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Happy New Year!

<Karen>


Happy Reading



1)
Alain Locke - Newly-published Speeches & Essays
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said this of Alain Locke: "We're going to
let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not
Plato and Aristotle, but W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through
the universe." -- "Address Delivered at Poor People's Campaign Rally."
March 19, 1968. Clarksdale, Mississippi. On ideal race relations,
Locke wrote: "If they will but see it, because of their complementary
qualities, the two racial groups [Black & White] have great spiritual
need, one of the other." I have posted downloadable PDFs of the
following newly-published speeches and essays of Alain Locke:

1.    Download #1: <pdf>
    Alain Locke (Christopher Buck and Betty J. Fisher, ed. and intro.),
“Alain Locke in His Own Words: Three Essays.” World Order 36.3 (2005):
37­48. Features three previously unpublished essays, and one poem:
•    “The Gospel for the Twentieth Century” (39­42).
•    “Peace between Black and White in the United States” (42­45).
•    “Five Phases of Democracy” (45­48).
•    “The Moon Maiden” (37).
•    Christopher Buck, “Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher,
Bahá’í Pluralist.” Special Issue: Alain Locke: Dean of the Harlem
Renaissance and Baha’i Race-Amity Leader. World Order 36.3 (2005): 7­
36. [This special issue of World Order won the Religion Communicators
Council’s 2006 DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Award of Excellence for
“excellence in religion communications and public relations” (Class B.
Periodicals—Single Issue, Magazine, National (B-1)).

2.    Download #2: <pdf>
    Alain Locke (Christopher Buck and Betty J. Fisher, ed. and intro.),
“Alain Locke: Four Talks Redefining Democracy, Education, and World
Citizenship.” World Order 38.3 (2006/2007): 21­41. Features four
previously unpublished speeches by Alain Locke:
•    “The Preservation of the Democratic Ideal” (1938 or 1939).
•    “Stretching Our Social Mind” (1944).
•    “On Becoming World Citizens” (1946).



2)

Webology: Volume 5, Number 3, 2008
TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/toc.html

- Folksonomies, the Web and Search Engines
--  Louise Spiteri
-- Keywords:  Folksonomy, Social tagging, Search engines
-- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/editorial17.html

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Articles

- Tag Gardening for Folksonomy Enrichment and Maintenance
-- Isabella Peters & Katrin Weller
-- Keywords: Social tagging; Folksonomy; Tag gardening; Emergent
semantics; Power tags; Tagcare; Knowledge organization system;
Knowledge representation; Personomy
-- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a58.html

3)

- Descriptor and Folksonomy Concurrence in Education Related Scholarly Research
-- Robert Bruce
-- Keywords: Collaborative tagging; Social tagging; Social
classification; Knowledge organization; Taxonomies; Folksonomies;

Controlled vocabulary; Descriptors
-- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a59.html

4)

- Organising Development Knowledge: Towards Situated Classification
Work on the Web
-- Maja van der Velden
-- Keywords: Categories; Classification; Design; Folksonomy; Mapping;
Social inclusion; Tags; Web directories; Portal
-- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a60.html

5)
- A Personalized Word of Mouth Recommender Model
-- Chihli Hung
-- Keywords: Consumer generated media; Buzz; Text mining; Sentiment
analysis; Recommending agent; Self-organizing map
-- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a61.html

6)
European Online Library Launches
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7738318.stm
"The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organisations making
contributions to a European online library. . .Internet users will be able to access more than
two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films."

7)

Barbara Quint discusses Reference Extract, which was billed in the press as a Google competitor:
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=51692
"While experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process
that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize
authoritative content, the process is at very early stages yet. According to R. David Lankes, Ph.D.,
director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and associate professor at Syracuse University’s
School of Information Studies, a product roll-out for Reference Extract is not expected to take place
until sometime in 2010. The other two institutions involved are the University of Washington’s Information
School and OCLC. The MacArthur Foundation has provided a $100,000 planning grant, which should lead to a full proposal in 2009."


8)
Tech Therapy: The Library Building
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3481/tech-therapy-the-library-building
"Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast discuss the future of library buildings on the latest
edition of Tech Therapy. The Athenaeum, the new library at Goucher College that will feature
 not only books but treadmills, is the initial focus of the discussion. Libraries are increasingly
 all things to all people, and planning needs to reflect on that."

9)
The e-Society Conference In Barcelona [ http://www.esociety-conf.org/ ] in late February 2009 /

10)
Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0848.pdf
Educause Quarterly Article

11)
Universities See Double-Digit Increase in Online Enrollment, Study Finds
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3457

12)
The Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 is now
available from Digital Scholarship.
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
This bibliography presents selected English-language
articles and other works that are useful in understanding
Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of
Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues
associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to
works that are freely available on the Internet, including
e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional
repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may
not be identical.
For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital
publications since my resignation from the University of
Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications
Overview.
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm

13)

"Google has added a magazine rack to its Internet search engine.
As part of its quest to corral more content published on paper, Google Inc.
has made digital copies of more than 1 million articles from magazines
that hit the newsstands decades ago."

14)
2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html
Interesting to view the various search trends for 2008


15)
African Fractals
A link to an intriguing lecture on African Fractals. A great starting point for some fascinating pedagogy - in math and history!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html