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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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May 26, 2010
Category: social computing technologies
Featuring quotes by yours truly as well as our dear Dr Isis, Drugmonkey, and Bora Zivkovic. Kamalski, J. (2010). Blogging about science. Research Trends 17. Retrieved from http://www.info.scopus.com/researchtrends/archive/RT17/beh_dat_17.html ....
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Category: social computing technologies
Please consider completing this survey conducted by two professors at the University of Maryland iSchool. (you can opt in for aggregated results - should be interesting!)...
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May 24, 2010
Category: Conferences
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is being held right now in DC. Use both twitter hash tags: #icwsm2010 and #icwsm. The papers are online at: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM10/schedConf/presentations....
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Category: Information Science
My larger institution's (so not my place of work, but our parent org's) libraries had a fabulous get together Friday with a session on data curation. The speakers were: Clifford Lynch of the Coalition for Networked Information, Carole Palmer from...
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May 17, 2010
Category: information policy
Here's a quote from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers' response (pdf) to the FRPAA legislation (about): There is no need for federal agencies to replicate content on their own sites when web-linking approaches...
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May 15, 2010
Category: Information Science
Revere of Effects Measure has a great post on expertise, authorship, and "real" names. At this point, after years and years of blogs it's a shame this has to be said explicitly. The general points go like this: there are...
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May 13, 2010
Category: Information Science
John Dupuis comments about a review of This Book is Overdue, saying that libraries' roles in their institutions are not well understood by others in the institution because of inherent insularity in academe - silos, in effect. Drug Monkey basically...
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May 11, 2010
Category: Admin
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Someone around here is bound to have an answer! Ask a scibling is back, see this post: http://scienceblogs.com/seed/2010/05/ask_a_scienceblogger_anything.php Feel free to ask any library or information questions, too....
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May 6, 2010
Category: publishing
I ♥♥♥ this essay by Barbara Fister: Washington, We Have a Problem at Library Journal. Go read it....
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May 5, 2010
Category: Information Science
Or maybe it's personal information management FAIL! - If you're sensitive to the difference. In other words keeping or not, organizing, retrieving, and re-using information things. I have no desktop search. I have no desktop search at work because the...
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