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If you want Walt Crawford to unglue his book "The Big Deal and the Damage Done" you can wish for it at https://unglue.it/work/120545/ just don't expect him to change into an extrovert over night.
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Hi there Eric. You sure know how to enter an online community!
- lris
Well, I know half the people here already.
- Eric Hellman
So this would unglue the book, but not Walt himself?
- Steele Lawman
we can't unglue Walt because there's no ISBN for him and OCLC won't catalog him.
- Eric Hellman
At one point my library was seriously considering cataloging the liaisons so that we'd end up appearing when people searched for our topics of expertise. If we did that, could I be unglued?
- lris
no time to read all the instructions - do i have to pledge an amount or is wishlisting it enough?
- Christina Pikas
wishlisting is enough
- Eric Hellman
Unhinged?
- Steele Lawman
Iris, if the liaisons get their own Worldcat records, then maybe. We could start "unbalance.it".
- Eric Hellman
It might be easier to come unglued all by myself...
- lris
and now I'm thinking of a Guess Who pastiche
- DJF
from Android
I'm on Van Halen's "Unchained" myself.
- Steele Lawman
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Joe, I love that video. And David Lee Roth is the hotness.
- Steele Lawman
There are some threads I'd just as soon stay out of.
- Walt Crawford
Okay, I have wished! My son is very good at ungluing things, but I suspect he's a little too young to have an account.
- laura x
Walt, if I were you, I would stay out of David Lee Roth's threads.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I would note one thing: Buying the book may have more of an effect than wishing for it. At $9.95 (and you *own* the PDF--no DRM, free to lend it, free to resell it), it's not a massive commitment.
- Walt Crawford
Tied for #45 on the most-wished list with "Watchmen" and Tufte's "Display of Quantitative Information". https://unglue.it/lists...
- Eric Hellman
Can't we declare Walt a National Treasure and get him archived and cataloged that way?
- Cameron Neylon
As the person who originally raised this issue,I am glad to see interest, and if Walt decide to go for it I'll put down more money to unglue it. But I think I'll just say that here.
- barbara fister
Cameron: No. I'm no treasure, national or local (I'm mostly a grumpy but curious old twice-fired has-been), and National Treasure doesn't carry funding.
- Walt Crawford
[The "but curious" is, of course, what leads to the public library non-closure study, the academic library "circ is falling everywhere" study, Give Us a Dollar...and The Big Deal and the Damage Done. Curiosity combined with reasonable writing and adequate numeracy is a terrible, terrible thing.]
- Walt Crawford
Q for the hive brain: I have a recollection of a journal that was OA, was purchased and taken closed. The content remained available via PMC but was not linked from the publisher site which now appeared as a subscription journal...anyone point me in that direction?
is it this one? http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013...
- RepoRat
It wasn't the one that I had in mind but its a nice example. I'm recalling a UK blog post, might have been Oxford University Press
- Cameron Neylon
I think there was a math one? Went from oa to like Oxford or something?
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Was it ILAR? http://nas-sites.org/ilarjou...
- Hedgehog
Not the subject you are looking for, but I am pretty sure that Folklorica used to be free since it was listed in a "Free Online Journals" database, and now it charges subscriptions, https://ojsprdap.vm.ku.edu/index... (Folklorica, Journal of the Slavic and East European Folkore Association. ISSN 1920-0242.)
- Yo. Shark Dog.
The one I was thinking of was presumably biomedical because the content is/was in PMC but keep the examples coming! The more the merrier. These examples are to point out why the publisher position that "PMC is duplication of effort" is not true.
- Cameron Neylon
BePress journals are not biomedical, but were sold and closed. (Although I guess they were sort of quasi-OA?)
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
Years ago I published a piece in SIMILE - at the time out of U of Toronto Press and OA - and it migrated to a US university and suddenly was no longer open. And now, apparently, has ceased. Gee, why would that happen?
- barbara fister
Maternity clothes are awesome.
Iván Abrego, Yvonne, A. T. and 6 other people liked this
I didn't want to give mine up.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Maternity pants for thanksgiving dinner ftw
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
is "appreciative inquiry" bullshit or actually a thing?
I think it's actually a thing. Whether or not it's valuable or BS, I can't speak to
- Hedgehog
bumping for daytime traffic... anyone else have an opinion on this?
- Christina Pikas
RIP Frodo. You were a sweet boy even if nobody but us got to see that side of you. I love my Fro-diddly.
Iván Abrego, Brent Schaus, Mo Kargas and 31 other people liked this
:( So sorry LB.
- Me
:( {{LB}}
- c.a.j.
{{{Laura}}}
- Anika
**hugs** I'm so sorry :(
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm very sad to read this, LB.
- Greg GuitarBuster
oh, doll. so so sorry for your family. you did right by him though, you know that.
- t-ra: not givin up
:( *hugs* I'm sorry LB
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I am so very sorry, Laura. You gave him a wonderful, happy life.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
I'm very sorry.
- Eric - seven eleven
:-(
- Jenny
I'm so sorry, Laura. I know how hard this is.
- Katy S
I love you Sis!
- Lois: #TeamMonique
:(
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
He knew he was loved.
- Kirsten
I'm so sorry LB. Its such a heart breaking thing to have to do.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Oh, Laura. Such a brave decision. Crying with you... praying for you & Mr. B. *hugs*
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
So sorry LB.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
RIP Frodo :( *hugs*
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I'm very sorry, LB. *hugs*
- Betsy #TeamMonique
My condolences!
- Rachel Walden
What a rough decision. My condolences.
- Lnorigb
I'm sorry Laura {hugs}
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
*hugs*
- John (bird whisperer)
:(
- Jim #TeamMonique
from iPhone
:(
- Julian
*hugs* so sorry LB :(
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I'm so sorry, Laura. I hope you can take a little solace that you gave him a happy, loving life.
- Anne Graham
Goodbye, faithful, loving lad
- maʀtha
I'm so sorry Laura. Many hugs to you and Mr. B.
- Hedgehog
I'm sorry sorry Laura. Thinking of you and Mr. B.
- Soup in a TARDIS
:(
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Oh, Laura! I'm so sorry for you & Mr. B & the pups. *much love and sympathy*
- Laura H.
I'm sorry for your loss. :-(
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
{The Botts}
- Pete #TeamMonique
Oh big hugs to you and Mr. B. :(
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
I'm so sorry for your loss.
- joey
Sorry for what happened!
- SophiaAnne88
Sorry, LB.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
I'm so sorry. I know you gave him a happy and healthy home.
- Jed Harris-Keith
from iPhone
*hugs*
- Kristin
hugs- sorry for your loss..
- Peter Dawson
Very sorry for your loss, Laura.
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Thank you all very much.
- LB: #TeamMonique
(((Laura)))
- Monique the crochet freak
I'm so sorry, Laura.
- Mary Carmen
So sorry. :(
- Heather
(( LB ))
- Julian
Much love xoxox
- Headless Gnad Kicker
((((LB)))
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Oh, love. *hugs*
- Pixie
Sorry, LB.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
((hugs))
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Aw, man. I'm so sorry for your loss.
- Spidra Webster
be well http://www.petloss.com/rainbow...
- WarLord
*hugs* My condolences, LB, on the loss of your beloved pet.
- Anne Bouey
:(
- Bash
I'm so sorry LB. So hard to lose a furry family member. *hugs*
- Carmen
RIP :(
- imabonehead
I'm so very sorry, LB. A sad sad day.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
oh my condolences
- hasinihemanth
I'm sorry :[
- esther
huh...OCLC just announced that Skip Prichard would be taking over as CEO.
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a quick search-engine search suggests "ew."
- RepoRat
this guy is the empty-suitiest empty suit that ever empty-suited.
- RepoRat
thought leader!
- kendrak
"turnaround CEO" ?
- Hedgehog
Oh. No.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
didn't he get the boot from ingram last year?
- jambina
Disrupt some innovation?
- barbara fister
from iPhone
Disappointing.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
jambina, i believe so. looks like he got the boot from proquest a few years ago
- Sir Shuping is just sir
if I worked for OCLC Research I would be like "ALL HANDS TO THE LIFEBOATS" right now. I sure as hell hope I'm wrong.
- RepoRat
I'm sure he's a swell guy & family man and all that jazz. But man, step AWAY from the stock photographs! http://www.skipprichard.com/
- Steele Lawman
no joke. and the "lookit me with awkwardly-smiling Important People!" shots.
- RepoRat
Mssr. P. I live here in MD. And we do NOT put Old Bay on everything. Please let that be some form of folksy hyperbole. And Tony Blair's Comment "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." can go jump off a bridge. Easy to say yes indeed.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
I sometimes put Old Bay on my fries.
- Julian
Dude, you don't carry it on your person AT ALL TIMES do you?
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
People put old bay on deviled eggs. In Maryland.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Most places have it so you don't have to carry it
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Project Little Human initiated. ETA: November 11, 2013.
Carmen, Wulffy, Georgia and 112 other people liked this
Congratulations :)
- Hedgehog
ha! i guessed right but i didn't think it proper to ask. Congrats!
- Christina Pikas
:)
- Pete #TeamMonique
#bleepyeahbuttercup. And congrats to the Nycest parents in the school.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Congratulations!
- adf
Lol. Yes, mommy has hypermesis and has been home for the past month with no end in sight. Other than the constant vomiting everyone is healthy.
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
woohoo! :)
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
CONGRATS!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
How wonderful!
- Anne Bouey
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so happy for the both of you....
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Congrats!
- Brent Schaus
Very happy for you both!
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Thanks y'all. We strongly feel its a girl, but won't know for certain for a few more weeks.
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
Congrats! Hoping they offer you a Zofran pump option!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
WAHOO!! :D
- Laura H.
Congratulations!
- joey
Yay babby!
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
HappyHappyHappyHappy!!!
- Fish Are LIES
from FFHound!
Yay! Finally I can congratulate you! :) Maybe you can talk to Kate.
- Running Slow
Congratulations!!!!
- the king of the interweb
Congrats!
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Congrats!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
You know, "Barry" can be used with either gender. #justsayin *cough*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Lol....the baby is going to have a either a very Scottish name or a very Italian name. There seems to be no in between.
- Mary Carmen
Congratulations!!!
- Jennifer Dittrich
Congratulations, that is exciting!
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Christina: I also guessed right but also didn't want to ask. Also, congratulations!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Yeah, it was pretty obvious. But Scott wouldn't let me come clean till after the first trimester.
- Mary Carmen
w00t! :-)
- Steven Perez
from Android
Congrats!
- John (bird whisperer)
Wow, you've been breeding! FANTASTIC! Srsly congrats, lady :)
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Congrats! :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
I look forward to little Eva's debut on the podcast. OH NOEZ POSSIBLE FUTURE INFO CONTAMINATION OF TIMELINE DELETE COMMENT
- Steven Perez
Hyphenate for the best of both: Guiseppe-Hamish if it's a boy, Carmine-Eilidh if it's a girl.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Hamish Kaidan or Isabella Suzanne.....no hyphens necessary.
- Mary Carmen
Beautiful!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
<333333!!!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Congratulations!!
- Yolanda
Would be neat to deliver the 12th. 11/12/13 :)
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Yay! I was so hoping that this was the secret! Congrats to you both.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I'd guessed this as well - and happy I was right. Nyce. ;)
- Great Scott! Snow!
congrats!
- imabonehead
Congratulations!
- Harold
Yay!
- Jed Harris-Keith
from iPhone
Yay!!! :)
- Micah
Congratulations!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Squee! Omg!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
I wondered at one point with all the emesis.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
Congratulations, you two!! <3
- Kelli H.
Congratulations!
- Son of Groucho
YAYAYAY!!! I wondered... :))) So happy for you guys!!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
The most awesome project you will ever undertake! Enjoy!
- DJ Stevie Steve
Congratulations Mary and Scott!
- Mike Nencetti
Yay! Congrats to you both :)
- Jen
*bumpity* because it's MC and Scott. LITERALLY!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Congratulations, that's fantastic news.
- Yvonne
Con'grats !!
- Peter Dawson
LMP? :D
- ووووزلا
Congrats!!! =D
- David Cook
<3 Awesome.
- Pixie
Yay! :D
- Michael W. May
Congratulations!
- Jim #TeamMonique
I just saw your pregnancy whine post and I think all of downtown Sac heard me say, "Wait, she's pregnant?" (scroll back scroll back scroll back, find announcement) Wow! Congrats to you and Scott.
- Corinne L
Thanks, Corinne!
- Mary Carmen
Congrats!!!!
- Rachel Walden
The city that is just three blocks away from me just lowered its voting age to 16.
Interesting! There are some City Council folks who'd like to do that here, for city elections.
- Meg V. Meg
has to be takoma park... the nuclear free zone
- Christina Pikas
our state wants to permit university students to vote ONLY IF they changed their permanent address to University Town. Otherwise, they must vote where their parents live. *sigh*
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
LSW peeps - I'm officially, publicly keeping an eye out for associate/assistant director positions in medical libraries. In case you hear of anything spectacular coming open. :)
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Any geographic preferences?
- Meg V. Meg
Only vague ones - south of Maine, ideally not AZ/NM/TX (heat), anywhere west of Missouri but not on the west coast is iffy due to lack of familiarity, but not completely out of the running. In the southeast, south of about Atlanta/Birmingham, I'd like to be near the coast. Uh, so maybe those aren't so vague after all. :) But no strong preferences.
- Rachel Walden
Oh that would be awesome if you could come to welch. I don't know what's open but I think they're delaying hiring until the new director is hired in case he/she wants to change/ reorganize things
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
(welch side note: I'm very interested to see what happens there with a new director, out of pure curiosity)
- Rachel Walden
Go, Rachel!
- Marie
Thanks, Marie!
- Rachel Walden
I wish I didn't have to sleep so much. Every time I try to defeat sleep, I lose. I have stuff to do that is too important to take a break.
Scoble, Alex Scoble and John (bird whisperer) liked this
Humans need to sleep. Humans with sleep deprivation start showing cognitive impairment very quickly. For some, mild might look like ADHD. For others might be psychotic.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
sleep is good for so many things. please try to sleep enough!!
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Thanks to the auto-capitilization in Outlook, the shortened URL I sent out to all library staff/faculty that should have led to a sign-up sheet? Instead takes them to this Dr.Who/The Big Lebowski video mashup. LOL I'm sure glad it wasn't anything NSFW!!! http://io9.com/5986329...
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That's hilarious. Could have been a disaster!
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
out of sheer curiosity, how often do you reckon your invoices from vendors get lost in the mail/never arrive for whatever reason? We've had a tiny handful of incidents this year.
We had a major disaster one year - $25K worth of bills discovered at year's end, when the money was gone. (A personnel change, invoices only via that person's email...)
- barbara fister
wow. what did you do, Barbara?
- RepoRat
@_@ well *there's* another reason I should be pushing harder for a centralized email address for the department....
- MontglaneChess
happens a lot. vendors we've had relationships with for like 20 - 40 years all the sudden send our bills to other libraries in our parent institution. also our financial person got rif'd a few years back and she refused to change address with any of the vendors, shredded all the current records, and refused to forward any e-mails... yep.
- Christina Pikas
We were in the red, got the frowny face from biz office. Next year's budget got dinged.
- barbara fister
feeling much less alone in the universe-- thanks!
- MontglaneChess
we've had some of the same this year, reps sending things to long retired employees, an employee's email who recently resigned, or the generic univ snail mail address. minimal chaos since we take a monthly look at what needs renewed, but unnecessarily strings out the process!
- Kathy
Yup, we run a report in the spring every year and there's almost always one or two that went missing along the way. Luckily, thus far they've been small ones so having the money's not been an issue.
- Kirsten
I don't know what the hell I'm doing anymore.
i doubt anyone does anymore, so you're not alone *hugs*
- Halil
I think the sickness is making me feel depressed and isolated. I wish my mom or my sister or someone who has been through this was here. Not a good week.
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
*hugs* I'm sorry this is making you feel so isolated. It sounds incomprehensibly grueling :(
- Jennifer Dittrich
It may be time to have a heart to heart with your doctor and with the discussion specifically for a Zofran pump. You will receive a small continuous type of dosing and you can be slowly weaned off within a month or two. You need a quality of life and you need proper nutrition, meaning anything you aren't puking.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
*hugs*
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
*hugs* Janet is wise.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
:-(
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Maybe an online support group might help? When I was on modified bed rest for 5 months it really helped to have other people going through it to check in with. Still felt pretty isolated but it did help.
- adf
I see the UK has groups for severe sickness but I don't see a US one though there might be one that is part of a larger forum.
- adf
What to expect and baby center both have very active boards fwiw
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Well that was different. My shower was interrupted by police pounding on the bathroom door demanding to know if it was me in there.
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We've had a spate of dog murders near by, and I was taking most of the morning off, and my upstairs neighbor thought I was an intruder.
- lris
...wow.
- Jenica
Omigosh. Scary
- maʀtha
How did the y get in?
- maʀtha
Gah!
- LB: #TeamMonique
My neighbor let them in. Two squad cars in front, and two detectives in back.
- lris
eeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
- RepoRat
She could have warned you!
- maʀtha
holy shit... why would a dog murdering intruder take a shower in your apartment?
- Christina Pikas
She did try, but I didn't hear my cell phone ring. Then when she heard the shower start she'd already called the cops and they wanted to be very sure. She did the right thing. It was just all very weird.
- lris
That's one way to get a date. Bazinga! *waggles eyebrows* I bet that was the cops' best call all day.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
oh, gosh, i would've had a heart attack. *hugs lris*
- Marianne
Yikes! So after you told them it was you, what happened next? Did they patiently wait for you to get dressed or did you have to talk to them through the closed bathroom door?
- Stephen le Francoeur
Holy cow.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
"Is that you?" "Yes, it's totally me."
- c.a.j.
Wow, so, what do they do for real crime in your neck of the woods? Cause a burglary would not get that response here.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
I never saw them. My neighbor knew my voice and they went away. Though the detectives hung around outside for a bit.
- lris
wow, that's scary intense!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I think you have good neighbors. Good intentioned at least.
- Surprisingly Monstrous
Better check if one of the detectives has a FriendFeed account. I'm sure this pic http://ff.im/1fnnvE gave them ample reason to hang around.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
holy cow. I have no idea how I'd react to that, but I imagine not so well. good on ya!
- t-ra: not givin up
The drama continues. Apparently when they came to check on me, the police saw something suspicious next door. Half the police department has been camped out there all day.
- lris
good heavens.
- maʀtha
ruh roh. Everybody take a step back and breathe. Cleveland fall out?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Use your laser eyes on them.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
WOW! My neighbor is arrested, suspected of being the dog murderer! All the people are over there just waiting for a search warrant to go through the house. At least that's what it looks like from this. http://www.southernminn.com/northfi...
- lris
The one who let them in your house?????? *aniticipatory whoa*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
yowza!
- Marie
yikes
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
aiee.
- Marianne
No MoTO, not my upstairs neighbor. People in the house next door.
- lris
Well *whoa* anyway. And also *whew*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
That sounds incredibly scary. I'm glad your neighbor is observant though I'd probably crawl out of my skin at shower/door knocking. Glad they knocked before coming in? Also crazy re: your neighbor arrested.
- Hedgehog
Luckily for me, my upstairs neighbor has to come through my apartment to use the laundry, which she normally does on Fridays. So I assumed she'd come through to do that and seen something, like maybe a fire? (I always worry about fire), and needed to tell me about it. I didn't realize there were actual burly policemen in my house with her.
- lris
Well, after all that excitement I'll bet you need a cold shower. Yikes. I would have freaked.
- Spidra Webster
Back up. Neighbor has to go into your apartment every time she wants to do laundry? What if you're out of town? What if you don't like the neighbor or the neighbor is creepy?
- Betsy #TeamMonique
It's up to me whether I want to offer access to the laundry or not. The building used to be a single family home, so there's a stairway with a door at the bottom that separates our two apartments. My upstairs neighbor and I are good friends, so we just leave that unlocked and have agreed that she will do her laundry on Fridays during the day unless she lets me know otherwise.
- lris
It's official. They released his name and address, and it's my next door neighbor.
- lris
Yikes.
- Meg V. Meg
WOW.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Scary!
- Jen
Crazy.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Wow!
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Has anyone tried to obtain textmining access from Elsevier recently? Positive or negative experiences to share?
Christina Pikas and Cameron Neylon liked this
I think you are the only one with the stamina to even try.
- Bill Hooker
Liking to bump but I suspect Bill's right...
- Cameron Neylon
I would expect that Peter MR tried...
- Egon Willighagen
we're trying to get the reaxys api access they promise in all their literature... seems like they shouldn't hype it if we have to tell them why we're using it and wait now > 2weeks to get started with it :(
- Christina Pikas
i think they might be trying to get out of supporting academic users with their api... but it doesn't say that on their website.
- Christina Pikas
[I will preface by saying I am not planning another massive stand against the oligarchy, this is a thought problem] If a library accustomed to having ScienceDirect's Freedom Col. suddenly lost that access, what would you suggest it be replaced with? Is there a content solution? An ethical preference? Are they different things? Is it a lost cause?
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Like going from the freedom collection to zero ? Ouch! You can't replace the whole platform, you have to look at the individual journal subs to see which are important and see what alternatives are out there for those.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
We just went from the Freedom Collection to limited subscriptions, with some beefed up ILL support for the cancelled titles. We looked at usage, key titles, etc. I've heard very few complaints from anyone. We had more trouble during the transition (Elsevier cut us off earlier than expected, we had link resolver problems, and still a little confusion over exactly what we have), but...
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- Rebecca Hedreen
You've both hit on the things that I thought of -- title by title subs, ILL support, document delivery options -- and I'm just sort of hoping someone will say there's another major player in that covers the ground the Freedom Collection covers. I suspect i want a unicorn riding a turtle supported on the backs of elephants.
- Jenica
Wiley and Springer are the next big science publishing outfits, but their journals do not replace the Elsevier content as you know. That is the problem with published research, and they know that they have a monopoly on the content. An article on lung cancer from one journal does not replace another similar but unique article on lung cancer from a different journal. They are not like cars or toasters.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I wonder if Elsevier still has an article token system, where the U could buy X numbers of tokens so that either patrons or library staff could download articles and use up tokens as the year goes on.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Joe - do you remember - a few years ago at SLA someone talked about dropping their big deal with Elsevier and going to only tokens. Who was it? I think for them it was a bust - they spent way more... I guess not carefully managed. The fungibility of scholarly journals - there is no fungibility... There are lots of crap journals packaged in the freedom collection but it might turn out that getting them is cheaper than the individual prices of just those ones you really want.
- Christina Pikas
We didn't drop Elsevier, but we did drop wiley packages in favor of wiley tokens. And yes, unmediated, we went through them at a ridiculous pace. This year we're trying again with mediated access, so we'll see how that goes.
- lris
I think it might have been Cynthia Holt at GWU, but I think she might be at GMU now. That might have been circa 2006?
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Thanks for the perspectives, y'all. it helps me frame this up in my mind. (I still want an elephant-and-turtle-riding unicorn. Damn.)
- Jenica
Given that Elsevier and Wiley and... presumably know how many articles are being read, is there much doubt that a token offer will wind up costing you at least as much as you're paying now? If there's one thing they're not, it's casual about leaving money on the table.
- Walt Crawford
Jenica wants to see an elephant and a turtle riding on a unicorn? Damn, that would be a funny sight. Someone to please photoshop that up quick.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
We just decided to dump a handful of T&F journals. We'll buy articles if needed. The average cost per view was over $50. Those "essential" titles turn out not to be so important after all.
- barbara fister
when we look at cost per use, i'm always interested in trying to assess the difference between students who needed exactly those five articles they downloaded, and the students who needed five articles, any five articles, and downloaded the ones that were easy to get. which is tangential to the argument re: fungibility of scholarship, but always a challenge in your generic liberal arts college environment.
- Jenica
Right there is that. I'm coming from a research lab with no students so I often forget. We did get fussed at for dropping a t&f remote sensing jnl bit it was 3k/yr for a total of fewer than 20 articles. We explained and the user agreed
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Dear Baby Nyce: Today I have tried green tea, watermelon, toast, saltines, a few potato chips, soup, cucumbers, more toast and just water. I have struck out all day and now I am too exhausted to argue anymore. Please tell me what you want to eat. Love, Mommy.
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JUST WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER COMES HOME!
- Mary Carmen
Dear Mommy, Sorry you're exhausted. Can I have pizza again please?! Love, Your Baby or possibly just some random guy on FF who likes pizza
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Pizza. (random guy on FF who likes pizza)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Protein! Scrambled eggs with cheese melted on top
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
the baby is not a fan of toast with cheese or eggs. I learned that lesson the gross way.
- Mary Carmen
I'm telling you, Peanut Butter tastes the same coming back up as it does going down.
- Scott. Cat Herder.
is bland the problem? does baby Nyce want hot sauce and curry?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
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Go with your cravings - your baby is telling you what s/he wants. Sounds like maybe pizza!
- Jen
Eat what you want it makes little difference and it at least tastes good... #anoftennauseouschronie
- WarLord
I ate a lot of ramen during this phase with the twins. I will say I was never sick with our oldest son. Someone told me it is worse with a girl but that could just be an old wives tale...: Have you tried those ginger chews and preggie pops? http://www.threelollies.com/Default...
- adf
Yes, I tried those.....no dice. BUT THE BABY IS HEALTHY
- Mary Carmen
Chocolate cake. For breakfast. That way, when Nyce Babby is older and wants chocolate cake for breakfast, you can hell him/her "NO. WE TRIED THAT YEARS AGO, AND YOU MADE US THROW IT UP. NO!" #cantbeanyworsethananythingelseyouvetried
- Bubba was a rollin stone
I hope you find something something agreeable! :( I'm glad your baby is healthy. :)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Oh, collective wisdom! I have a memory a hypothetical scholarly publishing model where articles would be posted in repositories and "journals" would select content for peer review and publishing. I thought of it as the "HuffPo" model, but that might not be right. Does anyone have any recollection of such a thing? I can't find it anywhere.
They're called "overlay journals"
- DJF
Isn't PressForward sort of kind of doing that? Post-publication curation?
- barbara fister
I think episciences ? In France is looking to do that
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Yup, overlay journals. Some people started doing that for math content in the arXiv, but it may have stopped, http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2012...
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Yeah, for the collective wisdom! Thank you.
- Rebecca Hedreen
Chance to get librarians on the open-science radar; let's take it. Sayeed Choudhury, Carly Strasser great choices off the top of my head. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog... No limit to how many/how often you can nominate!
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So our own Heather Piwowar is also a red-hot possibility.
- RepoRat
wow, that's lovely, RR :) I think maybe I'll get a tshirt made that says "red-hot possibility" ;) I'm leaning in Aaron Swartz direction. Negatives: misses opportunity to honour someone who is still active, working in the system. Positives: white house, see this white house? FIX THIS.
- Heather Piwowar
I second Heather... probably would not support Aaron Swartz' nomination... I think it's better to select someone who is active.
- Christina Pikas
If someone else doesn't nominate Heather P, I will! And how did I not know about Carly Strasser until now? (Agree with Christina about Swartz -- benefit of sending message outweighed by loss of chance to boost someone active.)
- Bill Hooker
even if someone else DOES nominate Heather P (which MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED ALREADY I'M NOT SAYING), do it anyway. Volume can't hurt.
- RepoRat
Should we also nominate Jason P--Heather's copartner?
- Hedgehog
I was thinking about him as well.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Rock on. NOMINATE ALL THE CHAMPIONS!
- RepoRat
works with Carly at his internship gig ... awesomeness.
- henry
oy.... can't seem to install the oauth2 module... or really any modules... i know with perl i was able to do stuff in the command line but maybe my python install is broken? i can't just python setup.py install ... it doesn't know what i'm talking about.
see if "sudo easy_install oauth2" works -- did for me.
- RepoRat
Is sudo a unix thing bcs I'm on win7. Luckily someone posted instructions in th forums. I'm going to try them (later) in the morning
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
oh, oops, yep, it is. sorry!
- RepoRat
It worked. The main thing was adding python to the path environment. Perl added automatically but I had to do it manually. Plus oauth had a dependency which had another dependency
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
The hurty-boobs pregnancy thing is no joke. No. Joke.
Oh, ow :(
- Jennifer Dittrich
Apparently it gets worse as time goes by. The first three months have been kinda low grade sore and more ultra-sensitive. All of the sudden this week it is like OW DONT TOUCH ME EVEN THE SHOWER HURTS!!!!!
- Mary Carmen
And I never had sore boobs as a PMS symptom, so this is totally new to me. I basically Google ever new ache and pain and weirdness. "XYZ while pregnant" and I am amazed at all the things that happen. Hormones are crazy. Like right now my body is in process of increasing my blood volume by 50%. This means peeing all the time, limbs feeling like they weigh 200 pounds each and exhaustion. WTF? How do people do this 10 times?!?!?!?
- Mary Carmen
You just wait - after the kid is born? I nearly duct taped mine together to keep them from moving at all, it hurt so bad when they did. I did sleep in a bra that was as sturdy as cast iron, though, because otherwise - ouch!
- WebGoddess
I just upgraded to maternity bras....these things are complicated.
- Mary Carmen
Get at least one that is a cup size bigger than you are now and built like an iron maiden. That will be the one you sleep in while your milk is coming in. It makes a big difference!!
- WebGoddess
Tmi, but I went up 4 sizes from pre-preg to nursing bras... But I feed twins. And whoa yeah discomfort at 3-4 mo is nothing compared to the first few weeks after... But you should have some time btwn now and then when it's better.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
There's a gazillion weird things that happen. At one point I started getting PUPPP (it's a thing!), and I took some weird folk remedy and got rid of it. DO NOT read "What to Expect When You're Expecting." I liked uplifting stuff like Ina May Gaskin.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
I don't want to Google PUPPP do I?
- Mary Carmen
Aw man. Too late.
- Mary Carmen
What was the folk remedy and did it work??????
- Mary Carmen
I don't like when boobs are in pain... not one little bit.
- Johnny
The weirdest pregnancy side-effect I've heard of (though it's not rare) is RSI.
- Spidra Webster
RSI? repetitive stress injury? Or am I missing something/
- Mary Carmen
Maybe for the fathers http://www.instantrimshot.com
- Johnny
lol
- Mary Carmen
Yes, that RSI. Some women get it during pregnancy. I guess the hormonal changes make them more susceptible to it than they'd be had they not gotten pregnant. (In other words, it isn't only related to doing more repetitive movements.) Took me a while to come up with the right keywords: http://www.google.com/search...
- Spidra Webster
MC, it was dandelion root. Worked great! Also, PUPPP is not very common. I'm an arse for mentioning it. Pregnancies make one want to share their own stories, I think.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
The RSI is from the hormones responsible for the softening per labor stage of those pelvic bones. Carpal tunnel braces are good for your wrists. Lumbar belly support gadgets are good for the pelvic pain and potential labial varicosities.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Thanks Janet. My back has been killing me. I think I'll look into some support.
- Mary Carmen
Yep. I totally got carpal tunnel whatever when preggers. The real bitch was sciatica.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Email from someone asking me whats wrong with PDFs. brb, gotta slide down the fireman's pole in my office closet and go to the Nerdcave.
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there's an issue w/ the acrobat browser plugin. tell them to try downloading the file and opening or try another browser.
- ellbeecee
Oh, this is about what's wrong with them as in what's wrong with using them to publish material on a website.
- Sarah G.
If it's the only way something's being published, it's not as accessible to the visually impaired as HTML is. That's something that drives me *nuts* about gov't sites. Too many of the people behind those just shovel up PDFs as the content. http://www.washington.edu/accessi...
- Spidra Webster
ha! :) clearly I jumped into reflib mode :)
- ellbeecee
My impression (on the former issue, not the accessibility one) is that it's a Firefox issue rather than an Acrobat issue. As in: PDFs show up just fine in IE and Chrome, but in Firefox--yukko. Unclear why FF can't seem to fix this.
- Walt Crawford
re the plugin: Firefox added it's own PDF viewer one or two updates back. It's not very good. You can tell Firefox to go back to using Adobe or your other preferred PDF reader via Tools-->Options-->Applications, then find PDF and choose Adobe. That's on Windows. The PDF reader in Firefox on Mac hasn't worked properly in ages. I'm using Schubert|it's PDF Browser Plugin: http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginp...
- Rebecca Hedreen
Rebecca: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I wish Firefox would make this more, um, visible. I was getting really tired of choosing "Use another reader/Acrobat" which forces a download, then opens Reader. By changing the Applications menu, it brings up Reader within Firefox, skipping the download--which is what I want. You have officially Made My Day.
- Walt Crawford
You're very welcome. It drove us batty for several days at our reference desk. The display was weird and everything printed quarter scale! Thank goodness that IT hasn't gotten around to updating Firefox on the student computers recently (please, not during finals!) They have been warned, and I'm telling everyone I can.
- Rebecca Hedreen
at mpow we can't even open our PDF pay stubs in Firefox! completely hoses 'em.
- RepoRat
I for one love the reader because it works for me and the regular adobe is blocked from opening files in the browser at mpow
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Ideas and steps you are or are planning to take to hear from your users (about whatever topic). For starters, your plan might be to ask your users what they want to tell you about.
- awd
embedding in departments is an example.
- Christina Pikas
posting photos of your library on instagram. I get (surprisingly) lots of user engagement there.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Can anyone recommend a gui for github for windows?
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I use and very much like SourceTree for Mac, and looks like they have a windows version.
- Heather Piwowar
from iPhone
Excellent ! Thanks. I tried something earlier but it wouldn't install - I think it wanted to put a dll someplace banned by work.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Eclipse + eGit
- Egon Willighagen
since i'd like to use eclipse, that looks good, too
- Christina Pikas
I asked my coworkers, since we use Git - one of our new guys recommended SmartGitHg 4 (for Win/Mac/Linux). Also recommended TortoiseGit (Win only).
- Laura H.
i think i asked this question before: I know there isn't a pre-made embeddable EngineeringVillage search form to use... it looks like the url doesn't have search term information in it... is there a way to create a form that initiates a search on engineeringvillage? the api for scopus is like you're going to display the info on your site
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i want users to end up on Engineering Village... is anything like this possible for WoS?
- Christina Pikas
Right, that's it, I'm done with the exercises in this MOOC. There's no way I have time in the next eight weeks (which includes finals week, graduation, and THREE talks I haven't even started working on yet) to remember enough Python and learn enough about geocoding to get the homework done.
I'll get what I can from lectures and readings and let it go.
- RepoRat
looks like some serious work with the first exercise. I'm going to give it a swing, but not too hopeful.
- Christina Pikas
Hm. I was worried about that. I don't know any Python yet, so this one might be a little over my head. Sigh.
- Laura Krier
MoTO #TeamMonique, Steven Perez, Kelli H. and 21 other people liked this
Dd needs her hair trimmed in the front but scared to do it. Barrettes seem like choking hazards?
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
My sister cuts her little guy's hair while he's asleep. Much less amusing.
- lris
Oh, that's brilliant, though, like when you clip the cat's nails when it's asleep #clearlydoesnothavechildren
- Meg V. Meg
How many babies have "we" had on FF? Let's see: The Toddler formerly known as babyx, MellyBaby, The Louis Gray Project(?), & Jandy's New Release spring immediately to mind. I know I likely missed some since my tenure here. And there were likely others before I got here. Feel free to chime in below.
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Robert Scoble back in 2009 I think.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
I thought Robert was older than that?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Nyce project coming soon.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Our twins were born two years ago next week.
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Thanks #joe. It was MC and Scott's announcement that prompted the post. Twins, Jason? Belated congrats. And (if you don't mind me saying), good lord you must be sleepy.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
ALWAYS (thanks ;)
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
my twins were born 3/10/12 .. but i didn't share much about the process :)
- Christina Pikas
Congrats, Christina! With the Grays having a set, IIRC, I wonder if we have a higher concentration of twins here?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Both of Rochelle's babies
- Shevonne
Are we including fur-children too?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I think we should start a separate thread, Janet. I was thinking of genetic copies when I generated the post.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Thanks Shevonne!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Wouldn't adoptions count here too? I don't know that we've had any, but those would be child-like additions to families.
- Running Slow
Didn't think of that, YKMN. Okay adoptions too. Honestly, it's an open thread. Have at it, criminals.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Bren's little cutie and Miss Emily. (Oh, I see she's included).
- Anika
Good catch, Anika.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I believe Laura X had Toddler X (but as Baby X, not as a toddler.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Kamilla Gill had a baby too.
- Tamara J.
See original post, Mark. Thanks, Angel!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I don't post pics, but Mr H was born 9 months ago and if you're friends with me on Flickr you'll find he's ADORABLE.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
Ah yes, missed it the first time through, MoTO.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Yay Mr. H!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Stephen Planken's baby as well. Not sure if he is already included
- Shevonne
Another good one, Shevonne. Thanks.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
I had three on here.
- Louis Gray
We had Sophie in Dec 2009 and Sarah Sep last year.
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
I see Shevonne beat me, sorry. :)
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Unique visitors to Summon seems almost constant all the months, was highest in Mar 2013, but otherwise hovered at the same level for Jan/Feb/Apr within 4% margin . Comparatively Encore was jumping up and down depending on the month within almost 20% margin.. No sure what that means.
- aarontay
i'm not familiar with encore? what is it?
- Christina Pikas
Innovative's "next generation catalogue", think normal "classic catalogue" but with facets and features like "did you mean", spell check, community tagging, relevance ranking etc. Typically does not include articles, though we have Encore synergy that does include some of it but as a secondary option.
- aarontay
Not sure what's happening there. Are these capturing 'hits' from Google Analytics or is this each product's individual stats collection service?
- copystar
Google analytics for both. Is not really comparable in terms of page views due to the fact that Encore includes item detail pages and Summon hands over to the classic catalogue, but that shouldn't affect unique visitors I would think. My theory is that the next generation catalogue swings so much because certain months users are doing assignments and go for databases for articles so...
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- aarontay
Hmm, I don't think I buy into that theory because almost all of our use stats (from gatecounts, to website hits, to shelving counts, to database and catalogue use) all follow patterns of high and low use. If anything, I would think that Summon (serving articles) would have more variation of use than Encore (serving books). I think you need another data source to suss this out
- copystar
I'll look at the native stats of summon, It could be some limitation in google analytics.. The last i checked in Jan and Feb they (Google analytics and summon stats) were remarkably similar though.
- aarontay
There are tons--depends on what you want to do! Web-based? Desktop? Need graphics? More formal concept mapping? Mobile?
- Megan loves summer
Popplet is super quick. http://popplet.com/
- Megan loves summer
I also like Mind Meister (http://www.mindmeister.com/) and Mindomo (http://www.mindomo.com/)
- Megan loves summer
ooh thanks!
- kendrak
The Brain is just fun: http://www.thebrain.com/
- Megan loves summer
i hate mind mapping. it makes no sense to me #totallytextbased
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
LibrarianOnTheLoose, I mostly feel the same way. But I have used it for larger research projects. I can't use it for something small, like a journal article sized thing, because basic linear outlining works for me for that.
- DJF
Neither mind-mapping nor Prezi works for me. I'm not visual enough or something. My husband loves Inspiration, but that's not free.
- Rebecca Hedreen
freemind
- Christina Pikas
I've tried a few and still prefer pencil and paper. I think when I'm brainstorming I don't want to have to think about how to work the damn software.
- Deborah Fitchett
I've used bubbl.us with classes, and while not perfect, works well on desktop.
- kaijsa
iPencil and iPaper are my favorite.
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
For the record, I've found that some people get really excited and inspired when working with software as opposed to pen and paper (I've mostly given workshops with Cmap Tools). So if we're talking about helping other people to learn...multiple approaches are a good thing!
- Megan loves summer
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