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Ten Stories That Shaped 2012 | LISNews: - 1 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 14 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 14 Dec 12
     
    The top library headlines for 2012.
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Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril - 0 views

www.marketwatch.com/...n-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04 Professional Development
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  • Scott Peterson on 11 Oct 12
     
    I would say this article is focusing more on headlines and making noise than something actually about to happen. The story is about a case going to the Supreme Court where a student from Thailand was studying at Cornell University and found that his textbooks made by Wiley were substantially cheaper in his home country. He began buying books there and reselling them in the U.S. on Ebay, making over $1.2 million. Wiley accused him of copyright infringement, and the student responded this was protected under the first sale doctrine. What is at stake is how this doctrine may be redefined; what is unique is not that the goods were made in foreign country, but owned and marketed by a U.S. company who sought to restrict sales of those items in the U.S.
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A Digitally Inspired Veil, Intended to Save Lives, Appears at N.Y.U. Library - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 22 Aug 12
     
    This headline caught my attention: "NYU Library Imprisons Students in a Video Game to Stop Them from Killing Themselves." The atrium of the school's main library has been enclosed with perforated aluminum screens, in an effort to curb suicides.
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Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...out-the-era-of-gesture-control Professional Development software libraries library technology
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  • Megan Durham on 25 Oct 12
     
    Motion control: Startup company GestSure uses Kinect for Windows to allow surgeons to look through medical images without having to touch unsterile equipment. While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working hard on a long-term effort to reinvent the way we interact with existing computers. *I knew my Just Dance skills would pay off!
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Technology - Suzanne Fischer - Nota Bene: If You 'Discover' Something in an Archive, It... - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...258538 library cataloging archives
shared by Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Says one curator, "I wish there were more articles headlined 'Thorough, Accurate Cataloging Pays Off!' "
  • So where was this document found? Was it in a suitcase in the attic of Dr. Leale's great-great-great-great granddaughter? Well, no, it was at the National Archives. Was it in a warped metal filing cabinet down a neglected set of stairs labeled "Beware of the Leopard"? No, it was in a box of other incoming correspondence to the Surgeon General, filed alphabetically under "L" for Leale. In short, this document that had been excavated from the depths of the earth with great physical effort was right where it was supposed to be.
  • In the case of the recent press on the Leale report, the report had not yet been catalogued, cutting off discovery for ordinary researchers searching with finding aids and online catalogues.
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  • This is because archivists catalogue not at "item level," a description of every piece of paper, which would take millennia, but at "collection level," a description of the shape of the collection, who owned it,
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  • Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12
     
    A somewhat lighthearted response to all the excitement about the "discovery" of the Leale report, a report made to the Surgeon General by the first doctor to treat Abraham Lincoln after he was shot at Ford's Theater.   It's very interesting that, even though it was in the collection, where it should be, no one thought to use it in research until now.  
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