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Library News & Notes —
January 26, 2007
Internet Sites of the Week
If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?
A library director emphasizes the role academic libraries play in securing access to information.
(Source: Library Juice)
Is this the end of the scholarly journal?
“Publishing research to blogs and e-books is so easy, some are wondering if peer-reviewed
journals are on their way to obsolescence.”
(Source: Open Access News)
A Librarian's Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell
A school librarian muses on marketing books to students.
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)
Northeast Stunned by Freak January Snowfall
A Portrait of “Generation Next”
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press surveyed over 1500 individuals between the ages
of 18 and 25 on politics, social networking and immigration.
(Source: The Scout Report)
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music
(Source: Scripting News)
Science Experiment Gone Wrong!
(Source: Boing Boing)
Science for All Americans
This is an online textbook from Project 2061, a “long-term AAAS initiative to advance literacy in
Science, Mathematics, and Technology.”
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
Second Life
Get A First Life
(Source: Library Stuff)
The Top 50 Inventions of the Past 50 Years
(Source: ResourceShelf)
What libraries can learn from bookstores: Applying bookstore design to public libraries
(Source: The Library Web)
NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received January 20 - 26, 2007
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States 2007 |
|
(US Census Bureau, 2007) |
HA 202 .S8 Ref |
Standing order requested by Library Staff |
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