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Serenity Now! – Library Lullaby
"iSerenity offers a relaxing web-based experience that delivers soothing sounds and images designed to reduce stress and calm nerves. Use iSerenity while at work or at home. You can even leave it running in the background while you work on your computer." I just found Library Lullaby, which will provide background noise of, well, a…
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Google Unveils Cellphone Version of Digital-Book Collection
As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Google has just made 1.5 million of their scanned books and made them available in a format suitable for reading on mobile devices. Oddly, at this moment getting there is not an option from their official iPhone app, nor does visiting http://books.google.com on the iPhone automatically redirect…
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New Journal: International Journal of Library and Information Science
Not entirely sure we need another one, but the International Journal of Library and Information Science will launch in May 2009. Oh, well this is good – it’s an Open Access publication. Grr, they offer email alerts for TOC, but no RSS. Doesn’t look like any of their titles do.
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Magic Sharing Box – USE IT!
Wow, hard to believe it was 2.5 years ago that I wrote about The Pig and the Box! Surely you remember the story of the pig named Pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything? Well this kids book about the folly of Digital Rights Management (aka DRM) is being reprinted (here’s the…