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Maggie Verster

Awesome Library - 0 views

www.awesomelibrary.org

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shared by Maggie Verster on 22 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 22 Jun 09
     
    Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. You can search according to different relevant catagories or as a teacher, parent, kid....
Rosa M. Torres-Medina

Search Results - 0 views

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shared by Rosa M. Torres-Medina on 08 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Rosa M. Torres-Medina on 08 Jan 14
     
    Articles similar to Britz J of Info Scie
Maggie Verster

Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • NetLibrary, 93% of undergraduate students claimed that finding information online makes more sense to them then going to the library. Also, 75% of students surveyed claimed that they did not have enough time to go to the library and that they liked the convenience of the Internet. While the retrieving information from the Internet may be efficient and time saving than visiting a traditional library, research has shown that undergraduates are most likely searching only .03% of the entire web.[34] The information that they are finding might be easy to retrieve and more readily available, but may not be as in depth as information from other resources such as the books available at a physical library.
    • Maggie Verster
      Maggie Verster on 20 Mar 10
       
      Why would the depth of information not be as good as physical resources?
Maggie Verster

College Students Are Bad at Google [STUDY] - 1 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 24 Aug 11
     
    Students in a two-year ethnographic study referred to Google more than any database when discussing their research habits. But ironically, say the study's authors, they weren't very good at using it.
Maggie Verster

Great stuff!!!! Librarians' Internet Index - 1 views

www.lii.org

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shared by Maggie Verster on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 13 Oct 09
     
    This is a list of sites compiled by librarians to safe use internet sites
Fabian Aguilar

Resistance to Google book deal builds as Google woos Europe - Ars Technica - 0 views

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Last Friday, the deadline passed for formal comments from parties interested in the Google Book Settlement, but the flow of less-formal comments doesn't seem to have abated.
  • This week, however, the focus has shifted to Europe, where Google has faced opposition from France and Germany that has prompted it to offer some concessions to local publishers.
  • First, we'll follow the action stateside, where Friday's deadline set off a flurry of filings.
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  • The Free Software Foundation was among those that filed an objection, this one focused on licensing issues. Because of the nature of the suit, the settlement focused on copyrighted works, but the works scanned by Google may (now, or in the future) include those covered by the FSF's GNU Free Document License. 
  • "If the Settlement is approved, Google will be authorized to continue to digitize, sell and partially display books without complying with the 'copyleft' and 'share alike' license terms which are essential to the freedom granted by these licenses."
  • But it's not just US copyright law that's being trampled on, according to Consumer Watchdog; the settlement also conflicts with international copyright agreements.
  • The group isn't alone in thinking that; European publishers have been leery of the deal, and action shifted to Brussels this week, where the European Commission has been holding hearings on the settlement.
  • Other Commissioners seem determined to use it as a launching point for a more general attempt to deal with related issues, like the modernization of copyright law to handle digital content and the digitization of works in European libraries
  • According to various reports, two countries (France and Germany) have already decided that they will oppose the deal.
  • Google seems to have come to the hearings well prepared, with some significant concessions to hand to the Commission: books that are out of print in the US but still published in Europe won't be licensed to the Books Rights Registry. The Registry would also pick up two European representatives, one an author, one a publisher.
  • At the same time, the Commissioners note that only one percent of the works in European libraries have been digitized to date, leaving the continent at risk of lagging in an effort that ultimate should improve public access to significant cultural material.
  • One of those consumer interests is undoubtedly privacy, given the potentially personal nature of a person's reading habits.
  • ere, the story jumps back to this side of the Atlantic, where the US' Federal Trade Commission has been hashing out privacy issues with Google
  • Although nothing formal has been decided yet, Google issued a formal privacy policy and FAQ that lays out the privacy protections it affords users of its current book service, and details the features that will be used for book sales if the settlement is approved. Basically, Google will keep personal information in-house, and only share information, such as lists of favorite books, if a user specifically opts in.
  • But, if Google was hoping to keep privacy issues separate from the objections to the book settlement, a coalition of privacy advocates had an unpleasant surprise for it. The ACLU and EFF organized a coalition of authors that have dealt with privacy concerns to file a brief as members of the class of rightsholders involved in the settlement.
  • The gist of the complaint is that the settlement will leave Google in a position where it could track users' reading habits, but does nothing to ensure that it won't. "The Settlement includes no limitations on collection and use of reader information and no privacy standards for retention, modification, deletion or disclosure of that information to third parties or the government," the filing reads.
  • The filing actually was modified in time to reflect Google's privacy policy statement, and it notes that there's nothing binding about these rules; Google can change them at will in the future. Obviously, the coalition would like to see something binding written into the agreement.
  • It's obvious that the concerns about, and outright resistance to, the original settlement have been extensive, and Google is willing to make some significant concessions to try to get the deal to go through. What's less obvious is whether these concessions will be formally made part of the legal settlement and, if so, whether outside parties will have another opportunity to comment on the revisions. The scheduled decision is now less than a month away, but it looks like it's going to be an extremely busy month for everyone involved.
Maggie Verster

Use BUBL to find websites catalogued by the Dewey Decimal System. - 1 views

bubl.ac.uk/index.html

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shared by Maggie Verster on 16 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 16 Aug 09
     
    Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas according to the DEWEY system.
Maggie Verster

Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - 0 views

www.refdesk.com

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shared by Maggie Verster on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 07 Aug 09
     
    A wondeful site filled with lots of reference resources calculators and more!!! Going onto my favourite list!
Maggie Verster

Free academic databse assesment tool - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 11 May 09
     
    It enables you to compare different subscription online resources, making it easier for librarians to make informed decisions when subscribing to online resources. Although it is aimed at HE it is free to use for anyone.
Maggie Verster

Librarians' Internet Index - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 11 May 09
     
    The librarians internet index cover a broad range of subjects and claims to be a direcotry that you can trust
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