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.
Contact
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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Can Your Old Books Be Making You Sick? (10/25/2005) Books stored in dark, moist spaces can grow molds, which can cause serious health problems. One solution is to recycle them, but most U.S. mills can't recycle hardcover books, so they are shipped to China, where they are processed into paper and shipped back to the U.S. |
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Google Librarian Center (10/14/2005) Google is launching a newsletter for librarians. Subscribe to receive tips, news of new features, and other relevant info. You can also share lesson plans you've developed to teach others how to use Google. |
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Librarian discovers Beethoven manuscript in basement (10/13/2005) Heather Carbo unearthed Beethoven's manuscript score for a piano version of Grosse Fuge in B flat major from a dirty cabinet in the basement of the Palmer Theological Seminary near Philadelphia. The 80-page document, circa 1826, dates from the end of his life when he was completely deaf and is estimated to be 1.5 million pounds. It will be auctioned by Sotheby's in London on December 1. (Also on Reuters and International Herald Tribune.) |
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Yahoo adds podcast search (10/10/2005) Still in beta, Yahoo Podcasts enables consumers to search a directory of tens of thousands of audio programs. Users can personalize it with the podcast player they use and then download the files to their players. I'm curious to see how this will compare to Odeo.com, a podcast service started by Evan Williams, who also founded Blogger.com back in the day. |
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Yahoo and friends scan books, make available online (10/10/2005) Known collectively as the OCA (Open Content Alliance), a group that includes Yahoo!, Adobe, the Internet Archive, the UK National Archives, the University of California, and the University of Toronto is working to make its first collection of books available through the Yahoo search portal. The group intends to get permission from copyright holders and share its archives with other search engines. |
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VeriSign acquires Weblogs.com (10/07/2005) Dave Winer has sold Weblogs.com to VeriSign. Weblogs.com is a free service that accepts pings from other websites whenever they've been updated. VeriSign said basic pings will remain free for the public to submit and retrieve. |
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