Pgstreby's Favorite Links from Diigo

Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Online Storage, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Send Files

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:16:32 -0000

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I've never heard of Box.net. posted by pgstreby

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The Corner on National Review Online

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:06:41 -0000

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UM-Flint Thompson Library

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:43:57 -0000

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Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet - New York Times

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:05:47 -0000

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Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.

Although the outcome of Tuesday’s vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost.

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How toilet-to-tap programs could help preserve our water supply. - By Eilene Zimmerman - Slate Magazine

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:37:32 -0000

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The "Google generation" not so hot at Googling, after all

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:05:28 -0000

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A new UK report on the habits of the "Google Generation" finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be. For instance, are teens better with technology than older adults? Perhaps, but they also "tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine."

The report (PDF), sponsored by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, tries to get beyond the stereotypes to find out just how good young people are with information technology, and what the implications are for schools and libraries. Based on log analysis from British Library web sites and search tools, along with a "virtual" longitudinal study based on literature reviews from the past 30 years, the report explodes a number of myths about students today.

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Seth Leibsohn on Gaza on National Review Online

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:56:08 -0000

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Planet Gore on National Review Online

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:39:03 -0000

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How Many Lobbyists... [Henry Payne]

...Tim Carney asks, does it take to change the light bulb.

Had Thomas Edison employed the same business strategy as his 21st-Century heirs at General Electric, he would have lobbied Congress to outlaw the candle in 1879 when he perfected and patented the light bulb.

Environmentalism, once again, turns out to be a for-profit business.

On Dec. 18, the day the bill cleared its biggest hurdle and passed the Senate, GE’s stock jumped 8.8 percent, and Philips jumped 2.1 percent...GE makes its CFLs and other fancy light bulbs in China, while it makes its incandescents in the United States. The light bulb law will ship more American jobs offshore, shift manufacturing to China’s dirtier and less efficient factories, and increase shipping distances. Add in the mercury (in the CFL bulbs), and it’s not clear how good this law is for the environment. Its clearest benefit is to the companies who lobbied for it.

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salvidor dali painting of Christ - Google Search

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:06:46 -0000

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Links in stickynotes - links - Diigo Community | Diigo Groups Forum

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:02:37 -0000

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FirstSearch: ArticleFirst Advanced Search

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:51:54 -0000

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Examples of how libraries can use Diigo

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:23:24 -0000

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Here are some examples of electronic resources I've bookmarked for my library. If you expand all, you can follow the "more information" links to the bibliographic records in our catalog. (If you don't understand my library jargon, that's okay; just follow the links and it should be clear what I'm talking about.)

And this is just the tip of the iceberg; annotations could include sound and video clips, links to other suggested resources ("see also..."), hyperlinked search strings for the library catalog, WorldCat.org, Diigo, Google, or other sources, plus about a zillion things that I can't even think of.
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Here are some examples of electronic resources I've bookmarked for my library. If you expand all, you can follow the "more information" links to the bibliographic records in our catalog. (If you don't understand my library jargon, that's okay; just follow the links and it should be clear what I'm talking about.)
And this is just the tip of the iceberg; annotations could include sound and video clips, links to other suggested resources ("see also..."), hyperlinked search strings for the library catalog, WorldCat.org, Diigo, Google, or other sources, plus about a zillion things that I can't even think of. posted by pgstreby

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The Letter D

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:29:52 -0000

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John Frum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:32:44 -0000

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"The John Frum cult first emerged in Vanuatu in the 1930s, when the island was jointly ruled by Britain and France as the New Hebrides." BBC ARTICLE Though there may be "Frumm" or "Frumme" or "Fromme" which are common German/Jewish family names, much like 'Frum' may have been 'From.' posted by pgstreby

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John Frum (or Jon Frum; John From) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is depicted as an American World War II serviceman, who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow him. He is sometimes portrayed as black, sometimes as white; from David Attenborough's report of an encounter: "'E look like you. 'E got white face. 'E tall man. 'E live 'long South America."^[1]

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Health and Wellness Resource Center - Home

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:40:31 -0000

A great source for traditional and alternative medicine

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Edit My Profile - Others | Diigo

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:44:46 -0000

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Leave My Spoor

At the risk of sounding out of touch, I admit I had to look up "spoor." To be honest, it sounded slightly obscene. Maybe "Leave my footprints" would be clearer to most users. posted by pgstreby

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Science & Math: Online Resources

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:06:27 -0000

This is what our subject pages will look like.

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Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian's worst nightmare. - By Jacob Leibenluft - Slate Magazine

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:46:33 -0000

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Put a tag cloud of the most widely held library works on your Web site or blog

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:49:02 -0000

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The “OCLC Top 1000” list presents the top works most widely held by libraries. First published in the fall of 2004, the list was most recently updated in 2005. The list reflects true classics and canonical works of western culture. The list also shows the extent to which libraries strive to meet the needs of their readers, by offering books in high demand in any given year. The list contains classic works such as the Bible, utilitarian works such as the U.S. Census and also popular works such as Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation.

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ScienceDirect - Home

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:57:17 -0000

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