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LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The NYTimes First Look Blog asks: Have you visited a library Web site lately? Maybe you think you have no reason to, especially if you’re not a regular patron of your local library. But on most library sites, you can do much more than look for a book: public branches offer everything from digital photo archives to podcasts to holiday cards. With so many services available, you might even forget...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at LC. Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The guide is divided into the following sections: + Print Publications + Online Resources +++ Selected Individual Poems +++ Collections of Poetry + Finding Additional Poems [...]
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Resourceshelf Notes The 2008 report has been released and is now available online. The report is for the 2008 fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2008 (84 color pages; PDF).
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Dlist (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Lykke-Nielsen, Marianne (2009) Persuasive design principles: means to improve the use of information organisation and search features in web site information architecture?. In Breitenstein, Mikel and Loschko, Cheryl Lin, Eds. Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, we already posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app today (NASA Images) but like they say, one iPhone App deserves another, especially on the weekend. Here’s an iPhone/iTouch app that a lot of people have been asking for. It’s a “very simple” company named Waveboard. It’s not an official Google product. The price? 99 cents. So, [...]
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Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | yesterday
We subscribe to Locus , the SF review and news magazine, and every month when it arrives, I flip through it quickly to look at the ads. This is a useful guide to what's coming out from various publishers, but it's also kind of fascinating to see how the different publishers market their stuff. In particular, it's interesting to see how Baen pitches their books, because they are aimed with laser-like...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates and professionals in Australia + Open Access Repositories in Computer Science and Information...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Wikimedia Blog Post: Maybe you’ve been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit a few days ago. Whatever your experience, you likely know at least one central fact about editing – that it can be difficult for newcomers to master the skills necessary for contributing to Wikipedia. We want to change [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Announcement: Figures showing everyday use of a university library are the unlikely stars of a JISC-funded competition showcasing innovative approaches to presenting library data. The winning entrant, an undergraduate computer scientist, created an imaginative ‘book galaxy’ showing books as stars in the galaxy of library resources accessed by University of Huddersfield students...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It’s a free app. Today, something new. Now, it’s time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and video together in a single [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
New Stats from Rapleaf In our last post, [An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 1: Age and Gender] we analyzed age and gender of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo users. For this post, we sampled the same 120,000 users and studied their online social media profile counts and friend [...]
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Dlist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Shiri, Ali (2009) Exploration of Interdisciplinarity in Nanotechnology Queries: The Use of Transaction Log analysis and Thesauri. In Breitenstein, Mikel and Loschko, Cheryl Lin, Eds. Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Dlist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Huang, Xiaoli (2009) Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Typology of Topical Relevance Relationships as the Basis for a Topic-Oriented Information Architecture . In Breitenstein, Mikel and Loschko, Cheryl Lin, Eds. Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Dlist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Mai, Jens-Erik (2009) The Boundaries of Classification. In Breitenstein, Mikel and Loschko, Cheryl Lin, Eds. Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Dlist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Gabel, Jeff and Smiraglia, Richard P. (2009) Visualizing Similarity in Subject Term Co-Assignment. In Breitenstein, Mikel and Loschko, Cheryl Lin, Eds. Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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prmac | 01/19/2009
Ironic Software has released today OpenMeta , a new open sourced standard for metadata on OS X. OpenMeta, working with established OS X technologies, ushers in a new wave of standards based document management solutions. These solutions can scale from single laptops through to large organizations. Ironic is also releasing free tools to work with the OpenMeta standard. 'Tagger' is an application that...
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emgra17 | 12/12/2008
MsLuLupReGo asked: My brother has been taking acai berry for 2 1/2 weeks and has lost 12 pounds so far…I would like to know if it is safe for breastfeeding moms to use. I tried looking on the kelleymom.com website but I found nothing. Does anyon...
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patrickguillard | 11/20/2008
From now on, more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States are available online