Archive | October, 2009

2 ASTRONAUTS DONATE PAPERS TO PURDUE LIBRARY

AP – “Janice Voss and Roy Bridges Jr. will donate items including log books, notes, childhood photographs and journals to the Purdue Libraries’ Division of Archives and Special Collections. The archives also house papers from Armstrong, a Purdue alumnus.”

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Peace on Facebook

From the site – “Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other. By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term.”

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Librarian Forced to Resign over Fees

WSET – “It’s an amazing show of support for a former librarian in South Boston, forced to resign two weeks ago for waiving some overdue fees. Hundreds have signed a petition to support Woodson Hughes, and on Tuesday, lots of people came out to show their support for him.”

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Thank You, Nancy Drew and Judy Blume

From Carole Barron at the Huffington Post

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Document rental service brings “deep web” content to the mainstream

Between The Lines – “DeepDyve, a search engine that specializes in indexing the contents of documents published deep into a Web site, is announcing a Netflix-like service that allows users to “rent” documents such as medical journal articles on a per-use basis.”

Take a look at DeepDyve

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