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Roy Tennant in Library Journal
"Google, the Naked Emperor," by Roy Tennant, from this week’s Library Journal. The upshot: Google relies on search algorithms that do some things very well and other things (say, finding brand new web pages or even finding the last entry in the web index) very poorly. Google is just not in the business of providing
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NYAM Blog ALert
The reference staff of the New York Academy of Medicine has its own blog, now, which I was just informed of. (Actually, I knew about this a couple of weeks ago but between spending most of last week in California, and being swamped with testing/implementing LinkFinder Plus, I just got around to posting it now.
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Worth remembering for the Google Addicted by Stephen Abram (SIRSI
This comes courtesy of Lily Pregill, NYAM’s Special Projects Mgr.: Worth Remembering for the Google Addicted Chris Sherman, points to a new study that shows that the various generic web search engines (the big 4), have even less overlap in their results than in previous studies and that’s not much overlap. You can find his
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Library Humor
Here’s a bit of librarian humor that’s just too funny not to share. Sometimes a good cartoon gets the point across better than reams of text.
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IFLA Working Group Report
I’m not sure how many folks reading this have an interest in foreign libraries, but in case there are some of you out there, this is for you.The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records is pleased to announce that a draft of "Functional Requirements for Authority Records" is now available
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Update and Replies
Reply to Lisle: No, I’m not in jail, and in all honesty, nothing happened last week. I sent the note from my cell phone for the coolness factor, intending to follow up later in the day. When the incident took place, I was on my way to meet my boss to drive to New Rochelle
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Just got stopped by nypd.
Just got stopped by nypd. I look dangerous! I am a threat to the state! yeah! I’m e-mailing you from my cell phone! Buwahaha!
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From ResourceShelf.com
Resource of the Week By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor "Our resource for you this week is a European-based research portal for economic and financial data. Sites like this are very handy, especially when a reliable academic source has taken the time to select and organize the available information."
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Cataloging Grey Lit In the Trench
I know, I’ve been away for a while. Between work, sickness (both mine and in my family) and deadlines for delivery of a hellish number of catalog records to the National Library of Medicine, it’s been both busy and distracting. But it’s important to have fun while you’re cataloging a document. It doesn’t matter what
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Technology, Time and Archives
Occasionally the internet drops something totally suited to librarianship-oriented wiriting into my lap. This happened this morning as I cleared out the past week’s e-mail from my Yahoo account. It’s an article written by Gary North, whose politics I almost never agree with but who is one of the most prolific writers and researchers I’ve