GuruNet now offers Answers.com for free!
According to Gary Price at Resource Shelf, GuruNet has become Answsers.com and is now offering a ready reference search engine for free. Answers.com culls its information from a variety of…
Are we mainstream or invisible?
I know blogging is getting bigger. Blogs seem to have been featured in every magazine and newspaper lately. Everyone keeps saying 2004 was the "year of the blog" yadda, yadda.…
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Free reference websites
RUSA has come out with its 2004 list of Best Free Reference Websites. They cover a variety of subjects and come from academia, government, industry, non-profits, the media, libraries and…
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An Introduction to Feeds
From Resource Shelf, I have found An Introduction to Feeds, which does an excellent job of describing what RSS is and how to use aggregators. I will definitely send this…
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Bringing LexisNexis to the masses: LexisNexis Ala Carte
LexisNexis is now offering its articles ala carte, which allows regular folks who are not affiliated with an institution of higher learning to search LexisNexis and buy the full-text if…
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Libraries and RSS
Tame the Web this week has a great little guide on Teaching RSS to Reference Librarians. He's got great links to other resources that will educate and inspire librarians to…
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Great American History bibliography
December 2004's American Heritage magazine features America Unabridged: The Definitive Guide to the Greatest Books About Our Past. This annotated bibliography covers a wide variety of topics and all of…
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Commonsense tech advice for libraries
Everyone working at or interested in libraries should read Top Ten Things to Stay Tech Current by Aaron Schmidt at Walking Paper.
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Google scholar buzz, consolidated
If you want to read as much as you can about Google Scholar all in one place, there is now a blog devoted entirely to the subject. It's interesting to…
