Off the Mark

A friend of mine, Richard (blogging at Inherent Vice) is asking for help in showing just what it is that we do in LIS for an upcoming presentation.
Often people are confused about what it means to be a graduate of a Library and Information Science program. The common stereotype is that we are all gray-haired [...]

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Sunday, 18 Feb
Section 5, “Review of current terminology service activity,” in Tudhope, Douglas, Traugott Koch and Rachel Heery. Terminology Services and Technology: JISC State of the Art Review [pdf version] Read for Independent Study.
Henson, Jim, The Muppets and Friends. It’s not easy being green and other things to consider. Reviewed by The Gypsy Librarian.
Don’t care [...]

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Last weekend I heard that the 24th Annual Insect Fear Film Festival is tonight. I did not go the last 2 years because I was in no mood to go by myself, but I promised myself that I was going this year.
Then on Monday I got an email that my friend, Eva Hunter, and her [...]

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Let me know if anything seems wrong, doesn’t work, etc. I tested the contact form and it’s working. I can see the blog and it looks OK to me in FF on a Mac.
Otherwise, have a great weekend.

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Assuming most folks who actually care if my blog is available are subscribed (quite possibly an invalid assumption), I’m about to attempt upgrading WordPress to 2.1.1.
It will be offline for a while, but hopefully not too long.

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but I’m going to tell you anyway how I’m spending my birthday.
Last night I gave a presentation (simultaneously local and distant) to our ASIST student chapter on the biblioblogosphere. It was titled, “What LIS Blogs Should Could I Be Reading?: Or how to keep your finger on the pulse of the library world, how [...]

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Sunday, 11 Feb
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex. Translated and edited by Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. Read pp. 13-65.
The resemblance [of sons to mothers] is often evident in their physical appearance but it is always present in their character: if the [...]

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Yesterday, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced that Chief Illiniwek will perform for the last time on February 21st at the last men’s home basketball game of this season.
The campus-wide email was short and completely vague. We were asked that if we received any questions or had any concerns [...]

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Originally uploaded by broken thoughts.

It’s been a long day, but I made it to Normal and back for ISU’s Sesquicentennial. The roads weren’t too bad but I didn’t even attempt my normal route home; took the interstate. I have a lot more pictures [...]

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From the Crown Prince of late 70s - early 80s pop, Joe Jackson:
fools in love
well are there any other kind of lovers?
fools in love
is there any other kind of pain?
…
fools in love
are there any creatures more pathetic?
…
fools in love
they think they’re heros
cause they get to feel no pain
i say fools in love are zeros
i should [...]

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