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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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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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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