This was in the NY Times a while back, but I still have people send it to me periodically, which I guess I should find flattering?

"A Hipper Crowd of Shusher"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/fashion/08librarian.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Google Chrome

Google Chrome seems really interesting. I haven't got to try it out yet, can't download at work and I have a Mac at home. Boo to having everything for Windows first! I got to about page 12 in the cartoon intro. It seems to talk about a lot of the things we are learning in class, which is fun to read in cartoon form and I think I understand a bit more now that I've taking the tech class.

Open Access

   Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding
By Robin Peek 
Last year, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) endorsed legislation that would mandate the submission of federally funded, accepted, peer-reviewed research to PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), some large STM publishers fought back. Even after defeat, when the Omnibus bill passed on Dec. 26, 2007, the publishers said they would come back to the table on the issue of copyright—and so they have. How successful this effort will be is unknown. The previous lobbying efforts even brought a response from the White House. On Sept. 9, 2008, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced the bill HR 6845, Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, that would not only reverse the NIH Public Access Policy but would not allow other federal agencies to put similar policies into place (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6845.IH:). The text of the bill proposes that “No Federal agency may, in connection with a funding agreement, impose or cause the imposition of any term or condition that requires the transfer or license to or for a Federal agency of any right provided under copyright law.”
–>http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50849

Hurricane Ike in Cincinnati

After having no power and then having to travel to Atlanta for work I'm finally catching up on school work. We were one of the luck few to get power back and have been shuffling people's frozen food back and forth.  Being in the dark with no computer makes one feel a bit useless as a librarian. When people have no electricity they focus on basic needs - food, shelter, clean clothing, etc. not doing research. 

Survivor

I'm currently reading the book Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (also wrote Fight Club). It's interesting, but definitely jumps around a bit so I'm trying to read big chunks in one sitting as I get a bit confused when I pick it back up. Perhaps I'm just a bit confused in general lately. First time back to school full time since 2005. Just dropped down to 3 days a week at work. We took a mini-holiday this week - which was fun, but spent most of the week stressing about the work I wasn't doing (both for school and for work).  So maybe leisure reading shouldn't be top on my list, especially when the main character is a bit of a nut job himself. That's all for today ;-)