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Slightly larger than Sony Ericsson's W810i Walkman phone, compared to other more slimmer phones on the market this is no size 0 model.

The design is dominated by the 2.6-inch screen on the front of the model and this slides both up and down to reveal the controls.

Sliding down reveals the dedicated music buttons; play, stop, fastforward and reverse as well as flipping the display to landscape rather than portrait.

The music interface is simple to use and you can search for songs via the usual array of things such as artists, albums, genre and playlists.

Disappointingly there is no microSD memory card shipped in the box and with only 160Mb of phone memory for all your media assets (pictures are around 700k and music around 3Mb) its something you'll have to invest in from the start.

Back to the music aspects, and the phone has a small speaker built in so you can listen without headphones.

It's not the best speaker in the world, however we were surprised by its performance.

Better still the n95 has a 3.5mm jack on the side so you can connect it directly to a speaker or headphones.

Unlike Sony Ericsson Walkman range, you don't need to use a specific dongle, however, and you'll love this, we did find that without a cap it had filled with pocket lint by the end of our one week trial.

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6 Calling Melvil Dewey, July 28 E-mail Print Why is it that “flatlined” may be the best term to describe the state of discourse in librarianship?

In the traditional library literature one rarely sees an article that takes issue with the research or perspectives of a particular author.

There may be a dissenting letter to the editor every so often, but one would be hard pressed to identify a juicy back-and-forth between two camps engaged in academic discourse about a controversial issue.

Maybe we’re just too nice to take an intellectual sledgehammer to a colleague’s work, even if it was well deserved.

Some librarians might point to any number of the profession’s electronic discussion lists as the virtual ground where real debates between librarians are happening, but I would argue that what debate takes place on these lists often occurs between the same small crew of librarians who simply have an axe to grind with each other’s positions.

The vast majority of list members never get involved, and what transpires might be more accurately described as bickering than intellectual discourse.

As one explores and delves into the world of library blogs it soon becomes apparent that the rules of disengagement dominate the la...