Paper and Bookbinding: The Making of Diderot’s Encyclopédie
Speaker: Nancy Schrock, Conservator for Special Collections
Date & Time: Friday, March 19 1:00–2:00pm
Location: 14N-118, Institute Archives Reading Room
MIT Libraries’ book conservator, Nancy Schrock, discusses Diderot’s Encyclopédie as an example 18th century French papermaking and bookbinding.
This event is part of a series of events associated with Technology and Enlightenment, an exhibition in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) that explores one of the most important and controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raison...
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MIT Libraries News - March 11, 2010 Author: Heather Denny Tags: All news Archives MIT History Art Architecture Planning Events Exhibits Humanities
Hearing on Battling Extremism in the U.S.
The Senate subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities held a hearing Wednesday that discussed ways to counter violent extremism. According to Dr. Doug Stone: “This ideological war ends when the non-violent Muslims feel empowered and then cause the violent Islamists within their faith, to be marginalized.”
Among the many topics addressed, Islamist use of the internet for recruitment stood out. According to Gary Reid, Al-Qaeda was able to radicalize and recruit Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day Bomber, in only a couple of weeks. This short time "underscores the critical need to get in front of the r...
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HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront - March 11, 2010 Author: ztjohnso Tags: Terrorism & amp; Threats
Social Media Tools Guidelines & Best Practices
by Janice Flahiff
Thinking of using blogs, Twitter, texting, or other social media to educate, inform, or promote health topics, programs, or services?
CDC Social Media Guidlines may help with tips on these and other topics
* Button and Badge Requirements
*Micro-blogging Guidelines
*Text Messaging Guidelines
Need assistance with your research or have a pesky information need? Please do not hesitate to contact a Mulford Librarian.
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Mulford Library Blog - March 11, 2010 Author: Janice Tags: Resource of the Week blogs social_media texting
Women’s History Month, Part II
Emanie Nahm Sachs
As a child growing up in Bowling Green, she was a self-described ugly duckling whose conventional parents disparaged her attempts at music, painting, and writing. But Emanie Louise Nahm (1893-1981) rebounded. Snaring a job as a writer for the New York Times, she claimed to have rejected 26 marriage proposals before wedding Goldman Sachs partner Walter E. Sachs in 1917. While studying writing at Columbia University, Emanie began to publish short stories in popular magazines. By the end of her life, she had also published three novels, a memoir, and a biography of feminist icon Victoria Woodhul...
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Western Kentucky University Libraries Blog - March 11, 2010 Author: lynn.niedermeier Tags: Events
Project Muse Content Update: 3/11/10
The following 9 journals have been added to Project Muse so far in 2010: American Book Review American Studies Black Camera Canadian Theatre Review Collaborative Anthropologies Native South Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences Studies in American Naturalism
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Temple University Library Blog - March 11, 2010 Tags: New & Updated Electronic Resources
:O First-Ever Law Review Title With Emoticon?
The March 2010 issue of the University of Illinois Law Review includes this note, written by Katharine O'Connor: ":O OMG They Searched My Txts: Unraveling the Search and Seizure of Text Messages
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ZiefBrief - March 11, 2010 Author: Amy Wright
To be or not to be
Little kids are regularly asked - what do you want to be when you grow up? Some of us have yet to make that determination and we're well into being a grown up. NPR posted a fascinating look atthe jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.If you're thinking about what you'd like to do before the job becomes obsolete - check out the Georgia Career Information Center. It is a stand alone site that I'm sending you to through the listing in GAL...
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View from the library - March 11, 2010 Author: The Librarian
Nuclear Weapons in the Arctic
Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons: A Task Long Overdue
"The best scientific evidence suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in as little as 20 years."
This melting will open areas of ocean that military vessels can easily navigate through, creating a greater need for security in the North. On 18 February 2009 this need was emphasized when two Russian long range strategic bombers flew within 200 kilometers of Alaska during a training mission.
The Canadian Pugwash Group and the Rideau Institute are currently calling for action to be taken now to prevent conflict from occurring in the rapidly melting Arctic...
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HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront - March 10, 2010 Author: ztjohnso Tags: Nuclear & amp; Radiological Weapons
Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms
The Center for American Progress has released a report Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms which discusses how small arms and light weapons proliferation undermines security and development.
"The proliferation of small arms and light weapons is an immediate security challenge to individuals, societies, and states around the world and an enormous hurdle to sustainable security and development. Small arms fuel civil wars, organized criminal violence, and terrorist activities. They also undermine multimillion dollar development programs and other assistance to fragile states."
Fragile and failing states such as...
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HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront - March 10, 2010 Author: atrach Tags: New Reports Academic Federal Non-Government Organizations State Terrorist Organizations
SPIE Confirms Cooperation with MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
The SPIE has confirmed that they are fully cooperating with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy.
Because the SPIE, publisher of nine peer-reviewed journals, is allowing MIT to obtain copies of their final published articles from their website, authors do not need to submit their manuscripts in order for them to appear in DSpace@MIT. This will happen automatically.
To review other confirmed publisher responses to the policy, please see: Publishers and the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Publishers are being added to this web page as information becomes available.
Please send any questions about publishers not yet on...
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MIT Libraries News - March 10, 2010 Author: Ellen Duranceau Tags: All news Scholarly Communication
Join Us Friday, March 19 for the BG Gallery Hop
Join us Friday, March 19 for
The Bowling Green Gallery Hop at the Kentucky Museum
View over 150 incredible works of art by local & regional artists
4:00-8:00 pm
FREE ADMISSION
(Come over right after work!)
For more information, call 745-2594.
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Western Kentucky University Libraries Blog - March 10, 2010 Author: haiwang.yuan Tags: Events Latest News
Homegrown Extremism in the United States: Is it a Threat?
A Growing Terrorist Threat? Assessing "Homegrown" Extremism in the United States.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report earlier this week that address "homegrown extremism" in the United States. The report focused on "five events during the fall of 2009 which thrust concerns over “homegrown” terrorism—or extremist violence perpetrated by U.S. legal residents and citizens—into public view." According to the report, "this rash of arrests has important implications for policymakers and officials in charge of counterterrorism and homeland security because U.S. legal residents and ci...
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HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront - March 10, 2010 Author: tsobolev Tags: New Reports Borders & amp; Immigration Homeland Security Intelligence Terrorism amp; Threats
Census 2010 in Ohio--KSL Exhibit Cases
Portrait of America...that's the 2010 Census, and it's in our hands. Exhibit cases at KSL showcase census sheets from 1900 and show what the 2010 Census can do for Ohio.
Whether it's scientific research, employers, rent structures, or college &university tuition, grants, loans, the importance of census data is far-reaching. Exhibit cases display results of prior census data in maps of housing, nursing homes, college dorm residences and much more.
Our U.S. Constitution requires a census count of America, and it's vital that residents participate. A motto of U.S.Census 2010 is "we move forward when you mail it back."
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KSL News Blog - March 10, 2010 Tags: Events & News @KSL
NASA Archiving Social Media
NASA has started archiving items from social networking sites. Currently it is backing-up all NASA Twitter content. Plans are to
archive Facebook, YouTube and other sites in the future.NASA Images has teamed up with Archive-It
(also a service of The Internet Archive) to ensure that all of NASA’s online activity will be preserved for future research, curiosity,
and enjoyment. We have started by archiving 54 of NASA’s Twitter streams. These 54 streams will be updated once a month, archiving every tweet from every
stream. The next step is to archive nasa.gov, including all subdomains, and all of NASA...
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New - March 10, 2010
Omeka in the Cloud
News from OmekaThe Omeka team is reaching for the clouds. After more than a year of planning and development, we are very pleased to
announce the impending arrival of Omeka.net, a hosted web service that will bring standards-based online collections and exhibitions to the internet cloud. Be first in
line for an invitation to try the free Omeka.net Alpha, including a special bundle of plugins, themes, and storage, when it launches in April.Omeka.net will expand
Omeka’s current offerings with a completely web-based service. No server or programming experience required. Similar to services offered by WordPre...
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New - March 10, 2010
NASA ADS Citation Metadata
If Google can find something, that goes quite a way to making it discoverable. The NASA Astrophysics DATA Service, (ADS) is using metadata Google recognizes to enhance their service. They kindly provide a list of the fields
Google will index. "Here's what I know: you can embed a set of <meta/> tags containing citation metadata in your HTML to help Google Scholar to index your
content. We’ve been doing it at ADS for quite a while."
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New - March 10, 2010
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Data Release 12
The
Planetary Data System (PDS)
has announced a new delivery of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data for the
following
instruments:AccelerometerCRISMCTXHiRISEMARCIMCSRSSSHARADSPICEIn general, MRO Release 12 includes data collected May 9, 2009 through August 8, 2009.This release includes the first and final release of
Accelerometer data.The HiRISE Operations Center has released HiRISE image data acquired over the time period spanning December 6, 2009 to January
17, 2010 in the MRO orbit range of 15,893 to 16,299. This release contains 2.7 Tb of image data in 74,868 data products. Twelve new dig...
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New - March 10, 2010
Monarchs and Minions
Library Public Services, together with the KY Library and Museum and the History Department present the first in an ongoing series. On March 17, at 10:20, in Helm 100, learn more about George the III - The Man, The Mischief, The Mistake, The Monument.
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Western Kentucky University Libraries Blog - March 10, 2010 Author: sandra.mcallister Tags: Events
ScienceDirect and Scopus Downtime 3/14
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance
for approximately 8.5 hours during the period from 03:30AM to 12:00PM GMT
on Sunday 14, March (10:30PM EST on Saturday 13, March to 08:00AM EDT
Sunday 14, March).
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Library News - March 10, 2010 Tags: E-Resources
LHL Director Scott Plutchak to Receive MLA Award
The Medical Library Association has announced UABs T. Scott Plutchak as the Janet Doe Lecturer for 2011. The Janet Doe Lectureship is awarded to an individual chosen annually by the Medical Library Association for his/her unique perspective on the history or philosophy of medical librarianship. Established in 1966, the Doe Lectureship is presented at the association's annual meeting and is subsequently published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. This highly acclaimed award is given to the professions most innovative and prescient thinkers and writers.
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Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences News - March 10, 2010
PubMed-Recherchen als RSS-Feed abonnieren
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie arbeiten über mehrere Monate wissenschaftlich an einem medizinischen Thema. Am Anfang steht die Literaturrecherche und so führen Sie eine Recherche in PubMed durch, um relevante Artikel und Studien zu identifizieren.
Dann legen Sie mir Ihrer Arbeit los. Während Sie forschen und schreiben erscheinen jedoch ständig neue Artikel zu Ihrem Thema. Wie können Sie [...]
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Newsblog - March 10, 2010 Author: Maria-Inti Metzendorf Tags: Forschung & Lehre PubMed
Studienamiddag “Informatiewijs in het onderwijs”
Op dinsdag 23 maart 2010 organiseert de Werkgroep ‘Informatievaardigheden en Digitale Leeromgeving’ van de verschillende bibliotheken van de Associatie K.U.Leuven een studienamiddag in Leuven.
Informatievaardigheden maken deel uit van de basiscompetenties waar onze afstuderende bachelors en masters over horen te beschikken. Aan de ontwikkeling ervan kunnen onderwijsverantwoordelijken, docenten, assistenten en bibliothecarissen op verschillende manieren samenwerken: via de horizontale en verticale integratie in studieprogramma’s, door de uitbouw van leercentra en door het aanbieden van webinstrumente...
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MGAS nieuws - March 10, 2010 Author: Jens De Groot Tags: Nieuws informatievaardigheden onderwijs information literacy studiedag
Shortcuts: Where's the librarian?
Picture it (swirly lines...swirly lines)-you're at home working on a a paper. Your prof told you that you HAD to have two peer reviewed articles, but you don't know how to find them. Then you remember you can Ask a Librarian online. Yes!Ok, so you go to Ask a Librarian and type in your question. Then you wait..and wait forever (or 20 seconds, which is like forever). Where's the librarian? There are a few reasons there may be a wait from the librarian. It could be super busy! IM is a popular service and it may take us a while to respond. 2) We could be having technical difficulties. Every once in a while the...
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K-State Libraries: Talking in the Library - March 10, 2010 Author: K-State Libraries Tags: Hints ShortCuts
Science Direct Unavailable
Science Direct will be unavailable for searching for 8.5 hours beginning at 10:30pm, Saturday March 13 to 8:00am Sunday March 14th. Please plan your work with this in mind.
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Get It At Gutman - March 10, 2010 Author: Stan Gorski
World War I Postcards Online
The University of North Carolina has drawn from the Bowman Gray Collection of World Wars I and II digitized approximately 2,000 postcards from the First World War. This the first of nearly 6,400 that the library plans to digitize by June 2010."World War I was the golden age of postcards, according to Libby Chenault, interim curator of the Rare Book Collection. Postcards were used to depict new military technology such as tanks and airplanes, to record scenes of mass devastation, and to distribute propaganda messages." (College of Research Libraries News, pg. 629, Dec. 2009).The collection is available at www.lib.unc.ed...
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CSBSJU Library Blog - March 10, 2010 Author: News and Events
O with horn and grave
"O with horn and grave?" That would be the symbol pictured here, a Latin letter adapted for use in Vietnamese. Our new Typographic Desk Reference has this and lots of other curious information sure to delight those interested in such things!
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Drake Memorial Library - March 10, 2010 Author: Drake Memorial Library
UN: Food Aid Diverted to Wrong Hands in Somalia
A new United Nations Security Council report claims that as much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is ending up in the hands of corrupt contractors, militants, and local UN staff members. The report is not yet public but was shown to the New York Times (read the article). The report recommends that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launch an independent investigation of the World Food Programme operations in Somalia and rebuild the food distribution system there.Although the Security Council report isn't yet available for viewing, we can point you in the direction of other online publications about humanitarian aid i...
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Government Publications Library--University of Colorado at Boulder - March 10, 2010 Author: Salem
Natioanl Consumer Protection Week March 7-13, 2012
This week is National Consumer Protection Week (March 7-13, 2010). To highlight the week the the Federal Trade Commission established a blog to educate consumers on such themes as Identity Theft, marketing, privacy and scams. There is even a short video on how to file a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission. (http://consumer.gov/ncpw/tag/federal-trade-commission)The blog is title "Your Ticket to National Consumer Protection Week 2010" and can be found at:http://consumer.gov/ncpw/
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BlogAbout Murphy Library - March 10, 2010 Author: Kathy Dowd
Spring Forward into Break
There are lots of reasons to double check your watches and calendars next week. It's Daylight Savings starting on Sunday, so the time becomes all wrong, and it's Spring Break next week, meaning everything has different hours. Different hours when the time is all wrong could be double confusing, so here are some facts to help you out.
Hale LibrarySaturday, March 13: Building and Help Desk open 1pm-5pm Sunday, March 14: Building and Help Desk open 1pm-5pmMonday, March 15-Friday March 19: Building and Help Desk open 8am-6pmSaturday, March 20: Building and Help Desk open 1pm-5pm
Sunday, March 21: Building...
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K-State Libraries: Talking in the Library - March 10, 2010 Author: donna_ekart Tags: Buildings Hale MathPhysics VetMed Weigel
All questions welcomed!
At this time of year, you are no doubt hard at work on papers, presentations, etc. Searching for material on TOPICS can be challenging and time-consuming. Don't forget that the Mount librarians are here to help you whether you are working in the library, or working from home. . . Library desk/phone: A librarian is available in the library from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Monday - Thursday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. on the weekends. If you don't see us there, request us! If you are off campus please call us at 457-6250. Online/Virtual: Email us at library@msvu.ca or chat with a librarian using the Live Hel...
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MSVU Library Blog - March 9, 2010 Author: MSVU library
