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Get Ready for Washington: NSDL Annual Meeting Updates
By Sarah Holsted The 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting is almost upon us. This update includes reflections on the planning process and an overview of the program.
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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/

Annual Meeting 2008 Blog
Tune into NSDL Road Reports for up-to-the-minute blog posts about the NSDL Annual Meeting.
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Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/

Rolling Out NSF’s NSDL Awards for 2008-2009
Eighteen National Science Digital Library (NSDL) awards have been announced by the National Science Foundation.
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Related Link: http://tinyurl.com/3un7ph

Pathways and Projects Updates
Download NSDL Pathways Highlights and NSDL Projects Updates from the Annual Meeting web site.
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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/

New Web Site for Engineering Pathway
The Engineering Pathway recently redesigned its website to better engage the younger generation by incorporating findings and recommendations from the recent National Academy of Engineering study, Changing the Conversation.
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Related Link: http://www.engineeringpathway.com

NSDL’s Science Literacy Map Tool Adds 41 New Maps and “Student Misconceptions” Feature
The new version of the National Science Digital Library’s Science Literacy Map (SLM) tool is an easy-to-use service that finds and presents students with the right resource at just the right moment.
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Related Link: http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/?id=SMS-MAP-0048

E V E N T S

Educause 2008
IT in Higher Education will once again be in the spotlight at Educause 2008 to be held in Orlando, FL October 28 - 31.
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Related Link: http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=321&bhcp=1

B O O K M A R K S

“Pat the Librarian” Featured in APS Forum on Education
Pat Viele, NSDL blogger and the physics and astronomy librarian at Cornell University has an article about information fluency for physics featured in the Summer 2008 newsletter of the APS Forum on Education.
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Related Link: http://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2008/viele.cfm

Timelines and review process for the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicitation
The timelines and review process for the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicitation,, are changing in 2009.
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Related Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm

I N S P I R A T I O N

Large Hadron Rap
A creative team from the CERN Large Hadron Collider found a unique way to tell the world why physicists are so interested in the results of the collision of sub atomic particles at high speeds in a new music video seen by millions of Internet viewers.
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Related Link: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM