The revolution will be organized.
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Nerd videos
Josh Porter at Bokardo pointed out a great collection of videos released by Peachpit on such fascinating topics as search engine optimization, social networking, and web standards by big names in the field (at least, I assume they’re big names. Being new to all this, I’m not so sure). Interesting stuff, if you’re into that…
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Feminist Books for Kids
The Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the ALA (wow, we librarians sure now how to complicate things) comes up every year with the Amelia Bloomer List, a list of great feminist books for kids. The 2009 list has been released! These books all showcase girls and women who go against…
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RIP George Carlin
Who is going to tell it like it is as eloquently and forthrightly as George Carlin does in this video. Well worth watching.
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Some design thoughts I appreciated
Being on break and all, I don’t have too much to share in the library and information science realms. However, I did read a great article yesterday (with an equally interesting follow-up piece today) that I thought I’d share: Josh Porter talks about making the design process transparent and how that can benefit an organization,…
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Winter is Evil
Sean put it best when he wrote this, about the challenges of massive snowfall for those on foot. I had decided that I was going to try to be positive about winter this year, seeing as it will be my last New England winter and I’m vowing not to waste energy being angry about unchangeable…
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Home stretch
Oof. This semester ended up being far more challenging than I expected. It isn’t that the course work was particularly difficult, or that I had too much to do. It’s that, for the first time in my life as a student, I started to feel really tired of being a student. Every night when I…
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ASIST08: Evaluating E-Reference: Transforming Digital Reference through Research and Evaluation
There are a lot of sessions at ASIS&T (and probably most conferences) with fairly impregnable titles. I’ve found myself sitting in sessions which were about something very different than I thought. But this session title is pretty straightforward: It was all about evaluating virtual reference services. Marie Radford (Rutgers University) and Lynn Connaway (OCLC) spoke…
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ASIST08: My So-Called Life on the Web
(But first, an aside about conference internet access: It is crappy. And I’m a poor graduate student who can’t afford to spend an obscene amount of money everyday for a decent connection. There is free “access” in some parts of the conference hotel, but it goes in and out like crazy and it’s not available…
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ASIST08: Tagging as a Communication Device
The second session I attended yesterday dealt with tagging, another subject I’ve been drawn to during my year in library school. Heather Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University gave an overview of ontology building. She used the framework of language—syntax, semantics, and pragmatics—to talk about how we construct ontological frameworks, and she placed tagging within…
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ASIST08: Credibility and Authority of Information in Learning Environments
I was up bright and early this morning for the first session, and am so, so grateful I’m staying in the conference hotel. It just makes life so much easier. This morning’s session (well, one of the several) was on information literacy and how students judge credibility when they’re researching, whether it’s for school or…