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Librarian, even when I'm not. You know how it goes.
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My son's Lego robotics team made it into the school paper... -- http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools...
...aaaaand another one! http://www.swcommconnection.com/news... - Mark Kille
I want to be on a Lego robotics team. - Eivind
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New blog post: "Would you look at that? It's a new year already." -- http://contemplativelibrarian....
Congratulations! - Marianne
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thanks, everyone! - Mark Kille
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New blog post: "When the going gets tough..." -- http://contemplativelibrarian....
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I am enjoying my temp job as an audit clerk for a mortgage company. I get to play detective and be picky about documentation. It is a good job for a librarian.
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I am thankful for pretty much everything. Special thanks to Ruthanne Grootenboer, from whom I learned the very appropriate, "Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing, Thank you God for everything."
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I don't have the image manipulation software on this computer, but my Google meme results are: "mark is / mark is gay / mark is short for / mark is awesome / mark is a douche"...huh.
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So, three topics I need to study up on, all of which I believe have had fairly recent LSW threads, none of which I can locate. 1) Mobile reference (both mobile devices and roaming librarians). 2) Single service desk for circ and reference. 3) Journal impact factors. Can anyone point me to them? Or just point at me, and laugh, that's fine too.
Miscellaneous stuff on bibliometrics (including IF): http://pinboard.in/u:dsalo... . HTH? - RepoRat
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"we’ve seen this time and time again in U.S. history — if the public gets a look at you and decides it doesn’t like you, the public will be perfectly OK with whatever the police or National Guard or others do to you...in most people’s minds, you will be the Bigger Asshole." -- http://www.mahablog.com/2011...
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"What your favorite map projection says about you" -- http://www.xkcd.com/977/
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"The Penn State Scandal: Connect the Dots Between Child Abuse and The Sexual Assault of Women on Campus" -- http://chronicle.com/blognet...
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"A multi-national, multi-institutional discovery environment built on Linked Open Data. Well then. Is the Loon the only avian for whom this reads 'OPAC-killer?'" -- http://gavialib.com/2011...
it might kill the opac, although other people are already doing that (many named in the column), but it won't kill the inventory control aspects of the ILS. - DJF
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yeah, I would think they'd give approval plans a sideeye too. - RepoRat
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New blog post: "Why do you want this job?" -- http://contemplativelibrarian....
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Never, ever did I understand the appeal of slashfic until this very evening. Having watched Thor, I am now a total Loki/Darcy shipper.
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"Tis the Season to Assess Student Learning in College" -- http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
"Over the last decade the number of student surveys, portfolios archetypes, benchmarking tools, and tests aimed at assessing student learning has quadrupled. It seems that assessing student learning is on the verge of becoming an industry itself." No, ya think? - Mark Kille
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At the elementary school sock hop tonight, which had a 50's theme, I had fun playing "Hipster or Just Dressed Up?"
There are elementary school aged hipsters? o.O - Soup in a TARDIS
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Mm, yes, Portland is the mothership. *still wants to move there regardless* - Soup in a TARDIS
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Apropos to Cecily's thread on creativity and innovation: Dean Dad, "The Cutting Edge May Not Be Where You Expect" -- http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2011...
I love that article! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
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Reference expert help! Here is a short video, apparently a scene from a film, with no metadata or identifying stuff whatsoever. a) How would I go about finding out what it is from? b) DO ANYBODY NO? -- http://www.facebook.com/photo...
Facebook commentors? Really? Because on the original page there is just Russian that I see, and on my own Facebook page someone just said "I like this." Now I am even more confused! But happy for the answer of Le Quatuor. Thanks! - Mark Kille
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We apparently underestimated the persistence of one of our cats. She pushed a filled cardboard box away from where it was blocking the cat door, so that she could bring in another squirrel. Now: duct tape.
Im suddenly happy that our cat door came with a slide in plastic 'closer' - Shannon - GlassMistress
i've got a cat like that. we're on solution #4 in an attempt to keep her from opening a screen door. outwardly i swore & scorn but inwardly i adore that she's so smart! - Lnorigb
Mark, you need the rfid cat doors. Only the chip ont he collar allowed in! Also, that's way too funny!' - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
My friends had to install bolts in their sliding doors to prevent the cats opening them. - Deborah Fitchett
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When we moved into our rental house, we thought the cat door was awesome. Now that the cats have brought in one live bird, one live squirrel and two dead squirrels, we are less sure. Especially since the last squirrel was discovered in our dining room a la CSI:Portland.
Just wait till they start bringing LIVE animals into the house. My grandmother's cat used to do this, you know, so she'd have a little indoor game preserve for hunting on rainy days. - laura x
I sense the cat door will be nailed shut in the near future... - Soup in a TARDIS
We discovered the live ones were still alive when we picked them up to take them outside and all of a sudden THEY COULD MOVE AND DIDN'T LIKE THE HELPFUL HUMANS. The cat door currently has a cardboard box with stuff in it blocking it. - Mark Kille
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New blog post: "On talking crazy, taking initiative, and having a comprehensive vision" -- http://contemplativelibrarian....
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Crowd-checking a claim I'm making in something I'm working on: "At this point, electronic books are objectively harder for customers to use because of platform differences, learning curves and insufficiently mature technology."
I wouldn't quibble with that. - Jenica
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Depending on the size of print of the instruction manual :P - Meg VMeg
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New blog post: "Ithaka Directors' Report, 5 months later" -- http://contemplativelibrarian....
Mark: You might want to look at your template. The Blog Archive segment is so narrow that it's showing one letter per line (after the first line) of the post name...probably because the already-narrow right column is split into two subcolumns. Makes the archive useless... - walt crawford
Thanks, Walt. It should be better now. - Mark Kille
Yes, it is. Good fix. - walt crawford
I see it just got tweeted by Roger Shonfeld, director of research at Ithaka - barbara fister
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"Introverts and Customer Service in the Library: An Unexpected Fit" -- http://data.memberclicks.com/site... , pp. 22-26
"In Scherdin's landmark study of librarian personality types (1994), 63 percent of librarians tested as introverted, based on the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator. However much the composition of library personnel may have changed since this study was conducted, introversion surely remains a common trait among our library colleagues." <-- This is what made me originally avoid librarianship and what has made me wonder all the way through if this is not a massive career choice mistake on my part. - Soup in a TARDIS
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I have been working here this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch... ... literally. Happily, I missed the part where they had to take all the shoes out of the boxes and then put them back in again after filming.
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I like being part of a family where I have back-up when the 9-year-old starts asking questions about multidimensional mathematics.
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There is an angry man with a pruning saw parked outside my house, apparently keeping someone who hit-and-ran on him in place while he calls the police.
Oh, good, police are here. And a school bus. - Mark Kille
I'm sorry, I can't help giggling. - Jenica
It has had its humorous aspects, definitely. - Mark Kille
(Am now doing research into legal definitions of assault. Who knew this morning would bring so many educational opportunities?) - Mark Kille
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I like being part of a family where when one person says, "I'm going out for some adult entertainment," what they mean is that they are getting donuts.
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My guilty confession: I can't enjoy watching any football because of the damage it does to players' bodies in the longterm, and I really can't enjoy watching Division I college football because of the economic/political distortions it brings to higher ed.
Hm. Why does it make you feel guilty to confess that? - Marianne
I like being able to share in my friends' enjoyment of things. - Mark Kille
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'Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn' -- http://www.insidehighered.com/news... -- "But the book is distinguished by...Martin's inclination to see opportunities where many others often see only misdirection or plain disaster."
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More from Mount Hood Community College, where faculty librarians were laid off and replaced with Learning Commons Specialists: Now hiring on-call reference librarian -- http://jobs.mhcc.edu/applica... -- for $15/hr. Dude. That's *cold*.
Sounds like something to send to the Annoyed Librarian for her (I assume it is a her) to post in her "Library Jobs that suck" feature. Because, that is cold, and it does suck. And yet, not surprising in the "let's do everything on the cheap, damn the consequences" world we live in. - Angel R. Rivera
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Even if I were qualified, I'm not the droid they're looking for. (Clearly, others are those droids.) Remember, plenty of positions out there in Libraryland target those for whom part-time employment is most convenient, and for whom the compensation would not constitute most, if not all, of one's household income. - Julian
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Things that have confused me since being in Portland: A car back window painted to say, "Hippie chicks--we shave our pits!" Being asked if I had a *paper* copy of my resume with me. Directional signs for highways that say it's the next right turn, although it's actually the third right turn--and then another right a little after that.
Portland's way easier to get around once you can ignore the signs (was for me, anyway). But more importantly: Have you been to Powells yet?!?!?!?!?! - Kirsten loves you
I went in June when I was visiting--I haven't had time to since I actually moved! Plus, I think the next time I go, I want to do it without having to keep an eye on four kids at the same time... - Mark Kille
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An epic tale of Nathan Fillion. And twine. -- http://thebloggess.com/2011...
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