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Library News & Notes —
October 21st, 2005

Notes

Garrett will be on vacation Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28.

Internet Sites of the Week

All-TIME 100 Novels
Time critics name their choices for the best.
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Blog searching – a world-wide web of options
A rundown of various blog search engines from the LANL Library Newsletter.
http://library.lanl.gov/libinfo/news/2005/200510.htm#search

Child and Family Web Guide
“for parents, students and professionals: a directory of sites rated by experts from Tufts University.” Includes sites organized by age range and alphabetically.
http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Smithsonian.TV
The Smithosonian has a number of video and multimedia presentations on this website. Check out the Science and Technology section.
http://smithsonian.tv/default.htm
(Source: The Scout Report)

The Structures of Ag55+ and Ag55-: Trapped Ion Electron Diffraction and Density Functional Theory
This paper features a collaboration between Joel Parks and researchers at Karlsruhe, including Detlef Schooss and Martine Blom.
http://pubs.acs.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/
article.cgi/nalefd/2005/5/i10/html/nl0513434.html

Suegle?
Following on the heels of the Author's Guild suit against Google, the Association of American Publishers is pursuing similar litigation contra the search engine behemoth.
http://www.publishers.org/press/releases.cfm?PressReleaseArticleID=291
(Source: Open Access News, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html, which see for a roundup of articles on the situation.)

NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS

Received October 15 - 21, 2005