Author
Salman Rushdie Says No More Autobiographical Characters.
Associated Press, International Herald Tribune and MSNBC.com
Feb. 11, 2008
“Too much of my life story has found itself into the public domain
already,” said Salman Rushdie, 60, in a speech Sunday at Atlanta's
Emory University.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/11/arts/NA-A-E-BKS-US-People-Rushdie.php,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23104002/
Rushdie
to Speak Sunday on Autobiography and the Novel
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feb. 7, 2008
“During his first year as writer-in-residence at Emory University,
Salman Rushdie has written a large chunk of his forthcoming novel.”
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/living/stories/2008/02/07/rushdie_0208.html
Salman Rushdie
Defies Expectations at Emory
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feb. 10, 2008
"Fiction was fiction, life was life, and 250 years ago, people
knew this," said Salman Rushdie, distinguished writer in residence
at Emory University, in a expansive lecture that addressed literary
and cultural trends that often overlap. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/02/10/rushdie_0211.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13
Review of
the Year 2007 and Trends Watch
Information Today, Inc.
Jan. 17, 2008
“We continued to see the rush to digitize and make books available
online. During the year there was a steady stream of announcements of
public and university libraries partnering with Google or Microsoft
or The Open Content Alliance for book scanning projects. Some, like
Emory University, bucked the tide and opted to work with companies like
Kirtas Technologies and BookSurge, a unit of Amazon.com.” http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40635
ON THE SHELF
AND ON THE NET
The latest thoughts
and commentary on libraries, topics and technologies that affect them.
Would A
YouTube Video Create Buzz Around Your Library?
Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan. 14, 2008
“Many librarians attending the American Library Association conference
have been sharing their frustrations about how challenging it is to
get students and faculty members to take advantage of their libraries'
resources or their own expertise as librarians. Richard T. Sweeney,
university librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, recommended
that his colleagues consider exploiting YouTube.” http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2659&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Academic
Group Convenes to Tackle Archiving of Digital Data
Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan. 29, 2008
“Preserving digital data is a costly and time-consuming task,
especially when the amount of data keeps growing exponentially. A new
group is tackling the problem with a two-year grant totaling $525,000
from the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Called the Blue
Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation, the
group is holding meetings in Washington, D.C. to discuss what it means
to have an economically sustainable model for digital preservation,
and various ways to achieve this.” http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2701&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Keeping
Citations Straight, and Finding New Ones
Insider Higher Education
Jan. 31, 2008
“CiteULike, a social bookmarking tool, gains ground among scholars
looking to share journal articles, trade citations and collaborate online,
bypassing libraries.” http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/31/citeulike
Growing
Up Online: A Closer Look at the Internet's Impact on Adolescence through
the Eyes of Teens and Their Parents
Frontline, PBS
Jan. 22, 2008
“FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds
that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how
the Internet is transforming childhood.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
Assessing
User Interactions at the Desk Nearest the Front Door
Reference & User Services Quarterly
Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 159–167, 2007
“Many users enter the library on an exploratory mission and often
start at the first service desk that catches their eye. In many libraries,
this point of first contact is a security or general information desk,
not a full-service reference desk. This opens the question, are users
being served effectively and their expectations being met? ….This
article presents the results from this study and explores possible factors
that managers should take into consideration.”
North Carolina
Student Wins Open-Access Video Contest
Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan. 22, 2008
“A library group that promotes open access to scholarly data announced
the winners of a contest that had students producing short videos that
advocate sharing of ideas and information. Habib Yazdi, a senior at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won first place for
this video called "Share." The first runner-up was a video
by Tommy McCauley and Max Silver, of Carleton College, titled "Pri
Vetai: Private Eye." And the second runner-up was "An
Open Access Manifesto," by Romel Espinel and Josh Hardro
of the Pratt Institute.”
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2682&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Pioneering
Research Shows ‘Google Generation’ is A Myth
The British Library Press Release
Jan. 16, 2008
“A new study, Information
Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future, overturns the
common assumption that the ‘Google Generation' – youngsters
born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate.”
http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080116.html
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