Whoa, sorry for the time off!
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No internet at home (thanks, comcast #fail) and really busy at work... I'll be back soon!
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Christina's LIS Rant
This is my blog on library and information science.
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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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- Is the run away from “librarian” and “library” a conflict between 2nd and 3rd wave feminists?
- Oh crap. Guess I should have renewed on time.
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- OOI Science Community Workshop, day 2
- OOI Science Community Workshop, Day 1
- Innovating in infrastructure in a research organization
- COTS software are not off the shelf or turn-key
- Free IS and CS books online
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- Michael on COTS software are not off the shelf or turn-key
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Admin:
Are you done yet?
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Ack. NO. ...Ok, well when you gonna finish? ARRRGHGH PhD students unite! Rebel against these questions! My answer - I don't know, and it will probably be a while. Like ask me in 3-4 years. Here are some ways my...
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Testing, testing...
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Is this thing on? We're back from the upgrade....
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Welcome Dorothea!
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W00t! The newest libr* Scibling is none other than Dorothea Salo at The Book of Trogool....
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Some of our ads in infosci
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seem to be for Bing, the re-branded "new" search engine from Microsoft. So that's ok (as is USAA - I've been a member since I was a midshipman or right after commissioning, I forget). (ew, ew, ew for some of...
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very very slowly... the SLA2009 wrap up posts are coming..
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No need to click through... just sayin' they're on their way....
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Welcome, Walt!
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I'm so pleased that Walt Crawford has joined us as SciBlings! I've read Cites & Insights (sometimes people tease him by calling it Sites & Incites, but I don't recommend you try that) and his old blog for years as...
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test entry - please ignore
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(I can't find anything wrong on the back end for previous post so let's see if this one is broken, too) :( update 1.2.3 3.2.1 test complete. error fixed, or so i believe....
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Looking for ideas for the Information Science Channel
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Please check out and comment on John's post on Looking for Ideas for the Information Science Channel. So far: Information policy including open access, intellectual property, and gov't openness Information visualization Information architecture Publisher/publishing funding models: subscriptions, page charges, article...
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I believe....
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I believe in libraries and librarians. I think it was Dana Roth who posted this quote to a listserv: "To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as...
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