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Library News & Notes —
July 22th, 2005

NOTES

Garrett will be on vacation the week of July 25-29. Please contact Jason
() with any article and book requests during that time.

In Memoriam
Theo Greene, former Rowland librarian and member emerita, died on July 14, 2005. She set up the Rowland Institute library in the early 1980s. She was a chemist and wrote the text Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis (2 editions, Wiley). I remember Theo coming to the library many times after she retired to look up citations in Chemical Abstracts, particularly while she was revising her book.

Internet Sites of the Week

Blogs 101
The New York Times offers this primer for getting started reading the blogosphere.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/technology/blogs_101.html

Common Times: a Social Bookmarking Community for News Readers
Bookmark news stories of interest and see what others have linked.
http://commontimes.org/
(Source: Berkman Thursday Mailing List)

Elemental-Is it Time to Revamp the Periodic Table
“Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of the elements, and it's a hit. American schools are placing orders daily for Stewart's table, and the Royal Society of Chemists recently sent a copy to every British secondary school. Stewart's is the only remake to achieve widespread adoption since Dmitri Mendeleev invented the original periodic table in a fit of brilliance in 1869.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2122919?nav=wp#ContinueArticle
(Source: Slashdot)

Metroblogging London
Bloggers chime in about the London bombings and other issues.
http://london.metblogs.com/
(Source: Boing Boing)

MIT Libraries News
The MIT Libraries have a blog announcing news and events and new resources.
http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/
(Source: Berkman Thursday Mailing List)

National Academies RSS News Feeds
The National Academies have a number of RSS feeds, including ones for news, new NAP books, and the contents of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/rss.html
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Trip Advisor
Read and contribute reviews of vacations, hotels, and travel sites.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Where Do we Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries
An essay by Clifford Lynch for the D-Lib magazine's 10th anniversary.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html
(Source: ResourceShelf)

NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS

Received July 16 - 22, 2005