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Library News & Notes —
November 4, 2005

Notes

Garrett will be out of the office in the afternoon on Monday, November 7 and all day Wednesday, November 9.

Internet Sites of the Week

Different paths taken to book digitization
A comparison between the Google Print project and the Open Content Alliance.
http://blogs.csmonitor.com/scitechblog/2005/11/
(Source: The Virtual Chase)

Einstein's Mistakes
“Science sets itself apart from other paths to truth by recognizing that even its greatest practitioners sometimes err.” By Steven Weinberg.
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-11/p31.html

EPIC 2014
This short film offers a brief history of media over the next ten years.
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
(Source: PAMNET-L)

The Google Print Controversy: a Bibliography
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, this bibliography lists freely available online works about the Google Print project and those who contend with it.
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25
/the-google-print-controversy-a-bibliography/
(Source: Open Access News)

Innovators of Our Time
Smithsonian magazine lists 35 “people who made a difference,” including Bill Gates, Edward O. Wilson, Tim Berners-Lee, and James Watson.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/toccurrent.shtml

Memeorandum
Memorandum is a news site that gathers commentary from blogs and other news sources.
http://www.memeorandum.com/
(Source: Scripting News)

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
PRST-PER is APS's newest, open access journal.
http://prst-per.aps.org/
(Source: PAMNET-L)

The Worst Jobs in Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/806ffb24
a5f27010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Google Makes Public Domain Books Accessible To The World
Google Print Unveils Collection of Public Domain Books from Libraries at University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and the New York Public Library.
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_publicdomain.html

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Received October 22 - November 4, 2005