Friday, January 10, 2014

News for Library Nerds, January 10

I didn't post here over the holidays, so here is a bunch of stuff that tickled my fancy!

Slate profiles a small college that decided to act like the big, online for-profits, and shows that the model works in the non-profit world as well.

Stories of people who failed to figure out the origins of images, and got burned. If only they’d used Google Image Search

Is the print book a luxury object now? 

When the scholarship is digital, preservation becomes a thorny problem. They can even become technologically obsolete before they’re completed. 

People search the Internet for a lot of things, including evidence of time travelers

Librarian is the 8th least stressful job. 

What do you have to do to get an entry in Wikipedia? One woman tries to find out. 

Reading a novel changes your brain (and the results my last a while). And
why fiction is important to thinking.

Etsy meets Professional Conference: print your conference poster on fabric. Easy to transport, or turn into a quilt! 

What would be public domain today if copyright law hadn’t been changed in 1978? 

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn talk about the future of the Internet.

Google Scholar has its own journal metrics   Learn more about how the evaluate journals.

If Google doesn’t like what you’re doing, they can take you out of their search results. And the result is a deep drop in visits to your website. 

Two takes on the pleasures, and distractions, of ebooks

People love their public libraries (according to Pew). 

Ever wonder if the article you’re reading was corrected or even retracted? CrossRef has a CrossMark program, which lets you discover which articles have had changes made to them post-publication. They now have over a quarter million articles in the program. See the video.

Most website traffic isn’t even human.

Nature publishes a study on gender imbalance in science publishing.

MOOC as job placement provider doesn’t appear to work.

Not returning your library book could get you jail time.


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