Great News!

A post on the blog, Resource Shelf, caught my attention this morning--"Webcast, Google's Vint Cerf Talks to Info Pros at Internet Library Conference." The Vice President of Google spoke at an Internet Library Conference and there is a link for the video on the page. Google has been the topic of discussion many days in my Reference course. So many people, including students, tend to go to google first when they need to find information, especially when they need to find it quickly. However, the problem is that generally, google comes back with way too many hits to really sort through, so it's not really faster to go to Google, unless you know what you are looking for.

Also, another post that caught my attention was the one titled, "University of Illinois Press Signs Agreement with JSTOR." The post talks about certain content fromUniversity of Illinois Press-published journals will be available on a re-designed JSTOR in 2011. The blog states, "This will offer faculty and students around the world access to current issues alongside back issues and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries easily and seamlessly. JSTOR’s nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be able to license the Press’s current journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction." This is good news for users who like to use JSTOR for thier information needs; JSTOR is a fairly friendly bibliographic database to use and for there to be access to more information through JSTOR will make many users extremely happy.