http://www.infotoday.com en-us Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:16:46 GMT This Month at Information Today RSS Feed All Content Copyright 1998-2011 Information Today Inc. 1440 INFORMATION TODAY George H. Pike Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT After 7 years of litigation, the Google Books case is far from being settled. In fact, recent developments have shoved the case back into the spotlight and into a hotbed of legal debate. http://www.infotoday.com/it/feb12/Pike-Divide-and-Conquer-Update-on-the-Google-Books-Lawsuit.shtml ONLINE University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT EBook Buzz, ONLINE’s newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. This inaugural column explores the transformation to ebooks by university presses. http://www.infotoday.com/online/jan12/Polanka-EBook-Buzz-University-Presses-and-Ebooks-A-New-Horizon.shtml COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES Meryl B. Cole, Christian L. Gray, and Cindy A. Romaine Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT The inside story of how a handful of volunteers within the Special Libraries Association (SLA) set out to find how information professionals are adapting to the opportunities and challenges of the new knowledge economy. http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan12/Cole-Gray-Romaine-Blog-Impossible.shtml SEARCHER Nancy K. Herther Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Nancy K. Herther picks up her series on how the internet is engulfing all areas of communications by focusing in on language translation. She questions if real-time speech-to-speech translation is still a pipe dream or is becoming a reality by checking out some of today’s current crop of translation software. http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan12/Herther-Language-Translation-in-the-Internet-Age.shtml ECONTENT Chris Seymour Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Pew research from the University of Missouri shows that internet users often come across their news serendipitously while they are searching for other information or doing non news-related activities online, such as shopping or visiting social networking sites. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/Social-Media-and--Serendipitous-Reading-80245.htm INTERNET@SCHOOLS Victor Rivero Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT A learning management system (LMS) is the Holy Grail of education: an online system to manage it all. In this month's Tools for Learning feature, writer Victor Rivero names a range of companies that have ventured into this territory, along with the products and services they offer. http://www.internetatschools.com/Articles/Editorial/Features/TOOLS-FOR-LEARNING-How-to-Manage-All-That-Learning-79672.aspx LINK UP DIGITAL Gary M. Stern Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:16:46 GMT Scores of people visit YouTube to view cute dogs, hilarious kids, and celebrity miscues. But two brothers, Jim and Andy Erickson, launched a web site in 2007 to catalog some of the greatest events in history captured on video and photography: Critical Past http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud020112-stern.shtml