I just brought one-handed death to a flying mosquito, even though it's barely still light enough to read out here (almost 9 pm). Apparently not having lived next to a swamp for the 2nd half of my life is not enough time away to lose the hard-won reflexes of those first 18 years on an island :D.
In my inbox: I am delighted to confirm that your request for funds to support the scaling and further development to sustainability of ImpactStory, a nonprofit open altmetrics platform that helps scholars evaluate, sort, consume, and reward web-native products has been approved by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Congrats. PS: I opened my account again and started up the "create collection" process for my Google Scholar file. It's still running half an hour later. I'll let it run for the next three hours at least...I look forward to seeing the results.
- Walt Crawford
Hi Walt. Yeah, sorry, it shouldn't take that long... 3 mins at most. The good news is that we're moving out of time-consuming fundraising mode and into development mode (with $$ to hire contractors to help!).... we should get to fixing bugs like this soon. Sorry you are running into a bug now, and I hope you'll be up for giving it another go when we've given it a rev!
- Heather Piwowar
Heather: Then I guess, since it's now been more than an hour, I should cancel it and try again some other time?
- Walt Crawford
Walt, yup, cancel for now. can you email me your Google Scholar file so I can debug? team@impactstory.org Thanks!
- Heather Piwowar
Heather: Done. (I don't know that I actually canceled it, but I shut down that tab.)
- Walt Crawford
YAY! That is so exciting, and congratulations!
- Laura Krier
Having your good news liked by oodles of people you like, admire, respect, haven't met yet, and/or have known for years? Happiness*2. Thanks, everybody.
- Heather Piwowar
also, not just good for you, Heather - but good for the rest of us who care (and/or want someone else to care) about tracking altmetrics. :-)
- $tephanie•Gardening
Long time, no see, FF peeps. I've been getting a few DMs and such so I thought I'd check in. Lot going on with me, but for the most part, all's well. Will be moving on from New Orleans this summer (but I'll be at ALA in Chicago next month!). Thanks for keeping an eye on me!
Yep. Onward and upward. I've learned a lot here, went to school here, earned a degree and became a librarian here. Grateful for all I've been privy to as a result.
- Derrick
At this point, where I'll end up hasn't been determined. Applying for jobs and interviewing across the country and keeping an eye open on possibilities. Hence, my absence and lack of participation around here lately. It's been a little stressful, but I'm looking forward to new things.
- Derrick
Yes, good luck in your new future. To me, it seems like just yesterday you were nervous about moving across the country to New Orleans.
- DJ Stevie Steve
Hai, D! Here's hoping you land someplace perfect! Glad you're back here, too!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
hope to see you in Chicago - and thanks for checking in!
- ellbeecee
It's great to see you 'round these parts again! Sending good thoughts your way that you land the best job, wherever that may take you. *hugs*
- Russian Space Lizard
Good luck, Derrick - I'm sure you'll do well wherever you go.
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
Good to hear from you and best of luck!
- laura x
from BuddyFeed
So glad to hear from you, D. You've been in my thoughts often. Best of luck with the job search!
- Kelli H.
from Android
Good luck with everything, Derrick. I'm looking forward to hearing about how it all turns out. The next chapter is going to be amazing :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
http://ruk.ca/content... - a splendid review, with excerpts, of my Poppy's book about circumnavigating Prince Edward Island by canoe, in the 30s and after. (said book available for free, also, at http://www.islandlives.ca/fedora... ). <3.
here's a snapshot of the e-resources that were suggested by a ref desk staff person to a patron at our library, over the course of one year. the ones to the side were suggested only by themselves; the others were all suggested in addition to others. i had no idea our ref desk staff suggest multiple resources at each interaction on a regular basis.
i counted all the e-resources mentioned during each ref desk transaction, organized the data in ucinet, then used netdraw to visualize. our little e-resources live such unexpected, complex lives!
- Marie
I didn't track any of it! (=TOTAL WIN) Our Info Desk staff log each transaction into Gimlet (http://gimlet.us/). I took what they did and broke it down, funky-like.
- Marie
I do not recognize ANY of the most popular books. I do, however, highly recommend "Searching for Sugarman". It is an odd documentary about the most popular American musician you've never heard of.
- DJF
I have no idea HOW I maintained straight A's during this year of unrelated insanity (professorial forbearance probably had something to do with it), but it turns out I did. So now that grades are in, school is *really* over for the summer and I don't even have to THINK about next fall until at least July. *runs off to play*
I had a feeling this was gonna happen. Congrats! :D
- Colette
Stay tuned; we'll still be doing a public ceremony/celebration, but it probably wont be until next fall. We were impatient and in lurv ;)
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, Please come to the gate immediately. Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor,... - http://snollygoster.tumblr.com/post...
Totally reminds me of a magical night in Manhattan I had once. Expect replace the cookies with adult beverages and the flight crew with homeless folks.
- SAM
Good luck! I was the speaker coach for a couple of the TEDxYorkU talks this year and we used this video as a tool to help speakers: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- John Dupuis
Today would have been my father's 90th birthday. It's weird to think he might actually be dead now, had he lived to see this day. It's been 32 years and I still miss him every day.
But it has so many colors and buttons! I am so afraid of the Bloomberg terminal.
- Amandadon't
@amandadon't, it's like Dialog for the business peeps. @Stephen: LOL! I'll put a sign by it indicating the ban on jumbo sodas within 10 feet.
- $tephanie•Gardening
I'm so sorry. *shudder* (I have a libguide for it that's not all that helpful - http://research.library.gsu.edu/bloombe... ) (I misread your "I am it" as I am NOT it. Clearly projecting my feelings toward Bloomberg :p )
- ellbeecee
I'm up to 6 individual sessions this week for the Bloomberg! I will have seen about half the class. I 'spect to see the other half next week, mere days before their paper is due.
- $tephanie•Gardening
Doubting my sanity as I just banged out a grant application in about 3.5 hours (for an internal grant) because the Dean of Libraries said she didn't get any applicants and had extended the deadline till Monday.
On the ONE hand, it is freaking awesome that my degree includes a required info policy class where we study (interesting, meaningful, challenging) stuff like the complexities of electronic voting security, with other iSchool students from specialties like telecom. I like feeling my brain work and I firmly believe it's within my professional scope.
On the OTHER hand, I really haven't thought this hard about firmware since... uh... 1996 or so. It's humbling to be reading clear, lucid prose at a speed of 1 page every 8 minutes.
- Marianne
That sounds like a class practicing librarians should take every five years or so. Sounds awesome. (She says while doodling around the Internet pointlessly....)
- barbara fister
"Paper Machines is an open-source extension for the Zotero bibliographic management software. Its purpose is to allow individual researchers to generate analyses and visualizations of user-provided corpora, without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge." https://github.com/chrisjr...
The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research...
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- awd (canoeist in th wild)
6 months til draft plans! Can we now yell "HEY FED GOV DEPTS YOU HAVE LIBRARIANS WHO CAN HELP"
- Hedgehog
Once in a very, very great while, I actually think maybe government works.
- laura x
So with the limitation to "over $100 million in R&D expenditures" and "develop plans" and "within one year of publication," do you guys think this will make much of a dent? I have no idea if $100 million in R&R is a ton or chump change.
- bevedog
Chump change. This covers the same group of entities as the original FRPAA, so it's at or over the 80/20 point of all federally-funded research. I can try to dig up the real percentage?
- RepoRat
One tweet I saw said this included NSF, Ed, EPA, NASA, USDA, HHS, Commerce, Interior, Defense, Energy, Trans, DHS, Ag, Smithsonian along with NIH--which is already covered.
- Hedgehog
And I think it could easily trickle down to smaller departments
- Hedgehog
when the default setting starts tilting to open, the rest will follow. Who will want their work locked up when other people can do all kinds of things with it? Things are really shifting. So cool.
- barbara fister
Me, on chat reference: "It doesn't look like we have that textbook available on reserve, sorry. Anything else I can help you with today?"
Patron: "ugh i want to drop out of college and become a hooker. but thanks"
cf. Van Gundy, S. "The False Binary Opposition Between Librarianship and Prostitution." Codslap: The LIbrary Society of the World Zine. [2009.] Unpaginated. https://dl.dropbox.com/u...
- bevedog
Oh, there's a theme for a new brothel right here in Nevada: "Librarians in training" *shudder*
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
For ALA 2014 in Las Vegas, is there going to be an official brothel trip? You know, under the guise of "outreach".
- Andy
There are no legal brothels in the population centers of the state -- Clark and Washoe County. So, that would have to be a road trip. There is a pure shit-ton of street whoring and card slapping for the having in LV though (omg, skanky nasty methy why????)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan