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Library Thing
I’m sure there’s a ton of librarians and library support folks out there who’ve known all about Library Thing for week, months, now. I admit I just found out about it by meand of this testimonial from Andy’s website: ‘Judy: “Have you already found Library Thing? I think it’s pretty cool – a way to
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Back Up Data Early & Often
I found this article from Robert Ringer in my mailbox this past weekend and it’s ajust a short reminder that accidents do happen, both in libraries and in our personal lives. The moral is both concise and bears repeating: back up your data. Often. In a number of different media. In a number of different
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Stuff from Factcheck.org
Factcheck.org, which is one of my five favorite research-oriented websites, has just composed a surprisingly complete timeline of what happened in the days preceding and following Katrina: Katrina: What Happened When They state right up front that it will take months to get past all the bluster and B.S., but it’s a pretty decent resource,
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Katrina News Source Update
This is from the NYAM Info Notes blog: NIEHS Launches Website with global info system for assessing environmental hazards from Hurricane Katrina U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesNATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTHNIH NewsNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)http://www.niehs.nih.gov/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, September 9, 2005CONTACT: Christine Bruske, 919-541-3665, rmackar@niehs.nih.govNIEHS LAUNCHES WEBSITE WITH GLOBAL
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Secrets of the Mummy’s Medicine Chest
Secrets of the Mummy’s Medicine Chest The link leads to an article about the NYAM’s 4,00 year old medical papyrus ( officially the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the oldest surving medical document in the world) which is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of their exhibit "The Art of Medicine
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N’Awlins vs. Katrina
There’s already tons of material available on the web regarding New Orleans vs. Katrina, so I won’t post it here. Except for a few choice tidbits that I found: SciGuy’s science blog had these immortal (and not a littl creepy considering how things turned out) words from Mark Twain words about Men Vs. The Mississippi
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Google is Evil!
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index Believe it . . . or not.
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NYAM Co-Sponsoring GL7 Conference
The New York Academy of Medicine, former host in the GL Conference Series, has signed on as co-sponsor in the Seventh International Conference on Grey Literature. Here is the Text Release from the GL7 Program and Conference Bureau.
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SLAPPed Libraries?
Molly Ivins has a piece in today’s Alternet.org on the issue of free speech (as in guaranteed by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution) and the growing use of the Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (aka "SLAPP"). The idea behind the SLAPP is that a large (or merely well-funded) corporate entity can bring these
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Guerilla Videos Library-Style
I think Gary North is a bit of a kook. I don’t agree with his politics or his religious view more than rarely, but having said that I read his Reality Check newsletter twice a week, because he sees things I don’t see, and that’s a big deal to me. You can never have too