May 2003
Friday 30 May 2025
- Mixed-Bag Special 03.05.30 - :: Thank you to Teri Vogel (William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University) for bringing to Randy's attention the following: The Chronicle of Higher Education's Colloquy Live for Wednesday, June 4th, 1:00 pm EST, is about Academic Blogging: "Do Web... (10:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 28 May 2025
- Sci/Tech Web Awards 2003 - Scientific American has announced its Sci/Tech Web Awards 2003. Fifty sites were chosen from ten different subject categories. Winners from 2002 and 2001 are also available. (From: Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends)... (12:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 May 2025
- A civil engineering departmental blog/BlogTalk Conference in Vienna - http://www.hyperorg.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/693 (23:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries - :: Feel like flying to Finland for fun and fulfillment? Plan to attend the 2003 Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments, 8-9 September 2003, in Espoo, Finland.The conference is aimed at promoting scientific discussion and information exchange on... (14:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Mixed-Bag Special - :: "Scientific papers that are not widely read and that lack any great influence can end up being classed as high-impact, claim researchers in California". Read the story here. :: Karlin Lillington recently attended the ISC Symposium in Switzerland, and... (00:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 25 May 2025
- Farewell to PDA's? - Do you own a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)? I don't, but have been thinking about it for some time. The University of Alberta Library offers a guide to resources and library services for handheld users, and Geoff maintains a good,... (11:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 23 May 2025
- New Students Turning Away from Computer Science - :: An interesting article in 22 May 2025 NYTimes discusses the declinining enrolments in computer science studies since the dot com bust in 2000. (If ID and PW required, use podbay.)... (17:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Blogging Presentation for Faculty at the University of Alberta - Randy and I presented a session this afternoon on edublogging to various faculty, teaching staff, and librarians at the University of Alberta. I think the session went very well, and we were grateful to have so many questions and to... (11:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 22 May 2025
- Researchers Able to Stop, Then Restart Light - A team of researchers at Harvard has discovered a way to slow the speed of light to a complete stop, and then restart it again. The team is led by Lene Vestergaard Hau. Previously, Lau and her colleagues reduced the... (11:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 21 May 2025
- Reviewing Science Reference Books for Library Journal - From STS-L (discussion listserv of STS): "Library Journal is looking for reviewers who write well and who have a strong background in the sciences. I especially need reviewers in the areas of science history, general science, biology, natural history, chemistry,... (16:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Einstein Archive - I'm still out of commission on account of the flu. I took a little time this morning to look through Einstein's Archives Online. It's quite amazing to be able to read through the lecture notes and papers of one of... (11:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 May 2025
- Teaching Resources for the Sciences - While at home this morning, doing battle with a tenacious flu bug, I was listening to the webcast of "Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications" and learned of these two learning object repositories: 1) iLumina: iLumina... (22:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
- Mixed-Bag Special - :: D-Lib Magazine has a thought-provoking article by James W Marcum, entitled Visions: The Academic Library in 2012. Marcum provides a analysis of twelve papers which were winners of an essay contest on this topic, and provides links to most... (16:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 19 May 2025
- A Dictionary of Units of Measurement - Russ Rowlett, Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has gathered a wealth of knowledge in his online A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. If you are looking to... (11:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 17 May 2025
- Various - :: Geoff and I collaborated on an article which was published in the v49 n2(2003) issue of Feliciter: please read Throw Another Blog on the Wire: Libraries and The Weblogging Phenomena. Your comments and feedback are welcome and encouraged. Please... (21:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 16 May 2025
- Online Exhibitions - :: Recent exhibitions from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Wonder Bound: Rare Books on Early Museums:"Why are centuries-old natural history books vital to scientific research? Our scientists consult early printed materials to compare historical descriptions with modern specimens. These researchers use... (10:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 15 May 2025
- Stuff of Interest - :: The Internet Resources column in the latest issue of C&RL; News covers horticulture. :: This past January, LITA identified the Top Technology Trends of the moment. Of interest are PDAs and wireless. :: "The Engines of Our Ingenuity is... (23:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 14 May 2025
- Interesting Sites and Stats - :: From the ASEE web site: "ASEE Directory of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges has been updated to include the results of the 2002 survey. This directory provides a detailed profile of 358 U.S. and Canadian schools offering undergraduate and... (17:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 13 May 2025
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Making its way around the listservs today:Lund University Libraries today launches the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org), supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute (http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/), along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition,... (11:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 12 May 2025
- Science Liaison Librarian position at U Calgary - The University of Calgary Library has a position open for a full-time science liaison librarian, term position from June 2 - December 31, 2003. See below.... (14:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- 1) Academic Fraud; 2) New journal from Public Library of Science - :: An interesting article in The Education Guardian weekly discusses about academic fraud, and cites a U Minnesota study of 4,000 researchers in >100 faculties. The study "found that one in three scientists plagiarised, 22% handled data "carelessly" and 15%... (14:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 11 May 2025
- Botanique and Invasive Species - The Librarian's Index the Internet (RSS) should be a regular read in your newsreader or your browsing routine. A few new biology-related links as seen on lii.org: Botanique: Portal to Gardens, Arboreta, and Nature Sites A directory of more than... (13:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 9 May 2025
- Tabling of the Bill Creating the Library and Archives of Canada - A new Bill was tabled in the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, to create the new Library and Archives of Canada. The National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada will merge to form the new institution.... (16:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- New Subject Web Sites, Spam in Depth - Subject web sites of interest:HortiPlex Plant Database:"...contains plant images and data as well as links to information sources, images and vendors at other sites." Features: "101,133 records; 78,477 links; 50,744 taxa; 50,389 cultivars; 14,409 images/image links; 1,651 vendor links" EngNet... (12:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 8 May 2025
- Online Exhibitions at Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library features a number of great online exhibitions. Here's a sampling of their current offerings: Centuries of Civil Engineering - "An Exhibition of rare books celebrating the heritage of civil engineering, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary... (17:03 | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 7 May 2025
- The Wireless Librarian - Is your library wireless, or preparing to become wireless? Bill Drew has created The Wireless Librarian, and notes:The purpose of this page is to provide a space for documenting my experiences using wireless and to provide resources for other libraries... (00:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 6 May 2025
- RSS channels for engineering, math and computing resources - "EEVL has recently announced three new RSS Channels which provide details of the latest additions to the EEVL catalogue in each main subject section (Engineering, Mathematics & Computing). RSS, which stands for RDF Site Summary, is a technology which allows... (16:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 May 2025
- EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine and RAM: Recent Advances in Manufacturing database - Roddy McLeod sent a note about EEVL's E-Journal Search Engine. The Engine indexes >100 full-text, free engineering e-journals, most of which are available w/o registration, and are not indexed elsewhere. The search engine is very simple: you can search by... (10:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 May 2025
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - the liaison librarians' challenge - The latest buzz-word in scientific, medical and engineering research, or should I say buzz-prefix, is "nano". Nanostructures, nanotubes, nanoparticles, nanocrystals, nano-optoelectronics, nanoscale, nanofabrication, nanotribology - as Aaron Brown might say, "and the list...goes on." In recent nanotechnology news, research on... (01:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)