The 2011 Ig Nobel Awards including one “for determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire” and another ” for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.”
Midcat, the library catalog, will be unavailable for several hours starting around 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 31st while we upgrade to a new version of the operating system.
There are three options for identifying items in our collection when Midcat is down (thanks to Barbara for the Summon reminder):
Middlebury’s version of the LibX browser extension has been edited so that it can now be used to search Summon. LibX provides:
Some thoughts on the differences between approaches at Apple (“a design company”) and Google (“an engineering company”): a recent post at The Scholarly Kitchen.
Coping with uncertainty? The Harvard Business Review blog offers five tips for companies dealing with the uncertain economy, but they seem like good ideas for any organization facing similar challenges.
A new search engine for finding visual data/infographics
With the understanding that sometimes those whose names appear as contributors may be doing favors for others who wish to remain anonymous, the following are offered in retort to the “Internet in 2015″ link from last week:
Microsoft suggests heating your home with ‘data furnaces’ and
The Internet in 2015, via The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog.
Rumination: The Sign of a Sentient CIO
There are approximately 60 buildings classified as dorms here at Middlebury providing beds to over 2400 students in 5 Commons. From a ‘wireless’ perspective these dorms can be divided into three broad groups in terms of how many Wireless Access Points or WAPs they have:
Please welcome two new staff members in CSNS:
LIS Staff Middlebury Community MiddPoints
