Saturday, October 8, 2011

Following Sources: Week 5

As of Tuesday, October 4:
13 new postings! I will discuss two briefly: 

September 29:
From the press release:
"Springer Grants Haitian Students and Researchers Free Access"
Haiti is still rebuilding from the 2010 earthquake. 
Springer Science + Business Media is granting free access 
to 15,000 students and researcher at
the State University of Haiti through 2013.

October 4:
From the press release:
"Project MUSE Book Collections Coming in 2012" 
Starting January 1st, the collection of over 14,000 electronic titles will go live.
These come from "66 university press and scholarly publishers. " 

 ALA Tech Source - http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/
 2 new postings, I will discuss 1 briefly:

October 4-Kate Sheehan

The article states some of the pros and cons of robots in our lives, 
particularly when it comes to the library. 
It has a hint of paranoia and fear of robots taking over our jobs,
but also discusses how technology and automation has helped us.

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