Academic Libraries

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  The Hindu - Property Plus - Chennai — Authority: 197
  Public libraries are closing and private ones have disappeared long ago. Reading habit among college students is almost dead. Except the text books they don’t seem to be opening a magazine or a novel or even indepth articles in newspaper ...
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• Whats the place of futurists?

  
  Blue Skunk Blog — Authority: 122
  Predicting the future is easy. It’s trying to figure what’s going on now that’s hard. Fritz Dresser One of the more interesting characters in literature is Cassandra from Homers Illiad . She was a Trojan woman so babe-i-licious that the god Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy. But when Cassie told horny ...
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• The Library as eBook Provider

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 642
  Project Gutenberg News has posted an item about the growing popularity of eBook access from libraries. Here are a few stats included in the post: + The New York Public library currently offers over 17,000 eBook titles, just a fraction of their 800,000 circulating print titles. Comparing these numbers, it’s ...
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• Dr. Joseph Santelli Addresses the Dental Needs of Baby Boomers

  
  Dental Analyzer — Authority: 136
  DATELINE: DUXBURY AND COHASSET, MASSâ?¦ Dr. Joseph Santelli, DDS, PC of the Center for Progressive Dentistry in Duxbury addresses the dental needs of the Baby Boomer population by offering free educational seminars about the wonders of Mini Dental Implants. Dr. Santelliâ??s â??Purple Cowâ? Mini Dental Implant ...
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• Online Commenters Beware: "Sock-Puppeting" Could Get You Arrested

  
  Gothamist — Authority: 796
  Posting online comments under multiple aliases is apparently against the law, at least in the case of Raphael Haim Golb, 49, who is suspected of using 50 different e-mail addresses and monikers — some of the names belonging to academic rivals — to bolster his arguments about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ...
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• Archiving Australian Contemporary Small Press

  
  izrock — Authority: 129
  I am helping the National Library in Canberra to broaden its Australian independently published articles collection. We as publishers are legally bound to deposit to the library when we publish in Australia, but how many of us have done that, I know only a couple of my editions are with libraries. I want to help ...
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• Changing music font in an existing score

  
  Sibelius Blog — Authority: 121
  Movable music type (Courtesy hithro on Flickr) One of the simplest ways to make your scores stand out from the crowd is to adjust the fonts used. Sibelius makes it really easy to change music fonts at any point in a project, and there are two ways to do it. Edit All Fonts The simplest way to change the music font ...
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• Library 2.0 Gang 11/09: The Cataloguing Services Landscape

  
  http://www.alatechsource.org/blog — Authority: 479
  More... Until fairly recently it has been all quiet on the shared cataloguing front. Cataloguing departments taking records from the Library of Congress, other National libraries, or one of many other libraries that share their Z39.50 connections. Many libraries also being members of an organisation to share the ...
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• Genealogy…

  
  Generations Gone By's Weblog — Authority: 118
  So, where was I… Oh yes, I was once a genealogist, then my mother decided she needed to sell a house. So we painted and painted and put it on the market and sold it and she moved and moved and now she lives here. And my son decided he was tired of high school and so he graduated, and went off to college. And my ...
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• My Culture – The Diversity of British Culture and its Influences

  
  Spaghetti Gazetti — Authority: 151
  Coleshill Family of Schools Festival Monday 5th October - Friday 16th October 2009 B etween 5th-16th October, the Coleshill Family of Schools celebrated their joint work as a cluster of schools by holding an Multicultural / Celebrating Diversity Festival. The eight schools: Water Orton ...
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• Gossip Girl "They Shoot Humphreys, Don’t They?" spoiler with Dan, Olivia and Vanessa

  
  Gossip Girl Report — Authority: 127
  The CW is really trying to lead us to believe that Dan, Olivia and Vanessa are going to be the three involved in Monday night’s apparent “3some” on a new controversial episode of Gossip Girl “They Shoot Humphreys, Don’t They?” This clip is basically Dan ( Penn Badgley ) telling Vanessa ( ...
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• Library 2.0 Gang 11/09: The Cataloguing Services Landscape

  
  The Library 2.0 Gang — Authority:
  Until fairly recently it has been all quiet on the shared cataloguing front.  Cataloguing departments taking records from the Library of Congress, other National libraries, or one of many other libraries that share their Z39.50 connections.  Many libraries also being members of an organisation to share the ...
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• Libraries check out the eBook

  
  Project Gutenberg News — Authority: 397
  Across the U.S., thousands of libraries are embracing eBooks. No longer the familiar home of tomes and periodicals only, these foundations are now using new technology for more than just computerizing their catalogues. Libraries, like so many other businesses of the book, are eager to attract the digitally savvy new ...
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• Panel: On the Challenges of Implementing Library 2.0 Services

  
  michaelzimmer.org — Authority: 512
  On Tuesday, a group of librarians and information professions will be holding a panel discussion on “ The Challenges of Implementing Library 2.0 Services ” at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( ASIS&T ). On the Challenges of Implementing Library 2.0 ...
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• Are OSS ILSs redundant? Carl Grant and the SirsiDynix kerfuffle

  
  blog.ecorrado.us — Authority: 110
  Carl Grant, President of Ex Libris North America, has weighed in on the SirsiDynix - Open Source Software kerfuffle . For the most part I agree with Carl’s take. But I disagree with him and Clifford Lynch that the development of Open Source ILSs lead to un-necessary redundancies . Redundant solutions are a good ...
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• Home Schooling and its Effects on the Family

  
  Internet Business Promotion — Authority: 156
  According to the National Center For Education Statistics, almost 1.1 million children underwent home schooling in 2005 alone. That’s a lot of children. Once upon a time, homeschooling used to be a radical statement – something like a declaration of independence. It was the conservative Christians who advocated ...
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• Your Piano Method?

  
  Gearslutz.com — Authority: 480
  For most of us, ever owning or having the chance to use and record whenever we want, a top of the range Steinway D or Yamaha C7 Grand Piano is far from a reality. Even having the perfect room to house the piano and get the best sound out of it not to mention the need to keep it maintained is not an easy feat. Do ...
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• Tech Note: Code Frenzy

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 612
  Here’s a tech note, also known as an open thread, as I delve into the wealth of new goodies in PHP 5. At some point after installing our new server last year, our gracious, kind, and all-powerful web hosting company upgraded our version of PHP from version 4 to version 5 — but somehow I missed the memo. Imagine my ...
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• Hacking with couchdb - Linux Magazine (registration) (blog)

  
  Hacking — Authority: 142
  Linux Magazine (registration) (blog) Hack ing with couchdb Linux Magazine (registration) (blog) Working with couchdb is very straightforward. Theres virtually no setup involved and no complicated libraries to hassle with. Last week we started looking … Source : Hack ing - ...
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• New SDL_mixer Announced

  
  iDevGames — Authority: 110
  SDL_mixer is a cross-platform sample multi-channel audio mixer library. It supports any number of simultaneously playing channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music, mixed by the popular MikMod MOD, Timidity MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, and SMPEG MP3 libraries. This release features the following ...
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