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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 30, 2010
Category: Off Topic
I’m very late in reviewing this book and there are a lot of very detailed reviews, but I thought I could add bit about the recording. I have my own signed copy of the print, but with work and school...
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June 26, 2010
Category: Information Science
Nick Carr, quoted by the Readablity folks here, talks about hyperlinks as distractions - part of how the web screws up our brains. I was just browsing (couldn't possibly read this one from cover to cover) Nentwich (2003) and ran...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2010
Category: librarians
Yet again someone said to me in a meeting: librarians don't like web 2.0, they always push back against it. Ok, so this clearly doesn't describe all of the librarians I hang out with online or any of the ones...
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June 21, 2010
Category: librarians
New book club, sounds really cool…. but most importantly, the author has an MLS from Simmons!...
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Category: information policy
Another brief observation. I was just reading a popular cooking/recipe magazine and they mentioned that the New York Board of Health did an "academic study" of the new nutrition labeling laws. ARGH. I don't like calling scientific research "academic study"...
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June 18, 2010
Category: Off Topic
Just about everyone coming back from the business meeting commented on the dire shape of the association's financials. First, times are tough everywhere and association memberships are down across the board. Librarians are being furloughed so there's no extra money...
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June 10, 2010
Category: publishing
Besides watching this like the finals of Olympic hockey, I've been seriously impressed with the thoughtful and insightful commentary from a huge bunch of my libr* online contacts. Interesting stuff, too, from scientists and other folks interested in scholarly communication....
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June 8, 2010
Category: publishing
Read this (pdf). So the UC system has been screaming - they are totally cutting budgets, people, everything... And NPG has decided to hike their subscription renewal prices by 400%. So if the offer doesn't change, UC's going to fight...
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June 5, 2010
Category: bibliometrics
Kevin Zelnio of Deep Sea News tweeted the title of this piece and sent my mind going over the various theories of citation, what citations mean, studies showing how people cite without reading (pdf) (or at least propagate obvious...
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June 3, 2010
Category: scholarly communication
Many/most/all (?) scientists and engineers who have ever published anything anywhere are now being inundated with calls for papers (CFP). At least 3 have made it to my desk in the past month, forwarded from my colleagues who are curious...
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