habitually probing generalist

So much for my pleasure with myself over how I wanted to use the Calhoun Report to focus on what our “response” might be. I really wanted to discuss What can we accept from it? What needs a different scope, modal verb, etc. for acceptance? What can be added? And, the big one, how we’ll [...]

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Yesterday I received my shiny new replacement battery from Apple. My PowerBook did not need one in the first recall, but did from the second. I took the opportunity to gentle “realign” my case and you can barely tell it fell now. Now, I’m going to need a new battery myself after that little meeting [...]

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I am trying to be busier and productive now that I’m a little rested from last week. I am trying to prioritize, and trying not to feel guilty about “owing” various folks here something or other. I’ve been busy and want to mention some of these things here in more detail: The Wailin’ Jennys on [...]

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Request: Could some of you all tell me if the photo in the previous post is displaying in your posts correctly, and/or in the feed reader? It doesn’t show up in Firefox as a post on either platform, but it does show up in Bloglines in FF.  And it shows up in Safari but not [...]

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decreeOriginally uploaded by broken thoughts. I had a really good trip to the Ani concert in Chicago. The show was excellent and I’ll have more to say, but I wanted to get this sad metaphor posted. It so excellently fits one of Ani’s newest songs that she played. cuz daddy knows best yes, this is [...]

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Here’s the initial list of possibilities for the next 2 semesters: Spring 2007 LIS 511 Bibliography (Krummel) Covers enumerative bibliography, the practices of compiling lists; analytical bibliography, the design, production, and handling of books as physical objects; and historical bibliography, the history of books and other library materials, from the invention of printing to the [...]

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In case I haven’t said it here publicly before, Associate Dean Linda Smith rocks to the utmost! In so many ways! She is always there for us students. She is the utmost professional (in the best sense) and a wonderful role model. She seems to work about 20 hours a day and is always reachable [...]

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Siva Vaidhyanathan, of Sivacracy.net, author of several books, and NYU professor, will be at GSLIS on Thursday to deliver this year’s Windsor Lecture. This talk will explore the ways that large-scale digitization projects such as Google Book Search affect those who research and write books. It will examine the ways full-text searches might affect research, [...]

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Not quite 8 AM and I’ve been up for almost 4 hours already. Certainly not intentionally! Something about my mind anymore when it gets stressed and still has work to do. It cogitates all night and then fully wakes me up at a very early hour. “Get up! Things to do, papers to write, tests [...]

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I’ve been rather “absent” from this space lately. It is certainly not intentional as in avoiding it. I imagine I have things to say and disussions to join, but I am simply swamped with school and other life issues. I barely have time to even read others’ blog posts. Last weekend was LEEP oncampus and [...]

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