Leaked Emails Fuel Climate-Change FirestormSummaryA hacker has stole thousands of emails and files from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. Some of the pirated info was posted to a Russian server and linked to on a topic related blog. However, that seems to be the lesser of the news. The emails and documents that were hacked apparently contain information that suggest many scientists are working together to keep certain facts about global warning quiet. One email states that...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Virtual Trade Shows - Huzzah!
Nice Meeting Your AvatarSummaryQualys is taking a step forward in trade show innovation by going the virtual route. There are a lot of advantages by leaving the show on the road and taking it to the Internet. One major advantage is the obvious savings in costs. For a physical trade show, renting a space and covering travel costs ten of thousands of dollars. A virtual trade show can be as low as $3,000. That is the reason why Qualys is eliminating their smaller shows and instead utilizing the Internet....
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Navigating 'Yer Success
Information Navigation 101SummaryIn this article, Andrea Foster discusses information (il)literacy, specifically among college students. She believes that the current young-adult generation is not as tech-savy as previously thought. Foster explains how college research has largely been limited to search engines such as Google and that students simply do not know where scholarly information is or how it can be found.Foster then goes into details on how universities like the California State University...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Google: Use Sparingly
The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to GoogleSummaryLibrarians are worried their students are getting (mentally) obese with too much “unhealthy information.” Students use Google for just about anything they need to do on the Internet; so why would they go somewhere else to look for research? Online databases that are homes to millions of scholarly works are just too confusing to use, and Google is just so user friendly.So what is there to do?Some librarians do not agree...
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