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Lived Places Publishing announces the launch of the 2024 collection
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(May 3, 2024). Building on the success of the 2023 inaugural collection of
40 ground-breaking ebook titles oriented around the intersection of Social
Ident...
1 day ago
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Pictures of Beltane
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Edinburgh residents won’t need telling that the Beltane Fire Festival takes
place tomorrow, on the eve of 1st May. But maybe you’re less familiar with
its ...
5 days ago
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Mendeley Reference Manager: Tips and Tricks
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The new Mendeley Reference Manager has been designed with a huge range of
features that simplify your referencing workflow and help you stay
organized and ...
1 week ago
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For that price he could’ve had 54 Jamaican beef patties or 1/216 of a
conference featuring Gray Davis, Grover Norquist, and a rabbi
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It’s the eternal question . . . what do you want, if given these three
options: (a) 54 Jamaican beef patties (b) 1/216 of a conference featuring a
collecti...
1 week ago
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“where dada?”
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Note: This is a post about why I am voting in favor of the ASA resolution
sponsored by the Sociologists for Palestine. My son is a year and a half
old. He ...
2 weeks ago
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With Work Time at the Center
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[image: Old photo of two women in a field gathering wheat]This is the
second in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list of
all of them...
5 weeks 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...
1 month ago
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E-Books Can Subvert Book Bans, But Corporate Profit-Seeking Stands in the
Way
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E-Books Can Subvert Book Bans, But Corporate Profit-Seeking Stands in the
Way Exorbitant costs and restrictive licenses are obstructing libraries’
efforts ...
1 month ago
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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – LibLearnX 2023
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This is not my usual ALA report because the Council meetings at LibLearnX
were brief and I was occupied with...
2 months ago
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La RRS en action
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Il me semblait avoir déjà évoqué la Rights Retention Strategy de la
cOAlition S, mais non. Il s’agit du dispositif promu par la Coalition pour
arriver à re...
7 months ago
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Atelier 2023-2024
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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 ...
9 months ago
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The week ahead – September 12, 2022
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Okay, I was unexpectedly out for a couple of weeks and I got a little
behind. Whew. Back now. What I am reading All of the things I was reading
before are ...
1 year ago
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What's in a name?
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Hi group, it's been a while!
This post is inspired by a recent convo over at The Question Club.
Am I alone in knowing a lot of women in information related...
2 years ago
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Inclure des références bibliographiques dans R Markdown à l’aide de Zotero
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Cet article a pour but d’expliquer comment utiliser dans un document R
Markdown (Rmd) des références bibliographiques stockées dans Zotero, afin
que les ci...
2 years ago
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FUJIYOSHI Takao updated their profile
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FUJIYOSHI Takao updated their profile
2 years ago
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“Being a good, innovative librarian means taking a humanistic stance toward
policy, decision-making, and experimentation. It means focusing on the
heart.” ...
2 years ago
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A Publication Workflow for Organising Files and Directories
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The following describes my workflow for publishing journal articles. It
defines a set of rules for organising the files and directories associated
with wri...
3 years ago
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What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration
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This content originally appeared on my Scientific American blog,
Information Culture, in 2012. While the page remains, images are no longer
visible. At the...
3 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...
4 years ago
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How does your garden grow?
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With silver bells, and cockle shells…and pretty maids all in a row!
Perhaps that is one way of looking at the wonderful record of professional
learning th...
5 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...
5 years ago
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WordPress Resources at SiteGround
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WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters
worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host
this p...
5 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...
6 years ago
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Staying Current in Bioinformatics & Genomics: 2017 Edition
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A while back I wrote this post about how I stay current in bioinformatics &
genomics. That was *nearly five years ago*. A lot has changed since then. A
few...
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...
7 years ago
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History of Cataloguing 3: Cutters’ Objects and Means
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This post is the third in a series sparked by my selection of books for
the History of Cataloguing section of my reading list for the core
cataloguing modu...
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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
10 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...
11 years ago
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Rencontrez le livre de vos rêves
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Je voulais écrire un billet sur la multiplication des sites communautaires
autour du livre. Comme si ce marché était d’un tel potentiel économique,
qu’il p...
11 years ago
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The 10 Most Hi-Tech Cities in the World
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When asked the question “which are the top 10 hi-tech cities in the
world?”, even the most “tech savvy” candidates tend to have a hard time
comparing and/o...
11 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...
11 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 ...
12 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...
13 years ago
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Five Users Do Not Make a Study
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It is widely assumed that 5 participants suffice for usability testing. In
this study, 60 users were tested and random sets of 5 or more were sampled
from ...
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...
14 years ago
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