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RT @BoobsRadley: The best part about the 100-meter butterfly is picturing Mothra showing up with a huge bouquet and a look of sudden crushing disappointment.
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... took me a second.
- RepoRat
Matt Enis, "Open-Source LibraryBox Project Branches Out," The Digital Shift - Library Journal - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012...
Betsy #TeamMonique, Jason Griffey, ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤ and 3 other people liked this
Wow, go Griffey - that is awesome!
- Laura Norvig
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Pull quote: “Among its many uses, it’s ‘a tool that libraries and educators can use to distribute things to areas where distribution of digital objects is very difficult or impossible in some instances,’ Griffey said. Or, libraries can simply use it as an inexpensive marketing tool at local coffee shops or community events.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Neat toy, but it (LibraryBox) really only seems to make sense in places where Internet access is scarce yet wireless devices are ubiquitous... Because if we have Internet access, it makes much more sense to use the Web, right? (remember the Web?)
- JffKrlsn
Jeff, I like the idea of a public library getting a LibraryBox placed in a public place that offers free wifi (coffee shops, etc.) and using that as a way to promote community-created content (or public domain works). By making the LibraryBox broadcast its wifi signal (I assume that's how it would be discoverable), it might be a fun way to expose content to those who are scanning the wifi options in a public place.
- Stephen le Francoeur
There are plenty of places in the world where internet access is scarce.
- Chris Z.
Jeff: you nailed it, at least as a primary use. But even in areas where there is Internet access, it's not always as robust as it could be. LibraryBox is 802.11n, and local. I can see uses in distributing large files locally, even if you have wider 'net access...for instance, at a conference.
- Jason Griffey
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Barbara Fister, "The Original Flipped Classroom," Peer to Peer Review - Library Journal - http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012...
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Pull quote: “But here’s the real innovation: libraries are the ultimate flipped classroom. They are designed for engagement, self-directed learning, and experiential education. They are the antithesis of the comforting simplicity of the textbook and the condensed overview of the lecture. In libraries, students find themselves in a swirling stream of ideas. We’re there to help, but they have to do the swimming. Maybe we don’t have to go through revolutions to flip the classroom. Maybe massive open online learning will happen as a natural byproduct of open access to scholarship. Maybe this new kind of learning is what has been happening in libraries all along—that giant, teeming, learner-centered classroom in the middle of the campus. We just have to keep reminding faculty of how very rich the opportunities are.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
So, serious (not trying to be snarky) question for Secret Agent Fister: how does this square with the idea that the library is a walled flower garden full of Only The Best Stuff, for folks who aren't ready to deal with the huge info ocean yet?
- RepoRat
I'll take a shot, until Barbara can come offer her thoughts. I'd say that all libraries, like all labs, have limits. Even the smalltown library, though, with more wall than garden, is likely to represent multiple points of view (explicit or im-) where it comes to politics, economics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The important thing is that it is up to the reader to make...
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- Steele Lawman
RR, I'm confused by the question. Are you asking if it's possible to be a "flipped classroom" if the library has a limited collection? Or if people stress too much that sources have to come from within the library's holdings and subscriptions?
- lris
I was mostly responding to "Maybe massive open online learning will happen as a natural byproduct of open access to scholarship." Which I think is quite likely true! But if it is... a lot of libraries will be asking where that leaves their collections.
- RepoRat
Really? I think a lot of libraries don't see a tension between open "collections" and their own collections. Our collections here are explicitly only a piece of what's available to our students, and we collect things that we want to be part of this particular piece.
- lris
I hope a lot of libraries don't. I worry that they do.
- RepoRat
Ah, OK. I think the sooner we ask where that leaves our colletions, the better. Sounds like at Iris's place they have a pretty good idea. I think we have a so-so idea at our place. Maybe others lag far behind, I don't know.
- Steele Lawman
Late to the party, sorry .... Iris and I see it the same way. And for us, it has ever been thus. We collect what we can, curating to match the curriculum and trying to reduce the noise, but we know students doing anything complex will hit the wall really fast. Twenty years ago, that meant resorting to ILL. Now we have tons of useless stuff in databases that isn't a match for our curriculum, but easier ways to get our mitts on known items.
- barbara fister
In the past, I used a concept from Yi Fu Tuan - place and space as components of experience. People can't venture out and explore the new very easily unless they have a strong sense of place, and our library provides that. They move in and take up residence and then they can tackle the unwalled library. (I first made that argument in about 1990, trying to explain to our then-president...
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- barbara fister
for those of you with Qs about the Quebec student movement - the truly awesome Megan is here to enlighten you. and us. and everyone with internet access, basically. (i told you i worked with fanfuckingtastic people!) - http://www.mcgill.ca/library...
Megan loves summer, Yvonne, Kirsten and 5 other people liked this
Glad that this is getting so much social media linky! Colleagues and I were inspired by York's Occupy guide: http://researchguides.library.yorku.ca/occupy
- Megan loves summer
My next mission is to somehow get the word fanfuckingtastic into my tenure dossier
- Megan loves summer
♫ listening to M.I.A. - Paper Planes ♫ // http://www.last.fm/music... http://t.co/4gfYrOKB
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Web of Science supports BibTeX. Web of Knowledge does not support BibTeX. The more you know ≈≈≈≈≈★ *ding*
Kirsten, RepoRat, kendrak and 3 other people liked this
I made this PSA in my head.
- kendrak
hahahahahahahah
- lris
Also: don't you think that they should call Food Science and Technology Abstracts, "Fiesta"?
- Meg V. Meg
YES.
- RepoRat
Also: don't you think they should pronounce PAIS like "país" instead of saying each letter?
- Meg V. Meg
I've heard it called "pace" before.
- lris
I say "pays"
- DJF
The ProQuest lady who trained us on it a few weeks ago spelled it out. I was shocked. I had thought that "país" (country) was such a clever thing to call it, considering the content.
- Meg V. Meg
I didn't know some people DIDN'T all spell it out until just about 2 weeks ago.
- lris
Meg, I felt the same way when I found out it was P-A-I-S. Missed opportunity.
- Steele Lawman
Huzzah! I helped unglue a book - Oral Literature in Africa https://t.co/2TwTxvQI
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me too!
- Marianne
me three!
- copystar
four!
- RepoRat
The real question is who will be the first to catalog the unglued ebook.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Woo hoo!
- Galadriel C.
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Aeroplane Flemish-style Self Portrait - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Thanks, David.
- Rachel Walden
You deserve recognition, Rachel.
- David Rothman (☤)
And you said it best already ;) https://twitter.com/rachel_...
- Nikki D.
I miss you medlib nerds. :)
- David Rothman (☤)
2/2 Zadie Smith on library closure in London and other stupid moves. http://www.nybooks.com/blogs...
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i might know a few babies who need this... RT @miriella: It's never too early....CSS for Babies Book http://shar.es/qdTWr
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One reason I'm glad I'm not planning to go to ACRL: I would feel like a hypocrite.
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Um...
- John Dupuis
Oh.
- Katy S
No ideer. I just happened to see it today when I was telling a friend I wouldn't be at ACRL.
- barbara fister
(2/2) has voted to cancel all of its subscriptions to Elsevier journals by 2013. Univ. Munich - gutsy!
Deborah Fitchett, Yo Joe. No, go slow., Jason - The Opaque and 6 other people liked this
Holy cats!
- copystar
Just mis-typed "Code of Federal Regulations" as "Coed of Federal Regulations." Refuse to check and see if law nerds have discovered Rule 34.
Kirsten, copystar, RepoRat and 6 other people liked this
*imagines dialogue starting with "Wanna look at my briefs?"*
- John (bird whisperer)
Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes - http://www.unshelved.com/2011-3-...
Angel R. Rivera, Kirsten, Marianne and 7 other people liked this
Here you go
- DJF
from Bookmarklet
Thanks!
- copystar
my first hackathon; or, gender, status, code, and sitting at the table - Andromeda Yelton - http://andromedayelton.com/blog...
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"Because here’s another thing I know: I have unusual self-confidence. I am more comfortable than most women being in a male-dominated environment, and attacking technology, and believing in my skills. And right now that is the minimum for being a woman in tech. And it’s a minimum that cuts against things we know about women — that they tend to underrate their skills, to be less confident than men even when more capable. And if that’s the minimum, we are excluding a hell of a lot of people who have more than enough aptitude to do amazing things."
- Marianne
from Bookmarklet
" The minimum shouldn’t be, well, balls — it should be interest, aptitude (not even skill!), drive to contribute. Not the ability to say — even, if necessary, to yourself — and always to multiple cultures — and even when people are being as pleasant and welcoming as possible — “fuck you”."
- Marianne
(this is all over my feed on twitter-imports - let's have it in the LSW room too, because IT ROCKS.)
- Marianne
I am totally forwarding this to one of my other favorite unapologetic women in tech: http://www.wandering-scientist.com
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
Statistical Abstract Saved by ProQuest and Bernan Press - http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012...
Yo Joe. No, go slow., lris, Jaclyn aka spamgirl and 3 other people liked this
Pull quote: “ProQuest adds that the online version of the work will include ‘monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.’ It will be available as a stand-alone product or as part of ProQuest’s preexisting ‘Statistical Insight’ database, which covers subjects in economics, business, market research, and the social sciences.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Also, this: "The new mode of online access is a change, of course, and not one that all librarians are happy about. Stephen Francoeur, User Experience Librarian at Newman Library, Baruch College, NY, comments that, 'I am at the same time happy to hear that this invaluable and essential reference source will continue to be published and saddened that yet another portion of the knowledge...
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- Stephen le Francoeur
well said, Stephen!
- RepoRat
*applauds*
- Marianne
Wooooooo!
- Catherine Pellegrino
For this survey, it asks me to "Please provide the names of those sources which you frequently utilize to stay up-to-date on current scholarship and best practices (Provide up to five sources)."
Marianne, Marie, Betsy #TeamMonique and 11 other people liked this
I put the LSW and then Stephen Francoeur's name four times.
- Meg V. Meg
Yep.
- lris
Aw shucks, now I'm blushing.
- Stephen le Francoeur
So I was thinking of this the other day, Stephen's Google Reader shared posts were not only how I kept up-to-date, but how I knew if something I'd written had much resonance. Stephen, what's the go-to place for your clippings now?
- Steele Lawman
Thanks! But on tumblr, shouldn't that be fuckyeahstephenfrancoeur?
- Steele Lawman
"Sifting through a list" exercise: does anyone use a particular method of helping students learn how to skim/narrow down/generally deal with giant lists of results?
Sir Shuping is just sir, aarontay, Megan loves summer and 3 other people liked this
Right now I'm working on an exercise where students bring a list of 10 search results into the library session. They break into groups and, as a group, discuss how they found relevant resources (which databases, search methods, etc.) Then, as a group, they report back to the class which methods of "sifting through the list" were most effective. The discussion was great, but the prof said the students didn't really apply what they learned to their papers. Do you have any sort of exercises specifically around that, getting students to not just pick 5 journal articles but pick the 5 *most relelvant to the paper*?
- Amandadon't
Hmm. That's an interesting question to which I have no nice neat answer. I think for me, I try and emphasize that they aren't slotting in the five "most relevant articles." They are working through a process in which they are choosing ideas and opinions that they want to engage with, or they are finding evidence to support or refute a claim. So if the idea is interesting and they have...
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- Steele Lawman
But. If I needed to devise an exercise closer to what you seem to be looking for, I'd talk about how a librarian reads a citation. What can you deduce from all the different bits of information you get in a citation? How do things like publication date, number of pages, name of the journal help you? At what point do you have to RTFA to know if it is relevant? What is your minimum...
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- Steele Lawman
Present them with 6 articles and a topic. Three of which are *the best* Then have a competition to see who can figure out which ones those are. seems like it might be a good idea to have categories and a rating system to illustrate bestness.
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
That is the question. Seriously, we suck at this. Want lots? HERE! Want less? Uh ... here's lots.
- barbara fister
I'm having an information literacy crisis of faith.
- barbara fister
I talk about discipline / domain specifics where I can- get them to look at terminology, methodology, links to other papers...
- Pete #TeamMonique
Also get them always to consider 'what is my question', step back from papers from time to time.
- Pete #TeamMonique
In medicine, it's often the population, quality of the study design, specific intervention, etc., and whether that is relevant to what the requester is thinking about. Here, we do filtered summary packets for docs where we are selecting just a few of what seem to be the best articles and provide summary of the key points and issues. So maybe try to focus on some pretty specific...
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- Rachel Walden
We've got Summon, so "Want lots? HERE! Want less? TICKY-BOXES!" (Almost literally - was given 15 measly minutes to cover everything they need to know for their first research assignment ever, don't get me started.)
- Deborah Fitchett
Barbara, I'm less bothered than you are, I guess because I think this is where the intellectual work really comes in. While I do like to come up with some quick heuristics, I think at some point the answer is just "read them and think about them in relation to what you want to say." Or "stop searching the databases and talk to some people who know something about this topic and take careful notes on what they think is relevant."
- Steele Lawman
I love this thread. I may go rogue on some hapless "How to find journal articles in an EBSCO database" class someday and implement one of these lesson plan ideas, because they sure as hell would be more interesting and more useful than me telling the students, yet again, about date limiters.
- Catherine Pellegrino
^^^^ this. What we do as we organize information has frankly not that much to do with how people make meaning. But I feel I should do something to acknowledge that the library's tools are a teeny piece of what has to happen. And that this is an area where what we provide - LOTS! and even ticky boxes - doesn't do the work that has to be done. We make it seem as if searching databases and choosing what you'll use is research.
- barbara fister
Also, this is where I'm coming from - maybe we should be thinking more about filtering than finding - http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012...
- barbara fister
"We make it seem as if searching databases and choosing what you'll use is research." Yes, let's stop doing that.
- Steele Lawman
I saw a new tool some clever grown-up college students created that not only can be used to store notes and create citations, it lets you line up your cut-and-paste quotes in a document so that you can handily fill in the transitional sentences. Voila! your paper is done! That's the problem, right there.
- barbara fister
Not that we created it, but we too often enable it.
- barbara fister
That's fascinating. It reminds me that I have video interview footage of a professor's notes where she has copied-and-pasted quotes and citations (some of it still retaining our library catalog's formatting) into a Word document. So again, it's not the initial practice that's a problem (because I have reasonably high confidence my colleague is doing good research and writing), but what happens around those practices. Too much student research and writing is half-baked.
- Steele Lawman
You are all awesome, and this is totally helping me think through my goals here, circling around teaching students how to deal with abundance rather than scarcity. "Filtering" exactly. I want to say to students "Oh, you found a big list of search results? Whoopdee-do, I can find a big list of results, too. Now what?" I also take Steve's point about needing to address the ideas within...
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- Amandadon't
I should mention, too, this is for a first-year class, although often when I think my upper-level classes will require a different approach they need as much review as new "advanced" techniques.
- Amandadon't
Yes, I quite like "how to deal with abundance rather than scarcity" as a goal.
- Steele Lawman
Ooh, ooh! I have a metaphor, but I don't know if it will resonate with 18 year olds: doing a literature search is like conducting a search for someone to work with you Your database search is the job description, and if you make it too general, every idiot will send you his resume. Make it too specific, and you have described a person who only exists in Latvia and he's dead. The...
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- Steele Lawman
If nothing else, students seem to get it when you quote Doug Downs: "sources are people talking to people." I also sometimes use the metaphor of choosing expert witnesses to testify on behalf of your idea, though that makes it all sound like winning is the goal, which it isn't. (You should be open to withdrawing your claim if an expert witness says you got nuthin' whereas most lawyers will just go get another expert.)
- barbara fister
Yeah, and you want all your witnesses to agree on the stand, while you want your sources (often) to disagree usefully.
- Steele Lawman
More like detectives trying to figure out what happened based on the evidence before handing it over to the DA who just wants to get a conviction.
- barbara fister
Just wanted to say that I love this particular thread. Some of my colleagues would respond to a long list of results with MOAR BOOLEAN until you get a small set of results. My metaphor is "if you are lost, turn to someone you trust for direction." So the answer I *want* to give is, narrow down the results with using the names of publications that you already trust (as this is what I tend to do) -- but this answer admittedly doesn't really work for undergraduates.
- copystar
Obligatory Pegasus Librarian post, this time being "Know Your Results Before You Search": http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2007... Particularly this bit: "We move back to the result lists and figure out how to leverage a 'messy' keyword search by analyzing the results, quickly opening anything that looks remotely relevant, and gleaning search terms...
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- Steele Lawman
I'm wondering if I can take Steve's job search metaphor and re-work it using online dating: if you make your personals ad to general, every idiot will send you his resume; make it too specific, and you've described a person who only exists in Latvia and he's dead.
- Amandadon't
Yes, I was thinking about the online dating angle, too.
- Steele Lawman
sundays have become coding days. hope i can keep this practice up
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Why would anyone need a public library these days when everything's online? Here's why. Now, with tears of frustration! http://www.metafilter.com/112698...
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Thanks for sharing this. It needs to be heard
- copystar
The cat has stolen all the pacifiers. They have such convenient handles for carrying with one's teeth.
copystar, Yo Joe. No, go slow., Derrick and 28 other people liked this
That's hysterical. I'd love to see pictures of the cat carrying off a pacifier to add to her stash!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from Android
Molly never stole J's pacifiers, but she did bring him a mouse once. A real one.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Uh oh!
- Katy S
*snicker*
- maʀtha
Awwww. Helping feed the baby!
- RepoRat
Maybe the cat thought she looked hungry ;)
- WarLord
I seriously need video of the cat carrying around pacifiers. :)
- Rachel Walden
Good Citizens and the Historic Spend | Academic Librarian - http://blogs.princeton.edu/librari...
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Can our next boycott be against journals that require APA style?
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No way. I can't think of a style with which I have more facility.
- kaijsa
I'm in! APA drives me right around the bend.
- RepoRat
I just succeeded in convincing a lecturer not to switch from APA to Harvard for the poor 101 students, many of whom are doing this subject because they thought it wouldn't involve writing. Not like I love it, but I think I hate it least of any other style.
- Deborah Fitchett
I hate APA more than Chicago author-date style. That is better than any style that only has initials for first and middle names, no article titles, and no issue numbers. We NEED ALL THE CITATION ELEMENTS!
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
The first thing we do is burn all the style manuals!
- Andy
Maybe we can get Anonymous to take down some related websites.
- Rochelle
APA is my preferred formet. why? Because you just cite everything like the basic paper citation (none of the "Downloaded from Some Library Database" silliness) -- or did all the other styles finally wise up to this too?
- awd
+ Andy - I wish no first year students had to learn how to write out citations, a skill most will never use again after college.
- barbara fister
APA is officially on my personal Notice Board for their ridiculous "if there is no DOI" policy.
- Catherine Pellegrino
not sure I like APA either, but the other styles I've used (ACS, Chicago) aren't much better. APA went down a notch for me when they published their separate electronic format guide in print-only,which we had to bind. We couldn't get a campus license for the electronic version either, as I recall.
- Elizabeth Brown
I use MLA (Medical not Modern) mostly these days. I've gotten to where I can proofread it without a whole lot of thinking and generally it seems pretty intuitive. But then, I learned by writing out 3x5 cards and losing points for lost periods or semicolons, so I'm biased.
- Hedgehog
Real sentence from a real writing prompt from a real professor where I work: "Is active voice (rather than passive voice) used? Are awkward phrasing and wordiness avoided?"
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Is irony minimized?
- DJF
I had a linguistics prof once who had relatively loose and commonsensical rules on paper length, margins, font choice, etc. He did have one sentence re fonts set in something very weird and cursive-y: "If you use any font like this, you are in Big Trouble."
- RepoRat
This was the saddest prompt I had seen, from a professor who was obviously trying to save his/her students from pitfalls as he/she saw them, but ultimately creating a confusing intimidating paralyzing mess of a prompt.
- Steele Lawman
No.
- lris
LOLing at Iris.
- Steele Lawman
Assignment prompts are one of the few genres just made for the imperative mood, but I notice profs really try to avoid it.
- kaijsa
*gigglesnort*
- maʀtha
Laura, I chalk it up to often being in an imperative mood myself.
- kaijsa
Highlight of the day: Getting to touch a Strandbeest! So cool that I got to interact with one. http://yfrog.com/oe2nwudj
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Checkout the cool spotlight feature on the RadicalReference.info site that's part of the site's SOPA/PIPA protest. http://radicalreference.info/
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dang. that's purty, that is.
- RepoRat
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