Hi Jim, this Google program looks interesting.

I just wanted to ask you if you're ok about my using you as a reference?

I am applying for another position at Cortland and, no surprise it is advertising for someone who is conversant with using technol. in Eng Lang. Arts classrooms..

I'm in no hurry, believe me, to leave Oneonta...and this note to you is confidential. 

The attraction is a focus on English Education, my real love as I think you know, and closer to home which is a financial issue I cannot ignore. It's costing me a great deal to live in two residences at a time when retirement concerns are pressing ever closer...I have to ask myself how I am going to keep spending a thousand dollars a mo. (on an entry level SUNY salary) to live in Oneonta when I could be saving that money toward retirement...

Because I have already "retired" from the NYS Teacher Retirement System, I accrue no additional retirement benefits continuing to work...it's really a minus. But I must (and want to of course) work since I can't live on the small retirement I get from the state...a terrific additional income which allows me to live in Oneonta, but one I should not be spending while working full time.

I could commute easily to Cortland...and support my Syr. home exclusively...maybe even do some much needed renovation of this c. 80 year old home.

Anyway, maybe more information than you cared to hear, but I consider you a friend, one of the most important I've made at Oneonta, so I did want to share this with you.

I am not talking w/anyone else except Zanna, a close friend, about this possible move. It may not, probably will not, happen.

But I do want to use you as a reference.

I have a lot to learn, but I do have a willing mind. That's what Cortland is looking for, at least in the technology area...

Thanks,

Karen
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Teaching Breakfast List on behalf of Jim Greenberg
Sent: Mon 11/22/2004 8:12 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Google Scholar
 
GOOGLE LAUNCHES SERVICE FOR ACADEMICS
Google this week launched a service directed at academics and
scientists looking for scholarly material. Google Scholar is the
product of cooperation between Google and a number of academic
publishers including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers and the Online Computer Library Center. The service provides
access to peer-reviewed papers, books, and technical reports, as well
as information about locating scholarly work that is available at
libraries but not online. Google's Anurag Acharya, who directed
development of the new service, noted that the company benefited from
and grew out of an academic environment and said that Google Scholar
"is one of the ways we can give back to the community." Acharya said
the service would give universal access to academic and scientific
literature from around the world. Initially the service will not
include text advertisements with search results, though company
officials said such ads will likely be added later.
New York Times, 18 November 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html



Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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