Off the Mark

I know I’ve been pretty quiet lately. Lots going on and not so well physically. I just seem to stay sick anymore.
Lots of things happening, though.
Bibliography class
I have a topic for my Bibliography class and I’m making great progress collecting things and entering them into Zotero. I’ve read a few previously and I [...]

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Blogging, or not so much
I’m sorry—although mostly to myself—for my non-blogging lately. There are things I’d like to write (e.g., Green on following Humanities sources) and some I even started on (e.g., Hope Olson) amongst others. But I’ve been working hard at keeping on a reasonably even keel emotionally and mentally, while trying to get [...]

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Sickness and death
Been having odd sick-like things going on for a couple months now. Went to the doc last week. Sinus x-rays showed an infection and I’m a third of the way through 20 days of antibiotics. My electrolytes were also off and I had to have them retested. Go back Monday [...]

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Update 19 July 2007: I wanted to add an update that I have been contacted by LITA and that official steps are being taken to preclude whatever disconnect happened in my membership from happening to anyone else.
I have been personally welcomed into the fold and look forward to my future time with LITA.
For a bit [...]

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In case anyone is interested, here is what I did about ALA for this year:
Stayed as a student member.
Kept ALCTS and the Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS).
Added Serials Section (SS). Hey, it was free and I do serials.
Dropped ACRL and the two sections I was in. Hasn’t been of much value to me [...]

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As some of you “know” [as in I've mentioned it before], I am currently a member of the following professional organizations (along with accompanying student chapters of ALA, ACRL, ASIS&T):
American Library Association
Association of College and Research Libraries
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
American Society for Information Science & Technology
Illinois Library Association
Philosophy of Science Association
My ALA [...]

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Poor and I’m tired
Fallin’ asleep
Everyone’s praying’ I’ll get back on my feet…
Haley Bonar, “go away angels”, …the size of planets
I am feeling so completely whelmed lately. Not overwhelmed. Simply, massively whelmed.
No doubt much of it is my own doing. That is, as much control over friends leaving as I might have. [...]

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Hung 23 pictures in my apartment.
Read some sociology of science for class:

3 chapters of de Solla Price’s Little Science, Big Science.
3 chapters of Crane’s Invisible Colleges.

Read a few articles on classification systems for Pauline’s class, including Ranganathan’s “Hidden Roots of Classification,” Inform. Stor. Retr. 3, 1967: 399-410. I have to say I’m pretty sceptical [...]

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I’m just a bit stressed lately. Last night (Tues) that would have been a complete understatement. [Much abridged.]
I had been working on a lengthy post, which I just cut all but the 1st sentence from, on how sucky my life has been the last week or so. I was chatting with one [...]

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