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09 Nov 09

News: The Interdisciplinary Science Library - Inside Higher Ed

Libraries as leasders in interdisciplinary research and mentions the University of Utah's Uspace as an example.

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20 Oct 09

TC Media » Blog Archive » The Bethel College Polar Dip WCCO-TV 1974

WCCO’s Jim Newman goes out to Arden Hills to report on Bethel College’s Polar Dip in 1974. Introduced by Dave Moore. Watch for Dave and Bill Carlson at the end of this report.

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07 Oct 09

College technology 'catching up' with students - USATODAY.com

New technologies used in teaching featured in USAToday on Oct 05, 2009 by Kathleen Gray and Robin Erb. Includes schools giving out iPods and Kindles.

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06 Oct 09

The Vook: A Picture Book, but the Pictures Move - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

In a book-bending experiment combining film and prose, Simon & Schuster and Vook, a multimedia company that produces video content for books, are releasing four digital titles in which links to short video segments are seamlessly interspersed throughout the text.

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08 Sep 09

TIMELINE: Internet Turns 40 Today… or Does It? - ABC News

General timeline of Internet with reference to book by Michael A. Banks, On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and It's Founders".

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26 Aug 09

Association of Research Libraries :: Libraries and the Tasini Case

2001 Decision that upholds freelance authors right to be compensated for additional publication of their work such as in databases like Lexis Nexis. Also details the portion of copyright that deals with collected works like newspapers and magazines.

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10 Aug 09

Column: We believe in evolution — and God - Opinion - USATODAY.com

Article in USA Today from August 10, 2009. Karl Giberson is a professor at Eastern Nazarene College, co-president of the BioLogos Foundation and author of Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. Darrel Falk is a professor at Point Loma Nazarene University, co-president of the Biologos Foundation and author of Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology.

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20 Jul 09

YouTube - Digital Library of Congress

News interview for Voice of America about the Library of Congress' Digital Projects. From 2008. Addresses Middle East and African audience.

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07 Jul 09

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

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27 May 09

The Science Of Spirituality

Links to NPR stories regarding the intersection of Science and Religion.

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29 Apr 09

Copyright Battle Looms for Docs Who 'Grew Up Google' - ABC News

Open Access reaches the public regarding medical research literature. This makes the problem more tangible than previous arguments in the library community and may help the general public understand the problem.

Published April 22, 2009.

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22 Apr 09

U.N.'s World Digital Library Goes Online - washingtonpost.com

Washington Post article on the World Digital Library. Good illustration of the value of Digital Collections for the World's cultural heritage.

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21 Apr 09

CW 11 Files Copyright Claim at Improv Everywhere

Posting about local news station that used YouTube video to report news and then later filed a DMCA complaint against the original creators when they posted the news report using their content.

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02 Apr 09

Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones

Database link to Article from New York Times March 25, 2005 pg A. 1. about soft tissue found in T-rex bones extracted from Montana in 2003. Written by John Noble Wilford.

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24 Mar 09

They are Scribd | Technology | Los Angeles Times

Description of Scribd, the online document storage and sharing service. Mentioned as the YouTube of documents. Includes the same motivation to use it as an institutional repository would.

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06 Mar 09

The Kindle 2 e-Reader - Video Library - The New York Times

Clip of David Pogue's review of the Amazon Kindle 2 and its competition with the book.

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The Museum of Modern Art Enhances Its Web Site - NYTimes.com

Digitizing and using social media on their Websites, museums have captured the interest and admiration of their patrons. Specifically mentions Walker Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum as leaders of this movement.

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Opinion | Academic libraries foster key skills in next generation | Seattle Times Newspaper

Opinion column in the Seattle Times about the value of academic libraries. Authors Betsy Wilson, dean of U of Washington Libraries and Erika Linke associate dean for libraries at Carnegie Mellon.

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