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Scarecrow Press, known for its extensive, library-friendly humanities backlist and particularly for its focus on music and film reference books, has just embarked on two important publishing endeavors that librarians—especial (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb:
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the abilit (Read More)
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Time for this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is (Read More)
Oct 28, 2009
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced the launch of Google Music. This new service is powered by Lala and MySpace's iLike. Other partners include Gracenote and imeem, Pandora and Rhapsody. Google has also partnered with the major music label (Read More)
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Check out the events on tap in this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry (Read More)
Library Journal - New Librarians:
As LJ's just released 2009 Placements & Salaries Survey shows, the tough economy is playing out in LIS hiring as well. Even before the general economy's bloodletting of 2009, 2008 graduates were hit hard. Job searches for 200 (Read More)
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News Feed:
A recent Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant (see News, p. 13, for other grants) is paving the way for a peer-to-peer (P2P) approach to open source library system support for public libraries. King County Li (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a bunch of great events to our guide this week. The one we're most excited about (of course) is our own ReadWrite Read-Time Web Summit, which takes place this coming Thursday in Mountain View. You can download th (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced a major expansion of its Flu Trends program which monitors searches for Flu-related symptoms on Google's search engine to predict Flu outbreaks. Until now, Google only made the data it gathered from sear (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced that it is integrating its Content ID system, which alerts YouTube's 1,000 partners when one of their videos or audio tracks is being used without authorization, and YouTube Insight, the analytics packag (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've all seen how semantic technologies improve search results, but rarely do we see those results put to use in such a targeted way. Jens Tellefsen, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy at NetBase Solutions spoke to ReadWri (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last year, Google Knol launched to a lot of hype and skepticism. While, at first, it looked like a possible Wikipedia-challenger, in reality, it didn't attract a lot of users and attention, even though some of the articles on (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Here is this week's ReadWriteWeb events guide. Don't forget to download the calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events (Read More)
Library Journal - Casey/Stephens: The Transparent Library:
We think it's good news that the Rangeview Library District, CO, is experimenting in one of its branches with an alternative to Dewey. MC: I started highlighting Dewey's failings when I was helping build and open a new branch (Read More)
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The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest version of the Christian Bible in book form, and, according to many scholars, one of the world's greatest written treasures. The actual leaves and fragments from the book are in the British (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a few good events to our schedule this week. So, pull up your calendars and block off days for the ones that match your interests. This events guide is a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every w (Read More)
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One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by de (Read More)
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According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren't interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Are you itching to get out of the office and network with your peers? Why not head out to one of the venues listed in our roundup of upcoming social Web events. The events guide is a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We p (Read More)
Annoyed Librarian:
Just a thought in passing before I begin. As is probably obvious to a lot of you, I get some of my blog fodder from LIS News (as well as Library St... (Read More)
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