Archive for September 29th, 2005
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
The Role of IM in Reference
Instant Messaging is a widely used method of communication today. According to the most recent stats I could find, there are over 21 million users of AOL’s Instant Messenger program, 10.6 million users of Yahoo!’s Messenger program, and 10.3 million users of MSN Messenger. Sure there’s probably overlap, as many people (such as I) use […]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Literature Map
Here’s a new tool that I found out about on a library-related blog called Library Stuff. It’s a website called Literature-Map. The basic principle is simple: you enter the name of an author and then you get a graphical representation of similar authors. It may take you a minute to get used to the names […]
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