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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 8, 2009
 Given my near obsession with the swine flu, I found this graphic history and information overview of it both interesting and educational -- hope you do, too! (no vaccine available yet at my doctor's).More as it happens, while covering one's cough, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 7, 2009
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 7, 2009
 The Modern Language Association (MLA) just signed an agreement with Serials Solutions (part of ProQuest) to include the MLA International Bibliography in the Summon™ web-scale discovery service. This is big, because it means that, using Summon, researchers can search the contents of the MLA Bibliography at the article level, along with the rest of a library's collections, in a single search. As in, pretty much what every researcher would like. MLA is a huge addition for Summon, given its credibility and popularity with scholarly researchers. Who will be next? (here's the current ...Read More
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 6, 2009
 H.W. Wilson has provided free access to their suite of 5 art databases, including: Art Full Text, Art Museum Image Gallery, Art Index Retrospective, The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, and Cinema Image Gallery -- just click here. ...Read More Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 5, 2009
 Here's a quick way to get perspective: take a look at these satellite images taken by the European Space Agency and NASA last month, and put up at the Guardian (UK) site. Now doesn't the latest thing that disgruntled (annoyed, disgusted, peeved, angered, irritated, etc.) you seem insignificant in comparison? If not, try going to this little news item, and all will be well again. More as it happens, and on to 28, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 31, 2009
 In honor of Halloween, I'm sharing with you the scariest video I have ever seen online. Be warned: if you have a weak stomach you should avoid this. It is both long and horrifying. More as it happens less frighteningly than this, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 30, 2009
 If I see one more instance of someone using the phrase, “doing more with less” about libraries whose budgets have been drastically cut, I think I’m going to vomit. I know my blood pressure soars and I’m afraid my head is going to explode whenever I see it. I find it insulting in the extreme to be told that, despite an unprecedented (since the 1930’s) economic downturn (aka, “depression”), we in libraries can merrily just do more, with so much less. Let’s just buckle down, put our noses to the grindstone, pitch in, work smarter, join forces, and reconcile ourselves to the notion that for some time to come, libraries are going to have to do LESS with less. The halcyon days of plenty a...Read More Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 29, 2009
 So last night I had my second sleep study done, and it was much more comfortable and easier than the first, done 10 years ago. I have sleep apnea and, based on the results of that first sleep study, have used a CPAP ever since -- for apnea-sufferers, it is truly life transforming.There are so many sleep health centers in the area now that I was able to go to one just 15 minutes from my house. It was quite a fascinating experience: I got wired up with electrodes all over the place (including the top...Read More Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 24, 2009
 My colleague Debbie Kelley-Milburn sent me this one, and it seems like a perfect site to click on a Saturday night: Web Site Story.More as it happens, to-night! Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 22, 2009
 Just got back from an all-day workshop at the Harvard Law School and am totally jazzed. It was a Youth Policies Working Group Meeting: Youth and Information Dissemination: Information Quality, Reputation, and Privacy, sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, and was the first in a series of workshops that over the coming year will explore "core policy issues that emerge from youth's information and communications technology (ICT) practices," as part of the ...Read More
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Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 21, 2009
More as it happens, socially, Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 20, 2009
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