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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: finding information
Cross-language information retrieval is an important research area with lots of activity. There are all kinds of elaborate algorithms and ways of doing it. There's a lot of domain specificity and connotation kind of things that have been really improved...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Posts I would like to write
Is it possible or even desirable to have one search interface that serves every need? I have about 10 minutes to write this placeholder of a post. Hopefully, I'll get the opportunity to revisit this topic near and dear to...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: finding information
Some of these are better than others. Some don't have nice controlled vocabularies and are a bit wonky in the free version. Nearly all of them you can get through another interface for a fee if you need more precision...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 3:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Previously, I had a post about finding information in books using things like Google Book Search. This post talks about finding information on a topic, or more specifically, why you should start your search with a research database and more...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Michael J. Kurtz of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics came to speak at MPOW at a gathering of librarians from across the larger institution (MPOW is a research lab affiliated with a large private institution). He's an astronomer but more...
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Category: finding information
I've talked about this a bit at sessions I taught at my library and also at Web Search University but it's still a favorite. Plus, you asked for posts on finding information. Oh, and one of the tools just released...
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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: 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...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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