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Introducing Ms. Dewey -- Microsoft Live Search's new Librarian.

Check out Microsoft Live Search's new Librarian, Ms. Dewey, at http://www.msdewey.com/. I asked Ms. Dewey a few questions regarding citation styles and she retrieved some good results. Pretty cool and scary at the same time!

Book TV: Inside the New York Times Book Review

Inside the New York Times Book Review

Editor Sam Tanenhaus and his staff provide a rare look inside the influential New York Times Book Review. Learn how he and his team choose the books they feature each week and how they select reviewers for those books.

(Book TV, CSPAN-2, Sunday Dec. 17, 2006, 11 AM & 7 PM ET)

Wikipedia creator, Jimmy Wales, at the St. Pete Beach Public Library

Wikipedia creator, Jimmy Wales, will be at the St. Pete Beach Public Library Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 2:00 pm. Also, join the group and help contribute to the enrichment of the “St. Pete Beach” Wikipedia entry.

What is Wikipedia? Read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overview_FAQ


Or watch December 10’s CBS News segment at: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2244123n?CMP=ILC-SearchStories

St. Pete Beach Public Library Information can be found at: http://tblc.org/members/showagency.php?in[agency_id]=50

Mozart's entire musical works now free on Net!

The Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum has digitized Mozart’s music and is allowing open access to everyone. The web site, although extremely busy the last few dasy, is called ‘NMA Online’ (Neue Mozart Ausgabe = a scholarly edition of Mozart’s complete works).

The complete musical texts of the NMA are available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use. Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/. The music pages are linked with the scans of the NMA’s critical reports. Comprehensive search capabilities allow users to easily find, study, and print any of Mozart’s works as PDF files. The NMA Online is the first extensive, up-to-date complete works edition that is available to everybody at no charge. (Source: http://www.mozarteum.at/).

Microsoft's Live Search Books

Find a book, or search within a book at Live Search Books (http://search.live.com). The books are out-of-copyright titles and are from various library collections (e.g., University of California, University of Toronto, and The British Library etc.).

Watch Book TV Online

C-SPAN2 offers 48 hours of non-fiction books via Book TV on the weekends. If you missed an episode, watch them online at http://www.booktv.org/.

Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemptions

Some exemptions include:

-- University library or media studies departments can create compilations of audiovisual works for classroom use.

-- Libraries and archives can make preservation copies of computer programs and video games created in formats that have become obsolete.

Casey Bisson wins Mellon Award for innovative search software for libraries!

Casey Bisson, information architect for Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library, has received the prestigious Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his ground-breaking software application known as WPopac. The Wpopac software will revolutionize the online search process by allowing titles and descriptions of library holdings to be found on the Internet.

More information at http://wpopac.blogs.plymouth.edu/about/

Iraq Study Group Report Released

The Iraq Study Group Report has been publicly released. Download the report here. Also, listen to a December 6, 2006 National Public Radio report (Iraq Study Group Report Published for Sale) that discusses its potential to become another government document best seller.

Emerging Mobile Technologies

How will innovative services like Neven Vision (recently bought by Google in August) and Mobot impact libraries and higher education? Mobot is working to “create interactivity in non-interactive media” and Neven Vision wants to create software that recognizes information within images. Imagine being able to snap a photograph of a library poster or other printed medium and have pertinent information sent directly to your cell phone? The “thumb generation” can type text quickly and efficiently on a cell phone, but most other users find it difficult to do. Luckily, this emerging technology may make finding information that much easier and convenient. Libraries, higher education institutions, the entertainment industry and others should watch this emerging trend in 2007. Stay tuned!

Aliens Teach University Economics Class

Imagine learning Microeconomics while playing a video game? You can do this at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Read/listen to the NPR story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6342324