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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

Left to my own devices I probably never would have cut his hair. But I don't think he would like barrettes, so it's probably just as well. - laura x from BuddyFeed

Dd needs her hair trimmed in the front but scared to do it. Barrettes seem like choking hazards? - Christina Pikas from iPhone

Oh, I suppose they probably are. Peter's dad had to chase him around the house with scissors. I should have filmed it. - laura x from BuddyFeed

The girls at daycare all have tiny ponytails. - laura x from BuddyFeed

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

Robert Scoble back in 2009 I think. - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

I thought Robert was older than that? - MoTO #TeamMonique

Nyce project coming soon. - Joe Boone

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'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... more... - 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

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

They are very different ("complementary" is the word people use when they have both). SciFinder indexes way more of the post-1967 literature (and does so much more broadly w/r/t subject and document type); Reaxys focuses on properties/reactions/methods back to 18-19th centuries and is geared toward synthesis workflows (it lets you build recipes!) Right now, each seems to be trying to catch up with the strengths of the other, it's very strange to watch. Main competitor is Web of Science. - Meg V. Meg

Here's a good comparison grid: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/chem... - Meg V. Meg

that grid is pretty great, as are you. thank you! - Marie

*sniff* that's the nicest response I've ever gotten to that explanation - Meg V. Meg

Reaxys is indeed oriented to synthetic chemistry... kind of a bummer that it replaced Gmelin and doesn't seem to do so well with inorganic. It has been better for finding chemical properties for me. In that there's some competition from Springer Materials, CRC Handbook and SciFinder. Scifinder has more properties, but they're often calculated and not as curated. - Christina Pikas

Springer materials is the old Landolt Bornstein with some other stuff mixed in. The L-B stuff is very high quality but its coverage is limited. - Christina Pikas

and LB is pretty darn expensive. [This one volume, such the deal at $9,739 http://www.amazon.com/Ferrous...] - Joe Boone

Or, you can get all of the 2012 volumes for a little over $50,000! - Joe Boone

does anything scream "yay! make me for auntie amy!"? cuz, ya know, i lurve homemade stuff. - jambina

I'm sure there's something screaming your name in that pile of yarn, Amy. - Mary Carmen from iPhone

Freddie Cruger Onesie - Johnny from iPhone

i believe $500M 'cause they're probably pretty expensive. - Christina Pikas

That could be--but the intro to the article says "Baxter has sold more than 500 million of this product worldwide." Could be the interviewer or an editor just got it wrong. - Walt Crawford

Re dialysis: how often do his machines break down? Planned obsolescence FTL. - RepoRat

I would argue that they either missed a $, or that it is 500,000 not 500M. Maybe only off by a factor of a 1000. - Joe Boone

too late, sorry! but there were a few questions that were like how much do i love the big evil publishers and do i love wiley more than the others.... - Christina Pikas

http://wiley.qualtrics.com/SE... - Christina Pikas

wow. that's... needy. somebody's PR arm is scaaaaaared. - RepoRat

the funny thing is that I'm pretty pragmatic about the whole thing.. i use the hell out of elseveir's products... and i get a lot of benefit from them and when they make improvements... Wiley's platform is pretty crap and hasn't improved since changing over from interscience... but they seem to want to be seen as forward looking and innovative and communicative... NPG is, yes, them? no. - Christina Pikas

Grabbing screenshots, thanks. :) - RepoRat

(I'm surprised the survey would let me page all the way through without answering questions.) Also interesting that they toss in a couple of OA questions... A strange, strange survey. - Walt Crawford

Nay. - Mary B: #TeamMonique

Yay. Love it. - Mary Carmen

Not for me but yay for spring to wear to church with a plain dress - Christina Pikas from iPhone

Nay - Hedgehog

Nay. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Nay. - Julian

yay but not my personal style. - holly #ravingfangirl

So very nay. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

nay. - Lnorigb

nay - Janet:#TeamMonique

Interesting, like holly, they aren't my thing, but I thought they'd be a yay for many people. The 16 year old thought nay, but mostly because they "look like they're for old people." - Katy S

Nay - Tamara J.

Yay - SteVe C

Yay. But a context-dependent Yay. - Brent Schaus from iPhone

Yay - Shevonne from Android

I can see this shoe with a white capri and colorful top. But I am the least type of fashionista. Patterns give me anxiety. - Janet:#TeamMonique

Yay - with white top / black leggings colorful belt or white dress / plain solid color dress. capris or jeans - Paulette

Are they NineWest? I think I just found them. Pretty reasonable too. - Paulette

Paulette - I think they were. - Katy S

Seriously, I am working on a presentation to explain ebrary to users. It is necessary. - Zamms

safari, books24x7,... yep. sigh. - Christina Pikas

It's a question that comes up every single orientation.... - Hedgehog

Need me to share my presentation? - Zamms

I don't think it's just ebrary.... The whole concept of an ebook that can't be read off-line seems alien to most users. - aarontay

EBL, feh - maʀtha

Project MUSE, OTH, lets one download the entire book, save, and print. Chapter by chapter, of course, but, still, kudos to them. - maʀtha

We have a libguide that shows what can be done for various ebook packages. http://libguides.du.edu/content... found within http://libguides.du.edu/ebooks - Joe Boone

Joe you rock. ROCK rock rock! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

The LIS students who put this together a year or two ago rock rock rock. Some of the info might be slightly out of date. - Joe Boone

Some of our ebrary titles can be fully downloaded, some can't, and you can't tell which is which until you try to do it (which requires creating an account). - Meg V. Meg

Chris, I'd be interested in your preso. - RepoRat

Oooh, I'll be stealing from Joe's guide. The U of Melbourne also has a nice one: http://unimelb.libguides.com/content... - Megan loves summer

Surprisingly sciencedirect ebooks have no drm either. Chapter by chapter downloads as well. That often puzzles users too , why chapter by chapter. - aarontay

I'll post an edited version of the preso when it's done. (You don't need the slides about how to login using our account info...) - Zamms

I said "hunting for," not "hunting." :P - RepoRat

*snicker* - maʀtha

http://ff.im/1ferHn - lris

oh yay! thanks, Iris - RepoRat

i might. trying to figure out if i can really do it. - jambina

I just signed up. Although I have to be honest: My track record with MOOCs is abysmal. - Laura Krier

Maybe study buddies would help? - Laura Krier

I want to but like Laura, I haven't been a good MOOC student. - kendrak

Tell y'all what, I'll make a MOOC Study Buddies room. Can be reused for other MOOCers, of course. :) - RepoRat

https://friendfeed.com/mooc-st... - RepoRat

I'm signed up but not sure I'll actually do it all - kristin buxton

I saw algebra and quailed a little. Sad, I know. - Yvonne

I can still do algebra if I have to. If it'd been CALCULUS, I'd have run like a rabbit. - RepoRat

would love to... but I dropped out of the last mooc and it was only 5 hrs a week :( and I can do R but don't know python or sql :( Perfectly happy in Algebra and actually probably could remember calculus if needed... but that doesn't help... i would so love to take this course! eta: oh crap... i just signed my self up... - Christina Pikas

I think that's based on whether or not you have One-Click turned on. We don't, and I get a link resolver result page on articles with more than one access point. - kaijsa

EDL doesn't do this (or if it does, it's turn-off-able) - Meg V. Meg

We do have one click turned on for our Summon. We try to have it go to the most stable full-text sources, publisher first, then from a priority list of various vendors. We also have ArticleLinker set up on a top frame if the patron would like to see if the FT is available from other sources besides what was presented from the one-click. - Joe Boone

What's EDL? Summon & other discovery services I think also has direct linking is independent of your link resolver settings. In our Summon instance, in some cases the link brings you to the landing pages like http://www.sciencedirect.com/science... , that's not directly the full-text, though in some cases it does bring you direct to full-text with pdf loaded though eg Oxford journals. - aarontay

Funny you should ask. I thought it was the new "EBSCO Discovery Layer"? Though their web stuff makes it sound like it's called EDS? But we have a trial now, and I am 99% sure that I've never heard it called EDS, because I would have made a Ross Perot joke. - Meg V. Meg

Definitely EDS. If you click the title, it brings you to a detailed record screen (usu. with abstract though not always), and there are links to either full text or link resolver that show on the results and/or detailed record screen, depending on how you set it up. (This is the same way that other EBSCO dbs work.) There's no option to make clicking the title go directly to the source. The one exception is their "Web News" database, which as far as I know is documented nowhere although it does exist. - JffKrlsn

Always heard it called EDS. It's quite interesting when you consider the main selling point of services like pubget is that you can do a search and download the pdf directly from the search screen without even seeing the native interface. That's one step up even from Summon with one-click 360link turned on. - aarontay

EDS (Summon, too, I thought) presents a "Full Text" button (or other specifically named option buttons to check for linked full text or ILL) right in the search results list by default. Click the Title for the record/metadata & click the Full Text (or other buttons) for the actual content. - awd

our new default is to go from citation to full-text without stopping at link resolver page. I prefer it the other way, but I think my colleagues' research supports the one-click thing - so I defer to the users. - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

I'm coming around to one-click. When we only have one full-text option, it goes straight to that from Summon, and it's nice. I think we're just worried about things breaking and not giving people options if there is more than one provider. We should probably stop worrying because things break all the time and we cope. - kaijsa

scopus has a separate button to grab and download the pdfs of any selected articles in your results set. I can see why that's handy. I'm not terribly keen on the title linking as there is a full text button in the record anyway - Christina Pikas

We hate the download button in Scopus, it's a bit confusing since it will download citation/abstract only if there is no full-text which confuses users. Plus we have this little thing about restricting downloads via ezproxy beyond a certain amt in a short time..... Plus the download manager uses java....sigh.. - aarontay

kaijsa, for 360link at least, you can do a helper window iframe, with links in the frame on what to do if the content below is broken. Disadvanatages are well it's a iframe, so some sites will not work well with it, and also for some browsers depending on cookie settings, there will be "cross-domain" issues with cookies or something particularly with ezproxy, there are ways around it..... http://laimages.s3.amazonaws.com/data... - aarontay

By the way, if you are talking about "page with more detailed citation information." in Summon, you can see this by hovering over the title for a popup or clicking on the small magnifying icon which will popup the detailed record in Summon. It is very easily missed (think Summon 2.0 changes this?), most people just click on the result, which will then go to the link resolver, which is... more... - aarontay

we have the same frame thingie that @aarontay mentions. except the peoples don't see it. still, good idea; I point it out in classes. dunno if this link will work: http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.seria... - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

well, you know that "special" is just code for "corporate". And those corp-ists would sell their mother's contact info. - DJF

It might, if word reached the right people (ie, the governing board) they should have some kind of opt in or out for that sort of thing anyway. - ~Courtney F

definitely tell them. all of that is something they have the power to fix. now, you don't know if they will fix it, depends on how much they made selling your info. they need to decide which is more important to them - making money or their members. - Christa

it might also be illegal for them to do so under the american anti-spam rules. - DJF

I thought there was an opt out? - LibrarianOnTheLoose

I cannot imagine what library organization you are talking about, Blake. - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

Didn't we just talk about this with regard to Another Professional Organization last week? http://friendfeed.com/lsw... - Catherine Pellegrino

a few years ago they sent malware so the official directory listing for me is at hotmail although i'm on all the lists at mpow's e-mail - Christina Pikas

A thought just occurred to me, I don't know for sure they *sold* me out, I do know for sure that I traced it back to them, so maybe they were hacked and didn't know it and so I shouldn't be angry about being sold out. There must be a policy someplace on their website or something I guess. - Blake

There is something on their membership management page, which should be overhauled in the next few months. - kendrak

I did not name any names here this could be any association. ANY ONE. - Blake

Well ONE ASSOCIATION I KNOW LOTS ABOUT is upgrading their membership software RIGHT NOW. - kendrak

Can't be SLA, because that is the Special Libraries (plural) Association. - Joe Boone

This is why I like having a name that's easily misspelled. Makes it easy to know who to berate. - Zamms

Someone in the early 80's told me that she always used different middle initials whenever she signed up for stuff, so she'd know who had sold her name. - Betsy #TeamMonique

so, are they telling us which 500 articles? - ellbeecee

I love how they thank me for my understanding when I'm totally confused. Which 500 articles? "Read-only"? "Course rights?" - Rebecca Hedreen

Yeah. (our internal person just forwarded this to me as well). The "fuck you, HBR" part of me is assuming those 500 are articles they're republishing somehow (like this - http://www.amazon.com/HBRs-Mu... ) and this is a DANGER WILL ROBINSON thing. - ellbeecee

what Rebecca said. what the heck does this mean?? - RudĩϐЯaЯïan from YouFeed

(or will the 500 articles be a moving target based on what's popular at the time? Will they be the 500 most recent? This isn't telling us *anything* other than "there's changes a-comin'!") #grumpylaura - ellbeecee

I'm thinking their 500 most popular articles. - Joe Boone

Yeah, I was surprised to read that my access to EBSCO content was something other than read-only! I think this has to do with direct linking to articles. - JffKrlsn from Android

how will this work technically? no links to the direct url? couldn't you reverse engineer a link? - Christina Pikas

They DO NOT LIKE faculty using their stuffs for electronic reserves. I'm sure they know the most popular articles and they will use magick to prevent us from linking to them without many extra dollars. - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

I'm assuming they mean: no linking, no downloading, no printing (and, by means of blocking those 3 things, no course reserves. unless you pay their special fees.). - Marianne

So, we will have to scan from the print to put into reserves? Can hbr stop that? Is there language in the print version that says what can and can't be fair use for reserve readings? - Joe Boone

Yeah, if you own the print, that would be completely different. There aren't any licensing terms when you own something--just copyright law. (You really think they'll ban printing? Don't think I've seen that in EBSCO before.) - JffKrlsn

What Rebecca, Rudi said, "Read only" ??? - aarontay

Instead of a direct permalink, I guess we're to create a search which brings back only the one true result (like we are supposed to do now) ... and enforcement is unrealistic at best. Anyway, they're gonzo imho. - awd

I read that in a meeting and went "what the hell?" I don't understand how this is enforceable at all. - ~Courtney F

I love this sentence so much: "As you are likely aware, full-text licensing agreements with publishers are subject to change in all databases, and EBSCO is committed to providing our customers with as much advance notice as possible on full-text content changes as often as we possibly can." - Meg V. Meg

At a faculty meeting, got asked about ereserves for HBR articles..... immediately thought of this.... Told him will get back to him on this issue after checking with business librarians... - aarontay

Ereserves for HBR would require special permissions from HBR directly. I'm still waiting for the quote on access to the articles. It is a static list, though - ~Courtney F

the list of articles is static, courtney? Interesting. That would make me really suspect it's tied to their repackaging articles as books initiatives of late - ellbeecee

So what's the bottom line here? What's changed exactly? Any further explanation from EBSCOhost about what we can now no longer do on this already restricted journal? - Stephen le Francoeur

When I read the email a while back, I got the impression the list is of the articles most linked to and downloaded. I wish we'd drop our subscription because the terms of license make the materials next to worthless at a university. DO NOT USE THIS STUFF TO TEACH WITH. Okay, jerks. - kaijsa

Even if "ereserves" is just a link to ebsco platform from courseware? That's not allowed? I was told the 500 includes popular stuff such as on leadership... - aarontay

Aaron, the way I read the restriction, yes. Even that would not be allowed. - ~Courtney F

They have always been weird about links in syllabi and course systems for years. Whether or not it's okay to recommend an HBR article to a student in a hushed whisper is still unclear. - barbara fister

Yup, LBC, I confirmed twice that it's a static list (I was kind of surprised). Stephen, according to the quote I got, the "extended rights" would "include the ability to print, save to a folder and include PDF’s of these articles in course work". I'm not sure who they think will be able to afford this, because I can assure you, the quote I received is well out of our reach. - ~Courtney F

sigh. Apparently our Acq dep't read the EBSCO letter, verified that we don't have the extended rights, and left it at that. Why does it take ME to push them towards finding out what the language means, and which titles are effected, and that we need to know which of the titles are heavily used here and which spend much time on course reserves???Those are pretty obvious questions right? I'm not some kind of savant, right? - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Rudy, the ebsco license for HBR already disallowed reserves, IIRC, and I know they monitored for linking to articles from within a CMS because the business school at a former workplace got hit by that. - ellbeecee

Hmm. Then what's different now? - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Right now I can save a personal copy, I can print a personal copy, I can email myself a personal copy of all the HBR articles. Come August, 500 of these (apparently a static list) will be unavailable for saving/printing/whatever that personal copy - I can still read the article on screen. At least that's how I'm interpreting the letter. - ellbeecee

That is a correct interpretation of the letter. No download, no print, not even saving the article to a folder. - Zamms

On an unrelated note (ahem) that is totally disconnected from the content of the rest of this thread (ahem), I think libraries really need to make sure that students and faculty have mastered screen capture software, as it's essential for all sorts of scholarly work. - Stephen le Francoeur

^^^ hee hee hee hee hee - Catherine Pellegrino

I agree, Stephen, and have had similar thoughts. That's an important skill in the digital world. - ellbeecee

In which classic board game can Colonel Mustard commit murder in the library with a lead pipe? - Anne Bouey

What industrialist born in Dunfermline, Scotland, spent part of his fortune building public libraries in the US? - Anne Bouey

In which 1999 movie did Rachel Weisz play a Cairo librarian, Evelyn Carnahan? - Anne Bouey

Sure, Cristo, or on your own post. - Anne Bouey

Established in 1895 what US public library is guarded by the lion statues nicknamed Patience and Fortitude? - Anne Bouey

What American librarian was responsible for the development of a method of library classification based on a decimal system? - Anne Bouey

In Seinfeld, Jerry is tracked down for borrowing (and not returning) what Henry Miller-penned library book in 1971? - Anne Bouey

In which Egyptian city did Alexander the Great build his famous library? - Anne Bouey

Often referred to as the "world's greatest lover", who spent the latter part of his life as a librarian for Count Waldstein of Bohemia? - Anne Bouey

ME ^ until the librarian part - SteVe C

Whose presidential library is located at the University of Texas, Austin? - Anne Bouey

Haha, Steve! - Anne Bouey

I know 3 or 4 of them. That's about it, I think. - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE from WinForFeed

I think I know all of them... but don't want to give spoilers - Christina Pikas

No team out of 17 got all of them correct. One team got 9, a couple got 8, but most were in the 3-5 range. - Anne Bouey

I know them - maʀtha

I know all of them off the top of my head except for the last one. I had to look that up to confirm after thinking on it for a bit. - Katie

Almost all of the teams got the last one wrong, Katie. - Anne Bouey

I know maybe two, counting me as worlds greatest lover. - SteVe C

I knew all of them but the Seinfeld one. - Soup in a TARDIS

I think I got 'em all. Helped that I went to UT Austin for my library degree. :) - Steele Lawman

I knew the one about SteVe being the world's greatest lover. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Stephen, that made me laugh! - Anne Bouey

Library of Congress, Clue, Carnegie, NYPL, Tropic of Cancer, Alexandria, Cassanova, LBJ... - Spidra Webster

I don't know the movie one. And I'm not librarian, I just look like one. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

The movie one is "The Mummy" - Soup in a TARDIS

I'm sorry for your loss. - Marie

Can you take some time off work? - Joe Boone

oh Heather, much love to you. do let us know if we can do anything - even if that is just bad knock-knock jokes to take your mind off things. - jambina

our condolences - Pete #TeamMonique

thinking of you, here, too. take care. - Marianne

*hugs* I'm so sorry for your loss. - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

I'm very sorry. *hugs* - Betsy #TeamMonique

Condolences. And hugs - Christina Pikas from iPhone

I'm so sorry, Heather. - Katy S

I'm so sorry. As another father's daughter left without hers, my thoughts are with you. - Jenica from iPhone

I'm so sorry to hear this. I'll be thinking of you and your family. - Catherine Pellegrino

Love and light to you, Heather. - Derrick

*hugs* and thoughts with you heather - Sir Shuping is just sir

I'm really sorry to hear that. Thinking of you and your family. - Stephen le Francoeur

I'm sorry for your loss Heather. Let your memories of happier times together help you and your family through the sadness, and sustain you as the passage of time helps mend your heart. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

so sorry Heather - weelibrarian

Condolences! We'll be thinking of you. - Rebecca Hedreen

I'm so sorry for your loss. - Kelli H. from Android

I'm very sorry, Heather. - RepoRat

So sorry for your loss. Got the email auto-reply and was afraid that was what had happened. Best wishes for all your family. - Cameron Neylon

So very sorry to hear this. Many hugs to you. - Hedgehog

my deepest sympathies. that's a difficult loss. - t-ra: not givin up

I'm so very sorry, Heather. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

I'm sorry for your family's and the worlds loss. Take care of yourself and those around you as best as you can and let others help take care of you. - SteVe C

So very sorry. Do take time for yourself. - Mary B: #TeamMonique from iPhone

very sorry to hear :( let us know if we can help with anything - Jason - The Opaque from Android

I'm so sorry, Heather. I echo Jenica's thoughts from another fatherless daughter. I miss mine every day, and it's been almost 20 years. *hugs* - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

My condolences, Heather. My thoughts are with you and your family. - Bill Hooker

I'm so sorry, Heather. He must have been so proud of you! Thinking of you and yours. - Meg V. Meg

My condolences. It's an awful passage watching your parents die. - Heather

I'm so sorry. - Running Slow

So sorry. Take your time with it. - Björn Brembs

I am so sorry. My thoughts are with you and yours. - Amandadon't from Android

Very sorry for your loss! I am like you in that I am so much my father's daughter. I don't know how or what I'll do when mine passes which I know is inevitable. Take care. - Paulette

thanks so much for all of these kind thoughts. they mean more than you know. hugs to those who have been or are in a similar spot, and thank you for sharing that with me, it helps. We had a lovely service on Saturday... he would have cried the whole time :) Here's his obituary: http://bit.ly/YKEBb7 Thanks again, everybody, for caring. - Heather Piwowar

we did this: http://journal.code4lib.org/article... (well i helped test i sure didn't do any coding or any writing of the article or whatever)... it's amazing that there was really so little difference between them. That said, what we really miss in our current instantiation is the faceting which we can't get from what we're using right now. - Christina Pikas

Very interesting, thanks. Odd how the way the article is formatted it's really hard to tell who the author is. You have to look down for the About the Author section. - John Dupuis

We have been happy with Encore/Summon as the two types of discovery services, but I don't think we have published why we are happy. Also, we are paying $$$ for them, so they better be good. If you have questions, I would bet that cbrown at du dot edu might be able to talk to you more (or send to you documentation on how our decisions came to be) if you have questions. - Joe Boone

Think I tweeted you this list that I am "Curating" https://sites.google.com/site... , a bit messy though. We are also using Encore (since 2008) and Summon (since this year). - aarontay

Which thread on http://listserv.crl.edu/wa... - Joe Boone

(Sandy Thatcher?) - barbara fister

ding! that's the correct ST and here: http://listserv.crl.edu/wa... - Christina Pikas

Bingo. - Joe Boone

L. Quilter has been v. awesome in my books since at least 1997. <3. - Marianne

I said something mean about Thatcher then deleted it. Instead I'll say--is he ever useful, or is he just a full-time troll? - Steele Lawman

I've known her online since 1995 or so, previous life and all that. Was just plain shocked to cross paths with her in library land! She's fantastic. (also: super thrilled to have no idea who ST is. do I need to?) - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

He said something nice about DPLA on Secret Agent Fister's latest IHE column. I was surprised. Unless it wasn't actually him! - RepoRat

I find Thatcher confusing--I don't think he's a full-time troll, but I'm mostly not sure what he is or believes. One of the few people who talk about OA who I really can't pin down. (Almost like I used to be, perhaps?) - Walt Crawford

On this particular list he has to comment multiple times on every single thread regardless of the relevance on his running the penn state press (and retiring some time ago). I'm sure he makes some good points but geez. - Christina Pikas from iPhone

http://friendfeed.com/orgmonk... - Marie

Sandy's one of several reasons I unsub'd from that list and one other. Dude just talks too much. - Bill Hooker

** feel free to ignore the above comment and just answer based on your own skills/experience/interest - any data is better than no data :) - Marianne

You have several good choices. R is excellent for number-crunching and data visualization of many sorts; it would help you either as a science librarian or in acq/circ if that's where you stay. Python is a general-purpose language often seen in scientific computing; it's also a Swiss army knife that can chop metadata, dice websites, and julienne repetitive tasks. Ruby and PHP are in broad use on the web, as is Javascript (though I don't rec Jscript as your first language because it's kind of grotty). - RepoRat

Here's a simliar question (in a different field) on Ask MetaFilter: http://ask.metafilter.com/237517... - Steele Lawman

Heh, RR. I am grinning at you because that was exactly the short list I was hoping people would help me pick from (though I welcome other suggestions too) - do you prefer one of those over the others, or think I would? Steve, thank you. - Marianne

Well, I'm an ancient unreconstructed Pythonista, so I'm a leetle biased. I still like Python, and it's still my get-shit-done tool of choice. If you can *possibly* pull off both Python and R, I think that would be ideal. - RepoRat

R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R or Python - Meg V. Meg

<threadjack>I think I may have mentioned on FF somewhere that here at YorkU the required CS course that my son is taking as a physics 1st year teaches Fortran. Yes, Fortran. The good news is that his cohort is actually the last one to learn Fortran. Starting this summer, the course is switching to Matlab, which makes a lot more sense for physics in this day and age, though I'm sure many would also argue for Python. </threadjack> - John Dupuis

My understanding is that once one feels competent in one language, it's easier to learn the next one. So is there any benefit in starting with R or with Python (or something else) because it's a better "gateway" language? - Steele Lawman

Python is relatively close to very structured English, which could be an argument to starting with it. I'm struggling through it right now via a HeadFirst "Learn to Program" book which uses Python and A Byte of Python (free book) - Hedgehog

Python or Javascript - copystar

I learned Python first, and I found that a lot of its nitpickiness helped me with XML especially. - Lily

Answering Ethel's question: Python has a long-standing reputation as a good gateway language because of its relatively uncluttered syntax, clean design, and broad application domain. R is a domain-specific language, which means that moving on from it to other languages will involve a somewhat greater learning curve... but the jobs it DOES do, it will usually do better and/or more simply than Python. (Though I hear NumPy is pretty awesome. I've never worked with it.) - RepoRat

(thank you SO much, everyone. I would like this thread myself if I could.) - Marianne

Oh, and see also http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ :) - RepoRat

you can limp along in R without actually knowing how to program by following recipes from books and by using various gui packages and/or r-studio.... i'm so old i learned pascal in college but that gets me exactly no where. I'd like to learn Python and I'd like to force myself to do more regex searching... but this isn't about me :) - Christina Pikas

Thanks for your comments on this, everyone. I'mma be taking the self-directed tech course (with tech folks for classmates!) in the fall. Very excited about it. - Marianne

tell me more about this course and how it works? - RepoRat

RR, the syllabus from last fall is here: http://my.ischool.syr.edu/Uploads... . Obviously it tends to be focused more toward other branches of the iSchool, but our program director made a point of publicizing it to us as an allowable elective. Like most self-directed electives, there's a... more... - Marianne