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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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January 31, 2010
Category: librarians
There's a lot of discussion about women in STEM and business and the barriers they face (justifiably so!), but what about men in the "female professions"? Do they face the same glass ceiling? It turns out that there's a classic...
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January 28, 2010
Category: librarians
I've only been a college student and grad student at one institution and I have to confess, the library treats students as second class citizens. Particularly technical services. When I mentioned in a sociology class that I am a librarian,...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2010
Category: librarians
Dorothea Salo reports that the scientists she spoke with at Science Online 2010 did not get why she was there or even why librarians would be interested in science communication. For some reason, I didn't get that so much, if...
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January 17, 2010
Category: Conferences
Dr Free-ride, Sheril Kirshenbaum, and Isis the Scientist SK – definition of civility at your site – if you want children to feel welcome, for example. You have to set the tone. Some topics seem more important to be civil...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 2:32 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
Led by Maria Droujkova and Blake Stacey. We started with a pretty basic discussion of how to show math on the web. I use the math sandbox on mediawiki and use a png. B recommends replacemath.js http://mathcache.appspot.com/static/docs.html – it also...
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Category: Conferences
Jacqueline Floyd and Chris Rowan JF studied spreading centers off of Galapagos. When she did her PhD hard to get data – but she did ask for and get some, wrote a paper that ended up on the front page...
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January 16, 2010
Category: Conferences
Anil Dash (first employee at SixApart (movabletype), long time blogger). Milestone – there’s a blog on the White House website. Made statement that federal gov’t interest and use of new media – most interesting startup 2009. So then he set...
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Category: librarians
This is a session by Stephanie Willen Brown and Dorothea Salo . They started with a bunch of questions. About half the room was librarians, of the others split between affiliated with an institution and not. Where do you go...
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Category: Conferences
John Hogenesch, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology - Penn School of Med gene-at-a-time is giving way to genome wide - larger datasets, collaborative research last year more added to genebank than all previous years combined (wow!) - exceeds Moore's law. Academia...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
part deux (actually this is the regular conference session) This is the session on Saturday morning at 9. Moderated by Deepak Singh (coast to coast bio) and Kiki Sanford. What is podcasting? audio or video plus subscription plus portability. Some...
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