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I’ve been playing with Bing (Microsoft’s new search service) ever since learning about it not long ago, and I think I’m in love (again. Hmm. I seem to be falling in love with the newest, latest trends in online gadgetry. Oh yes! That’s right! That makes me normal!).

 

Bing replaces Live Search, which replaced MSN Search. The question in everyone&rsq...Read More

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What: see title of this posting
When: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.       
Where: The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago
Why: To learn about ProQuest's new interface.
How: Register now at: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/site/forms/alabfst.shtml
(space is limited, so sign up soon if you want in)
Follow-Up: tell me about it! I’m not able to be at ALA, so I’m depending upon the kindness of readers to tell me what the new interface is like!

More as it happens, unifiedly,
Cheryl

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So Google is rolling out Google Voice -- "a service that gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail that is easy as email, and many enhanced calling features like call blocking and screening, voicemail transcripts, call conferencing, international calls, and more" over the next few weeks (GrandCentral users have access now, the rest of us will soon). As blase as I've been about a number of new technologies, the iPhone included, Google Voice has captured my interest. I'm aware of many of the pitfalls (take a look at PC World's article, ...Read More

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Web 2.0+ technological developments have been very good to me in many ways. Witness the fact that I do love to blog, love it, love it, love it. However, at the same time, several social-networking phenomena just haven't caught my imagination; Facebook being one (and Second Life definitely being another). My profile in Facebook is remarkably low key, work oriented, inactive, and ... drab? I have written on a few walls (feeling very daring doing so) and have amassed a goodly number of friends, which is very nice, but I have to confess I don't log in that much and if you send me a "gift" or an invitation to join a group... I'm probably not going to see it for a long time. I'm not much of a joiner, in that sense, and frankly, I'm so busy during the week that jus...Read More

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Quick question for you all: has anyone’s library advertised your library or library services in Facebook? I’m not talking about having a library profile, but actual targeted advertising by network.

If you have, would you please let me know if and how successful (or not) it was in reaching users? If you don’t want to post it, please e-mail me: claguard@fas.harvard.edu.

More as it happens, socially,
Cheryl

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Alexander Street Press is at is again: they’ve just released Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images in Texts, a collection drawn from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning line of local history books, with images and texts created by thousands of local experts. “Individually, each title represents a small slice of American history; collectively, they offer a massive tapestry documenting every aspect of the American Story.”

Currently the collection includes about 100,000 pages and 175,000, all browsable and searchable. The plan is for the file t...Read More

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World Book has developed 3 new Digital Libraries  -- Early Peoples, Living Green, and Inventions & Discoveries -- to act as an interactive complement to their newest print reference sets. Each digital library includes all the content from the print set, PLUS animations, videos, interactive activities, Web sites, lesson plans, and links to encyclopedic content. The libraries are designed to appeal to those learners who do well in an interactive environment.

And you can try all three here for free, through July 6th --

Just go to: http://www.worldbooko...Read More

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Does your library own the print versions of reference content included in Salem Press's health and history databases? If so, according to a new Salem Press program, you are entitled to online access to that content at no charge. What titles does this include? Here’s the list:

Magill's Medical Guide, Salem Health: Cancer, Psychology & Mental Health, Genetics & Inherited Diseases, Infectious Diseases & Conditions, Addictions & Substance Abuse, Nutrition & Eating Disorders, American History, American Leaders, World History, World Religions, African American His...Read More

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In response to the economic downturn, and in their on-going interest in learning more from their users, Alexander Street Press is giving away 50 free subscriptions to American History in Video – one in every state. 

If your library is selected, ASP will work with you to “build patron awareness,” in an effort to gather “solid, actionable knowledge about what works when libraries and publishers work together to drive usage.” They are calling this the 50-State Advisory Group – what they ask in return for the one-year free sub...Read More

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I've been away from the blog for a bit, because I actually took a week's vacation, during which I read pretty much non-stop. Given that I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Literature (that is not a typo) and thus cannot read serious fiction for enjoyment any longer, I long since gave up it up in favor of mystery fiction, and it was in that that I was immersed during my "disappearance."

I say "disappearance," since that's the word substituted for "vacation" in the books of one of my new favorite authors, Lisa Lutz (...Read More

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The British Isles and Ireland Collection from ProQuest includes The Guardian (1821-2003), ...Read More

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I got an e-mail from a ProQuest rep the other day about the new ProQuest Global Training Newsletter. I’m ashamed to say that I don’t usually get excited about newsletters, either the printed or online kind, but I took a look at this electronic Newsletter and several exclamations and multiple link clicks later, it had impressed me a lot (my interest is heightened because of the reduced funding travel and professional development funding just about every library is experiencing in the coming year).

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