I’ve embarked on a new project, or perhaps endeavor is a better word. At home, Iusually juggle a few books plus a couple magazines at any given time. During the run up to the opening of Hunt, plus my new responsibilities at the D.H. Hill Library, I found that I didn’t have the [...]
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Hunt Library opens its doors to the public today. This is our “soft launch,” as opposed to next month’s Grand Opening. I found myself wide awake at 3:00 AM for no good reason and there’s no going back to sleep now. I don’t want to overstate my role in getting Hunt to this point, [...] Twitter Fail Whale, redrawn as freaked out by ShannaBanan_o_rama at DeviantArt.com I recently read Leonard Mlodinow’s Drunkard’s Walk, one of the many recent popular texts on behavioral economics. A very good read and this quote from Thomas J. Watson (the IBM one, not the telephone one) in the concluding chapter stuck with me: [...] I was hoping to add some new posts before I jetted up to Access but, as has become the norm, work intervened. C’est la vie (’cause we were in Montreal–GET IT?) Instead, I offer this selection of memorable quotes, unattributed, both because I didn’t know/keep track of those responsible and since I [...] Here’s a local news clip about the Hunt Library, which will open in 2013. Great job by my department head, Maurice York. The mock shushing and mention of the Dewey Decimal System by the anchorpeople was amusingly appalling. [...] A busy library with nary a librarian in sight (taken from http://sampleandhold-r2.blogspot.com/2011/08/fixin-to-weed.html) While preparing for a visit from Project Information Literacy’s Mike Eisenberg for the I.T. Littleton seminar at my workplace, I came across this table: Resources Used When Course-Related Research Contexts Arise, from "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in [...] Boy, turn around for a minute and four months blow by. My last post was on Halloween (and noted that I have a paper in prepublication, which, to my surprise, still hasn’t seen print–is this the usual pace of professional publications?) Life here at NCSU is a blur and the pace is only increasing [...] So some recent marketing-type materials carried the tagline “Everything you can imagine . . . and more!” I’ll self-impose a gag rule and let you draw your own opinion about the quality (or utter lack thereof) of that line. Today, a comment from a vendor, who had just been briefed on the tech at [...]
Posting here has been sparse (read: nonexistent) since I moved and started my position at the NCSU Libraries. Part of that is pure busyness, part of it is being cautious about what I post about publicly, as much of what I’m working on now is still in the early planning stages. I [...] I’m nearly done with Steven Levy’s excellent history of Google and it’s got me thinking about Google Book Search/Print/Books and the settlement with the Authors Guild and APA. I don’t want to get bogged down in the details of Google’s initial effort versus it’s eventual settlement because I think another important element is often [...] |
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