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Get Brainify…?
Social Bookmarking’ Site for Higher Education Makes Debut
Brainify.com, the brainchild of Murray Goldberg, creator of WebCT course-management software, was quietly started in beta form last week, after more than a year in development. Like other social-bookmarking sites, it lets users save, share, and rate bookmarks on the site’s network.
Posted in General News, Library Tech News.
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Columbia Journalism Review Launches Book Review
It’s Called : Page Views.
Since the WaPo has decided to pull their standalone book review, maybe CJR sees a market?
Posted in General News.
Fiction Reading Increases for Adults
After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed.
Nothing on TV? Books are cheaper now? Why do you think it’s on the rise?
Posted in General News, UC Libraries News.
New workshops and Classes Area
UC Libraries will introduce a new look to their workshops and classes in winter quarter. The new design will include offerings from both east and west campus libraries. Stop in for a look.
Posted in General News, Library Classes and Workshops.
Search for Books - with Wikipedia!!
This page on Wikipedia links to
…catalogs of libraries, booksellers, and other book sources where you will be able to search for the book with ISBN MAGICNUMBER. If you arrived at this page by clicking an ISBN number link in a Wikipedia page, then the links below (those labeled “find this book”) search for the specific book using that ISBN number. Enter another ISBN number in the ISBN search form to change the search links below. Spaces and dashes in the ISBN number do not matter. Note: The number starts after the colon for “ISBN-10:” and “ISBN-13:” numbers.
Interesting, guess we should add UC to the list!
Posted in E-Resources at UC, Library Tech News.
Random House: Adding 6000+ ebooks from popular authors
Book News: Random House Adding 6000+ Downloadable Ebooks
Michael Rogers — Library Journal, 11/25/2008 6:39:00 AM
- Major selections from backlist coming
- Total offerings will be nearly 15,000 downloads
- Titles available in e-Pub format and more
- Authors include Terry Brooks, Philip Pullman, Ruth Rendell
In a move that indicates a greater commitment to the digital future, Random House November 24 announced that it will make more than 6000 backlist titles available as ebook downloads “in the coming months.” The mixture of titles, gleaned from the Goliath publisher’s 
stable of children and adult authors, include works by Terry Brooks, Italo Calvino, Harlan Coben, Philip K. Dick, Louis L’Amour, Philip Pullman, Ruth Rendell, and John Updike, as well as Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil and volumes in the Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones children’s lines. The addition will give Random an ebook catalog of roughly 15,000 titles, downloadable to all reading devices and platforms that feature digital book content supported by its current and future distribution and retail partners. The company also announced that for the first time it will offer all its electronic catalog in the e-Pub format, “the emerging industry standard.”
Posted in Library Tech News.
Life Photographs @ Google
We have added a link to our A-Z List of Databases for Life Photographs @ Google. This freely accessible database, being created by Google, will eventually contain the entire archive of Life magazine photographs – about 10 million in all.
Posted in Collections, E-Resources at UC, General News.
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CCM News- Novemer 2008
Naxos Music Library has been upgraded to version 2.0 and is now Silverlight enabled. Read more about Silverlight
Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online
Additional content. New interface.
Posted in CCM, UC Libraries News.
Magazines on Your Desktop: from UC Libraries
Did you know that in addition to scholarly and research journals, you can also access popular magazines, trade journals and newspapers via OhioLINK? With online magazine and journal content you can choose to browse a particular issue or article, or search on your desired topic.
There are a wide variety of magazines available, including Consumer Reports, Field & Stream, Forbes, Good Housekeeping, Money, Organic Gardening, Outdoor Life, Popular Science, Prevention, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and Time, just to name a few.
Click to continue reading “Magazines on Your Desktop: from UC Libraries”
Posted in General News, UC Libraries News.
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Classics Post
Hijacked text for testing:
Richard Tanter (RMIT): The Coming Catastrophe: The American War in Afghanistan and Pakistan. From Boston Review, Martha Nussbaum on The Mourner’s Hope: Grief and the foundations of justice. Real missions for 007: Here are five missions we’d love James Bond to tackle. It seems a simple question, but do we really want to read everything a writer has produced? A review of Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents are Rarely Accidental by Marc Gerstein with Michael Ellsberg.
Posted in Classics Library, UC Libraries News.
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ARB: New Exhibit
The Man of the Hour: William Howard Taft and the Presidential Election of 1908.
In the meantime, enjoy the 1908 campaign song, performed by CCM graduate students Albert Mühlböck and Brendan Emig, and recorded by CCM Associate Professor of Electonic Media Thomas Haines.
Posted in Archives and Rare Books.