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"Katina’s “Caught My Eye”"
In this recent blog post Michael Eisen, a co-founder of the Public Library of Science, lends credence to the notion that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. He wryly observes that he has derived “considerable pleasure … over the past year or so, as one traditional publisher after another [...]
Read More... →The Long Wait | LJ‘s Placements & Salaries Survey 2011
Librarians of all types will be interested in the results from Library Journal Placements and Salaries Survey for 2011. This year’s survey received responses from 1,789 LIS graduates (approximately 37% of all 2010 graduates) and true to form, a number of interesting findings were reported. As [...]
Read More... →Open Question: What needs to happen for tablets to replace laptops?
In his blog for O’Reilly Radar, Mac Slocum raises a question that our more tech savvy readers may be wondering about themselves. Mac admits that he carries “a tablet and a laptop and a smartphone” and wonders how “the dream of one device to rule them all has [...]
Read More... →Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?
In this recent article in the New York Times Book Review, Alexandra Horowitz worries that her beloved footnotes will be “shunted off to the end of the text, relegated to being mere endnotes” as ebooks continue their impressive growth in popularity. Of course, the real worry is that [...]
Read More... →What’s New (and Old) at Amazon
Christopher Harris raises some interesting questions about the recent Amazon/Overdrive deal. Aside from being somewhat cumbersome (ebooks are being lent using the proprietary Amazon .amz file type), Harris notes other concerns. Bloggers like InfoDocket’s Gary Price are voicing “some alarming questions about privacy under the [...]
Read More... →According to this post on Reppler, an online reputation company, “69% of Hiring Managers Have Rejected Candidates Based on Social Networking Presence.” The folks at Reppler surveyed some 300 hiring professionals to test the impact of social networks in screening applicants. They also learned that 91% of those surveyed checked social networking sites to [...]
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