About Me
I am a librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. I have an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English. This weblog reflects my interests in library & information science, literature, language, culture, and the arts. Click for my full profile.
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julieshen (at) gmail (dot) com
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Books I Like
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Also, I'm currently reading
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Meta Tagging the Internet (1/28/2005) This article says that the Web needs more meta tags in order for users to find what they need, and it praises free Internet services such as Flickr, a photo organizing site, and del.icio.us, a bookmark site, for putting the task in their users' hands. |
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Amazon Yellow Pages (1/28/2005) Amazon.com's A9 search engine now has a visual yellow pages. When users search for a business, they can see a picture of the storefront, plus they can virtually stroll up and down that street and see what other businesses are nearby. Read the story or just go there. |
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German Library Allowed To Crack Copy Protection (1/20/2005) Slashdot reports that the Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany's national library and bibliographic information center, has been granted official authorization to crack and duplicate protected e-books and other digital media, making it a notable exception to the European Copyright Directive (EU Directive 2001/29/EU), which states it is "a criminal offence to break or attempt to break the copy protection or access control systems on digital content such as music, videos, eBooks, and software". The library argued that such restrictions prevented it from fulfilling its legal mandate to collect, process, and index important German and German-language based works. |
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Shakespearean Insults (1/12/2005) I love this Shakespearean insult mug featured at Upstart Crow. My favorite insult? "Not so much brain as ear-wax." |
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Bookstore Branching Out Its Services (1/12/2005) A local bookstore here, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Bookshop in La Verne, California, is now offering book processing (bar codes, spine labels) and cataloging for schools and libraries. For more information, email joelscahn@aol.com or call (909) 319-2611 and ask for Lisa or Joel. |
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Library/Bookstore Hybrid (1/12/2005) BooksFree.com works like a Netflix for books. For a monthly fee ranging from $7.99 to $29.99, you can check out between 2 to 12 books at a time and keep them indefinitely, then send it back when you're done. Once they receive it, you are sent the next book on your wish list. |
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Current Cites (1/12/2005) Published since August 1990, this free monthly newsletter lists 10-15 annotated citations of current information technology literature in both print and digital forms. Contributors include librarians and library staff. |
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