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Issue 139 Sept. 26, 2008

N E W S

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.
Click here to view full article: 
<>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00
Related Link: <http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01
Related Link: 
<http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02
Related Link: <http://tinyurl.com/3un7ph>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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<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03
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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04
Related Link: 
<http://www.engineeringpathway.com>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://onramp.nsdl.org/view/onramp:1343>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_05
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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_16>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_16
Related Link: 
<http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=321&bhcp=1>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_27>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_27
Related Link: 
<http://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2008/viele.cfm>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_28>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_28
Related Link: 
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_39>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_39
Related Link: 
<http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM>http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

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NSDL would like to thank the National Science Foundation for its 
generous support and advocacy of NSDL as the NSF digital library of 
science education. This material is based upon work supported by the 
National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0227648, 0227656, and 
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