H1N1 Coverage

Just in case you aren't completely overwhelmed with panic inducing H1N1 information yet, Ebscohost has created a nifty little portal to information for clinicians, nurses, and patients. They've also included good information about seasonal flu.

Naxos slow?

If you are experiencing interruptions while listening to music through Naxos, try changing the sound quality from CD to FM. Just as good but four times as fast.

Unfriend - 2009 Word of the Year

The New Oxford American Dictionary has named "UNFRIEND" its 2009 Word of the Year. Other words considered for this lofty honor included teabagger, death panel and intexticated, according to the Oxford University Press' Blog.

Westlaw is not down but is perhaps ill

The Library is aware that the Westlaw database is working in fits and starts. We will be working to resolve this problem in as timely a manner as possible. If you need to research your topic and cannot wait for the program to be fixed, you may find other helpful resources at the Law section of the databases by subject page. Updates will come as they are available.

Fun Searches

Probably only useful if you're searching for a very specific image, GazoPa is an image search database that allows you to upload an image and search for similar images, or search by URL or keyword. It has some issues, as I discovered when I did a search for I Dream of Jeannie and got pictures of folk I don't know when I was hoping for an image of Major Nelson and Jeannie. I then did a URL search for an image I found of the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring and got the results I wanted. But a keyword search yielded movie results and only two images of Vermeer's painting. Fun if you're terribly bored, or if you desperately need an image and aren't that particular about where it comes from, you can give GazoPa a try. You can also tweet from GazoPa, so feel free to annoy your friends with this app. :)

In much barely more relevant news, Google now has a list of magazines from Google Books. No scholarly journals, clearly, but if you're looking for the latest issue of Orange Coast or Cincinatti Wedding, Google's got you covered.

Colonial Williamsburg eMuseum

Colonial Williamsburg has an eMuseum. Their description of the eMuseum indicates they have an extensive collection of furniture, folk art, glass, textiles, costumes, and just about anything else you could think of. While the resort and living museum are well known, the eMuseum is relatively new and offers researchers who can't travel to Colonial Williamsburg a chance to explore their collections. The collection is searchable as well as browsable. A quick search for linen yielded 245 examples of colonial textiles, from needlework samplers to doll clothes. Check it out!

Are you catching Google's Wave?

The lasted addition to the "7 Things You Should Know" series from Educause takes a closer look at Google Wave: Wave offers a compelling platform for personal learning environments because it provides a single location for collecting information from diverse sources while accommodating a variety of formats. By embedding mini-applications and other components, Wave makes interactive coursework a possibility for nontechnical students, moving larger numbers of students away from purely text-based assignments and into multimedia composition. Read more at:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7055.pdf