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EveryLibrary statement on rescinding E.O. 14084: Rescinding E.O. 14084 will
have serious negative implications for libraries, museums, and the broader
cultural sector
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(January 22, 2025). The rescission of Executive Order 14084 (Promoting the
Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services) by President Trump
will h...
2 hours ago
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Dan Ariely: “Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compass”
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You think I’m kidding with the above title, but I’m not. Key quote from the
noted social psychologist / business-school professor: The assumption that
the ...
5 hours ago
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2024 in work and money
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I haven’t written a post like this in a while. The last one was in 2016. My
work life got...
4 days ago
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Learning about information retrieval and "AI search" in 2025
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[image: Learning about information retrieval and]
I recently gave a 1 hour talk to the Chinese American Librarians
Association(CALA) Asia Pacific Chapter ...
1 week ago
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Film screening of ‘Here We Go’, a documentary on the Miners’ Strike of
1984-85
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The film ‘Here We Go’ is a documentary told through the words of the women
who were involved in the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. Taking place 40 years
ago, t...
2 weeks ago
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How the Calgary Public Library avoided the worst after it was targeted in a
massive cyberattack
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Security teams chose to pro-actively shut down the servers rather than
leave systems vulnerable, a decision that chief executive officer Sarah
Meilleur cre...
2 weeks ago
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Repost: Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with
R/Tidyverse
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Reposted from the original at
https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesky-analysis-claude-llama-tidyverse.
*Summary, translation, and sentiment analysis of ...
3 weeks ago
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Real-Time Sync is now in Mendeley Cite!
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Real-time sync is now in Mendeley Cite! Users no longer have to manually
sync their Mendeley Reference Manager library with their Mendeley Cite
library to ...
3 weeks ago
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liability shedding as the complement of opportunity hoarding
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Sociologists of inequality have long been interested in “opportunity
hoarding.” The basic idea, attributed to Tilly’s book Durable Inequality,
is that grou...
5 weeks ago
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Shortlist Published
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Aesthetica has published its shortlist. Very happy to be included in such a
strong field. Congratulations to Short Fiction winner, Nicholas Petty. ~ 12
Dec...
5 weeks ago
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It’s not about information literacy: Why people’s risk calculus around
COVID has changed
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Image credit: Willet on the Beach by Korall inWikimedia Commons I’ve been
doing so much thinking, reading, and writing on social media about COVID
that I ...
1 month ago
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Judge Rules Craig Wright is Not Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto
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For nearly a decade, Craigh Wright has claimed to be Bitcoin creator
Satoshi Nakamoto. However, those claims just took a major blow.
The post Judge Rule...
10 months ago
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IS News
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We will no longer be posting news to InformS. The new home for IS News is
go.hw.ac.uk/ISnews
1 year ago
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La vie sans Elsevier
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Ce n’est pas l’idéal, ni une fin en soi, mais faire de la recherche sans
accès aux revues d’Elsevier, ou du moins sans accès à la collection
complète, est ...
4 years ago
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Achievement unlocked – 52 movies
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Well, after saying last year that we never accomplish this goal, this year
we did. It did take a last-minute decision to take New Years’ Eve off, but
that...
5 years ago
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Thanks Cedar Rapids Public Library!
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Sending a very warm thanks to all the staff at Cedar Rapids Public Library.
I spoke and facilitated an exploration of “Wholehearted Libraries” at their
Sta...
5 years ago
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Enjeux de construction, de diffusion et d’utilisation de la nomenclature
PCS 2020
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Cette journée d’étude interdisciplinaire consacrée à la rénovation de la
nomenclature des professions et catégories socio-professionnelle (PCS)
s’inscrit d...
5 years ago
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RIP LiB.net: 2003-2019
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I hereby declare this website well and truly deceased. I am immensely
thankful to all of my colleagues and readers over the years for the
glorious conversa...
5 years ago
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Atelier 2019-2020
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Atelier organisé par Claire Lemercier, directrice de recherche au CNRS et
Claire Zalc, directrice de recherche au CNRS et directrices d'études à
l'EHESS ...
5 years ago
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End of another era!
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Rather surprisingly to me, I have had this blog since 2006, when writing a
web journal was new, and amazingly clunky. But there was a real desire for
educa...
6 years ago
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FREE ACCESS to my Apps for Librarians video collection!
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Since I'm shortly going to be retiring I won't be doing any more work on
the Apps for Librarians video collection. This is a collection of over
FORTY diffe...
6 years ago
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No mofo rant today.
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Just a shout-out to you folks who staff my happy places, courtesy of Bruinhilda
on Tumblr:
*As a library worker, there’s something I want to ...
6 years ago
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Ways that closed access academic publishers could improve
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Accessing journal articles has certainly got easier over the years.
Nonetheless, there are still many issues with how closed-access journals
provide access...
7 years ago
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ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving
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ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving
As of November 1st, 2017, ScienceBlogs is shutting down, necessitating
relocation of...
7 years ago
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HELIN Library Consortium now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services
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The HELIN Library Consortium, which includes seven academic libraries in
the northeastern United States, is now live with OCLC WorldShare Management
Serv...
8 years ago
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Stop saying “print” when that’s not what you really mean
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At the reference desk, I occasionally see students who are looking for only
“print” resources. Their professors have asked them to find journal
articles or...
8 years ago
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Did ancient hominids bury their dead?
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Yesterday, I told you how *Homo naledi* was discovered. To refresh your
memory, check out this picture:
Marina Elliott works in the Rising Star cave near ...
9 years ago
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P C R : Publish, Cite Cyagen and get a Reward of $100 or more !?
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Thursday I got an odd mail from Cyagen. Cyagen offered me $100 or more in
reward for citing their animal model services in an article. Even more
surprising...
9 years ago
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January 7th Stream
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Shared I Like What Bob Likes. Shared high tide. Shared New Years at Mars.
10 years ago
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The Problem with Computer Science Research Prototypes
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Simply they are developed without due knowledge or understanding of prior
art. I read papers every day, and I have a long memory. In fact I’ve been
reading...
10 years ago
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Still rambling (probably) but no more a librarian
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Hello World.
Today's my last official day as a librarian. Today, 15 March 2014, is
exactly 17 years and 5 months since I started work at the National Libra...
10 years ago
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Review of my book: Information Today
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by Katherine Allen; From Science 2.0 to Pharma 3.0. Posted on July 29,
2013. “As a librarian in a large pharmaceutical company, Hervé Basset has
a perspe...
11 years ago
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Running Bundler on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
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This post is mostly a note to myself so that I remember how to do this next
time I upgrade or reinstall my system. But, perhaps it will be of use to
others...
12 years ago
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What is Big Data? From Bytes to Petabytes
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This post is the first of a series of posts related to Big Data, since I
thought it was worth going in-depth with this topic. Big Data is a big
word, a b...
12 years ago
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Moving!
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I've moved to the SciAm network (yes!) where I'll be blogging in the Information
Culture blog, together with excellent blogger Bonnie Swoger. As you can
im...
12 years ago
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Le sport à Paris
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Il y a beaucoup de sportifs à Paris. Le dimanche, le jardin du Luxembourg
est bondé de joggeurs. De tous styles. La dernière fois que j'y ai couru,
j'ai ...
13 years ago
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Mini-Reviews, Long Noncoding RNA, and the Bread Used in Sandwiches: Why
None of These Should Be Taken for Granted
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At its simplest, bread hold the sandwich together by providing something
sturdy on which the generally wetter and more softly textured fillings can
be cont...
13 years ago
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Library and Information Science Trends and Research:
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*CALL FOR CHAPTERS*
Library and Information Science Trends and Research:
Asia-Oceania Region
Publisher:
Emerald Library and Information Science Book Seri...
14 years ago
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Fini
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Due to my changing job responsibilities and numerous serious personal
issues (I’ve been out of work for a month on medical leave) this blog has
run its cou...
14 years ago
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Sanatorium
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Si vous êtez cloué au lit pour plusieurs semaines dans un sanatorium… ou si
vous êtes sur le chômage… ou si vous êtes barge et n’avez rien à foutre (au
lie...
15 years ago
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