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Campus should use digital tools to disseminate faculty research:ARL

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/disseminating-research-feb09.pdf American campuses should use digital tools to further disseminate faculty research, argues a joint statement from a group of academic...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: communications, libraries, copyright
Twitter use on the rise: Pew

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/276/report_display.asp Eleven percent of Americans recently used Twitter or similar microblogging service, according to a new Pew study. This number has been...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general news
College music site Ruckus shuts down

http://www.ruckus.net/notice/final.html Ruckus, a legitimate music downloading service aimed at colleges, has closed. Current subscribers will continue to have access to some audio, but not...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: infrastructure support, copyright
New Kindle launched

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1254544&highlight= A second edition of the Kindle e-book reader was launched by Amazon this week. Version 2 resembles version...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: tools
Ten top Twitter tools

http://mashable.com/2009/02/07/twitter-clients/ One site has come up with a list of the ten leading Twitter clients. These are tools used to read and/or post Twitter content, a/k/a "tweets". 1 Web...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: tools
Web serendipity engine Stumbleupon hits 7 million users

http://pulse2.com/2009/02/06/stumbleupon-hits-7-million-users/ A Web service designed to increase Web surfing serendipity hit a major milestone this week. Stumbleupon now has more than 7 million...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: information literacy
Amazon porting Kindle books to mobile phones

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/technology/internet/06google.html?_r=1&ref=technology Amazon is making some e-books sold through its Kindle store available to be read on some smartphone platforms,...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: infrastructure support, libraries, tools
Twittering, a security breach

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003026945 Twitter was used by a United States Representative to leak a security secret. Before the delegation left Washington, they were advised...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: infrastructure support, tools
Nice housing news on NITLE Camp

http://campnis.blog.nitle.org/ One happy update for the NITLE Camp, coming up this June:NITLE Information Services Camp has just released information regarding room rates for the NIS Camp at...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: nitle workshops, nitle meetings
Google Books goes mobile

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/02/15-million-books-in-your-pocket.html Some smartphones can now access the 1.5 million scanned books in Google's Booksearch project. The mobile URL -...

Started in Liberal Education Today • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: libraries
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