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Library News & Notes —
October 7th, 2005

Internet Sites of the Week

Best Fall Foliage and Autumn Color Web Cams for 2005
http://forestry.about.com/od/fallcolor/a/fall_web_cams.htm
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

How Not to Lose Your Laptop
Things to be wary of when going through airports.
http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud100105-goldsborough.shtml

Kebberfegg — Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator
A new tool from Tara Calishain at ResearchBuzz, this utility enables one to generate RSS feeds based on keywords, and draw from several categories of sources (search engines, news sites, weblogs.)
http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/kebberfegg.pl
(Source: ResearchBuzz)

Nature Physics
Nature launched a new journal this week. Content is freely available - for now. Some question the necessity of a new physics journal and are wary of Nature''s efforts to add to its already considerable revenue stream.
http://www.nature.com/nphys/index.html

Nobelprize.org
Information on the winners of 2005 - so far.
http://nobelprize.org/
An article on one of the Physics recipients, Harvard's Roy Glauber:
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles
/2005/10/05/harvard_physicist_80_earns_nobel/

Open Content Alliance
The OCA is a collaborative effort that involves Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, and several universities and publishers to create an online digital repository of books.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/business/03yahoo.html
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/ap/ap_2100405.asp?trk=nl
(Source: Open Access News)

Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize
Including the experiment to determine whether humans swim faster in syrup than water, and other oddities.
http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005

NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS

Received October 1 - 7, 2005