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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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Electronic Waste Hazards
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by Donovan Griffin
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Recent stories about electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (publicly traded as Foxconn Technology Group) brought the world's attention to the poor working conditions experienced by high-tech workers as they produce parts for many of the world's electronics. But for the great majority of U.S. electronics, their end-of-life circumstances are often more grim than their beginnings.
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SpringerLink Articles Add Altmetrics
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Springer Science+Business Media now offers altmetrics information on all of its SpringerLink articles. Altmetric, a London-based article-level metrics startup focused on scholarly literature, provides the usage data from social media sites.
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Thomson Reuters' PeopleMap Integrates With WestlawNext
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Thomson Reuters combined two of its services by integrating the PeopleMap public records tool with WestlawNext legal research to create Westlaw PeopleMap. On PeopleMap, legal researchers analyze documents and public records from around the world to find relationships between people, assets, and businesses.
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EBSCO Introduces eBook Religion Collection
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EBSCO Information Services rolled out another group of ebook selections for its religion-focused student and scholarly customers titled eBook Religion Collection, which debuted with more than 4,100 titles from 150-plus publishers.
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Making the Most of QR Codes
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by Brandi Scardilli
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You've surely seen those black-and-white graphical squares in your favorite magazine or even at the grocery store. They're QR (quick response) codes, 2D bar codes that hold a large amount of data in a small space. ... They may be best-known as mobile marketing tools thanks to the widespread use of smartphones—QR code reader apps scan the code and link users to websites, coupons, and other special features. However, information professionals can use them on anything from their business cards (to link to a curriculum vitae) or library shelves (to link to the library's catalog). Today QR codes have moved beyond advertising—here are some current uses for the technology.
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Cape Mayhem (A Meg Daniels Mystery)
by Jane Kelly
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Meg Daniels arrives manless in Cape May, New Jersey, for what should have been a romantic off-season weekend for two. Though unattached at the moment, Meg's courtship with trouble has been in high gear lately—her Cape May holiday soon promises more of the same.
It seems that, overnight, a guest at the Parsonage Bed & Breakfast has undergone an impossible transformation. Suspecting foul play, Meg enlists hunky Hank Bergman, an investigator in the local DA's office, and the B&B's spunky co-owner, George Hilburn, to help her answer the question: "Who was that lady who checked in with Wallace Gimbel?".
2023, Reissue (Originally published in 1999) | 248 pp/trade paperback | $14.65
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