David Singerman writes:
Like many other people in the humanities and social sciences, I use Zotero to track citations, create bibliographies, and even take and save notes. Also, I'm not the only one using this in education. I use it as an essential tool for my undergraduate students in my classes, and it gets them thinking about organizing information early on. There is also a sharing feature, so your class can create a group bibliography that can continue to be used after the semester ends.
Anyway, Zotero's desktop client automatically updated today, and when I restarted it, I saw a big red banner telling me that an article in my library had been withdrawn. I didn't notice it at first, but eventually realized it was because it was an article that one of my student's girlfriends added to the group library for a project.
The developers have done a great job of making the alerts something you can't miss (i.e., unlike journal modification notifications). The entire product page contains lots of information and helpful links about withdrawals, and there's a big red X next to my listing. library. See attached screenshot.
The implementation method also helps with the educational component, as students will also receive this alert.
Mr. Singerman added the following:
This reminded me of something you posted about David Byrne a while ago, and whatever you said reminded me of David Byrne. great look About the Colbert Report.
What struck me when I saw the film was how much of a battle it was between Byrne's innate weirdness and sincerity and Colbert's satirical right-wing bloviator character. Although usually Colbert's character was strong enough to defeat all comers. . . Decide for yourself.