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Library News & Notes
June 24th, 2005
NOTES
We welcome Emily Kefferstan, our summer student worker.
Garrett will be away beginning Thursday, June 30 through Tuesday, July 5.
Internet Sites of the Week
AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes
The American Film Institute released a listing of quotes, movies they
appeared in, and year.
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
Michigan Digitization Project
The University of Michigan has posted a site featuring a description of
its collaboration with Google, including a copy of the contract between
the two parties.
Related:
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on how some publishers want Google to have a six month moratorium on
digitization while copyright issues are worked out.
(Sources: Open Access News, Harvard in the News)
Mozilla Firefox: Top Tips & Tricks
PC Magazine offers 10 suggestions on enhancing your web browsing
experience, including tips on bookmarks and RSS feeds.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Open Collections Program
“The goal of the Open Collections Program (OCP) of Harvard University
Library is to increase the availability of historical resources from
Harvard's library and museum collections for purposes of teaching,
learning, and research — both at Harvard and around the world.”
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law,
and Technology
From MITWorld comes a video of a symposium featuring computer science
professor Hal Abelson speaking on OpenCourseWare and DSpace as examples
of “free and open academic publishing; and John Wilbanks, Executive
Director of Creative Commons.
Physics Simulations
Mississippi State University presents this compilation of Java and
Shockwave physics-related simulations from around the world, including
categories such as mathematics, electricity and magnetism, light and
optics, among others.
(Source: The Scout Report)
NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received June 18 - 24, 2005
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