unstoppable Killing Machine Out Of Toner
http://ow.ly/15SGPW
What is relevant to my research now?
(Source: BoraZ)
10 Things to Know About Wireless Power
(Source: Om Malik)
Social Networks
Does Twitter Work As a Music Discovery Engine, Too?
(Source: Om Malik)
Gaydar: Facebook friendships expose sexual orientation
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking
(Source: sciencebase)
See also: Academics and Web 2.0
The History and Evolution of Social Media
(Source: infoneer.net)
HOW TO: Manage a Facebook Group
(Source: Robin Good)
It’s Time to Hide the Noise
(Source: Rebecca Skloot)
Loore – Finding People Within Social Networks and Directories
NeighborGoods: Craigslist for Your Neighborhood
(Source: Om Malik)
The Sum of All Tweets: Evaluating the Valuation
Using Twitter at Events & Conferences: Best Practices
(Source: Eric Rumsey)
Ways to Integrate Facebook With Your Blog
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Women Rule the Social Web
(Source: Lisa Carlucci)
Zuckerberg: How Facebook’s Culture Helps Us Build Amazing Things
(Source: Robin Good)
3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
NEW BOOKS
Received October 3 -9, 2009
No new books received this week.
These books will be displayed on the new books cart (near the newspaper and journals tables) for approximately one week. The person who requested the book has priority for checking it out during the first week.
Earlier editions of Library News and Notes are available
Rowland Journal Fellow Wesley Wong and his Single-Molecule Force Studies Group will present their work at Frontiers in Optics 2009, to be held Oct. 11 – 15 in San Jose, Calif. Wong and collaegues will present their unique optical tweezers system combined with 3D -video tracking and how it used to observe protein folding and unfolding at the single-molecule level.
