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The evolution of my original outboard brain
Many many years ago I acquired a small digital voice recorder that soon became indispensable to me. It was a low-capacity Voice-it, and I think I had three over the years, each with more capacity than the last. For some reason VXI stopped making them, and now the VT-300 goes for a small fortune on…
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SUNY Press allows you to choose – $75 or $20
Sue Polanka at No Shelf Required notes that SUNY Press is now allowing customers to download frontlist titles as PDFs for only $20. Check her link for more details.
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My piled-up reading list
Getting pretty far behind on my reading list, but here are some recent titles that may also be of interest to you: Personality traits of individuals in different specialties of librarianship DOI: 10.1108/00220410810858056Journal of DocumentationVolume 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-286 Abstract This paper aims to investigate whether academic reference librarians, archivists, catalogers, distance education…
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One tough CAPTCHA!
Wow, here’s one of the tougher CAPTCHAs I’ve seen…: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2008-04-07-what-hath-captcha-wrought.html Technorati Tags: captcha
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‘Abortion’ is no longer a stopword
And now the Chronicle reports, The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health has reversed itself and will no longer block searches for the term “abortion” in its popular public health database Popline. Searches for the word had been blocked because of concerns over federal financing. Technorati Tags: censorship, Johns_Hopkins, Popline