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"National Union Catalog Christmas Tree. " -- So Awesome!! - Katy S from Bookmarklet

We ain't got a NUC. Maybe an ice-blue DLB tree? - s t e v e

John, I might try to use this as a discussion lead for the unconference in 3 weeks. - Joe

I grew up reading Asimov (my dad was a huge fan) and the whole concept of robots and the likes were fascinating. I definitely continue to believe we can/should imagine. I also believe that things never quite happen that way. The key is understanding science well enough to be able to appreciate the times when fiction becomes reality - Deepak Singh

Web 2.0 is dead. - ♫Geek in the 410♫

The Dead are *The* Dead - dontgetcaught

Is that a suburb of Peoria? - Joe

Only two people have entered the Librarian Bomb coloring contest (unless there are more waiting for me at the PO right now). - s t e v e from Bookmarklet

we will not discuss how much moving of and searching through boxes i just did, nor where i eventually found the crayons. - Katie

Kathleen Bauer and Nisa Bakkalbasi -- This paper presents a case study comparing the citation counts provided by Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for articles from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) published in 1985 and in 2000 using a paired t-test to determine statistical significance. - Joe

The Scholarly Communication Program, an initiative of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University, aims to facilitate discussion of and innovative approaches to sharing scholarly work, as well as offer practical information about the opportunities and challenges presented by scholarship and research in a time of technological change. - Joe

We have a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages...). We on the Web Content Team set it up and administer it (one person in particular) because it's in our "jurisdiction." Because we have a Web Content Team, it makes doing things like this fairly easy. - josh neff, geek at large

John, this is my favorite part: "Looking for a job? Lost your dog? Got a dull pain in your arm? We can't help with any of those. Try over at Scott Library." - Joan

Also: snikt! - s t e v e

Rhodia? *BLOCK* - Derrick

Nearly 80,000 Public-Domain Books Available Free Online - Joe

Don't expect much of that to change in 2010 as more technology is developed and introduced to the higher education market. To make your trend-spotting activities easier, we spoke with some higher education technology experts and came up with these five top tech trends to watch in the new year. - Joe

The book industry, beleaguered by a battery of dispiriting news about lackluster sales and online price wars, got another taste of the apocalypse on Thursday with the news that Kirkus Reviews, the venerable prepublication review journal, was closing. - Joe

The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research. - Joe

O HAI PRETTY MARY! - Steven Perez

vacations are the best! - Mary Carmen

I have 8 invites that I haven't been able to get rid of. - josh neff, geek at large

Actually, Rochelle, Beanie Babies is better: Highly desired at one point, not so much later on. I don't remember any time that AOL CDs were highly desired... - Walt Crawford

Im so sorry Joe. *hands tissues* - Mary Carmen

:( - Michelle Martinez

Especially this part about attending library school in person: "The value of that community is that the learning is always happening, and in unpredictable and useful ways. Students hang out in the hallway chatting about a reading, or they sit around over beers talking through their experiences in the library, or they bump into that professor who's actually pretty good and strike up a friendship that matters long after library school is over. They develop relationships through this intense immersion that are more meaningful than being your Facebook friend. I thought most of the classes in library school were ridiculously easy, but I met many bright, warm, challenging, giving, and sometimes annoying people in library school who are still among my closest friends and professional allies. There are bonds that cannot be forged through emails and tweets and online discussions. They have to be lived in person." - Joan

Rachel, you're totally right. Both online and on-campus programs need to be augmented with authentic experiences. I won't name some people I knew in lib school who didn't work in a library and didn't do fieldwork or an internship, then were shocked not to find a job in a tight job market after graduation. On the topic of making friends in library school, maybe my experience is unique,... more... - Kaijsa Calkins

Vancouver -- VPL... - Joe from iPod

*bump* - Laura Lou Who

In that case, I'm a public librarian with experience in unconferences. But my library won't pay for me to attend any conferences, which takes me out of the game. - josh neff, geek at large

The Gang this month consists of John Blyberg, Char Booth, Marshall Breeding, Nicole Engard, and Carl Grant. After exploring the two main categories of social software, the recommendation/tagging/commenting systems and the Facebook/Twitter/blogging, the gang coalesced around the notion that it is people that interact socially. Speaking with a corporate voice, or just relying systems to do it for you, will probably not be enough. - Joe

I don't remember ever seeing something going from The New Hotness to I Can't Give Away These Invites so fast. I feel the same as you: the potential still seems great but the implementation is teh suck. - s t e v e

Exactly, Steve. I have 8 invites that I can't get rid of. *sigh* - josh neff, geek at large

Farmer in the Dell http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics... - JSNFLMNG

Those gigantic, inflatable, illuminated lawn Santas. - marthalib

I got the preamble, but not the poem *cries* - marthalib

Haha, well. Also I am close to the mic and walking. - Pete

I'd ask about what kind of info, but I just don't care... - Joe from iPod

Working to break the stigmas and stereotypes of women in engineering, Tufts University's "Nerd Girls" has female engineers who have danced in the Nutcracker ballet, sang at the Apollo Theater, are award-winning pianists, and nationally ranked athletes. - Joe

By A. Ben Wagner -- Many efforts are currently underway to disambiguate author names and assign unique identification numbers so that publications by a given scholar can be reliably grouped together. This paper reviews a number of operational and in-development services. Some systems like ResearcherId.Com depend on self-registration and self-identification of a researcher's articles. Some database producers are using a combination of computer algorithms and manual intervention to assign author identification numbers and thereby cluster publications as records are entered into their systems. Searchers doing author name searches can then use guided search features to review and select these clusters. Web of Knowledge offers Author Finder while Scopus has a similar Author Identifier feature. Various government agencies and non-profit organization are also implementing or planning to implement additional solutions such as CrossRef's ContributorID. - Joe

thanks for this -- the landscape is bewildering - D0r0th34

By Elizabeth Brown -- The current landscape of scholarly communications is an environment in metamorphosis. A variety of recent activities have been built upon established models of scholarship to create a complex mixture of freely available and commercial resources for scholars. Universities and national research funding groups have issued Gold OA policies (Suber 2007) for faculty to support Open Access and make research more widely available. - Joe

Cornell University Library is pleased to announce a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish and support the national networking of biomedical researchers. The two-year grant is led by the University of Florida, with Cornell University and Indiana University as major partners. VIVO, the technology supporting the network, builds a fundamental new capability to connect researchers and scholars and facilitate collaboration. Through this comprehensive network, scientists will be able to identify existing and ongoing work, explore interdisciplinary opportunities and initiate new partnerships. - Joe

Researchers in all fields generate and analyze enormous quantities of digital data. In fields ranging throughout the sciences and humanities, managing, preserving, and sharing these data require substantial capital and human resources and new kinds of information professionals who are able to integrate technology, content, and policy skills. This summit aims to bring together leaders in data centers, laboratories, and libraries in different organizational and disciplinary settings to share ideas and techniques for managing, preserving, and sharing large-scale research data repositories with an eye toward achieving infrastructure-independent access and stewardship. - Joe

The growing multitude of digital resources forms the basis of the intellectual capital of European research. Mining of further information from these resources and allowing new generations of researchers to "stand on the shoulders of giants" is the very essence of research. These digital resources must persist and remain findable, accessible, and understandable. Data re-use (by users in a different discipline, for example) may happen immediately the data is produced or may not happen for an extended period of time. The same techniques for preservation of data assets support contemporaneous (re-)users as well as the interests of future generations. - Joe