Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. confessions
  2. Around the Web: Libraries leveraging Twitter, But reference is dead, Watch your internet profile and more

Around the Web: Libraries leveraging Twitter, But reference is dead, Watch your internet profile and more

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
User Image
By jdupuis on April 28, 2011.
  • How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter
  • Geeks Are the Future: A Program in Ann Arbor, MI, Argues for a Resource Shift Toward IT
  • "A New chapter for our Unwinders Management Book - Evaluating Candidates from their Internet Profile"
  • Legislative Alternatives to the Google Book Settlement
  • What Are Digital Literacies? Let's Ask the Students
  • If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over Yourself
  • Archive Watch: British Library Purchases Poet's 40,000 E-Mails
  • Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders
  • Hard economic lessons for news
  • For-Profits and Satellite Radio
  • Byliner Launches With A Splash, Aims To Disrupt Long-Form Journalism
  • Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves
  • PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature
  • Not With A Bang: The First Wave of Science 2.0 Slowly Whimpers to an End
  • In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay?
Tags
around the web

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

Science Codex

  • Fossil discovery is a new missing link in modern fish evolution

More by this author

ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving
October 30, 2017
As of November 1st, 2017, ScienceBlogs is shutting down, necessitating relocation of this blog. It's been over eight years and 1279 posts. It's been predatory open access publishers, April Fool's posts and multiple wars on science. A long and wonderful trip, career-transforming, network building…
Science in Canada: Save PEARL, The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory
September 26, 2017
Deja vu all over again. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Canadian science under the Harper government from 2006 to 2015 was a horrific era of cuts and closures and muzzling and a whole lot of other attack on science. One of the most egregious was the threat to close the PEARL…
The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters
September 11, 2017
The last one of these was in mid-June, so we're picking up all the summer stories of scientific mayhem in the Trump era. The last couple of months have seemed especially apocalyptic, with Nazis marching in the streets and nuclear war suddenly not so distant a possibility. But along with those…
Friday Fun: Is Game of Thrones an allegory for global climate change?
August 18, 2017
After a bit of an unexpected summer hiatus, I'm back to regular blogging, at least as regular as it's been the last year or two. Of course, I'm a committed Game of Thrones fan. I read the first book in paperback soon after it was reprinted, some twenty years ago. And I've also been a fan of the HBO…
The Trump War on Science: EPA budget cuts, More on climate change, The war on wildlife and other recent stories
June 16, 2017
Another couple of weeks' worth of stories about how science is faring under the Donald Trump regime. If I'm missing anything important, please let me know either in the comments or at my email jdupuis at yorku dot ca. If you want to use a non-work email for me, it's dupuisj at gmail dot com. The…

More reads

Smellscape
My Synthetic Aesthetics partner, Sissel Tolaas, is featured in the terrific current issue of the German interview magazine mono.kultur. Her work focuses on smell, exploring the unique smellscapes of different cities, creating provocative scents to show in art galleries, branded "logo" scents for Adidas, "Swedish" scents for Ikea, and therapeutic memory-triggering scents, part of the healing…
Sensationalism and the scary spots
Image from: 41 ACTION NEWS KSHB.COM Image from: Myfoxdetroit.com Outlandish stories about a 25-pound Savannah cat, known as "Chum", on the loose in Detroit (above) may have been responsible for his untimely death last month. The 3-year old cat was owned by a local family but was spotted roaming the neighborhood. Neighbors mentioned calling Animal Control and the Detroit Humane Society, whom…
Q: How do I know if my kid is a bug nerd?
A: If, at birthday parties, the featured game is "pin-the-stinger-on-the-bee." your intrepid blogger, circa 1985 You may thank my mother for sending along this, um, interesting photo.

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.