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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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I got back from the SLA conference last June to the whole lab in a crisis. It passed and in e-mail, I got a notice that my SLA renewal was over due. Which is funny because I routed all the...
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http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-secrets_15.html via Andrew on FriendFeed. (don't sue me, I'm just the messenger!) Even if it isn't true, it's sort of funny and now all I can see is my kitchen sink strainer (not a toilet)....
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I think sometimes the widget on the left side doesn't work. Here's the direct link to support one of the projects I've picked. I think these are some great things that will help students in my state, but if you...
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I still am not online on my own computer at home so I'm not able to add posts as I'd like. Please bear with me!...
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So my faithful little laptop has now died. It's 4 years old and hasn't really been treated all that gently. (my father-in-law just poured his drink in it a couple of weeks ago). I'm faced with the choice of buying...
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No, not mis-giving. In fact, there will be no misgivings if you give to any of the projects I’ve selected or any of the other projects on Donor’s Choose. A little background. DonorsChoose.org is a way that you can safely...
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Sure Hubble's pictures are prettier, but there's a lot of cool science coming out of the nifty MESSENGER spacecraft. She's up for a third Mercury fly-by in two weeks. She'll go into orbit in 2011 and she's the first spacecraft...
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Anybody can code but what just anybody codes can be crap. There's a real problem in my place of work and probably in other places where you have scientists and engineers who haven't been formally trained in CS and haven't...
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I've used a citation managers/ bibliographic managers for years - ever since I came to my current job in which I do in-depth literature searching for scientists and engineers. I report my results as an annotated bibliography with analysis. To...
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This picture arrived in email last week. My parents lost an oak tree. M and I offered to come and help clear it out. When we got there around 10 this morning, my brother in law had already cut...
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