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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?
March 30, 2010
Category: Conferences
I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series. (stream of consciousness) Dr John L Schnase, NASA -...
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Category: Conferences
I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series. (stream of consciousness) Annette Williams, Vanderbilt U Med Ctr...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 1:47 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series. (these are stream of consciousness) Tonna - VP North...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:27 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2010
let's hope i don't accidentally bring down the whole scienceblogs empire. // // This script call is what gets MathJax loaded and running // MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX","output/HTML-CSS"], // input is TeX and output is HTML-CSS format extensions: ["tex2jax.js"], // use...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:54 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2010
Category: information retrieval
I'm on a sub-sub committee to evaluate evaluation of consideration of adding a new recommender system to our discovery tools across my parent institution's libraries. The system costs money and programmer time (which we're very short on), but more importantly,...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:43 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2010
Category: libraries
Libraries and librarians connect people to information. That's what we do. So there's the information part and there's the connecting part. Librarians gather, collect, license, and purchase information in the form of books, scrolls, artifacts, journals, web pages. And there's...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:18 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2010
Category: STS
Myths abound about how scientists do not talk with the media or communicate with the public and if they do so, it is only because they are required to by funders' "broader impact" requirements. The evidence, however, does not...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:06 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2010
Category: Information Science
This was originally posted 1/9/2009 on my old blog. Due to popular demand (well 3 requests :) ), this is a commentary and additional information for my conference paper and presentation: Pikas, C. K. (2008). Detecting Communities in Science Blogs....
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March 9, 2010
Category: Information Science
Sometimes you have to just let go and release something to the wild. I have mentioned on a few occasions a qualitative study I did prior to the network study. To be honest, I think I actually did it in...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 6, 2010
Category: Admin
I haven't been a great team player recently, so this post catches up on some things going on in the world recently. These are in no particular order. The USA Science and Engineering Festival is coming up in the Fall....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 2:37 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Orac 02.14.2012
Tim Lambert 02.01.2012
Jason Rosenhouse 02.12.2012
Orac 01.26.2012
Steinn Sigurðsson 02.14.2012
