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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
May 31, 2009
Category: librarians
Then I have the job for you. If you are a scientist, but you want to get out of the lab, want to have a little more variety in your life, like helping people and finding information, but still want...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:46 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: comps
Sunday morning I was all set to do another essay - just had to pick a question source and question - when my mother in law called to say she would be stopping by at about the same time I...
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May 30, 2009
Category: comps
See what a "test essay" is in the introduction to my previous essay. This is a question another doctoral student was assigned. The question asked for a lot of details, so nothing is covered very thoroughly. I did only minor...
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May 29, 2009
Category: Information Science
Seems like I was at the wrong session at the wrong time - I missed Bilder's comments and others that have traveled widely on twitter. Search for #ssp09. The opening keynote today was by the current head of ARL, the...
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May 28, 2009
Category: Conferences
I wasn't complete sure what to expect with this conference. There were some old acquaintances from the society publishers who spend a lot of time with the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division at the Special Libraries Association (Hi Tony! Hi Terry!). I also...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
Re-architecting Science: A Vision for STM in the 21st Century by Adam Bly Opening Keynote, May 28, 2009 - this is live blogged, basically notes on what he said... analysis to follow. Where the world is today, where science is,...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:46 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2009
Category: Conferences
It's right up the street, there are discounts for librarians, several sessions talk about collaborations between libraries and publishers (we'll see), and lots of interesting stuff. This page has the program. I probably won't live blog, but I'll certainly post...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
This is the third in a series of test essays I'm doing to prepare for my comprehensive exams. The questions for these essays come from 3 places: ones I've made up based on my readings, ones assigned to previous doctoral...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2009
What happens when you cross the streams? Or, norms in online communities, how journal commenting is different, and waving the flag on potential issues when aggregating web comments with journal articles. There have been a couple of interesting discussions on...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off Topic
Here in the United States, it's Memorial Day. This is a day set aside to remember and be thankful for the sacrifices of the men and women who gave their lives for our country and way of life. So, thank...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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