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Library News & Notes
May 27th, 2005
NOTES
The library will not be staffed on Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day.)
Internet Sites of the Week
Cool Uses of Google Maps
People have developed tools to use with Google maps such as mapping
traffic patterns, comparing gas prices, housing maps and other functions.
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
Death by a Thousand Blogs
An opinion piece comments on the proliferation of blogs in China and how
they may present a challenge to the party's information monopoly.
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
How Your Garden Grows
Scientists uncover the workings of the plant growth hormone auxin.
(Sources: NSF, Science in the News)
Publishers Challenge Google Library Project
The Association of American University Presses wrote a letter to Google
questioning whether Google's library digitization project complies with
copyright and complaining of adverse effects on AAUP members' businesses.
See related articles:
(Sources: beSpacific, Open Access News, Win Hill, j's Scratchpad,
LIBLICENSE-L)
Trapped Ion Dynamics Group
Joel Parks's lab has two new members, Susanne Schulze and Jan Meinen
from the Technical Institute in Ilmenau, Germany. Also, Joel and Tony
Iavarone recently published a paper in JACS on gas-phase protein unfolding.
(Source: Joel Parks and Tony Iavarone)
USNO Eclipse Portal: solar and lunar eclipses
This site has information on eclipses ranging from 1501 to 2100. Enter a
year and get data on eclipses for that year.
Also see a page of maps of recent solar and lunar eclipses:
(Source: PAMNET-L)
NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received May 21 - 27, 2005
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