http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa Post articles here for reading/response Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:15:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've seen this Atlantic article popping up various places (called Is Google Making Us Stupid).  The most interesting parts to me though were about how people read on the web, so don't be scared off by yet another Google article. http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/06/12/not-just-about-google-making-us-stupid/ Some interesting research in these...rnhttp://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2008/05/ieee-trans-on-education-special-issue.html http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/05/19/plagiarism-articles-in-ieee-trans-on-edu/ Silent movie created by LIS students at UDenver. Tries to overturn negative perceptions of Archives (dark, unfriendly and roach-ridden), but includes an unfortunate portrayal of unhelpful librarian http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/05/14/archive-madness/ http://blip.tv/file/855937/     Provocative look at the future of Web 2.0 tools and how society will might interact with these tools. http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/04/30/clay-shirky-talk-includes-stuff-about-wikipedia-gaming/ John Archibald Wheeler was a physicist who died yesterday (April 13, 2008) at the age of 96. He taught Richard Feynman. He worked on the Manhattan Project. He coined the phrases black hole and wormhole. He was also the son, brother, father and uncle of librarians.In 1984, ... http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/04/14/john-archibald-wheeler-promoting-library-service/ Probably nothing new in this interview/article for most of you, but an encouraging look at the way one professor/thinker views the plagiarism problem (plus he has positive words for librarians at the end).rnrnhttp://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/03/writing http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/04/03/plagiarism-article-in-inside-higher-ed/ A recent essay in Nature on open access possibilities for chemistry data.Murray-Rust, Peter (2008) "Chemistry for everyone." Nature 451, 648-651 (7 February 2008)The author (a chemical informatics specialist at Cambridge) doesn't seem to see a role for libraries in this new information age, but only references libraries as being part ... http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/02/11/chemistry-for-everyone/ LFA talk by Jeremy Frumkin and Terry ReeseJeremy FrumkinEbooksokay so well they are not new, but new devices are going to drive this now. [passes out OSU Libraries' new rnKindle ebook reader]Ebook distribution infrastructure is developing. Where do libraries fit in to the distribution channels? Issues with terms ... http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2008/02/08/top-tech-trends-maybe/ An article was recently published in The Journal of Cell Biology - Show me the data by Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill.The integrity of data, and transparency about their acquisition, are vital to science. The impact factor data that are gathered and sold by Thomson Scientific (formerly ... http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2007/12/20/interesting-articlescommentary-of-thomson-scientific-impact-factors/ Blogs, wikis, tags, RSS feeds, Facebook, MySpace, chat, plus the student focus and organizational changes that we need to capitalize on web 2.0 technology and ideas.rnhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uOKFhoznI&eurl=http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/11/26/building-academic-library-20-video/ http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/lfa/2007/11/28/academic-libraries-20-meredith-farkas-pulls-it-all-together/