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Coyle's InFormation: This is what sexism looks like #2

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Comments on the digital age, which, as we all know, is 42. Saturday, January 10, 2015. This is what sexism looks like #2. There were many (about 4 dozen, almost all men) comments on his blog (which I am not linking to, because I don't want this to be a "call out"). He emailed me asking for my opinion. I didn't post this to the site, just emailed it to the owner. It's good that I did not. The response from the blog owner was:. This is very interesting. But I need to see some proof. Welcome to my world.

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Things I have learned (from doing family history) | ___is black the new black?

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Is black the new black? My profession, my life, my thoughts. Random acts of genealogical kindness. Things I have learned (from doing family history). July 7, 2015. These are some of my rules for doing genealogy:. You double check your source material. You do not jump to conclusions. You do not add a whole list of people to your tree unless you are very sure. The point is that when I can find information–any information–I tend to get very excited about it. The important part is this Albert guy (elsewhere ...

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Google | www.openbiomed.info

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Accelerating access to biomedical evidence. SCIRUS- drilling into Open Access primary and secondary sources. Sun, April 18 2010 » Uncategorized. Raquo; 1 Comment. Need a break from Google-Apple brawl? Microsoft launches an Open “Fourth Paradigm”. What happens when Apple and Google decide to settle a grudge match in public over the future of the mobile phone? Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized. Raquo; No Comments. Speaking of Open Access. Rick Kulkarni, MD. The predatory open access seal of approval goes ...

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yet another post on public speaking. | info-mational

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On technology, media literacy, and librarians who t-c-b. Posted by: char booth. Yet another post on public speaking. Virtually any conversation about speaking in public will include a nod to the axiom that people fear it more than death (case in point). While recent research. Has shown this claim to be only partially accurate, for most the abject unpleasantness of participating in live communication forums is a foregone conclusion. Unfortunately, alleviation does not often lead to eradication. Managi...

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Trip Report: SSP 2015 | Think Links

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Thoughts on remixing, provenance and data by Paul Groth. June 2, 2015. Trip Report: SSP 2015. I headed to Washington D.C. to attend the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting. This reflects the make-up of the academic publishing industry as a whole as shown by the survey done by Amy Brand, which was presented at the beginning of the conference. Full data here. Here’s a small glimpse. Big Literature, Big Usage. The session with Jan Velterop. He had a great set of slides of showing how fast one wo...

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Library Digital Content at the Tipping Point | Library Renewal

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We are making library renewal happen together. Give us feedback and interact with your colleagues to create the library access your community needs today. Contribute to Library Renewal using the button below. Thank you for your support! Library Digital Content at the Tipping Point. May 5, 2011. What will a collection look like in ten years? The collection of tomorrow starts with the collecting practices of today. In examining the inclusion of digital content within the library collection, the time ha...

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Calling all health system librarians… | Musings of a Medical Librarian Maven

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Musings of a Medical Librarian Maven. A mid-career hospital librarian blogging about medical librarianship. October 4, 2007. Calling all health system librarians…. Posted in Library Adminstration. At 1:25 pm by Alexia. Are you a librarian working in a hospital that is part of a larger “health system”? 3 Comments ». October 5, 2007 at 11:05 am. October 5, 2007 at 2:53 pm. I would be very cautious about approaching this by pulling together all of the reasons that it won’t work and that it’s a b...In the th...

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Zephyr Innovation » Innovating Human Systems

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July 9, 2006 on 12:31 pm In Human Systems. Many innovations in the world relate to products and services. I would like to posit that we need to also attend to creating innovation in our human systems: our organizations (read libraries! Our society, our communities. What does this mean? Essentially this is about overhauling our abilities of communication — to find new ways to break through our own blocks when it comes to how we communicate. How can we engender compassion and empathy in organizat...You&#82...

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What North Carolina Did to Me: Some Thoughts on Evidence-Based Library Practice | Rule Number One: A Library Blog

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Rule Number One: A Library Blog. Growth Mindset, Van Gough Edition. Taxonomies of Denial: Ways We Subtly Reject Evidence-Based Practice (Pt. 1: Epistemological Denials) →. July 16, 2015 · 12:34 pm. What North Carolina Did to Me: Some Thoughts on Evidence-Based Library Practice. This topic – the role of evidence in guiding our beliefs and behaviors about library practice. 8211; is something I’ve touched on here. Surely it must be the case that. I remember thinking to myself all the time. It is not: every ...

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Finding the needle in the haystack | ___is black the new black?

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Is black the new black? My profession, my life, my thoughts. Why I don’t go to ALA. Who was Uncle Bonnet? Finding the needle in the haystack. May 7, 2015. I’m a genealogist. Now don’t back away and you can lose that look of terror in your eyes. I’m not about to tell you about my great great uncle so-and-so. You have to take trips to cemeteries looking for ancestors. In theory, what you’re supposed to do is contact whoever manages the cemetery ask if there are records: “Hi! THIS NEVER HAPPENS FOR ME.