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Currently working on a slide deck featuring copyright decision-making as a game of pac-man.

February 25 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm calling all my image use "parody." - lris

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i love you, iris - jambina

^^ So say we all. - Steele Lawman

Recoloring the white dots? Not the best idea I've ever had... - lris

You could make it Ms Pac-Man too... - Andy

I'm probably too sexist for that ;-) - lris

The presentation went well :-) - lris

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We made the Chronicle: http://chronicle.com/article... (non-paywall link: http://chronicle.com/article... )

February 12 - Comment - Like - Share

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YAY! (paywall, boo...) - Julian

I added a non-paywall link - lris

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Congrats to Kendra for her SLA Rising Star Award!!! WOOO!!!!

February 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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Thank you! I couldn't have done it without you. XOXO - kendrak

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Woot! - Jenica

YAYAYAYAYAY! - jambina

Super congrats. - Joe Boone

Wooooo! Congrats! :) - Rachel Walden

Dude, it was your record of accomplishments that speaks for itself. BASK IN YOUR AWESOMENESS - LibrarianOnTheLoose

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Adventures of an Ambulance Riding Librarian - http://www.ambulanceridinglibrarian.com/

January 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Welcome to extreme embedded librarianship! Join in my adventures as a medical librarian riding out with Indianapolis EMS, the largest 911 ambulance service in Indiana. The AmbulanceRidingLibrarian is devoted to all things informative, funny or odd in emergency medicine, disaster preparedness and medical librarianship." - Betsy #TeamMonique from Bookmarklet

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Readers Advisory by the Cover: ISLOC 2013 - http://newrambler.net/lisdom...

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Thanks to everyone who helped me find covers! Here's the full thing. - laura x from Bookmarklet

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Slideshare version: http://www.slideshare.net/newramb... - laura x

Might I borrow a few of your composite images for my org-of-info course, with credit? (I won't borrow the Hines image; I know you got special permission for that.) I'd like to use them to make a point about Cutter's "be sure you have the book you were looking for" bibliographic objective. - RepoRat

These are not the books you're looking for *handwave* - DJF

Go for it! I meant to slap a CC license on the whole thing (I believe cover image thumbnails are fair use), but I'm a little preoccupied these days. - laura x from BuddyFeed

thank you very much! - RepoRat

Yay! Glad to see ISLOC's still going strong! - Katie

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Poster session for ACRL accepted - maybe I'll see some of you there! :)

January 22 - Comment - Like - Share

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Woo! - lris

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Iris, please tell me you or at least some of you all will be going, pretty please! - Lily

woot! and yay! - Sir Shuping is just sir

congratulations! that's fabulous. - RepoRat

Wahoo! I will attempt to find you there! - Catherine Pellegrino

Congrats!! - Jen

Congrats! - Hedgehog

Yay, my roundtable got accepted too! - Meg V. Meg

Yay Meg! I'll make sure to add it to my schedule (along with any other FFer presentations, I hope)! - Lily

LSW: Royce's favorite Anna

I always knew we had a fairly large and diverse body of international students at MPOW, but it didn't really hit me until I was scrolling through the names and countries of all 308 (~1% FTE) currently enrolled:

January 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Australia/United Kingdom, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zambia - Royce's favorite Anna

Canada isn't a country, it's our northern-most state! /joking-troll :) - awd

wow! - Marie

Crime and mystery fiction: Philip Young

Retold, Resold, Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Modern Era The University of Leeds’ Faculty of Arts and the Crime Studies Network are pleased to invite you to the ‘Retold, Resold, Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Modern Era’ cross-disciplinary conference to take place at Leeds on the 17th and 18th of September 2013. See the conference website...

January 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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Sounds like a great conference, Philip. Thanks for letting us know. - Margot Kinberg

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AuthoreaAuthorea is a collaborative writing tool for scientific articles.Built by scientists. For scientists. Authorea is an online platform for the collaborative authorship of research papers. Authorea lets you publish, share, organize, version control, and source control all the components of your research. In the backend, Authorea uses git, a...

January 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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via PAMNET, first article: https://www.authorea.com/users... - Christina Pikas

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“HULK…STAPLE?!” | Geeks are Sexy Technology News - http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013...

January 7 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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OMG WANT. - RepoRat

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HAHAHAHAH - lris

Must. Have. - Marge LW

The internet is funny - awd from Android

I wonder how often this stapler has to be replaced. - Andy

LSW: suelibrarian

Just been given task of doing a Research Data Management libguide. Haven't had libguides b4. Anyone got favorite examples, howtos, tips??

January 2 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://libguides.agnesscott.edu/insidet... - Jason P

Thanks - suelibrarian

Crime and mystery fiction: Bernadette

Mysterious Matters: Mystery Publishing Demystified: My Year in Review: 2012 - http://mysteriousmatters.typepad.com/mysteri...

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Nice to see a note of cautious optimism from a mystery publishing boffin - Bernadette from Bookmarklet

Thanks, Bernadette - Margot Kinberg

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This would actually be an interesting assignment. Find a subject relevant Wikipedia page that says, "[citation needed]", then go find a reference that confirms (or denies) the information.

January 1 - Comment - Like - Share

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Crime and mystery fiction

A murder in Iceland - http://theviewfromthebluehouse...

December 29 from The View from the Blue House - Comment - Like - Share

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Crime and mystery fiction

The Secret Life of Wallander - http://doyouwriteunderyourownn...

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Crime and mystery fiction

In The Spotlight: Karin Alvtegen’s Betrayal - http://margotkinberg.wordpress.com/2012...

December 24 from Confessions of a Mystery... - Comment - Like - Share

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Crime and mystery fiction

Review: BETRAYAL by Karin Alvtegen - http://reactionstoreading.com/2012...

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Crime and mystery fiction: crimeficreader

Season of the Witch - Arni Thorarinsson (Author), Anna Yates (Translator) is in today's UK Kindle Daily Deal at 99p http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp...

December 21 - Comment - Like - Share

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On the amazon page: ""There is a lot to like in Season of the Witch . . . the mystery is solid, the Icelandic setting well-conveyed, and the characterization more rounded than a typical crime novel" -- Petrona" - Karen Meek

LSW: aarontay

Must say I really love the ability to add "bet bets" to Summon. Spent days going through the top queries from our Encore system, looking at the Summon results and if not ideal, start thinking how I could help lead them to a better resource or advice that might be buried or not indexed & creating the entry. It's like a weird kind of reference....

December 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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Eg. Systematic reviews as a query. The database recommender says "Cochrane Library" which is good. Plus I add one more entry linking to a short 8 min video explaining what it is, and quickly how to find it in pubmed etc. I created close 80-90 of such entries, it will be interesting to see how many will click on such entries. My guess, many will ignore the entries unless the results in Summon are horrendously bad. - aarontay

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After spending lots of my own time on this, I have to say, this isn't going to scale, though it's fun to see users using my "best bets". But then again, we know reference doesn't scale right? :) - aarontay

It's great you're doing this work, aaron. The machine-generated best bets I see in Summon really aren't the best bets. A real reference librarian is definitely a better judge, but I haven't approached our e-resources people to take on the project. - kaijsa

is this something we can see on the front end? sounds awesome! - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

Thanks guys, that would be true if I was a "Real reference librarian" when my reference skills are undeveloped by the standards of this room.. I am testing on my end first to study if people are using the best bets or ignoring them so as not to waste the valuable time of my colleagues .If i see them actually using, then i can feed some of the most common queries to specialists to ask... more... - aarontay

Is a weird type of reference because you don't quite get a reference interview all you see are the search phrases. And for efficiency you focus only on the top searches which are usually 1-3 word searches (remember your trigger must match exactly what is searched). Still I can see what was searched before and after..which helps a bit. - aarontay

Use #1 : Recommends services they may not be aware of. Eg lots of searching on "Writing", "Academic writing" and variants.. they all recommend our fairly new writing centre which most students are unaware of. http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/search.... searching for thesis writing/literature review will recommend librarians etc... - aarontay

Use #2 : Traditional recommendation of sources like databases, videos, libguides. Search for Lee Kuan Yew gets a resource listing all his speeches. http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/search... - aarontay

Use #3 work around weaknesses in summon's lack of content - search for statistics gets you statistics guides etc http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/search... , search for standards.. etc.. - aarontay

Use #4a work around weakness in summon ranking algos - usually if a user search for the journal title, it will be ranked 1st.. except when the commonly known title is different/shorter from the whole catalogued title... Then it might be buried. created best bets for the common ones.Can be a unique best bet...for each journal or a general one..that triggers for different journals but... more... - aarontay

Use #4b - It gets confusing if someone searches for time magazine is he searching for all items in time magazine or the record to it? Unfortunately Summon is confusing because sometimes if you enter the publicaton title you *do* get articles from that title on top, other-times it is there but buried. Other times it is not there at all because not indexed. And yet other times it is... more... - aarontay

#5 others, you will be surprised how hard it is for users to find Francis Fukuyama's The End of History?. Autosuggest would make them realize there is The end of history & the last man, but it would be hard to find the 1989 essay that started it all, partly because the phrase is so common and used around Fukuyama's work but also we filter *newspaper articles* by default..so the reprint in washington post will never appear... unless the user is smart enough to uncheck it, but why would he? - aarontay

Just some of the ideas I am playing with, I would guess most if not all are worthless. I am also hoping for future enhancments for triggers.. eg.. if search ASTMXXX would suggest ASTM database. Triggers on regexp would be crazy but some amt of flexibility beyond just exact match please. and ability to add more than 1 hyperlink. And ability to change hyper-text link from "more" to anything else. - aarontay

FYI: for my purposes real reference librarian = human being working as a librarian. As in, not an algorithm created by Serials Solutions. :) - kaijsa

LSW: laura x

Man, this email from Overdrive is just a laugh a minute.

December 14 - Comment - Like - Share

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"users of Internet Explorer 7, 8, or 9 will be prompted one time to install a Google Chrome Frame Plugin" - laura x

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"For those in a library or institution using a version of IE that cannot install the Google Chrome Frame Plugin, we are testing solutions and will be providing additional information early next year." - laura x

"OverDrive maintains strong relationships with all major publishers" - laura x

"We provide your library with insulation from the ever evolving digital media fulfillment costs, device compatibility, DRM fees, and hundreds of service and other content issues so you can focus on lending titles and serving your users." - laura x

Dear Overdrive: the share of Internet Explorer is still high enough that you REALLY NEED TO MAKE YOUR STUFF WORK WITH EXPLORER. Sorry for the inconvenience to your programmers. - Chris Z.

Was this signed by the VP for Doublespeak? - Catherine Pellegrino

I actually feel for providers who have to wrangle their stuff to work with ie. Every time a new version rolls out, it breaks really important databases like Web of Knowledge. We've long told patrons that if something doesn't look right in ie to try ff or safari. The majority of the time that works. - kaijsa

...They insulate you from device compatibility issues as long as you install a specific plugin? (I also have some sympathy for the developers; even getting my own piddly javascripts to work cross-browser has me tearing my hair out. But come on, that's why we pay them the big bucks.) - Deborah Fitchett

LSW: maʀtha

Hello! Yes, you, behind the potted palm. And you, madam, with the cigar. Excuse me, is there someone under the table? No, no, don't sneak out the back door. Stay a while and introduce yourselves, passersby and onlookers. Have a canape.

December 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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Will someone please make me a drink whilst we wait? - maʀtha

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*pours mead on the rocks* - Marianne

This is obviously not the way to lure them out into the open - maʀtha

We need to offer free cookies and coffee (or beer) over the Internetz to draw them out. - Joe Boone

Come to the dark side! We have cookies! - Betsy #TeamMonique

also, that plant needs to start going to AA - DJF

I am Barbara, Grand Panjandrum and curmudgeon in residence at a snowy college in Minnesota. - barbara fister

(I just gave the plant my espresso to offset the alcohol.) - barbara fister

great, so now it's a wide awake drunk rubber tree - DJF

We have a rubber tree plant? Watch out for that ant... - Rachel Walden

*wheels in ginormous chocolate fountain* - maʀtha

In my mind we are all wearing Goreyesque evening wear - maʀtha

*adjusts monocle* - DJF

*hands DJF some googles* - maʀtha

goggles don't seem very gorey-esque - DJF

I was hoping you might throw them across the room in irritation or something. Carry on, nothing to see here - maʀtha

On with the introductions. I am the Baroness of Snark and Punnery, also from the northern climes of Minnesota. - maʀtha

What does Goreyesque morning wear look like? And I assume there is more coffee. - laura x

I think that would be a fancy bathrobe or a kimono with silk pajamas. The coffee is in fancy cups: http://image0-rubylane.s3.amazonaws.com/shops... - maʀtha

or this: http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_im... - maʀtha

Lovely. I'll be on the divan. I assume the coffee is delivered. I take mine black, thank you. - laura x

Who wants to be the guy in the fur hat? - maʀtha

only if it's fake fur. #crueltyfreeLSW :) - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn

And I'm Weezy aka Louise aka a peripatetic LSW member, overworked at a public library in Iowa. - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn

*hands Weezy a chocolate dipped strawberry* - maʀtha

I'm Dorothea. I teach library school. Yeah, yeah, I SAW you reaching for that rotten tomato. G'wan, throw it, you can't do anything to me that librarianship hasn't already. - RepoRat

I'm Laura Botts, one of many Lauras and few archivists you'll find around here. I prefer Addams to Gorey, so I'll be sporting something from Morticia's closet. I also prefer Coke Zero to coffee. *swigs* *burps* Pleased t' meet y'all! - LB: #TeamMonique

thanks Martha! Needed that. *licks fingers* - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn

we have to introduce ourselves? nope, that's too much like Teambuilding. if you make me, I'll just make something up anyway. - ellbeecee

I, of course, never make anything up - maʀtha

What? Never? - DJF from Android

Well...hardly ever. (And now I have the Lamplighter's performance of HMS Pinafore running through my head. Not a bad problem.) - Walt Crawford

Walt! Earworm! :) (s'okay, I love G&S) - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn

"You're exceedingly polite, And I think it only right To return the compliment" - maʀtha

Did you know that Gorey designed a set for the Mikado? - maʀtha

Really? How cool! http://www.goreyography.com/west... yes? - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn

Yes. - maʀtha

Darn. You spotted me. I like lurking - you all make my lunch hour very...entertaining. - Grumpator

Hi, Grumpator! Are you the one behind the potted plant? - maʀtha

Crime and mystery fiction: Kerrie

New grandson born just before midnight last night. All well

December 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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Oh, congratulations, Kerrie!! I'm very happy for all of you. Thanks for sharing! - Margot Kinberg

Congratulations to the prouds parents and grandparents, and all the best to the new baby born. - Jose Ignacio

Congrats Kerrie. Hope all stay well and you have a lovely first Christmas together - Bernadette from iPhone

LSW: maʀtha

Subject line from ACRL email: "Don't Lose Your Professional Posse: Renew Your ACRL Membership Today!" Much as I appreciate ACRL, they don't seem to understand that you are my real professional posse :)

December 5 - Comment - Like - Share

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Liking even though my posse is half here and half in ACRL. - kaijsa

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... though I don't think in terms of "posse" ... I see myself being chased by them. Hmm.Watched too many westerns at a tender age? - barbara fister

or been chased by too many posses. *sage nod* - RepoRat

This makes me wonder; is belonging to a professional organizational a requirement if you want a professional posse? Answer at 11. - Running Slow

I prefer the news at 10. - Joe Boone

This just in...You do not have to pay a boatload of money to have a professional posse. Just buy a round of drinks while lobbyconning. - Running Slow

LSW: Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

Who wouldn't want to work for a woman who wears an inflatable fruitcake on her head?

November 30 - Comment - Like - Share

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exactly my thought..and she's not even a children's librarian!!! - Marge LW

Gues who won honorable mention at the staff holiday party attire contest? - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

The fruitcake? - awd

LSW: DJF

CRKN to Terminate National Agreement with the ACS | Canadian Research Knowledge Network - http://www.crkn.ca/communi...

November 26 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"The decision to terminate the national agreement was taken by the CRKN Board of Directors after the organization’s negotiating team was unable to reach a renewal agreement with ACS, owing to fundamental issues with the new pricing model adopted by ACS for its international (non-US) library and consortia customers." - DJF from Bookmarklet

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This is all Jenica Rogers fault. - DJF

Wow. - lris

We've had a national higher-education license for all ACS journals for over a decade. - DJF

If Jenica isn't singing "One-Girl Revolution" right now, damned if I know why not. (Well, other than it being Superchick and thus potentially embarrassing.) - RepoRat

I'm going with Army of Me, actually. (also: I CLEARLY CONTROL CANADA WITH MIND LASERS) - Jenica

That works too! Can I have a mind laser? One with swears? - RepoRat

More seriously: Any bets on how the separate negotiations with all the different schools play out? How many are likely to go "eff ACS, we don't even have a chem major"? Might any pull a Rogers? Possibility of smaller consortium deals? Alternatives I can't even imagine? I know NOTHING of coll dev in Canada, which is why I ask. - RepoRat

I suspect that there are a bunch of schools that won't bother at all, because they're too small. There are also provincial consortia, like OCUL in my area, that may attempt to take up the banner, but we'll have to see how the really big schools like Toronto and McGill react to the new pricing model. - DJF

Because the big schools lead/fund the provincial consortia? Or because the smaller schools want PR cover for a no-go decision? - RepoRat

In Ontario, if Toronto's got a problem with the pricing, or wants to push back, OCUL's not going to say 'no'. In other regions, I don't know what the situation is like. - DJF

I am watching with mind lasers at the ready. More seriously, I am EXTREMELY interested to see how this plays out in terms of ACS profits -- do they make more or less, now that there's a united "NO" to the big deal? Because their smaller module pricing is just as fucked, so if enough people say "yes, we gotta have your stuff", then do they make more money anyway? Is the system fucked enough that they make mad profit by either maintaining or by breaking down our collaborative purchasing deals? - Jenica

ACS will now begin working their ass off for every McGill cent. trust me. - jambina

That is indeed a question it would be good to answer, Jenica. I dearly hope Canadian schools will now insist on transparent negotiation, using ACS trying to stick it to SUNY-Potsdam as a reason to distrust NDAs. - RepoRat

A decade ago, when we signed the national license for the online content, most of the school immediately started cancelling the print. This had been our plan all along, and we had pitched it to the department as "transitioning from print to electronic", because that's what it was. The ACS IMMEDIATELY started contacting individual faculty members and letting them know that we were cancelling our journal subscriptions. - DJF

Nothing suggests that their business practices have improved in the meantime, so I expect them to continue to insist on "confidentiality" in the negotiating process. - DJF

IMHO, the first step should be to find out whether the *Canadian* accreditation institution will publicly state that ACS subscriptions are not mandatory - or alternatively, if some titles are, then that should be explicitly stated - copystar

Sure, they'll try, DJF. Question is whether they'll cave to "transparency or automatic NO, SOD OFF." Returning to the SUNY example, seems to me that much depends on communication with chem faculty -- or failing that, getting ahead of the situation via public press releases FAST, a la California vs. NPG. - RepoRat

I am curious what the RSC thinks of all this... - Hedgehog

Who accredits chem departments in Canada? Me = ignorant. - RepoRat

It's here: http://www.chemistry.ca/index... - John Dupuis

"the library, whether separate or within the department, its convenience and accessibility to students, and the appropriateness of the library holdings in the subject. In keeping with modern usage, web access to journals will be considered adequate for accreditation purposes." - John Dupuis

oho. so they totally get to decide what "appropriateness" means. eeeeeeeeenteresting indeed. thanks! - RepoRat

I am amused by the irony of a "non-profit" society publisher employing pricing tactics that makes Elsevier look good. - Royce's favorite Anna

Take a half day off of the Internet, and this happens. I should take more days off from the internet. - Joe Boone

Does the RSC have more members in Canada than the US? I would expect them to since they are more closely linked to Britain. If so then RSC might garner more support than ACS over time, especially if pricing issues continue, although I expect many Canadians are members of ACS as well. - Elizabeth Brown

We haven't been "more closely linked to Britain" since about 1918. - DJF

in good chemistry news - press release today that rsc advances is going gangbusters and will have 48 issues next year. oa in chem, who would have thunk it. - Christina Pikas

sweet! linky? - RepoRat

This is a short blurb. http://blogs.rsc.org/rscpubl... - Joe Boone

Relatively speaking, 1918 is more recent than 1776. ;-) - Royce's favorite Anna from Android

DJF - you still have the Queen on your money. That's still more closely linked, IMO. :) - Elizabeth Brown

Only on some of the money. Most of the bills have dead men on them, just like yours ;-) - DJF

AND WATERFOWL. - Jenica

We used to put industrial plants on them, but stopped that back when I was a kid. - DJF

are the kids still playing pond hockey on the new 5s? - jambina

asks a Canadian. - DJF

According to the Bank of Canada website, the $5 bills haven't been redesigned for the new polymer series yet. ("coming late 2013", it says) - DJF

Interesting. The Vimy war memorial is on the current $10, but it's also on the new $20. I wonder what they're going to put on the $10, then. - DJF

Not an Asian woman (bitter Canadian joke) - copystar

You don't know that. Maybe the back of the new $10 will be just covered with them. - DJF

tastefully attired, one hopes... - awd

LSW: lris

Coming to you live from THATcamp Denver.

November 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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enjoy! good people there. - RepoRat

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Me too! - Steele Lawman

Law of two feet strikes! - lris

Four...no, six feet. - Steele Lawman

Just had lunch with Iris and Steve and Anne. - Jason P

What a coincidence. I just had lunch with Jason and Anne and Steve. - lris

It was so nice to have lunch with you all. - Steele Lawman

Hope you all have a good time in Denver. - Joe Boone

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Walt is rockin' the house talking about micro publishing

October 22 - Comment - Like - Share

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and appropriate use of comic sans! - jambina

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LOL, I can't wait to see the slides! - John Dupuis

Thanks for the shout-out. (Sigh: I'm not on Slide-share; wasn't really planning to post the slides, since they're not very meaningful on their own. The Comic Sans was "Write Gooder, Not Worser" at the top of a slide, crossed out, with "Get the words right" at the bottom in Palatino, which I used for all the rest of the type. [And I don't think anybody noticed, but there *was* a cat picture on the closing slide.] - Walt Crawford

What? There is an appropriate use of comic sans??? - Joe Boone

Comic Sans is appropriate whenever you want to annoy people who hate Comic Sans. :-P - Deborah Fitchett

You could upload the slides here on FF, Walt. It's just us. - RepoRat

How would I do that? I'm a little ignorant about uploading PPT. (I'm a LOT ignorant about uploading to FF.) - Walt Crawford

And, actually, I have nothing against folks seeing the deck--just didn't feel like starting a SlideShare account until (or unless) I start speaking again a little more often. - Walt Crawford

Oh, what the hell. I opened a SlideShare account. Here's the deck, such as it is. The spectacular use of the World's Greatest Typeface is on slide 14. http://www.slideshare.net/waltcra... - Walt Crawford

Nice slides, for sure. I got a nice sense of what the presentation was about. Oh yeah, comic sans FTW. - John Dupuis

Thanks. The notes do help a little. If I ever start a writing consultancy ("The bland leading the blind"), the motto would be "Write Gooder, Not Worser." In Comic Sans. - Walt Crawford

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the second plank in my philosophy of librarianship - http://andromedayelton.com/blog...

October 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Caught up on a few months of @thatandromeda's blog this morning (because that's what you do in the 10 minutes you have before you absolutely must get in the shower, right?) and I love love love this. (The skull was designed by Joshua Harker: http://www.kickstarter.com/project...) - Marianne from Bookmarklet

I want the option of a "love" button to click. - barbara fister

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Very very weird to handle the same hardcover copies of library books I remember reading when they were brand-new in 1996, and which in some ways changed my life, and to see that they are now old and beat up enough to have acquired the patina of tradition. #longstrangeroad #libraryechoes

October 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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<3 - Steele Lawman

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October 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I love our students. This is my favorite refrigerator letters message on our elevator fire door. - Steele Lawman from Bookmarklet

LOL - lris

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