1. Cheaper Books Come at a High Cost to Worthy Literature 1 hour ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

In the digital age, hardcover books may seem like quaint anachronisms. They are heavy, expensive and do not run the latest apps or send text messages. If someone controls the market for them, does it really matter? “When a book is released in hardcover, it signals its importance,” said ...

2. What I want to be when I grow up, revisited 1 hour ago   permalink

FamManLib / Family Man Librarian

I’ve been giving a lot of thought again to the question, first posed in a blog post last year, of what I want to be when I grow up. I’m being more than a little facetious here, but what I mean is that I’ve been on a particular (although somewhat varied) career path for [...]

3. Beyond words: the power of image & sound 2 hours ago   permalink

Jcomfort / Dr. Charles Best Secondary School Library

En memoria de los Desaparecidos . El otro Río de la Plata. Prohibido permanecer en este lugar: éste no es río del olvido. Presentación de Silvia Kuschnir. ...

4. Wikipedia denies losing editiors 4 hours ago   permalink

Www.telegraph.co.uk

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is contesting the accuracy of a recent study which claims that 49,000 volunteer editors of the online encyclopaedia have left in the first three months of 2009.

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Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :   Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Denies Site is ‘Losing’ Thousands of Volunteer Editors

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5. Thanksgiving: bedankt voor alles, mijn vaderland! 3 hours ago   permalink

Www.zbdigitaal.nl

Kerst, Halloween en Valentijnsdag! Niets mooier dan de import van al die lamlendige commerciefeestjes uit de Verenigde Staten! America! America! God shed His grace on thee!

6. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 5 hours ago   permalink

Aaron Schmidt / Walking Paper

via 42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com Circa 1959, Manhattan, NY: Thanksgiving Day – Macy’s Parade. Spaceman is seen as it comes down Broadway in the annual Macy Day Parade. — Image by Bettmann/CORBIS

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UN Library Reference Team / UN Pulse Thanksgiving Day and Eid al-Adha   —  The UN Headquarters in New York will be closed Thursday, 26 November, in observance of Thanksgiving and Friday, 27 November, in observance of Eid al-Adha. No further items will be added to UN Pulse until Monday, 30 November 2009....

7. Thankful 3 hours ago   permalink

Anna / TangognaT

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for the existence of the movie The Expendables. How awesome is this?! That is something to look forward to in 2010.

8. 10 Essential Elements 4 hours ago   permalink

Www.dataqualitycampaign.org

Although each state’s education system is unique, 10 elements are essential in a longitudinal data system. See the 2009 DQC Survey Results to view state progress on implementing a comprehensive longitudinal data system.

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ResourceShelf / ResourceShelf :   Data Quality — 2009 DQC Annual Survey Results

9. Production en masse d’écrans Pixel Qi dés Décembre. 5 hours ago   permalink

Www.blogeee.net

Les nouvelles s’accumulent au sujet de Pixel Qi, la société annonce sur son site que la production en masse de ses écrans démarrera dès le mois prochain. Il est prévu que les tout premiers écrans à sortir de la chaîne de production seront d’une diagonale de 10 pouces, et à destination de netbooks et d’ebooks. L&# ...

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David Rothman / TeleRead :   Pixel Qi: Mass production of screens set for next month—and we’re aiming for a $100 HDTV

10. Art Exhibition 6 hours ago   permalink

Interaction.ixda.org

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) present the first Interaction Exhibition, coinciding with the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia, February 4-7, 2010. This interaction design-inspired art exhibition will explore the concept of interaction: between people, with tools, with technology.

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Boxes and Arrows :   Engaging Interaction

11. Twittering politicians 7 hours ago   permalink

Wendy Reynolds / Slaw

Shaunna’s mention of TwitterCommons prompted me to point out poliTwitter , which aggregates federal and provincial politicians’ Twitter feeds. The interface is a tad clunky (the dropdown menus are awkward to use), but there’s lots here to like. Non-politicians tweeting on political issues are captured in the “community&# ...

12. “Deep Indexing” from ProQuest; Emerald Brings eBook and eJournal Content Together 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

1) ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing Content to Select Natural Science and Technology Resources Deep Indexing technology categorizes data represented in tables, maps, charts, graphs, photographs and other figures, allowing researcher to surface data not previously included in traditional article-level index records. Now, ProQuest has combined Deep ...

13. The Growing Importance of Curating, Sharing, and Re-Using Research Data 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Summary: Researchers in almost all disciplines now create data in digital form. These data can come in many guises: for example, the measurements recorded by environmental monitoring satellites, the products of collisions between fundamental particles, the sequences of entire genomes, the results of social science surveys and interviews,

14. It wasn't meant to be erotic... 8 hours ago   permalink

Tiny Little Librarian / tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com

My office is REALLY messy. Most children's librarians I know have messy offices. While most of our puppets and programming supplies are stored in another office, I have my own collection of puppets and quite a few teddy bears (I have a particular

15. Google collection: A start toward TeleRead? 9 hours ago   permalink

David Rothman / TeleRead

Since the early 1990s, I’ve been pushing for a well-stocked national digital library system. The Obama White House so far has ignored the TeleRead idea as recently presented in the Huffington Post (and forwarded to White House staffer Shin Inouye on Oct. 23). But could we be getting there anyway? Via the Reading [...]

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16. Augmented Reality to Be a $732 Million Market by 2014? 9 hours ago   permalink

Bibliofuture / LISNews

Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues? Full article in the NYT

17. Black Friday deals: Got any e-book ones to report? $137 LCD e-reader at New Egg 9 hours ago   permalink

David Rothman / TeleRead

Here’s a start. Go for it—while keeping in mind some eBabel-related caveats and other warnings from Slate: old news to TeleRead community members. For now, I’m intrigued by New Egg’s $137 deal for an Aluratek Librie reader, a $63 discount (excludes a $10 AC charger). The Amazon price is $169.99. The screen uses LCD technology (no [...]

18. Give a Thanksgiving gift – help a 10th grade teacher 10 hours ago   permalink

Paul Biba / TeleRead

On October 6 I posted about a 10th grade teacher who needs a netbook for her Ethnic Lit class. She still needs $263 to get the computer. You can contribute to this cause here at DonorsChoose.org. Here is reprint of my original post. DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that connects potential donors to [...]

19. Jive Turkey Talk 10 hours ago   permalink

Josh / Goblin cartoons

This is kind of a strange Thanksgiving for me. Lots of change going on in my life. Because of that, I feel it’s especially important for me to give thanks and acknowledge all the good in my life. I’m thankful for my daughter, Morgan. She’s the light of my life, always in my thoughts and my [...]

20. NPR Book Lists 10 hours ago   permalink

Bibliofuture / LISNews

NPR has these two articles: Big And Beautiful: Best Gift Books of 2009 The 11 Best Cookbooks Of 2009