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they were talking about you on Family Guy! - holly

BLASPHEME - Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1 from fftogo

it's time to unite for payback. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

This might just be my favorite Otto picture ever. - aden {still not ginger}

I know I'm biased, but he is frigging adorable, even (or especially) when he makes his grumpy old man dog faces! - Archangel ωαřмaiden

Otto might just be my favorite dog on the entire internet. - ha3rvey (big appetite)

Awwwww. *scritches Otto behind the ears* What a cutie! - Jennifer Dittrich

if looks could kill - VAL D. Zone

ZZZzzz. ah-HEM ((yawn)) ((scratches back)) - rowlikeagirl

Love it! - Abigail

otto eastwood stares you down - Sir Shuping

"I was dreaming that I had that cute little Shelty over, and she was really diggin' my savior faire... and all indicators were *Green Light* full speed ahead... but then you woke me up! For a *PICTURE*!!!" - Mark It's 2000-Oh-1-Oh J

O_O - Derrick

busted! - D0r0th34

I *love* that your dad is man enough to attend preschool. And, moreso, to let you mention it in public. ;) - Mar₭ Liŋdŋer

Note well, designers of citation styles. - D0r0th34

I'm curious to read it all. I think the problem with finding articles from a citation is conceptual. If you have a full citation, the best place to start at our library is the library catalog, i.e., the place we tell people *not* to go when they are searching for journal articles by subject. - s t e v e

Our library has a firefox add-on toolbar which I use quite frequently to get to individual articles. I don't know if students ever use it. I find it rather extraordinary that no one could find an article given the citation! I wonder if a page could be constructed called "Anatomy of a Citation" -- I use one with my students where we take apart each bit of information in a citation and... more... - Mickey Schafer

A huge number of students can't *read* a citation - they don't know the difference between article title and journal title. For that matter, they don't know what a journal is. I'm not sure how much an "Anatomy of a Citation" page would help - often they don't know that they don't know - but if there's a (task-oriented ftw) "Finding a journal article from a citation" page/video it should definitely start by explaining the parts of the citation. - Deborah Fitchett

Best. Thing. Ever. - marthalib

And faintly sinister too ;) - Pete

*frightened* - Derrick

It'd have been more scary if sung, Derrick ;) - Pete

indeed, sinister - marthalib

Definitely sinister. I love it. - Catherine Pellegrino

yeah. I'm in the office, so was somewhat quiet. My voice is naturally quiet and on one tone :) - Pete

Pete is whispering in my ear! #oohpete - josh neff, geek at large

Love it! - s t e v e

LOVE! - holly

Beef stew recipe is same, except you use condensed tomato soup & beef broth. - Archangel ωαřмaiden

You'll note I work with a large crockpot, and that I lurv leftovers. This recipe will keep me in dinners (or lunches for work) for 5-6 days in addition to dinner. - Archangel ωαřмaiden

I dont cook with a lot of salt or pepper, so you'll want to season to taste, or add some ital seasoning & garlic salt. - Archangel ωαřмaiden

I cook stuff like this on Sundays in my big ole crockpot. YUM. Edit: Or at least I used to. I don't get to cook as much as I'd like. - ha3rvey (big appetite)

harvey - i do the same! I rarely have the time or energy to cook for one during the week, so if I haventy crockpotted anything on Sunday, i usually chop a sweet potato into fries, and that's it. Stew is much more satisfying, though - Archangel ωαřмaiden

oops, and celery. I forgot to add it because i dont eat it, but most normal folks include celery in their stews. - Archangel ωαřмaiden

awesome sounds great I will have to try it this week! - Andrizzle Gizzle

I cook a similar dish but I first put chopped ingredients (meat & onion apart from other veggies) into frying pan with some olive oil in it (for a short time). After that it takes only 30-40 minutes in the oven to have the dish ready. - Ashalynd from fftogo

I do the same thing (cooking big even though it's just me). A lot of times I pack up a bunch of the leftovers in quart containers and freeze them for later. Stews freeze pretty well. - Katy S

looks yummy , may try it at the firehall soon - johnpiercy

I bought the stuff to make this for tomorrow!!!! - Andrizzle Gizzle

I hope you enjoy it!! - Archangel ωαřмaiden

If I do not I will be back to fill your feed with cusses. - Andrizzle Gizzle

I was fascinated by this report and would very much like to hear more about it from the academic folk--does it jibe with your experiences? - laura x

could it be as simple as suggesting that a LibGuide or whatever be part of the required readings for a course? - D0r0th34

Laura: it's at the top of my "to read at the refdesk" list; as soon as I've done so, I'll report back. In my completely uninformed opinion, however, I think PIL's methodology is very sound. I've been very very impressed with the work they've done thus far. - Catherine Pellegrino

Integrate course readings into the library's libguide or a info finding portal, yes. At my last lib, we handled electronic course readings but the system was not connected to the rest of the library's resources, a lost opportunity. My husband shows his students libguides at his uni a lot. But one point - all his course readings are open access/open web so libguides are the leaping off point in a way, that would be a suitable place to situate this content. Note, he may be more library-savvy than average..... - Fiona Bradley

The fact that students are provided with assigned readings fits many lower division course needs (brain dump, context, hand-held information transfer). The library doesn't need to be where the library doesn't need to be. I think the issue is more that we need to make sure that library instruction is placed in the course at the points where students are supposed to move beyond assigned readings. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Fiona, you raise a larger technological issue-- students are using their courseware. and it's under their prof's control. Is libguides the answer? Or is ti the same question it's been for a decade-- how do we get profs to let us into their blackboard/moodle/CMS sites?? - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Catherine, it seems sound--by which I mean there was lots of research terminology I don't know but it sounded legit. :-) I have also only read about half of the thing so far. - laura x

Rudi: ah that old problem. Honestly I don't ever see it being solved. Academics aren't going to let us in en-masse (Devil's advocate, why should they? they don't let in student skills centre staff etc), so let's give them other hooks and reasons to come visit by our site. Even if we get a link to libguides/subject portals or whatever in their VLE, that's a big difference. - Fiona Bradley

I think it also depends a lot on the institution. We have a block in the sidebar of every course page on our courseware site, and I doubt it accounts for a significant amount of traffic. - s t e v e

Though I swore myself off FF today, couldn't resist this: all my classes contain direct links to the subject-specific libguides, many of which have arisen out of specific requests for ref librarians to prepare talks for specific classes -- hmm -- that didn't come out quite right. There were subject-specific libguides that I had linked before the latest version of them, but recently UF... more... - Mickey Schafer

One other note: all my classes are pretty much conducted/organized online (not online classes, though!), so it's very easy for anyone to see what we're using. - Mickey Schafer

Steve: we have a similar block/button/whatsit in every Blackboard course. I haven't seen any referral traffic from there on our site stats. ANY. Also, we are small enough that our Blackboard admin has tossed around the idea of just making me an admin too - then I'd have access to EVERY course. Mwah ha ha ha.... - Catherine Pellegrino

Steve, I think the generic library block is a great thing, but I suspect primarily symbolic? custom building for each class, having access to syllabi & assigned readings, and knowing the lead-up, content, and due dates for assignments, I think these are the necessary goals. (and ohmygod so impossible at MCPOW!). Customized library instruciton & resources... - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Oh, and also - our button says "Library Research" and currently goes to the library home page. Next term it will go to a "Getting Started With Library Research" page (http://www3.saintmarys.edu/library...) Some day I hope for it to go to customized pages, or at least subject-specific pages, but we're a long way off from that. A girl can dream, though, right? - Catherine Pellegrino

Fiona, I;m really eager to read the PIL report, we were one of their sites. I'm really curious to see hwo their results intersect with the results of a project I've been working on, which indicated students at MPOW are generally blithely unaware of the resources we have in the library, for them. They think their high school and home town public libraries provided them with tools we do... more... - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Ah, Catherine, the dream -- adn the hopes of attaining it- are what keep me getting out of bed in the mornings! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

hello!!!! - Kendra <3 Three Lions

stylin'! - D0r0th34

Iris wins. - Laura B.

*waits for Iris to throw her copy of the new APA on stage, with URL of her Libguides tucked inside* - Rochelle Rochelle

I want to double-like this. - Jason Griffey

I think all librarians should have this as their desktop image. :) - Archangel ωαřмaiden

If you post a rocker picture, I'd be your fangirl too, Griffey. #nopressure_yeahright - Imitation lris

YES. - laura x

I think one more week of 100+ temps and they'll give us Powell's and the Pike Place Market. - s t e v e

Wyoming would be happy to contribute some mule deer. - laura x

Nebraska could contribute some more fundamentalists, also a few rednecks, cows and corn. - Kårín Dalzĭel

Thanks, Val! - Jàson Puçkett

Anyone have a good example of a chat widget embedded at point of need (ie, not just on the "ask a librarian" page)? - Jàson Puçkett

We don't have a widget, but we do have a chat availability icon on many of our online pathfinders: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/program... - DJF

I'd like to recommend, if this is within the scope of the committee, you also think about embedded/point-of-need help OUTSIDE the library websites. One of my projects for the fall is to push advertising to faculty about embedding LibGuides modules into their Blackboard sites. - Laura H.

Also, Jason, I can't recall who, but some library had embedded their Meebo help widget into the catalog when the person had a failed search. - Laura H.

Laura, yeah. We've started looking at personalization and customization features, and igoogle and gadgets and widgets are definitely things we're considering, as well as embedding in faculty portals. - DJF

Unfortunately this particular project is strictly redesign of the site on our main web server, not external stuff like courseware and OPAC. I really would like to hear about your Libguides project, though, as it is relevant to the rest of my job. :) - Jàson Puçkett

We have some tutorials linked with the databases - http://www.library.arizona.edu/search... ("Guide" is the tutorial or tip sheet" and http://www.library.arizona.edu/search... - on this page, it's listed as "tips for searching" (we're changing the language). Our chat widget is only on our ask... more... - ÉllbeeÇee

The Moth. You Look Nice Today. Ask Mr. Biggs. Any of NPR's offerings that interest you. Tank Riot. - Jàson Puçkett

Thanks! More welcome! - David Rothman (☤)

I'll just add that Ask Mr Biggs may be the funniest podcast I've ever heard. It's a fake radio show that uses clips of actual callers to real shows. - Jàson Puçkett

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me from NPR meets both criteria (I think). - Peter Murray

60 Second Science from Scientific American. - Joe Murphy

Geek Radio Daily (http://geekradiodaily.com/), The Eclectic Review (http://eclectic.libsyn.com/), and NPR's Planet Money (http://www.npr.org/rss...) - ǎňňǎ

agree about wait, wait from NPR... how about Nature and Science - they're both interesting as is Planetary Radio from the Planetary Society - Christina Pikas

Coast to Coast Bio of course; http://friendfeed.com/coast-t... - Neil Saunders

So far: ease of use somewhere between Zotero and Endnote. Doesn't save from as many databases as Zotero but it claims to import RIS files. Word plugin wants me to reboot before it'll work (and the error screen has many many many horrible spelling mistakes, which is superficial but leaves a bad impression). So... beta software. - Jàson Puçkett

Don't waste your time. - Paulo Nuin

The developers have been notified about the spellnig erroers. ;-) Thanks for your post. It is indeed beta, and one of the best features is the automatic metadata extraction, like itunes does for mp3s. - Mr. Gunn

Made a blog post with a few more details: http://jasonpuckett.net/2009... Gotta say, I won't be giving up Zotero for it any time soon, but I'm keeping an eye on it now. - Jàson Puçkett

Yes, if I had time. - DJF

Here you go - http://is.gd/16D5q - Jenny Levine

Awesome! Thanks Jenny!!! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Dude! Nice. Bookmarked. Thanks! - D0r0th34

Thank you Jenny! Could you maybe make this publicly editable so we could make the icon colors match the conference shuttle routes? I'd be happy to do that. - Librarienne

Two: gvsu-schol-comm (delicious stuff from a scholarly communication workshop at MPOW) and toehawk (Flickr tag for a pic of my cat's furry foot). - Laura H.

apocalypse is probably my most idiosyncratic. Shrub is also a bit unique - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

In my bookmarking I use distinctions like "video" for an item which *is* a video, and "videos" for an item which is *about* videos. Occasionally I forget I already have a tag so I have "howto" and "guide" which mean the same thing... I had to create "tewiki" when I realised that "wiki" wouldn't clearly refer to Maori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Maori). <scans list> Ah: "kiss" (=KISS) could be misinterpreted. :-) - Deborah Fitchett

I don't think "fangs" and "tongue" are at all weird for Flickr tags. My tag cloud (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) includes such oddities as "bjorn" (Baby Bjorn infant carrier), "crappycellphonecamera" (self-explanatory), "notsocrappycellphonecamera' (ditto), and "goshornlake" (campground in MI where my family spends a week each summer). - Catherine Pellegrino

I learned to tag from Merlin Mann's example, so I have lots of goofy stuff in my delicious bookmarks, like "internet_f***ing_explorer," selfrighteousness," and "pee_on_it." - s t e v e

I love people's goofy tags so much that I'm almost disappointed when I see a really great Flickr photo and it only has one or two tags. Here's one of my favorites: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Catherine Pellegrino

"Agape" on Flickr, maybe. Wonderful Greek young woman with a Classics PhD from OSU(OH). Slowly beginning to tag based on content/includes vs. just aboutness in Flickr. "angel" in delicious. Not sure why that isn't a cap "A." Is Hispanic male personage. But don't really care about the question re others; only if they are idiosyncratic, confusing or odd to me since hopefully tags for others (if/when I do such tagging) is clearer. Hopefully. - Mar₭ Liŋdŋer

"me" probably isn't very helpful. - Jàson Puçkett

Even more confusing to others, perhaps, are my "sex in the churchyard" series, or my photo titled "Raw Sex." That one sure does get a lot of hits. ;-) BTW, they are all perfectly work safe (flowers). - Mar₭ Liŋdŋer

Jason, it's more useful than "you" - DJF

I have a group, "self absorbed," in my delicious tags, specifically for things about me, my work, my family/family tree, etc. - Rachel Walden

In delicious: "faithful," (instead of "religion"--don't know why) "oralTrad," (because that's what the prof of the class in college called it, and it stuck) and "2" (for links that show up on one of my blogs). I also use "work-work" for links that allow me to do my work (SFX log-in page, for example), as opposed to "work" which contains work-related thing (like articles on serials stuff). - Kirsten

I also have "domesticated" on my blog for items with dogs. Once again, just for the niece and nephews, I'm considering adding "swan butt" to my flickr tags. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Katy S

Rachel, my version of that tag is "ego." - s t e v e

Oh, you should Katie! :-) - Mar₭ Liŋdŋer

In my limited use of delicious, "miw" and "lln" are probably the most idiosyncratic--'cause I'm using delicious to flag items that should be covered on LLN or in C&I's "Making it work" sections, respectively. (Oops. Did I just admit to using delicious? Apparently.) - Walt Crawford

congratulations! its pretty! - Mary Carmen

Thanks. I am SO HAPPY right now :D - Archangel ωαřмaiden

Congratulations! - Jàson Puçkett

Congrats! - Admiral Anika

I am having a severe personal "squee" moment - Archangel ωαřмaiden

As well you should! - josh neff, geek at large

I just ordered my copy. - josh neff, geek at large

Thanks josh, and kaia :) I am happy I get to share this with you guys. (Not the book so much as the awesome feeling!) - Archangel ωαřмaiden

Coolio - Greg Schwartz

That is so awesome. Yay! - Sarah G.

I noticed that Cindi Trainor delicious-bookmarked the publisher's page for it yesterday - DJF

Whoo hoo! I really think there is no joy in the world quite like that of seeing your name in print. - laura x

lol, I sat in on a meeting where a librarian not in my network said she saw someone retweet the book on twitter :) - Archangel ωαřмaiden

that'sjust gorgeous - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Squee, squee and squee some more!! This is a fabulous thing :D - Katie