Off the Mark

OK, I have to ask, despite some of the amazing “conversation” happening in the biblioblogosphere [as the irony drips from that statement] the past couple of days. Have you all seen this announcement, and what do you think of it?
WASHINGTON - On January 9, 2007, the ALA Washington Office proudly announced the opening of its [...]

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First off, people please make sure your blog’s commenting mechanisms actually work. I have been trying to leave a comment on a blog and it keeps telling me that I have to be logged in. There is no login and I have given it every bit of the required info 3 times now!
I [...]

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Note: Talking with one of my wise friends, I was cautioned that maybe some of the complaints from various Carnival hosts about the lack of participation were not “helping the cause,” if you will. Seeing the wisdom in that stance, I took a closer look at what I had already written here. I [...]

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Wow! It’s been a month since the last Carnival and I am afraid it shows. People seem to have forgotten about this struggling little venture. It also looks like we need hosts for the future. We have one more scheduled after this one, pulling into LIS - Michael Habib in two weeks, but [...]

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I just finished upgrading my blog to WordPress 2.0.6.
I believe that I was fully successful although I had a scary moment when all I got was a blank page for either the blog or the Admin panel. Turns out my FTP client did not upload one of the folders I had told it to. [...]

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Skilled use of logic, disputation, and the developed ability to name things correctly are some of the instruments philosophy gives us to achieve abiding clear-sightedness and inner tranquility, which is true happiness.
Epictetus. The art of living: the classic manual on virtue, happiness, and effectiveness, a new interpretation by Sharon Lebell. HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, p. 84.
Contra Andrew [...]

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These are, in fact, rhetorical questions. I do have a sketchy answer for them [sketchy in the outlined, sort of questionable sense, not in the highly questionable sense]. But if you want to take a stab at either, or both, feel free; comments are below. My questions are more of the why, as [...]

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Found at LibraryTavern

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
The Very Reverend Mark the Profuse of Nether Wombleshire
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Or:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Count-Palatine Mark the Nimble of Greater Sodbury
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Take your pick!
I kind of like them both. Me a Reverend; now [...]

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I only have a moment as it’s time to relax before bed. I’ve been studiously busy researching for my paper on the use of multiple conceptual thesauri by interdisciplinary scientists [and yes, I'm being intentionally vague].
I have probably read, or re-read, somewhere around 8-9 articles in the last 2 days. And a dozen [...]

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I want to add a few comments and, perhaps, caveats to Meredith’s use of the bookstore as an analogy in her post, “It’s not just the OPACs that suck.” I want to emphasize that I generally agree with Meredith here. I do not think she crossed any lines that shouldn’t be crossed. But [...]

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