Quotes of the Week

“I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.” ~Rumi
(Source: Lori Moreno)

“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery
(Source: justsocial)

Rowland News

A High-Throughput Screening Approach to Discovering Good Forms of Biologically Inspired Visual Representation

David Cox and colleagues demonstrate potential advances in computer “vision” using powerful information processing and video game technology combined with principles from molecular biology in this PLoS Computational Biology paper.
Internet Sites of the Week

Books/eBooks

Best books of 2009: fiction
A list by the Christian Science Monitor, with links to reviews
See also: Book reviewers on the Web
(Source: Maxine Clarke)

‘The Cusp of Every Bibliomaniac’s Dream’

Funny conversations between book dealer and customers
(Source: Boing Boing)

Future of book publishing is unknowable
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

In defense of books
Article about Robert Darnton in the Gazette
See also: Google and the New Digital Future

An Introduction to the Mechanics of Writing a World Famous E-book

The Lost Pleasure of Browsing

One Way to Improve Your Book Sales

Protect eBooks Or Trust Customers To Do The Right Thing?
(Source: bibliothekarin)
See also: What Does it Mean to “Buy” an E-book?
(Source: O’Reilly Radar)
See also: Ten Predictions For The E-Reader/E-Book Market In 2010
(Source: Lisa Carlucci)

The Scholars’ Catalog Project
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Stop, you’re killing me
A website for mystery lovers
(Source: FreePint)

Computers and Internet

ACM Names 47 Fellows for Innovations in Computing, Information Technology
(Source: Computational Complexity

Best Websites of the Decade

Choose an ISP

DEC may be gone, but it’s not forgotten

How to YouTube with Success
(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

If you want to test a man’s character, give him power*point
(Source: Hacker News)

Music library disaster? How to rip songs from your iPod

New Technologies That Save Time & Money

Pandora

PC World’s Top 10 How-To Videos

Programmer search engine
(Source: Hacker News)

Test Your Internet Connection Speed

Tools for Remote Collaboration and Interaction
(Source: The Distant Librarian)

Top 8 Disposable Email Address Services

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009
(Source: Library Web)

Verizon Droid: A 60-second review

Where Google Goes From Here, Part 1
See also: Why Should You Care About Google Wave?
See also: 5 things you can only do on Google Wave
(Source: mistygirlph)
See also: New Chrome Browser: Fast, Safe and Simple
See also: Un-Google Yourself
(Source: Sharon Hayes)

Libraries

Another reason data services need librarians
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

Bookkeeping: The right library reforms will preserve the health of Harvard’s collections

Catalyzing Collaboration: Seven New York City Libraries
(Source: Digital Koans)

Enhancing ur work
(Source: ALA_TechSource)

The future of bookstores is the…
(Source: Bonnie Swoger)

The Hyperlinked Library in Times of Change and Challenge

(Source: Librarian in Black)

Information Architecture Principles: Use in a Library Setting

Information Society
“This collection includes several thousand of articles and books on the information society, in various languages, freely available for download.”
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

“The Law of Stackable Hamsters”
(Source: Roy Kenagy)

Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Libraries and crowdsourcing – 6 examples
(Source: Library Web)

Libraries Consider Merging Despite Faculty Questions
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

More Cuts Coming to Yale University Library
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Networking: Overcoming Your Hesitation

Next-Gen Libraries Presentation
(Source: Library Web)

North American Institutions Most Frequently Represented in High-impact Library Journals
(Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)

Preserving the Library in the Digital Age
(Source: The Distant Librarian)

So you want to write about libraries?

Social Construction of Authorized Users in the Digital Age
(Source: ResourceShelf)

What is the Next Trend in Usage Statistics in Libraries?
(Source: schopfel)

Life, Family, Work and Money

America Without a Middle Class
(Source: beSpacific)

Be Prepared
List of questions compiled from an academic job search

Beat stage fright at work

Control is an Illusion You Need to Let Go

Eight Tips to Know If You’re Being Boring

‘Fear of fear’ can lead to depression

Find a Mentor/Role Model
(Source: masswomen)

FlyOnTime.us
“Find the most on-time flight between two airports or check how late your flight is on average, in good weather and bad, before you leave.”
(Source: beSpacific)
Forgiveness: Letting go of grudges and bitterness
(Source: MEDLINEPlus)

Former Polaroid owner found guilty of running Ponzi scheme

How to make small talk

How to Prepare for a Performance Review

How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
(Source: Hacker News)

How to Stop Taking Things Personally

Leverage the advantages of being an introvert at work

‘Tis the Season for Better Credit

When to Confront Someone: The Rule of Three
(Source: HarvardBiz)

Scholarly Publishing

Best Thinking
“Open access publisher and syndicator of journal quality content”
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

The next generation of electronic journals: prospects and problems
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

Online Journals and the Evolving Genre Ecosystem of Science
(Source: BoraZ)

Open access and the Google book settlement

Paying for open access? Institutional funding streams and OA publication charges

Peer review, data quality, and usage metrics
(Source: Open Access News)

Tenurometer
(Source: Stevan Harnad)
When Scholarly Publishers Reduce Author Rights in the Face of Open Access Initiatives
(Source: mrgunn)

Science and Technology

Beating the diffraction-limit using CARS microscopy

BioKM: Cloud-based Research Knowledge Management
(Source: mrgunn)

The complicated history of simple scientific facts
(Source: konfigmaster)

Division of Condensed Matter Physics Image Gallery
(Source: Condensed Concepts)

Ground-Breaking Science: Very Old Papers Are Both Awesome and Hilarious
(Source: Hacker News)

Imaging Cell Biology

Major scientists with blogs

MIT Mad Scientists Say Corpse-Reanimation Still 10 Years Away

The most important letter in your scientific career?

The Mystery of Bosnia’s Ancient Pyramids
(Source: Science in the News)

Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies

Playing tricks with the speed of light

THE question

Read the ad, answer the ad

Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences

Science Matters: It pays to fund research
(Source: sciencegoddess)

Scientist takes aim at her longtime silent scourge
(Source: Cameron Partridge)

Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers
(Source: HarvardNews)

SEAS, Murray engineer solutions to global problems

Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime

The Value of New Scientific Communication Models for Chemistry
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
See also: Are chemists really grinches?
(Source: phylogenomics)

Where Are the Female Scientists in Research Articles?
(Source: Under the Microscope)
See also: More PhDs for women

Why should anyone give credence to industry sponsored research?
(Source: Andrew Spong)

Wired for Sound
list of science podcasts
(Source: Maxine Clarke

Wizard at circuits, physics

You Choose
Advice on selecting grad students for a lab

Social Networking

The Anti-Social-Network Social Network

Are Facebook Groups the New Drug Interventions?

Avoiding Twitter Spam

How Social Media Completely Changed Overnight
(Source: konfigmaster)

“I Want To Use Twitter For My Conference”
(Source: Roy Tennant)

Jack Dorsey on Square, How It Works & Why It Disrupts
(Source: Hacker News)

Listimonkey
“Google alerts for Twitter lists”
(Source: rstoup)

mentionmap – a Twitter visualization
(Source: Sharon Hayes)

Social media in learning examples
(Source: neiljohnford)

The Tao of Tweeting

Twitter May Breed Better Socializers

Harvard affiliates follow this link.

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

Kindle for the Academic

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 Goes Mobile

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

More Tech for Older People

Now we know where we stand, and it’s about time
See also: GPS Is Destroying Your Brain

Revisiting Google Squared

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

Internet Librarian wrap up

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)

Sacred Cows

Save the Books

Shanachie interview with the Librarian in Black

SLA Recognizes Five Early-Career Information Professionals as Rising Stars

Sneaking the social web into your library

Social Media Metrics

A Space to Collaborate

Surviving in the New Information Ecology
See also: Neither Black Nor White, but Survival
(Source: Eric Rumsey

Tweeting Harvard librarians and libraries

Web 2.0 for library patrons

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)

i wanted wings

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

Tools of the Travel Trade

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

Knowledge as a public good

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

Career resilience

Chemistry in Second Life
(Source: Useful Chemistry)

Courting Generation Y

Down But Not Out

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

License to Wonder

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)

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

A Look at the Vook

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)

When the Internet Over Reacts

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)

Is Your ‘Fiscal Crisis’ Real?

The Kids Are All Right

Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014

New Law To Help University Finances

On hiring

Queer Student Groups Seek Unity

Steady as She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline
(Source: DocuTicker)

Google

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!

Top 10 Halloween Movies

Where do ghosts come from?

12 Awesome Social Media Halloween Pumpkin Carvings
(Source: HarvardSocial)

25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted
(Source: Tweed)

Health and Medicine

Age and Aging

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

Do Law Schools Still Need Academic Law Librarians to Support Faculty Scholarship in This New Cash-Strapped Digital Age?

Faculty Voices Library Unease

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)

Don’t Forget To Use the Phone

The Fashionable Academic
(Source: modernscientist)

From Biologist to Life Coach

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)

Sweet Deals in the Square

Tame the Tween Texting Beast with a Great Parent/Child Contract

Toss Your Resume in the Trash and Tell Employers Your Story

‘Unfair or Deceptive’ Credit Card Practices Continue as Americans Wait for New Reforms to Take Effect

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)

A Life Lived Backwards

The many hats of science

Nobels Prizes and Corporate Labs
(Source: genomepop)

The Open Laboratory 2009
(Source: BoraZ)

Physical scientists will apply laws of physics in cancer fight

Returning to Science

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)

Ten Simple Rules Collection

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)

Crankster

Dynamic Sharing

Do We Really Need So Many Kinds of Social Media?
(Source: glambert)

Gartner Says 80 Per Cent of Enterprise Collaboration Platforms Will Primarily Be Based on Web 2.0 Techniques by 2013

God twitters creation
(Source: laikas)

Hacks hooked on Facebook

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)

State of the Blogosphere 2009

Tweeting Back @ Harvard

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)

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.

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: 2009

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

Intel Then, Now, and Tomorrow

Is Augmented Reality Just the Beginning of the 3-D Revolution?
(Source: twitt_AR)

Linked Data Needs Links

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

Harvard’s Financial Report

See also: Q & A on Harvard’s financial report
(Source: Dean Michael D. Smith)

Harvard FML
(Source: HarvardTweets)

HarvardTweets
(Source: Harvard)

How to Cater a Roman Orgy

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)

Time Off for Good Behavior

18 and under – Texting, Surfing, Studying?

Google

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)

It’s Just Fancy Talk

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)

A Future Library Service?

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)

The Unused Complexity of MARC

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

Bully! Bully!

Dear Google Notebook

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

Hallowe’en is Safe

Here’s where stimulus money is putting people to work

How to Defeat Burnout and Stay Motivated
(Source: The 99 Percent)

How to Find Lost Cats

How to Get Honest Feedback

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
(Source: Stephen’s Lighthouse)

IRA vs. 401K – What’s the Difference?

Job Interview Questions and Best Answers
(Source: careerdiva)

Jobs Wanted, Any Jobs at All

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

Big-picture view of nanoscale

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

God Introduces New Bird

How video games are good for the brain
(Source: taxonomylady)

Illusions: What’s in a Face?

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

Phones that rule on the Web

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)

Stitching science together

Tell Me a Story of Science
(Sources: BoraZ and razoobe)

Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
(Source: Science in the News)

TVs of the (Near) Future

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)

The World’s Quietest Places

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

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)

On the Smell of Old Books

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)

A Windows to Help You Forget

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 buys Updike archive

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

Google

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)

Power to the patients

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)

Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty

How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
(Source: newswise)

Human Genetics 2009

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)

A Spot at the Bench

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)

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