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Scott Peterson

Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain - Medical News Today - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 10 Jan 14
     
    Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Saturday 28 December 2013 - 12am PST Neurology / Neuroscience add your opinion email MNT FeaturedAcademic Journal Add your rating Current ratings for: Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Public / Patient: 4.3 (12 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Health Professionals: 5 (3 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Lovers of literature can rejoice: a new study combines the humanities and neuroscience to take a look at what effects reading a novel can have on the brain. Researchers say exploring a book can not only change your perspective, but also it can change your mind - at least for a few days.
  • Scott Peterson on 10 Jan 14
     
    Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Saturday 28 December 2013 - 12am PST Neurology / Neuroscience add your opinion email MNT FeaturedAcademic Journal Add your rating Current ratings for: Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Public / Patient: 4.3 (12 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Health Professionals: 5 (3 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Lovers of literature can rejoice: a new study combines the humanities and neuroscience to take a look at what effects reading a novel can have on the brain. Researchers say exploring a book can not only change your perspective, but also it can change your mind - at least for a few days.
Sharla Lair

Learning to Lead Others to Change | Leading From the Library - 0 views

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shared by Sharla Lair on 23 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • “People don’t buy what we sell, they buy why we sell it”.
  • Sharla Lair on 23 Aug 12
     
    Really great article about how to lead change in academic libraries. Apparently, trust and authenticity is the key.  "Building trust through authentic action helps lay the foundation upon which leaders can sell their vision for change." 
Sharla Lair

Getting Ready for Change | trainingmag.com - 0 views

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  • Sharla Lair on 05 Sep 12
     
    Great article about how to ready an organization for change as well as achieve high levels of performance after the "change" has occurred.
anonymous

Passfault Demo: Password Evaluation - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 25 May 12
     
    What's really cool about this thing is the level of analysis that it does of the password. Most "password strength meters" are just looking at length and inclusion of things like lowercase/uppercase special characters. This thing does so much more and rather than just saying "weak", "very strong" it tells you how long it'd take to crack it. Even cooler is that you can choose 'Show Options' and change the hardware of the imaginary attacker and the type of encryption your password is stored as. This is via: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/25/how-long-would-it-take-to-crack-your-password/ Worth reading as it also calls into question the idea of regularly changing your passwords. Obviously it's much better to just use separate passwords for everything and only change them if you have a reason to think your password was compromised.
Scott Peterson

New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 20 Jun 13
     
    A new DRM feature called "SiDiM" intends to watermark eBooks by slightly changing the punctuation and text for each copy, this making them unique. Some concerns is how it may changes things for the reader or from what the author intended. A similar technique is used for some music files.
Sharla Lair

Before You Innovate, You First Must Kill Your Company | trainingmag.com - 3 views

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shared by Sharla Lair on 26 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Companies are investing major resources in training employees to“think big,” “get inspired,” and nimbly embrace change. Some have made significant progress in the last several years, but most innovation initiatives fall flat. Why? Because too many change initiatives simply add another layer of processes to the to-do lists of already overwhelmed and tired employees. Rather than piling on more, you must begin by getting rid of things rather than continually building on what doesn’t work. In effect, you must “kill” your company.
  • Therein lies the dilemma, because even as we shunt aside innovation in favor of more immediately gratifying business initiatives, most of us know that innovation—the ability to develop novel and useful ideas with a business purpose—is what will really drive growth and carry our organizations into the future. It’s, therefore, imperative that we better balance how much time we spend working internally on ways to make the status quo more efficient with time we spend examining what’s changing externally so we can start questioning the status quo altogether. We need to accept some risk, because innovation requires taking risks. We need to find ways to develop and support a culture that makes room for innovative insight. A company mired in complicated processes and short-term results is simply not in a position to encourage innovation, no matter how many new programs its leaders talk about or implement, or how often they demand innovation from their employees. It just won’t work. To create the company of tomorrow, you must break down the bad habits, silos, and inhibitors that exist today. That’s why you have to kill the company first. It’s probably the most innovative thing a leader can do.
  • The challenge for most companies isn’t how to get people to be more innovative; it’s how to stop paying lip service to innovation and create a structure and culture in which it actually can flourish and deliver results.
  • Sharla Lair on 26 Sep 12
     
    Do not ignore this article!  This article is quite timely with the all of the changes occurring in MOBIUS.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Hm. If you see your company on the road, kill it? More seriously, this reminds me of some of the readings I had on library management back in graduate school-- how after awhile, a workflow begins to exist only to preserve itself, not to further the goals of the organization. In order for said organization to remain relevant, it's necessary to occsionally review workflows and procedures to see which ones are working and which aren't-- and can thus be dropped.
  • Sharla Lair on 28 Sep 12
     
    Spot on, Jennifer! Spring cleaning!!! The trick is to not wait too long to do it.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Jennifer Parsons

In the Library with the Lead Pipe » What do we do and why do we do it? - 1 views

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  • So why is the FCC putting so much money toward a Digital Literacy Corps without enough involvement from the library community? Because we don’t have the tradition of being engaged in a philosophical praxis of librarianship. Having a habit of thinking deeply and critically about what it is that we do and why we do it, on a large scale, would enable and empower us to create good language and hopefully, in turn, to influence on a large scale the perception and understanding of librarians’ value to and impact on society.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 10 Aug 12
     
    In this well-researched and provocative article, the author argues that a "philosophy" of librarianship is needed that is based on "praxis, not practice."  She argues that rather than explaining our value to the public, librarians should explain their philosophy-- "why we do what we do"-- as that will better help librarians adapt to changes in procedure ("practice") that come with changes in technology. Frustratingly, the author never prescribes an actual philosophy of librarianship for her own part, choosing instead to review the work done by others and recap the current philosophy debate in the field.
Scott Peterson

What's Lost When Everything Is Recorded - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 22 Aug 13
     
    An article that brings up what we lose by having everything recorded, Some points are made in how our memories change over time and instead seeing an optimized or idealized memory we would see out past differently. Also, our methods of interaction and learning will change as things get broken down more and more by probabilities and assessments based on metadata from recorded conversations.
Justin Hopkins

Yahoo's password leak: What you need to know (FAQ) | Security & Privacy - CNET News - 1 views

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  • All of which suggests that close to 300,000 people could have just seen their personal, non-Yahoo e-mail accounts compromised as well as their Yahoo accounts.
  • To be on the safe side, if you have a Yahoo ID, you should assume it's no longer secure and change its password. (I just did, and I've never visited Yahoo's contributor-network site until today.) Yahoo is also changing the passwords of affected users. You should, however, also change other passwords if: You've used the same password for any other major service -- particularly for sensitive accounts such as banking, investing, or e-mail. You've ever signed into Yahoo or Associated Content with a non-Yahoo e-mail address.
  • Justin Hopkins on 16 Jul 12
     
    Also mentioned in this article is the leak from a few months back of LinkedIn. If you have a LinkedIn account the same advice applies. Hopefully you were using a unique password for all of these services and have nothing to fear ;)
Megan Durham

Learning and the Emerging Science of Behavior Change, aka 'Nudging' - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12
     
    Kind of like a Facebook poke for education-except nudging sounds useful and not annoying.
Scott Peterson

Disruptions: Your Brain on E-Books and Smartphone Apps - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 12
     
    The author talks about how using electronic devices can alter our accustomed behaviors, such as mistakenly swiping a finger when reading a printed newspaper expecting it to turn the page the same as if it were on a tablet. He then carries this over into an argument that the brain changes that cause this hasten the adoption rate for new technologies. Ultimately I disagree with this as it's only becoming habituated to an interface, and not something intrinsic with the medium itself.
Scott Peterson

Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 07 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 07 Jun 13
     
    An interesting but more or less "Feel Good" talk about how books can change a person's life.
Scott Peterson

Tor Books says cutting DRM out of its e-books hasn't hurt business - 1 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 10 May 13
     
    Tor Books, one of the leading publishers of Science Fiction, has reported that since they did away with DRM in their files a year ago that their business has hardly changed. Their reasoning was simple, their readers tended to be technologically savvy and DRM is a constant problem to them.
Scott Peterson

For University Presses, a Time of Fixing Bridges, and Building New Ones - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 27 Jun 13
     
    An article that references the closure of the University of Missouri last year, and mainly emphasizes that university presses need to focus on fund raising, advocacy, building alliances, and maintaining relevance in a changing publishing landscape.
Jennifer Parsons

"Why I break DRM on e-books": A publishing exec speaks out - paidContent - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 24 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Here at paidContent, independent e-bookstore Emily Books‘ Emily Gould and Ruth Curry have argued that DRM is crushing indie booksellers online. And Hachette VP, digital Maja Thomas recently described DRM as “a speedbump” that “doesn’t stop anyone from pirating.”
  • He argues that DRM is a way for the Amazons of the world to create lock-in to their platforms.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 24 Apr 12
     
    And why would they do it?  Probably because as it stands, it doesn't work as intended. As people realize that what they're doing isn't buying content so much as leasing it, it's interesting to see how their attitudes have changed towards DRM. 
Janine Gordon

UMKC considers dropping Missouri from its name - 1 views

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  • Janine Gordon on 08 May 12
     
    Just FYI, another name change MAY be coming down the pipe. Sounds like it could be a while, but it will be interesting to see if they actually do it.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 08 May 12
     
    Well, that's interesting. I was not aware that UMKC was originally the University of Kansas City.
Janine Gordon

Missouri State University ponders adding psychology institute - Columbia Missourian - 1 views

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  • SPRINGFIELD — Missouri State University is weighing a merger with a Springfield psychology institute. Interim president Clif Smart says talks on whether to take in the nonprofit Forest Institute of Professional Psychology are in their early stages.
  • Janine Gordon on 17 May 12
     
    More changes possibly coming? MSU and FIPP talking about a merger.
Scott Peterson

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt files for bankruptcy - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 24 May 12
     
    One of the largest publishers files for bankruptcy, although the reason may be because of long term debt from a previous merger. The bankruptcy is intended to eliminate $3 billion in debt, although the company has struggled with debt since Houghton Mifflin was bought in 2006 and Harcourt in 2007 by Irish investor Barry O'Callaghan. While the banktruptcy is not due to the changes brought about by electronic publishing, the company's corporate credit was cut by Moody's to Ca, the second lowest rating, and can affect the company's attempts to innovate and produce.
Sharla Lair

The Launch of Scholrly: new search engine seeks to change the way people find research ... - 0 views

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shared by Sharla Lair on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 01 Jun 12
     
    Scholr.ly looks like a very interesting tool. They describe it as "Making Academic Search Social". Here is a description of the search engine: "Undergraduate physicists and comparative literature postdocs have very different search needs. We're building an academic search engine that takes these individual differences into account. The more we know about what you do, the better we can tailor our results to fit your needs. Sometimes, though, it's good to look at a problem from another perspective. Maybe you're doing research in an area you aren't familiar with and want an insider's view. Maybe you're doing interdisciplinary work, or want to better understand your colleague's work. To address these cases, Scholr.ly offers you the opportunity to search as another author- literally. You can search as your professor, a famous linguist, or the highly cited scholar in the department next door- and get the same results they would." It's a very interesting idea...
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