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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: Conferences
Thursday was a half day covering first the cyberinfrastructure and then some discussions of another system that can provide lessons learned to the RSN (reminder: regional scale nodes, the long cabled sensors). My notes are (of course) at work, but...
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Category: Conferences
And now for something completely different :) I am attending the Ocean Observatories Initiative Science Workshop in Baltimore. Today was the first day and there's a half day tomorrow. OOI is big science in its purest form. It's multi-decade, multi-hundred...
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Category: Conferences
On day three I only made two sessions - and the second was incredibly disappointing (I have serious problems with the study design) so I'll just briefly chat about the first, which was pretty awesome. Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory (II):...
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Category: Conferences
Today was a little better. To be honest, it’s probably just that I was a bit more tolerant after I slept in a couple of hours before showing up in the middle of the second session. I started out in:...
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Category: Conferences
It's always strange to go to a conference outside of your own primary research area. This conference had a lot of historians and philosophers as well as social scientists in every other category including media studies and information science. I...
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Category: Conferences
I hope to be blogging this meeting over the course of the next few days. Last STS meeting I attended computer note-taking was completely frowned upon but hopefully this one will be more modern. I'll be talking tomorrow in session...
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Category: Conferences
One of the main reasons I go to SLA is to catch up on what all of the journals, databases, and research tool providers are up to. Sometimes they save the big announcements for ALA and sometimes they make them...
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Category: Information Science
Bummer. Apparently Windows Live Writer doesn't automatically save drafts. So here are my foggy recollections of this session. The session was a bit different this year. In previous years we've mostly discussed providing services (collection development and reference to computer...
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Category: Information Science
(came in late because the speaker I initially chose to see failed to show up) A speaker from Serials Solution’s Summon reviewed various pieces of research done recently both by LIS researchers and by big libraries. Summed up pretty well...
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Category: Conferences
SLA is the Special Libraries Association - it's really my home professional organization. I often go to basically 3 conferences in my profession: SLA, ASIS&T, and Computers In Libraries. You come back from SLA and you want to buy something....
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