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May 11, 2010
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Someone around here is bound to have an answer! Ask a scibling is back, see this post: http://scienceblogs.com/seed/2010/05/ask_a_scienceblogger_anything.php
Feel free to ask any library or information questions, too.
May 6, 2010
I â¥â¥â¥ this essay by Barbara Fister: Washington, We Have a Problem at Library Journal.
Go read it.
May 5, 2010
Or maybe it's personal information management FAIL! - If you're sensitive to the difference. In other words keeping or not, organizing, retrieving, and re-using information things.
I have no desktop search. I have no desktop search at work because the only one I could get has been emasculated - it'…
May 1, 2010
Anne Jefferson from Highly Allochthonous pointed me to a new essay from Geoscientist Online, the member magazine of the Geological Society (UK). That essay points both to the survey of women geobloggers (previously mentioned here) and a survey done by Lutz Geissler, Robert Huber, and Callan Bentley…
April 25, 2010
Mixed methods are always attractive, but many researchers give up because each method typically requires some epistemology which often conflicts with the epistemology of other methods. When mixed methods are done, they are often done in sequence. For example, qualitative work to understand enough…
April 25, 2010
When I joined ScienceBlogs, I was halfway done preparing for my comprehensive exams. That involved a lot of reading, re-reading, and then practice essays. I blogged that to stay honest - you could see weeks that I didn't accomplish as much as well as pretty productive weeks. I also got some great…
April 16, 2010
I was happy to see that the authors published this article in PlosOne. I was following their work a while ago, but had lost track (plus, when asked, the last author implied that they had moved on to new projects). So here's the citation and then I'll summarize and comment.
Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M…
April 9, 2010
V. brief post. Jonathan Rochkind points out that a lot of libraries are doing mobile sites and things, but he questions if they actually have a reason to think that these services are needed and will be used or if they are just creating these things because they're cool.
Please read his post, and…
April 6, 2010
The following is by Susan Fingerman. She and I were discussing all of the media commentary, so when I heard she actually read it, I asked - no, make that begged - for a review. She was kind enough to supply.
By now many of you have probably heard about This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and…
April 6, 2010
I expect D to have a more thorough take (she always does!), but there's finally a more widespread outcry against Ebsco. A few of us commented about the exclusive rights to magazines and closing access to Ageline. There was also (rightfully) a kerfuffle about deep linking to HBS articles.
Now we…
April 1, 2010
I'm still on this kick on recommender systems. I'm further encouraged by happening on a report on "discoverability" by the Minnesota librarians when looking for something else on JR's blog. The report agrees that recommender systems are a more important trend.
In standard information retrieval…
March 30, 2010
I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series.
(stream of consciousness)
Dr John L Schnase, NASA - Science and technology challenges of…
March 30, 2010
I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series.
(stream of consciousness)
Annette Williams, Vanderbilt U Med Ctr - Integrating best…
March 30, 2010
I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series.
(these are stream of consciousness)
Tonna - VP North Am, Academic & Gov't. Research…
March 27, 2010
let's hope i don't accidentally bring down the whole scienceblogs empire.
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March 24, 2010
I'm on a sub-sub committee to evaluate evaluation of consideration of adding a new recommender system to our discovery tools across my parent institution's libraries. The system costs money and programmer time (which we're very short on), but more importantly, there's a real estate issue, we…
March 16, 2010
Libraries and librarians connect people to information. That's what we do. So there's the information part and there's the connecting part. Librarians gather, collect, license, and purchase information in the form of books, scrolls, artifacts, journals, web pages. And there's a lot to selecting…
March 13, 2010
Myths abound about how scientists do not talk with the media or communicate with the public and if they do so, it is only because they are required to by funders' "broader impact" requirements. The evidence, however, does not support this view.
This article is another in a series of…
March 10, 2010
This was originally posted 1/9/2009 on my old blog.
Due to popular demand (well 3 requests :) ), this is a commentary and additional information for my conference paper and presentation: Pikas, C. K. (2008). Detecting Communities in Science Blogs. Paper presented at eScience '08. IEEE Fourth…
March 9, 2010
Sometimes you have to just let go and release something to the wild. I have mentioned on a few occasions a qualitative study I did prior to the network study. To be honest, I think I actually did it in the Fall of 2007 ?! I thought (and was encouraged to believe) that I could get a journal article…
March 6, 2010
I haven't been a great team player recently, so this post catches up on some things going on in the world recently. These are in no particular order.
The USA Science and Engineering Festival is coming up in the Fall. ScienceBlogs is the official blogging partner and thereâs a blog here to talk…
March 6, 2010
This post reviews a fairly recent article that examines the experiences of black men in nursing and asks whether they experience the "glass escalator" effect or if the work is racialized as well as gendered.
As requested by some fellow Sciblings, I recently blogged about an older article* that…
March 6, 2010
Back when I was working at the public library, I used to do the "introduction to the internet" classes. These were typically at 9 - before the library opened- and so attracted stay at home moms and retirees. Attendees usually picked things up pretty quickly. For one thing, they admitted not knowing…
February 25, 2010
This blog is a Research Blogging Awards 2010 Finalist
Thank you for whoever nominated me and thanks for your votes! I'll try to bring more research blogging posts to you in the coming year :)
February 22, 2010
This thread is hilarious, yet so true it makes me want to cry.
February 21, 2010
I ran across this piece again just now after having read it when it first came out in 20056:
Foster, I. (2005). Service-Oriented Science. Science, 308(5723), 814-817. doi:10.1126/science.1110411
It's a good piece and quite helpful. Google Scholar says it's been cited 209 times, so that's not…
February 15, 2010
With the recent snowstorms and all, I brought an official work machine home so I could work on full VPN. We have an SSL VPN option and with full network connect, it's just like I'm in my office. Most of the time, when I need an article here or there, I just use the proxy server. From my end, how…
February 8, 2010
A brief note. Remember when I told you about free to you research databases? Remember when some other librarians told you about a certain company negotiating for exclusive access to certain popular magazines, choking out other aggregators? Well, now these two things have something in common. Ebsco…
February 7, 2010
At the PSP Pre-Conference (see my notes), Dr. Harley of the Higher Education in the Digital Age program reported being surprised by their finding that young scholars were unwilling or unlikely to experiment with new scholarly communication (tools/practices/channels). There was a question from the…
February 3, 2010
These are a continuation of my notes. This portion has been transcribed from my scribble - I was sitting on stage for the second half of the day so live blogging didn't really seem appropriate :( If there is something wrong, not malicious, just bad handwriting.
Diane Harley, Senior Researcher and…