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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.
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June 29, 2009
Category: Off Topic
(this post talks about a recipe for granola) edit: oh. not actually so funny, they use these terms in the post. but hey, did you know bloglines gave related searches?...
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Category: comps
This is the final in my practice essays before taking the real comps test in the end of July. I need to correct the record, though. Apparently although all of these questions came from my advisor, he didn't write them...
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June 28, 2009
Category: Information Science
I took classes on qualitative research and naturalistic research methods from researchers who follow the constructivist paradigm rather closely and who don't really believe in mixed methods research. I took statistics classes from professors who are friendly towards naturalistic methods,...
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June 27, 2009
Category: Information Science
Michael J. Kurtz of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics came to speak at MPOW at a gathering of librarians from across the larger institution (MPOW is a research lab affiliated with a large private institution). He's an astronomer but more...
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June 23, 2009
Category: Information Science
It's that time again: the 2008 Journal Citation Reports are out from Thomson Reuters. It's started already, too, the e-mails to listservs and press releases. So I'm re-posting one of my posts from my old blog for those of you...
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June 22, 2009
Category: Conferences
One of the main reasons I go to SLA is to catch up on what all of the journals, databases, and research tool providers are up to. Sometimes they save the big announcements for ALA and sometimes they make them...
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Category: Admin
No need to click through... just sayin' they're on their way....
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June 20, 2009
Category: finding information
I've talked about this a bit at sessions I taught at my library and also at Web Search University but it's still a favorite. Plus, you asked for posts on finding information. Oh, and one of the tools just released...
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June 18, 2009
Category: Information Science
Bummer. Apparently Windows Live Writer doesn't automatically save drafts. So here are my foggy recollections of this session. The session was a bit different this year. In previous years we've mostly discussed providing services (collection development and reference to computer...
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June 16, 2009
Category: Information Science
(came in late because the speaker I initially chose to see failed to show up) A speaker from Serials Solution’s Summon reviewed various pieces of research done recently both by LIS researchers and by big libraries. Summed up pretty well...
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