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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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Category: comps
Now that I'm not scared to look at my responses... This one doesn't look so bad, so I'm sharing. Please do keep in mind that this was written in 2 hours, by a tired person, with tired fingers! --- Christina...
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Category: comps
This was the last day of comps - it's up to waiting for the results. The essays were emailed out to the readers immediately at 4pm when I finished. This day's questions were much more attractive. First exam was Information...
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Category: comps
Sigh. TGIF and TG I have 2 days free before the next 2. I really felt like I was very, very familiar with these articles but I had a really hard time. I think when I look back on my...
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Category: comps
So this was the dreaded STS. Crap. Good questions, but really, really not sure about my answers. I did have the guts to shush people talking loudly outside the door and they gave me dirty looks. Oh well! Q 1...
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Category: comps
Communication, a major area, so 4 hours to write 2 essays, in a row, without a break. (sure I could get up and get water, etc., but I didn't want to waste time). I got there pretty early, which was...
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Category: comps
This is the final in my practice essays before taking the real comps test in the end of July. I need to correct the record, though. Apparently although all of these questions came from my advisor, he didn't write them...
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Category: comps
This post serves a few purposes. First, Bill Hooker questioned Crotty's assertion about the importance of patents to university researchers [*]. Bill also posted a nice summary of AUTM's statistics (later in DrugMonkey's comment stream there were other discussions of...
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Category: comps
This is the 5th of the test essays in preparation for comps. This question was posed by my advisor. I opened it and went, "wow." It's sort of like the perfect storm of question. When I first finished it, I...
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Category: Information Science
Last set of comps readings, I talked about sense of community: belonging, having influence, fulfillment of needs, and emotional support. Now, let's talk about the physics version of "community" - cohesive subgroups. In a graph, these are groups of...
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Category: comps
Sunday morning I was all set to do another essay - just had to pick a question source and question - when my mother in law called to say she would be stopping by at about the same time I...
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