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Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the comments are these thoughtful views from Will Howard, project leader of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, in Hobart, Australia. I am a working scientist, doing research on paleoclimate and biogeo chemical cycles. I mostly work on timescales longer than the millennial-scale reconstructions mainly under discussion in the context of the UEA e-mail files, but the...
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Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The answer is unequivocally "yes." There appears to be some misunderstanding of my views on this topic, amplified by discussions over at Real Climate by practicing scientists. Jim Bouldin, a sometimes contributor at Real Climate and research scientist at UC-Davis , (mis)characterizes my views as follows: Just do science, don’t speak up about it. Remember, political scientists can expound...
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US News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
The WISE space telescope will be tasked with cataloging objects posing a danger to Earth.
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Librarians don’t often receive the kind of ‘pat on the back’ that other professionals get from recipients of their services; here in book form is the appreciation that information professionals have long needed and long deserved, Marilyn Johnson’s THIS BOOK IS OVERDUE How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, (ISBN: 9780061431609; Harper; On Sale: 2/2/2010). While researching...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Now it's official: the creators of Unshelved have all the answers. To prove it they've launched Unshelved Answers, where librarians, booksellers and others can share "expertise about libraries and everything in them: reference resources, reader's advisory, customer service, cataloging, administration, or anything else." Unshelved Answers allows for grading of questions and answers "so...
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Nature (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The common skate is not at all common: this large marine fish has 'critically endangered' status. That it turns out to be not one species, but two, is a sharp reminder that good taxonomy must underpin conservation.
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Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography : ...We synthesize mitochondrial phylogenetic information from 263 subfossil moa specimens from across NZ with morphological, ecological, and new geological data to create the first comprehensive phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolutionary timeframe for all of the species of an extinct order. We also present an important...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Are you are a cataloger? (This might be of interest.) Do you know a cataloger? (Please share this post.) From the Announcement: Barbara Tillett, chief of the Library’s Policy and Standards Division, said “To help users make the most of the new product enhancements, the Library of Congress staff has been busy creating an array [...]
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Broken Symmetry (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Geanakoplos and Farmer observe: What is still largely lacking is an empirical foundation on which to build an evolutionary theory. This ultimately depends on developing a taxonomy of real nancial strategies together with a database of studies of nancial ecologies as they change through time. It's out there. The right...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
More than 50 international experts in endangered languages will convene at the University of Utah Nov. 12-14 to take the first step in cataloging endangered and dying languages in a comprehensive online database.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From the News Release: The Library of Congress is releasing today the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. The Library commissioned R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H., to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the [...]
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A new company called SkyRiver has launched a bibliographic utility, directly challenging long-dominant OCLC. Over the last 18 years, strategic acquisitions by OCLC have narrowed competition, but SkyRiver—founded by Jerry Kline, the owner and co-founder of Innovative Interfaces—aims to expand the market and offer an alternative bibliographic utility for cataloging that could save libraries...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
From the Announcement: The Cataloging Section of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the availability of an e-learning course called Fundamentals of the NLM Classification. It is available as a link from the Cataloging Section homepage, as well as the Distance Education page. The course is a free set of modules and interactive [...]
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Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
by John Michael Greer The Archdruid Report (September 30 2009) Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society To mention money and metaphysics in the same sentence, as I did at the close of last week's post, is to invite any number of misunderstandings. The hoary habit of thinking that walls off philosophical questions in a ghetto of abstractions apart from the world of...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
We’re looking at a new form of media (assuming it catches on) that librarians will likely have to catalog. We will catalog as a book? A Video? Audio? Or perhaps we will have to come up with specific cataloging rules for hybrid books. From the Article: …in the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube, the notion [...]
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
As off-the-mainstream jazz sinks deeper into a niche, it's more difficult to track down all of the great improvisers in America-- let alone the rest of the world, where a glance at the hatArt or Leo Records catalogs turns up dozens of new and unfamiliar names. So I was pleased to discover the work of Mark O'Leary, a guitarist based in Cork, Ireland-- and was even more surprised to learn he'd worked
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gumir | 04/18/2008
April, 18, 2008 - new version of Free Museum Cataloging Software Released. A new version (4.7) of Museolog, the UNESCO-supported multilingual software for cataloguing museum collections has been released; the software is available at no cost through SourceForge, a global leader in free and open source software (FOSS). Museolog was developed by museum specialists in collaboration with FOSS developers
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steffrson | 04/15/2008
Home Schooling Catalog: Your children’s education is very essential for molding and shaping them into outstanding individuals and will partly determine their success and survival in this modern day and age. Necessary tools and resources will help parents, who believe that they are their children’s best educators, educate their kids for brilliance and excellence.
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