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Honey Badger, in progress http://flic.kr/p/eiMfFq who are the lucky ducks who will get some of this batch?
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I've recently become the psychology librarian at my college and am trying to get a better sense of what I should be buying and licensing. I hope to begin a series of one-on-one meetings with psychology faculty in the fall and am thinking of using this survey with them during the meeting to capture in a structured way what the overall needs of ...
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the department are. This is just my first draft of this survey. Any suggestions? Feel free to take it to see how it works (when I get to doing the real thing, I'll copy over the questions to a new survey). https://baruch.qualtrics.com/SE...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Bumping for the morning crowd. If you can kick the tires of this survey, I'd be most appreciative.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Survey is here: https://baruch.qualtrics.com/SE...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Aggregated results report is here: https://baruch.qualtrics.com/CP...
- Stephen le Francoeur
I think the sliding scale doohickey is lovely. I have a suggestion (but it's admittedly geared towards my curiosity rather than your needs) : what steps of the research process would you or your graduate students like assistance or collaboration with. This was inspired by: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library... (and other sites, I've been tracking)
- copystar
That's a nice page you shared, Mita. I think I may use your question for a separate project of assessing the services that faculty expect or desire, as I really want to focus on the subjects that are of interest to them so that I can better align acquisitions with their needs.
- Stephen le Francoeur
do yo have any cognitive psychologists? psycholinguists?
- $tephanie•Gardening
Stephanie: not sure. I'm thinking I may try to do one-on-one meetings with a number of faculty before launching the survey. I may come up with different questions if I go that way.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Are psychological tests a format worth asking about? I'm thinking of things like HAPI and Mental Measurements Yearbook. (Though I can't think of other resources in that area, so if you already own those, might be a moot point.)
- Amandadon't
Also, do your subject categories come from LC classification? Which psychologists might recognize, but some of the verbiage from APA Divisions might also be useful? http://www.apa.org/about...
- Amandadon't
The National Institute of Mental Health just announced they are going to use new, research-related categories rather than the new DSM. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about... Those might be good categories, too.
- Rebecca Hedreen
Amandadon't, I used the topics in bold from this list of PsycINFO classification codes: http://www.apa.org/pubs...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Good suggestion also about psychological tests as a format type to ask about. Rebecca, that's interesting about the DSM and NIMH. I saw a headline this morning that the NIH regards the new DSM as unscientific. I'll have to take a closer look at the NIHM research categories to see if they might be useful.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I always forget about those PsycINFO codes! Those are awesome.
- Amandadon't
APA's PsychTests are another resource full of tests and other instruments. We love them, but are waiting for them to get on EBSCO, as the native interface is worse. Another one I'd love to get is the Sage Research Methods Online, which is broader and more methods than instruments, but our social sciences folks would dig it. Sorry if this is too off-topic!
- kaijsa
We have Sage Research Methods Online and are wishing we had greater usage of it.
- Stephen le Francoeur
the PsycINFO thesaurus is the BEST!!!
- $tephanie•Gardening
RT @butterwolf: I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Movie rental stores. Payphones. I once used a paper map. All of it lost in time, like tears in rain.
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It actually did say "...books" when I opened it.
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MOOCs. I'm tellin' ya.
- RepoRat
drinks at the home bar [H53/365] #happy365 http://flic.kr/p/dWX3t6
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You heard it here first:
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I plan to read that--tomorrow.
- OMG 404 Joe
That sounds painful...
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
Ed Wood is not dead, he's a headline writer.
- Zamms
The Onion, reporting from Northfield.
- barbara fister
Planning... it's a process... a plan is a process... not a document that sits on a shelf. It is ever-changing, subject to new information, new external factors, responsive to changes in the community, society at large, the nation, the world. To make a plan we need a planning process that outlines how to plan for the process... the process of planning the plan... which is itself a...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Did I mention that each stage of the process requires a facilitator to facilitate the planning of the plan for the process of planning how to plan for the plan? Oh, I didn't. Well, it does. As it happens, there are a host of willing planning consultants who can offer there services as facilitators of the planning process. Ideally they would 'interface' with other facilitators who...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Lance Armstrong "covers" Radiohead's "Creep" via Ophah interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sneak Preview: If anyone would like to contribute a short piece to a new journal, you all would be welcome. Formal introduction of the journal will be released to various library discussion lists soon. see http://creativelibrarypractice.org/ and http://creativelibrarypractice.org/2013... for more info.
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PS. We will be getting an ISSN at some point, too.
- OMG 404 Joe
Or, you could submit a long piece, or even a medium length piece.
- OMG 404 Joe
Morning bump. I guess posting this at 10pm my time (Midnight EST) last night was not the best timing for peeps. If you don't know, this journal was born in the LSW. Please consider a submission or three.
- OMG 404 Joe
Professional associations are a pre-Internet way to create and foster networks of interest and share professional information. LSW, and code4lib, and other online venues are taking the place of a lot of that. Often leaving the associations with little more than publishing and conference planning.
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And of course, publishing ain't what it used to be either.
- John Dupuis
And maintaining at least a little toe to have slammed in the door as the large-scale decisions get made in closed rooms
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
Yep. So if you're a professional association, what do you do about that?
- RepoRat
Sell your damn big offices Do *good* online communities. Have more local conferences. Stop the print magazines.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Be useful. Do (or sponsor) the research to identify the real professional gaps and weaknesses that require professional development, and offer that development.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
If we're talking sideways about the 800 pound (362.8 kg) gorilla... it sounds like you want the Washington Office (or at least their mindset) to run the mothership
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
Good question. What value do they add? Lobbying in DC; providing a contact for reporters when they want to hear from libraries en masse. Vendors could host their own trade shows if they are still of value; sharing research is being held back by societies and professional associations rather than advanced (until and unless they work out a completely different way of doing it not...
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- barbara fister
That being said, even Code4Lib sees a lot of value in face-to-face exchange of ideas and learning time. I think there are still spots open if y'all want to register and come hang out with me in Chicago for a few days.
- Hedgehog
I think face to face annual conferences may end up in the same place as paper journals arriving in the mail regularly. It's hard to change habits and lose affordances, but after a while you have perfectly useful workarounds. I think people should get together, but question it being on an annual schedule and requiring the use of giant conference centers.
- barbara fister
Full disclosure: I hate shopping and the exhibit halls make me squirrely. YMMV.
- barbara fister
I know webinars can be boring, but I think that software industry will continue to expand, get better, and allow more interactive discussion from attendees as well as the speakers. This will dig into the in-person conference market.
- OMG 404 Joe
I also used to get a ton of info from discussion lists, but I am finding more relevant info news here on FF than I am from my discussion lists. What I learn here, I am then sending onto the discussion list.
- OMG 404 Joe
The best events I've been to lately have been small and local. I irrationally dread large, impersonal conferences.
- John Dupuis
What I get from f2f conferences that I don't get from online communities are the in depth conversations that I can have from colleagues - that doesn't happen for me even within great and lively online communities. There are some dinners and lunches and breaks where I've had a-ha moments and worked through knotty problems that otherwise I wouldn't have been able to have. Professional...
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- Sarah
Is it possible to have conversations of similar depth online? What are the affordances that make that possible or im-? (My cards on the table: I think one such affordance is impermanence and allied privacy -- I can have convos at conferences that The Man will have a hard time calling me on the carpet over.)
- RepoRat
It can be but the serendipity of surprise conversations is something I really value. I met Amy West because I was knitting in a presentation (shocking, I know) and at some of the happy hours or things like that conversations that have started have grown into something really interesting. Also fire pit in DC. Sad I won't get to do that this year.
- Hedgehog
Hey, I know Amy!
- maʀtha
Conferences are essential for cross pollination, but ALA, and even OLA, are too big, I think. The important thing about any type of conference is that it's a way to rationalize library funding for the trip. After all, the library is hardly likely to subsidize my vacation in Montreal, even if I do spend time with McGill's scholarly communications & eresourses librarian talking about the historical thesis digitisation project.
- DJF
Full disclosure: I heard a paper at a conference over a year ago and just dug up the presented and got copies of the paper and her slides now that it actually connects to some research I'm doing. I would have no way of knowing her work existed otherwise. (Different field, still working on her dissertation, so not much yet published.)
- barbara fister
Honestly, I love conferences. The small ones are good, but ALA is a nice way for me to do my ACRL stuff, though we could be more efficient. But like Barbara, I hear about stuff I wouldn't otherwise and make contacts that I really value. Online communities, especially this one, are great, but they're different. I don't see it as an either-or kind of preference.
- kaijsa
I think the conference is analogous to the journal. Plenty of learning and sharing takes place without the conference now, but the conference is how you *get credit* for learning and sharing. "I spent a few hours over the course of two weeks learning this at my desk on the web" or "I spent two afternoons typing this up for my blog where it was read by a few hundred people" will get you...
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- bevedog
I agree with Steve - I think the traditional prof. dev. activities are more legitimate to peers, especially if they are not active online in social media. I also like the smaller, more focused meetings where I can have more conversations and more details about projects.
- Elizabeth Brown
See also my earlier comments about conferences being a way to legitimize giving librarians money to travel to visit people.
- DJF
That's comment about going to conferences being more legitmate professional development compared to blogging is true. In my national association you get no points towards the professional development scheme (PDS) for professional blogging. But you apparently get it for being in a "reading circle" or submitting a list of 30 journal articles you read annually (I had to do that one year...
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- aarontay
So I went to five conferences/workshops back in spring 2011 (it was a nutty semester). Gave three papers, heard several good ones, met interesting people (many of whom I already knew). Two of the papers I heard made enough of an impression that I still remember them. I now have the text of one so I can really study it, but not the other one, nor can I refer people to it since it's not...
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- barbara fister
Hey homebrewers!...Nice online beer label generator - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r...
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Firefly - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Is Wayne Rooney's $50,000 Hair Transplant Responsible For His Goal-Scoring Binge? (No.) - http://deadspin.com/5836280...
"Wayne Rooney was stressed. He'd had a rotten World Cup. The tabloids were accusing him of cheating on his pregnant wife with a prostitute. And his hair was falling out. So he did something about the hair. Now the sports magi can speculate about whatever tonic explains Rooney's bristling performance this season (five goals in three games)."
- kendrak
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We've had circulation staff participating in our chat reference service for two days now. I'm already incredibly happy about it.
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Cause they know stuff right?
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Well, yes. But I'd guess at least a quarter of the questions that come through end up being circ-related, and we've had to just give them the phone number to call circ. We can transfer directly now, and circ folks can just grab questions that are obviously theirs to begin with.
- Jason P
do y'all have any training documents that you use that you'd be willing to share?
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Sarah S does all our VR training. I'll ask her if she's got anything.
- Jason P
I think this kind of cross-training makes lots of sense.
- maʀtha
thanks!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
We've got both reference and circ folks participating - I estimate 75% of our questions are reference questions, but there definitely are lots of circ questions too. Also IT and Moodle-related - would love to get those folks involved in monitoring (or at least being available to take transfers) too.
- Deborah Fitchett
Would love to include circulation staff, my estimate for our chat questions is 90% circulation. Though easy to answer ones...
- aarontay
Peter Crouch gets haircut from elderly riot victim - Dirty Tackle - World Soccer Blog - Yahoo! Sports - http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer...
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"One of the most widely seen images of the London riots was 89-year-old Aaron Biber looking over the damage to his ransacked and looted barber shop on Tottenham High Street. After decades of working out of the small shop, Biber said he would have to close when he found his windows smashed, hairdryers stolen and tea kettle gone because he didn't have insurance and couldn't afford repairs. Yet, as terrible as it was, football fans couldn't help but joke about how one item the looters didn't take was the Peter Crouch autographed photo propped beside Mr. Biber's mirror. The Crouch jokes weren't the only thing to come out of the elderly barber's story, though. A "Keep Aaron Cutting" campaign was started on the Internet and quickly raised £35,000 to get the lifelong Spurs fan back up and running. And to show his support for the campaign, Peter Crouch himself even showed up at the Aaron Biber's Gentlemens Hairdressing shop for a visit..."
- kendrak
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nice story
- Halil
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Ebsco is big enough to do whatever the fuck they want.
- DJF
Well, it's more likely that Ebsco is so big that their IT group mandates certain browsers internally, and the development team can't cope with the idea that people don't work the same way they do.
- DJF
It seems to have issues with Chrome--that I've heard about,anyway.
- Yvonne M
Which other browsers doesn't it support? Have noticed that their books (at least) don't work on Firefox on Mac (pdfs can't be opened).
- Deborah Fitchett
FAIL
- barbara fister
Firefox 4 doesn't completely work on a mac. If you open a journal title you can't click on the year to expand the list of volumes/issues in that year. Urgh.
- lris
I've been having lots of issues with Ebsco + Chrome on both PC and Mac. It's *REALLY* annoying, since Chrome is my primary browser.
- ~Courtney F
slide taken from a presentation given today by McMaster UL. DO NOT LIKE. watch it for yourself - h ttp://live.libraries.psu.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=c16bf3c92af14d76a316a5acb5faa0af
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does he not realize that some librarians have phds?
- Katy S
So, if I were to apply to McMaster (as if), I should leave my MLIS off my CV?
- DJF
Oh, hell naw. When I get out of this meeting, it's typing time again.
- Jenica
Shot across the bow to the profession. "It is likely we will never high a library position again."
- nick ruest
What the fucking fuck. *growl*
- Jenica
Someone needs to teach him to not sway at the podium (I know, this isn't the point, but it's distracting as all get out). And wow! How are those political slides at the beginning even remotely appropriate.
- Katy S
Another reason not to go to that Future of Academic Libraries symposium he's organizing.
- John Dupuis
I HAVE SKILLS THAT HE HAS NEVER EVEN QUITE YET BEGUN TO HAVE IMAGINED
- Meg V. Meg
Nunchuck skills.
- bevedog
Wow! No professional librarians on reference. Is he really saying that they're choosing to not give undergrads service as good as grad students and faculty?
- Katy S
i have tater tot in pocket skills
- Rachel Walden
I feel a letter coming on... "Dear Library Journal (and Coutts, Gale and Ingram too), why are you sponsoring an event about the future of libraries from a UL that is aggressively removing librarians from the academic library" http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj...
- copystar
dude, I got mad skillz (also, Katy, my FPOW had removed professional librarians from the reference desk before I got there)
- ellbeecee
I know some places do that, but when he emphasized that grad students and faculty still get reference service from reference librarians, it bothered me. A lot.
- Katy S
Buh, silverlight. Can anyone tell me what the "political slides" at the beginning were?
- John Fink
John - he basically said that people ask why he left the US to go to Canada and then showed slides mocking conservative politicians. I'm not saying I'm a fan of the individuals on those slides, but I think that's a really unprofessional thing to do in a presentation.
- Katy S
Classy.
- John Fink
god, he's boring. If I wasn't so incensed by him I wouldn't be able to force myself to listen to this.
- Jenica
I just got through about 90% of it before I had to bail. So much bad, it hurts. It's like all decisions are made based on ACRL stats and metrics, and none on actual user interactions.
- Jason Griffey
Jason, but if he cared about ARL stats and metrics, why is he pushing McMaster towards having the worst librarian-student ration in the ARL?
- DJF
I don't agree with everything Jeff does or says (same as with anyone else) but I visited McMaster in May '10 and he's done some interesting things worth thinking about. For one, he's created spaces in the library that bring in faculty and researchers - who previously had nothing to do with the library. That, to me, appears based on better understanding what faculty want from the...
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- steven bell
I like the idea of cross-pollinating the library with with PhDs (we do it here) but it sounds like this guy has gone completely overboard
- jönαthaη
There are seeds of interesting ideas in here (agreed with Steven B. that the faculty stuff is interesting). And some of the things I'd have to just see the process to get (no circ desks!...umm, ok, then how do they handle circ?)
- Jason Griffey
He boasts of a 50% reduction in reference questions - I'd like to see that broken down by type. Has there been a corresponding uptick in research consultations?
- jönαthaη
See, when I heard the boast about the reduction in reference questions, I wondered if it was b/c the reference librarians no longer staffed the reference desk and people weren't getting what they wanted.
- Katy S
I started commenting here and it got big. http://www.attemptingelegance.com/... But, Katy, I wondered the same thing about instruction. Were numbers dropping because of the decrease in teaching librarians?
- Jenica
How am I going to find the time to watch a 60-minute lecture and read the feed of comments. Geez. ;-)
- Kenley Neufeld
I'd actually watch the video, but the Pennsylvania State University unfortunately chose Silverlight.
- Julian
Here is a link to a non-Silverlight version - http://dl.dropbox.com/u...
- nick ruest
Bohemian Rhapsody: Sing with me...
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open your ice
- AJ Batac
look up to the sky and sea
- AJ Batac
*look up to this guy and C :-)
- Slippy like shiny things.
Lime just to pour Boi (Boi = Big Boi from Outkast)
- Andy
I remember when "Wayne's World" came out, people were making on-air requests for "Bohemian Rap City"
- Victor Ganata
Noooooooooooooooooo!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
YES
- Josh Haley
This. Needs to be on a shirt. ASAP.
- Hookuh Tinypants
This is so perfect. SO perfect.
- Martha
Guess what song is playing now? My mind immediately went here.
- Anika
My heart will go on?
- AJ Batac
Ha. No.
- Anika
I just unlocked the "Foodie" badge on @foursquare! http://foursquare.com/annacre...
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University of Florida catalogers are awesome. They are putting a CC0 license on all original catalouging records. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/catmet...
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wow!
- Marie
fantastic!
- Mary Carmen
i don't know the background, but i suspect it's a response to OCLC's earlier claims on MARC records. anyone here know the backstory?
- tara
Don't know much, but I've heard some abt this. I question the copyrightability (& hence the CC-ability) of _any_ cataloging records. But openly sharing is for sure a big step forward over claiming a proprietary interest, whatever abstract copyright theory says... ETA: (& yes, I think this was at least in part a response to the OCLC ownership claims.)
- N. Ansi
YouTube - HarperCollins 26+ checkouts - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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A video made by two librarians from the virtual branch of the Pioneer Library System in central Oklahoma, evaluating the condition of various HarperCollins print editions compared to the number of checkouts.
- Kirsten
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I <3 them pointing out the lifetime vendor guarantee on Coraline.
- Marianne
@Marianne I'm wondering about that guarantee. My guess is that it's a library binding or some sort--but if the guarantee came from who they bought the book from (paraphrase of their words), there's a good chance here that it was from Perma-bound (or some similar bindery vendor) rather than directly from HC. But still funny? Yes.
- Kirsten
Brilliant.
- laura x
Well, it's not like the ebooks would be coming directly from HC either. So to my mind that makes it funnier.
- Marianne
True, true.
- Kirsten
OMG! They made BoingBoing! http://www.boingboing.net/2011... Too, too cool.
- Kirsten
Today's class has to find statistics and health information on a chosen group. One student has chosen hipsters. #challengingresearchtopics #makingyourpaperharder
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Well.
- Derrick
Huh. I had a marketing class this semester that was basically taking a slightly different angle on this same topic (only without the hipsters)
- ellbeecee
Heh. If you find it let me know, Abs.
- Jason P
Probably closest is 'Young Adult' --which they term as 19-24.
- Hedgehog
Yeah, that's the tactic I'm going to take. I trust this prof, so I know she wouldn't have approved it as a group without being willing to let the student be creative in definitions.
- Jason P
Perhaps he can do some original, ethnographic research?
- maʀtha
OH, or produce a documentary film, like one of those wildlife tv shows? "Today, we observe the hipster in his native habit. We must approach with caution, because the fledgling hipster startles easily."
- maʀtha
There's a coffee shop near me that provides fabulous hipster viewing, especially on Saturday mornings
- Hedgehog
"We will attempt to draw it out by tempting it with this rare Vampire Weekend EP."
- Jason P
'See how the haircut is not fully formed, and the bag shows only a few, scattered badges'
- Pete #TeamMonique
"We will now try the friendship call of the hipster: 'I hate these damn hipsters!'"
- bevedog
'We wait for the traditional response- 'I was into Reticulated Heart Monster *way* before *them*'
- Pete #TeamMonique
"The hipster approaches the beer case, seeking sustenance for the evening's entertainment. Will the hipster find what it needs? Yes! There is PBR remaining..."
- ellbeecee
Hey! I like PBR (and have since the 1980s)
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
Hey, my daddy drank PBR when I was growing up. That's probably what leads me to see it as a redneck drink, not a hipster drink. :)
- ellbeecee
LOL! Now I want to make the movie.
- maʀtha
Woo!1! Imma Massachusetts Redneck!... Wait, is that an oxymoron? [ETA: I'm also a Tennessee Liberal, which certainly *sounds* like an oxymoron]
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
or cheap.
- DJF
Are there people who don't participate on FF who are worth following on Twitter? I deleted my old Twitter account a while back, but have a backup account & am wondering if I should start using it again.
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I'm not very interested in celebrities, though I am interested in interesting twitter streams from people who aren't likely to know me or want to subscribe back (if that makes any sense). So well-known librarians or something, yes. Shaq, no.
- bevedog
Josh. :)
- Jenica
Kate Sheehan. Cindi. Gretchen Casseroti. John Blyberg.
- Jenica
I don't know if @ThatAndromeda is over here or not, but I'd recommend her. Also, not a librarian, but I'm totally in love with @nprscottsimon these days.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Thanks! Keep 'em coming.
- bevedog
There's really no better use for Twitter than to be there when Kanye says "I just threw some bassoon on this muthafucka."
- Greg Schwartz
you can still create imaginary friends to bring their twitter feeds in as long as their feed is public
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I may have to make an exception for Kanye.
- bevedog
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What to call patrons/users/customers
- bevedog
Fines: good/bad/indifferent
- bevedog
Food and drink: spawn of the devil, or the way to the millenials' hearts?
- Catherine Pellegrino
Wikipedia: threat or menace, and is that good or bad?
- bevedog
Reference desk: dying or dead?
- bevedog
Evergreen topics: what are they?
- Laura H.
Noise levels and the cell phone codicil.
- Marianne
(Laura: topics that librarians love to discuss ad nauseum.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
588: Why didn't anyone tell me about that before?
- Zamms
Dewey.
- Andy
Cataloger threadjacking: are catalogers weird or what?
- Zamms
New technology X: wiping out everything else or a flash in the pan?
- Marianne
(Yeah, in journalism, an "evergreen" story is one you can run any time, because there is always some level of interest and it isn't tied to a specific occurrence like news is.)
- bevedog
Conferences: cost/value ratios
- Andy
ALA, value of.
- bevedog
Academic librarians: faculty status or not? Tenure-track, or not?
- Catherine Pellegrino
Fiction genres: separate or interfile?
- laura x
The importance of the librarian "image" and the degree to which one does not fit that image.
- bevedog
The care and handling of the odiferous patron.
- bevedog
Library School, importance of.
- ellbeecee
Talking about your cats: harmful stereotypical behavior, or necessary bonding activity?
- Rachel Walden
coffee or tea
- John: Thread Killer
Internet filtering. (And its little sibling, including MPAA rating info on DVDs.)
- Mark Kille
What type of materials should be collected? (e.g. games, DVDs, fiction)
- Hedgehog
Membership in big libraryland organizations: beneficial or big fat waste of money?
- Rachel Walden
Signage in libraries
- Hedgehog
the impending retirement of librarians and the glut of job opportunities...wait, that's kind of what Joan said, isn't it?
- John: Thread Killer
Classification schemes: which one should win?
- Hedgehog
"Paraprofessionals": alienate valuable and experienced colleagues by excessively fixating on credentials, or not?
- N. Ansi
Books: For Use or For Burning.
- OMG 404 Joe
Taking books off of shelves because they offend a few people: completely unacceptable, or totally freakin' awesome? Follow up: Collection Development: another kind of censorship?
- Rachel Walden
Why does everyone not/mistakenly think we are all 20 something hipsters in libraries ?
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
Should we teach them to fish or give them fish?
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
"Isn't it soooo funny when someone comes up to you and asks for the big blue book? And it turns out that they wanted the little red one" (not so much a polite argument as a polite chitchat witticism that everyone pretends is hilarous to bond librarian-ly)
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
Baby Jarrell at 10 weeks!
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Ruth Kneale, Sir Shuping is just sir, The LB: #TeamMonique and 11 other people liked this
CONGRATS!!!!!
- Mary Carmen
OMG YAY BABBY! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
The palm reader said I was entering a very creative time in my life!
- Jill Jarrell
I could never tell what I was looking at when I looked at other people's pics so I thought I would help y'all out a bit :)
- Jill Jarrell
I'm thinking road trip in....mid April. Or may. Whenever. :)
- ellbeecee
Does he have a job yet? A paper route or group of lawns to mow? Kids nowadays gotta start learning early that they need to contribute to the family economy too!
- Morgan
The Cod is live at IHE - now I just have to think of something to say... http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
OMG 404 Joe, Stephen le Francoeur, Marianne and 10 other people liked this
smack its head on a rock while spitting?
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
.... hmm, could smack the head of a vendor, taking a vaudevillian turn. Or caress something I approve of saying "my precious."
- barbara fister
...and the thread suddenly takes a speculative turn...
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
I demand a picture of you eating raw fish and tearing it apart with your bare hands.
- maʀtha
I tried lutefisk once. That was enough.
- barbara fister
I love the babel fish connection
- maʀtha
i am very much looking forward to your posts.
- jambina
Thanks - and yes, sushi works. I may just have to get some today for inspiration.
- barbara fister
POIDH
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
Fish! (Today's fish is trout a la creme. Enjoy your meal.)
- Deborah Fitchett
"Plagiarism: Getting in Trouble for Something You Didn't Do." - T-shirt by Sam McNally - http://www.threadless.com/product...
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Christina Pikas, ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤, Kirsten and 3 other people liked this
lolz
- Scott. Cat Herder.
Hah!
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
Steven Perez, chaz2b, Scoble, Alex Scoble and 21 other people liked this
I can't compete with Iris: http://friendfeed.com/lris...
- The LB: #TeamMonique
this needs a rockin' head bob.
- Joe Silence
DS, I'm not that talented!
- The LB: #TeamMonique
THROWING THE HORNS! WOOOOOOO!
- Dan: Bibrarian
LOL!
- The LB: #TeamMonique
HOOK'EM HORNS!
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
Illustrations of Web Browsers - http://www.break.com/picture...
N. Ansi, ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫, Soup in a TARDIS and 2 other people liked this
bwahahahaha
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Signs you're dealing with an assignment that has perhaps been around a bit too long:
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"10-12 pages typed, preferably on a computer."
- Catherine Pellegrino
Please use at least 5 microfilm sources and the rest should be print
- Sir Shuping is just sir
use the reader's guide
- Christina Pikas
The assignment is a photocopy of a thermofax.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Consult these sources at [former name of library]. (I've seen this one this semester)
- Jason P
"You must ask the librarian to perform all your RILM searches for you." (So glad I never had to deal with Dialog)
- lris
lris, we just cancelled our Dialog subscription a month or so ago. No idea when it was last used. And that quote is from an assignment I just saw this afternoon.
- Catherine Pellegrino
My quote is from a class I see every Spring term. And every term I tell the professor to please take it off the handout.
- lris
The newest book on your reading list is from the mid-90s.
- Hedgehog
On your scavenger hunt talk to X librarian (who retired in the mid 90's)
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I love Dialog.
- laura x
I hated learning Dialog in school...course LexisNexis reminds me a lot of it.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
"you are not allowed to use any Internet sources"
- maʀtha
"go to the periodicals room and browse the journals"
- maʀtha
I still see the not allowed to use any Internet sources one....and I still have to reassure students that databases don't count (normally) as Internet sources
- Sir Shuping is just sir
consult the library's slide collection for art images
- tara
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