Where Google leads…
Here is an interesting article I found via Resource Shelf. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and Google Scholar by Nick Luft looks at one positive effect Google (and specifically Google…
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Digital libraries: Full of promise or full of foreboding?
The New York Times has a quite interesting piece today about what we lose and what we gain with the growth of digital libraries. In Questions and Praise for Google…
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Lost in the shuffle
This is also huge digital library news, but, with the Google frenzy, they've really been the victim of bad timing. International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access…
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Google and the “great digitization”
I’ve been quietly reading about the Google deal with the libraries of Stanford, University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and New York City, and the resultant debates/rants on various blogs. I…
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Linux more secure? Look at the statistics.
According to Wired, a four-year study of the 2.6 Linux production kernel by Stanford University researchers has determined that there are 985 bugs in the 5.7 million lines of code.…
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Oh those creative cable execs! “Transitional fair use”
Apparently, an executive at Time Warner has been shopping around a new idea of fair use that would benefit the television industry. It’s called “transitional fair use.” According to Rick…
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More on A-list bloggers and why we blog
There has been some blogging about blog popularity this week. Blake of LISNews looked at the popularity of library blogs – within the entire blogosphere and versus other library blogs.…
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Art by children’s book illustrators for charity
I just found this lovely site with snowflakes created by children's book illustrators. Each snowflake will be auctioned off (on Ebay) to support the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. I'm sure…
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Can’t see the trees for the forest
Chris Jowaisas of TechnoBiblio brought up an important point about implementing Wi-Fi in libraries (or anywhere for that matter): the need for power. Sure, it's great to have Wi-Fi, but…
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Words we can’t use anymore: Add “scholar” to the list
According to Slashdot, the American Chemical Society is suing Google over their use of the title Google Scholar. The American Chemical Society has a product called SciFinder Scholar, and they…
Graduating today, but still have a lot to learn
Wow, so today is the day I graduate. Being that my whole library educational experience was virtual (except for my internship and a trip to the ALA conference in June)…
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Do blogs need a code of ethics?
Karen Schneider of Free Range Librarian has written a thought-provoking piece about blogging ethics. She says that librarian bloggers need a code of ethics because “too many of us want…
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Linux vulnerabilities? What vulnerabilities?
I know we always hear about how superior Linux is to Windows in terms of security, but most things I read primarily talk about what is wrong with Microsoft and…
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Firefox and its way cool extensions
Are you using Firefox yet? Well, why not? It is has so many advantages over Mozilla. Newsforge has an article about many of Firefox's features including, improved speed, improved security…
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Good news for bad spellers?
Wow! I can hardly keep up with all of Google's betas and latest acquisitions! Google Suggest seems to be their newest beta (though don't quote me on that). It's looks…
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Searching in 2005
Here is an interesting article on the year in review for search engines. 2004 saw many major players (Yahoo, Google, and MSN in particular) kick their competition up a notch…
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If the NY Times says it…
The New York Times has an article on how libraries are reaching out online and about the resurgence of e-books. It's not exactly earth-shattering, but so nice to see the…
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Reflections from the job hunt
I've been applying for jobs now, primarily in academic and public libraries, since late September. I had professors and students alike tell me that if I'm geographically flexible and have…
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Public library computers for me but not for thee?
I remember years ago, when I would travel and wanted to keep in touch with my friends and family, I would just pop into the local library and use the…
