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I very much enjoyed that book.
- Steve is older than ever
Steve, have you read any other James Morrow books?
- John Dupuis
Trashy hilarious fun: "Risky Business" by Dave Barry, his second novel. (Public libraries rule!)
- Walt Crawford
I'm done with the Morrow and am now starting The Removers by Donald Hamilton, the 3rd Matt Helm novel (1961).
- John Dupuis
Avatars of the Word, O'Donnell.
- D0r0th34
rather boringly, I'll be catching up on the Economist, which I have been neglecting. See some of recent posts here for highlights from the Oct 15 issue.
- DJF
I also hope to read a bit more of Scott Rosenberg's Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
- John Dupuis
love to see a review of that, John
- D0r0th34
I'll get around to it eventually. I'm a bit stalled right now, reading it in fits & starts, a chapter every couple of weeks.
- John Dupuis
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This doesn't happen very often so I thought I'd share. I actually got way better faculty response to a library-related request than I was expecting. My library is hosting YorkWrites next Tuesday, which is a celebration of York research, innovation and creativity. It's the first time here as in previous years it was at the ...
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Humanities & Social Sciences Library. So, I thought it would be nice to display some poster presentations around the library on that day for the big party. I was hoping to get as many as 12 posters to display -- figuring that at least a couple of faculty would encourage their grad students to contribute.
- John Dupuis
Well, I've already received over 30 posters with potentially more on the way next week. We're scrambling to figure out a way to get them all displayed -- we'll be putting them on windows, walls, everywhere.
- John Dupuis
Website is here: http://www.yorku.ca/yorkwri.... Basically, it's just an excuse to eat cheese and drink wine in the library.
- John Dupuis
Sounds like an exciting project - good show!
- cecily
That is awesome!
- Katy S
How cool! :)
- Laura H.
Thanks. Sometimes we can all get a bit cynical about stuff, so it's nice to have something work out better than expected.
- John Dupuis
We got 35 posters in total from a pretty good cross section of the science departments. We somehow managed to find space to put them all up.
- John Dupuis
DUDE! Ask for digital copies for the IR!
- D0r0th34
We're having a little IR booth right near the entrance to the party. Hopefully as the poster authors arrive, we'll be able to catch them. Of course, that assumes the poster authors come to the party...
- John Dupuis
get names off posters and send out an email to no-shows afterwards?
- D0r0th34
AMAZING! Also - what Dorothea said about getting copies!
- jambina
Good idea. I'm not giving them back until starting tomorrow, so I should have time to get names. Andrea (IR person) and I can definitely get the word out.
- John Dupuis
Well, the party was a great success. About 100 people showed up, about 30-40 from the various science & engineering departments, which was very nice. The York Mars Rover team showed up and were a hit. The posters looked great at the back of the library. Lots of good comments about the space, the president said some vague but nice things about the library, the bookstore sold more...
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- John Dupuis
sounds like a win all 'round!
- D0r0th34
+1 John!
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
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Work computer just died. "SATA primary drive 0 not found." It's 6+ years old, so probably time for a new one anyway.
Creationists Come to College - Academic Librarian - http://blogs.princeton.edu/librari...
"What I find either amusing or sad (depending on my mood) is that the creationists think there is actually a debate and they're just not being heard, if indeed they do think this and are not merely being disingenuous. Obviously there isn't any debate. To have a debate, one must share some premises, and there aren't any shared premises. One must also demonstrate a willingness to be persuaded, rather than confining one's mind inside an unfalsifiable ideology. At the very least one must have shared standards of evidence, and this is completely lacking."
- John Dupuis
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