habitually probing generalist

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 for a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 of my [...]

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