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Archive for June, 2008

• July 2008 Meeting
  Posted June 20, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

  There are so many uncharted waters when it comes to social networking and community websites and copyright issues. Recent lawsuits filed against YouTube (see: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6095736.html ; http://nymag.com/news/media/30021/ ) show that copyright issues and public community sites is a big deal. This is an important issue for everyone to understand and so for [...]

• Setember Meeting Minutes
  Posted June 10, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

  This month we discussed instant messaging. Peter Zuber will also discussed how they use IM in science. You can check out their client through any subject page. Science uses PLUGOO as an interface. You can find more about it a www.plugoo.com. Peter said that they have had moderate sucess [...]

• June Meeting Information
  Posted by Rachel Wadham

  The TLC meet June 7th at 2:00 the disucssion was on social networking sites for books and libraries.
  The sites discussed were:

  http://www.shelfari.com/
  http://www.goodreads.com
  http://www.librarything.com/
  http://del.icio.us/
  Rachel discussed goodreads. Rachel uses it to remember the things she has read, to give recommendations to others, and to connect with other readers. There are many things she likes about it. She [...]