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Library News & Notes
November 19, 2004

Notes

Garrett will be away Monday, November 22 through Friday, November 26.
Please send article and book requests to Jason next week
(jason@rowland.harvard.edu). Happy Thanksgiving

Internet Sites of the Week

Internet Sites of the Week
Blogs and Feeds for Information Dissemination and Knowledge Management This past week, I participated in a panel at the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST&T) Annual Meeting. Slides from my presentation can be downloaded at:
http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/resources/library/images/asist_04.pdf.
Jessica Baumgart, Harvard news librarian, spoke about feeds
( http://pws.prserv.net/usinet.jkbaumg/presentations/feedskm.pdf),
while Christina Pikas of Johns Hopkins talked about blogs for personal knowledge management, an outline of which can be found here:
http://asistkblogpanel.blogspot.com/2004/11/christinas-slides-in-outline-form.html.
Christina and Jessica contributed a great deal of material to a blog for the panel as we were preparing for the session over the last few months
( http://asistkblogpanel.blogspot.com).

Building with Books
A group of students and librarians at MIT created an exhibit (a bedroom) out of discarded books. (Don’t get any ideas for Rowland library books, however.)
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/classes/bookbuild/
(Source: Library Juice)

CiteULike
CiteULike is similar to del.icio.us in that it enables scientists to bookmark and create libraries of papers that interest them. Additionally, you can look at other people's citations, browse by category and receive updates via RSS.
http://www.citeulike.org/
(Source: nodalpoint.org)

Google Scholar
Evidently Google has devised a service that selectively searches content for journal articles and books and tracks which references cite each other. It’s in beta and shows a lot of potential, especially for those who seek an all-in-one interface for searching the literature. Lots of duplicate references and no order to results mar their approach, however. Check it out at http://scholar.google.com (Source: SPARC Open Access Forum). For more about Google Scholar, see the N.Y.Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html?oref=login,
Search Engine Watch,
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3437471
, and critiques by ResourceShelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/11/wow-its-google-scholar.html
, and Traffick,
http://www.traffick.com/2004/11/google-scholar-vs-real-scholarship.asp.
(Sources: Library Juice, Open Access News)

The Paris Review - The DNA of Literature
The Paris Review has opened up access to some fifty years of interviews with writers such as T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Dorothy Parker - in all, more than 300 pieces in .pdf. Listed alphabetically or browsable by decade of publication.
http://theparisreview.org/literature.php
(Sources: Open Access News, Librarian’s Index to the Internet)

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Received November 13 - 19, 2004