Off the Mark

ASIS&T 2006 starts in a week in Austin, Texas. My professors, my advisor, Dean Smith whose class I broadcast, and others from GSLIS will all be there. I just sent in my dues for my 2nd year in ASIS&T a few days ago. Having just gotten my ALA renewal, I can say [...]

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I gave a presentation on “authority control” in an international environment to Terry Weech’s LIS590IL Global Perspectives in LIS class this morning. Kathryn LaBarre had been invited as a guest speaker in Dr. Weech’s class and she asked me if I’d “freshen up” some of the international bits from my “Free the Authorities!” presentation.
It [...]

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I seem to have exhausted all benefits of having one class over already. I have spent all day so far (till 4:30 PM) on Marked Exercise 2 for Allen. Unit 2 is on Data-oriented modeling: Relation-based systems. This is the 2nd entire unit that I “missed” most of; luckily it is the [...]

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Between yesterday afternoon and evening I got both the PowerBook and the PC desktop upgraded to Firefox 2. All went smoothly; I only lost a couple extensions that aren’t that necessary. I did lose the UIUC Firefox toolbar extension. It can be useful, but I have a link to the Library Gateway [...]

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Woohoo! I just realized a few minutes ago that I’m going to see Jolie Holland tonight at the Highdive. Got my ticket a couple weeks ago.
I haven’t been to the Highdive before, but I did see Jolie at the Cowboy Monkey a year and a half or two ago. I still need [...]

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My friend, Annette, commented on my 16 Sep. post, Good news, bad news just a bit ago. When I went to read it I ended up reading the post, too.
Kind of funny. I had to go back to my Student Services lawyer again today. He sent a letter on 3 Sep. blah [...]

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Wow! I’m proud of myself. I had a “Jenica” day. While I am quite convinced that Jenica has lots of kind of days, for me, a “Jenica” day is one that is very productive. I am in awe of the productivity of this woman. Nonetheless, I did pretty well myself today.
I [...]

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In a bit under 2 weeks, we’ll be discussing Boundary work and Collaboration in LIS590TR ITCS. I am the discussion leader for these topics and readings. Besides the instructor assigned readings (below), I get to pick one to be read. Excerpt from syllabus here:
A. Discussion facilitation. Each student will be responsible [...]

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Each week, in my Info Transfer and Collaboration in Science seminar (590TR), we each post a “quote of the day” from one of our readings for that week. Carole makes copies for everyone. Then, during class we each read our own and say why we chose it.
For today, I posted the following from [...]

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When I applied for my 2nd LIS degree program—CAS—one the things I had in mind was the opportunity to gain more and differing experiences. It was not simply a ploy to get more classroom time.
There are multiple ways to become educated and I wanted more of several, but especially the “big two.” Somehow [...]

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