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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?
November 28, 2009
Category: Information Science
With well known and respected open science projects coming out of chemistry as well as cool tools like pubchem and emolecules... it seems a bit unfair of me to ask if chemists are grinches. But there has been and there...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:26 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2009
Category: publishing
It seems like there was nothing new from the established publishers for a while - nothing with their core business. Some experimented with ways to communicate and most updated content management systems, but it seemed like most weren't touching their...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:15 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: librarians
Let me start by quoting an e-mail Dawn Pointer McCleskey sent to the SLA-DC listserv today (I have her permission). This is in reply to an e-mail from a younger member who mentioned how teachers and nurses have reclaimed their...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:32 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2009
Category: Off Topic
I got back from the SLA conference last June to the whole lab in a crisis. It passed and in e-mail, I got a notice that my SLA renewal was over due. Which is funny because I routed all the...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2009
Category: Off Topic
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-secrets_15.html via Andrew on FriendFeed. (don't sue me, I'm just the messenger!) Even if it isn't true, it's sort of funny and now all I can see is my kitchen sink strainer (not a toilet)....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:19 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2009
Category: Conferences
Thursday was a half day covering first the cyberinfrastructure and then some discussions of another system that can provide lessons learned to the RSN (reminder: regional scale nodes, the long cabled sensors). My notes are (of course) at work, but...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2009
Category: Conferences
And now for something completely different :) I am attending the Ocean Observatories Initiative Science Workshop in Baltimore. Today was the first day and there's a half day tomorrow. OOI is big science in its purest form. It's multi-decade, multi-hundred...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:12 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2009
Category: Information Science
How do you balance robust enterprise IT services with computer science as a research area? This post has been floating around in my head for a while - I even had this started but lost the draft in a tragic...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's a nice rebuttal of the Sirsi Dynix anti-open source white paper done by Mark Leggott that just came out (I found it via Jason Griffey). More thoughtful than some. There are so many misconceptions on both sides of this....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 3, 2009
Category: finding information
One of the great things about my interests overlapping computer science is that computer scientists believe in self archiving and making their work freely available on the web. The scientometric parts of IS are that way, too, but the L...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:49 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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