Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
First Library on Mars
Back in October I blogged about flying your name to Mars. Well, I just got an email last night saying that the silica glass mini-DVD has been mounted in the Phoenix spacecraft, which has just been flown to Cape Canaveral, where it will begin final testing and preparation for launch.
Besides collecting names for the disc, […]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
BibMe
There’s a cool online bibliographic utility that I stumbled upon recently. It’s called BibMe and they say it’s “The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills.” You can enter items manually or search their database for an item (items include books, articles, websites, and films.) using title, author, or ISBN.
If you’re not logged in and you […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Are Librarians Obsolete?
Recently I read an article by Will Sherman called “Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?” that was, in part, a response to another article by a librarian that predicted that libraries would soon be no more.
A subtitle of Sherman’s article is: 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. It’s a very well-written list of […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
iGoogle
In case you haven’t noticed, the last few days (read “since Tuesday”) have seen a slight change in Google’s interface. The “Classic Home” has the same look and feel because it’s doing what it was designed to do–be simple. But the “Personalized Home Page” has been replaced with iGoogle! You still have the same personalization […]
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