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Gordon Hall

Lego machine removes DRM from Kindle e-books - 0 views

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    Interesting article about how a lego mindstorm bot got rid of DRM on a kindle device.
Jimin Kwon

Publisher's World: The ISBN - 0 views

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    If you want to know more about the International Standard Book Number, go visit this web page. It especially tells you what elements the ISBN is made up of besides its history and facts.
Michael Olivarez

Inventor of MARC - 1 views

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Avram here is a better link

http:__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Henriette_Avram

Elloise Lotoc

Evaluating the Credibility of Your Souces - 0 views

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    This list of hints for checking the credibility of sources for information can be useful to others who are struggling on what kind of source to use for their project.
Elloise Lotoc

The Search Engine List - 0 views

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    Since we were talking about search engines last class, I found this interesting. Heres a list of different types of search engines and what they are mainly used for.
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    The list that has all possible search engines for almost anything.
Mahrokh Akhavan

Former NSA contractor designs 'surveillance-proof' font - 0 views

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    A ally interesting article about a former NSA contractor who has developed 4 different types of fonts so that they cant be read by Optical Character Recognition programs. The video does a nice job of showing how it works.
Lauren McDonald

Ten Facts About Wikipedia - 0 views

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    This is an article that has ten fun, weird and impressive facts about Wikipedia. I found some of these facts to be very interesting and taught me even more about Wikipedia.
Paola Torrico

Optical Character Recognition - 0 views

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    A good article that goes in depth of what Optical Character Recognition does.
Gordon Hall

MARC standards - 0 views

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    These are the standards for machine readable catalouging for libraries. In addition to bibliographies, MARC's can also record other codes as well.
Lizzie Ehrreich

Web Crawler - 0 views

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    Defines web crawler and describes web crawling software
Maximum Sullivan

Support Grows for Open Access to Science Research - 0 views

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    Good article on federally funded research to be freely accessible over the internet. It's the second article on the page.
Talia Wujtewicz

Fairfax Library throwing away books - 0 views

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    Interesting article on how the Fairfax Country Library is throwing away a lot of their books. Makes one think about the future (or lack thereof) of libraries
Daniel Richardson

Micheal Hart: Founder of Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    Interesting blog post about why and how Project Gutenberg was founded and started by Micheal Hart
emarmoran

Algorithms - 0 views

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    Provides an explanation of algorithms in terms of programming. Skip down to the "Computer Algorithms" section
Claire Madison

The Role of Peer Review for Scholarly Journals in the Information Age - 0 views

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    Great article that shows exactly how important peer revision is in not only student work but scholarly work as well. This is a question on the test so this article might help out in that sense as well!
Claire Madison

Using Primary Sources on the Web - 0 views

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    Gives the definition of a Primary Source and how/when to use them! Plus it gives great examples of what a Primary Source actually is!
Natasha Taliferro

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Google lead coalition for cheaper internet - 0 views

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    World Wide Web creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is leading a coalition to bring cheaper internet to developing countries in Africa. The coalition includes Google, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, and others.
emarmoran

Primary vs Secondary Sources - 0 views

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    Definitions of both primary and secondary sources as well as a thorough explanation of when to use a primary or secondary source.
Rebecca Lee

Distinguishing Scholarly from Nonscholarly Periodicals - 0 views

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    A checklist for distinguishing scholarly periodicals from non scholarly periodicals.
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