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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Archive for July, 2005

Sharing Bad

Cutting Through – helping you to cut through the information and technology clutter » Five Reasons People Don’t Tell What They Know Been there, done that. The article has the distinct ring of Truth.

LibrarySearch Firefox Extension

Wayne Graham’s Blog: LibrarySearch Firefox Extension when you select text in the browser and right-click, a new context menu appears (Look up selection) that allows you to select which library/resource you would like to pass your selected text to search. This then opens a new tab with the launched search.

RSS4Lib:: TOCs in the Catalog via RSS

RSS4Lib:: TOCs in the Catalog via RSS Jim Robertson at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Library is pulling recent journal tables of contents into his catalog using RSS. Do I have to mention how cool this is. I wonder how difficult it would be to do in PHP…

Copyright

Peter Scott’s Library Blog Copyright, a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal led by a renowned editorial team, seeks papers on all aspects of copyright in the Internet age. The journal features an extremely rapid review and publication time while maintaining rigorous standards on the quality of work

Extended Patriot Act

Curmudgeony Librarian News Network: Congress Votes to Extend Patriot Act Congress reauthorized several elements of the Patriot Act, which were due to expire in 2006. Fourteen of the sixteen sections with “sunset clauses” were made permanent, and the other two were extended for ten years.