habitually probing generalist

I have decided that I will not write my thesis and thus will not finish my Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) from UIUC. Earlier this morning I emailed my Dean, who is also my advisor, with my decision. As some of you know, circumstances arose almost exactly 3 years ago that, at the time, I [...]

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Twice in the last week I have been disappeared from assorted campus directories. Recently the Library debuted a new website for staff, including a new personnel directory. The personnel directory is available in 3 versions (that I noticed): Faculty by name, Staff by name, and by Department. I was in the old directory. I have [...]

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Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]

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Things have sort of “settled down” around here; here being the blog. Related things in my daily life got “interesting” and have only progressed. Today was a most enlightening day. [Yes, Christina, that "interesting" was purposefully vague, and for you.  ] Wow. What to say, or not say? Been working on this for a while [...]

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 2 – 3:30 PM Library Colloquium: Michael Gorman : Are Libraries Still Vital to Research? Why do we keep bringing him here? And, yes, I am well aware of his connection to UIUC. But, honestly, you’d think people might have outgrown him by now. Perhaps if more of our students [...]

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What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes. I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news. [some kind of division] Been watching a fair few movies, started [...]

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I wrote about this once before (last July) when it had begun but now the major announcement has gone out. If I hadn’t already known about it I would be downright giddy! The University Library has digitized the following publication series from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science: Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (1954-1997) [...]

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Atlanta’s a distant memory Montgomery a recent blur and Tulsa burns on the desert floor like a signal fire I got Willie on the radio a dozen things on my mind and number one is fleshing out these dreams of mine Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles A little over a week ago I wrote [...]

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Sunday, Oct 21 Who Is Tagging Information? – Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo). Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums. The panel was down two members so that [...]

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Sunday, 2 Sep Bade, David. “I Know Where I Am Going, Do You?” Remarks at the ALCTS Serials Section, Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee, Update Forum “Continuing Resources Cataloging: Where in the World Are We Going?” ALA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 25, 2007. [pdf available at E-LIS] You folks do have the E-LIS feed in [...]

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