Thu 31 Aug 2006, 11:41 pm
Bound volumes of journals covered by JSTOR online. There is a very interesting article in the September 1 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled Library Renovation Leads to Soul Searching at Cal Poly (note: that link will self-destruct after five days. Chronicle subscribers can always use this permalink to the article). It would [...]
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Thu 31 Aug 2006, 11:28 pm
The official See Also… seal comes from The Official Seal Generator, which I first saw on 43 Folders. Apologies to Jessamyn “putting the rarin’ back in librarian” West for nicking her “putting the X in Y” language.
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Fri 25 Aug 2006, 4:24 pm
Sorry I can’t talk right now; I’m in the library! Chas says… Tutt Library keeps you afloat in a flood of homework! If my parents call, I’m at the Library! I don’t know that I have written about it here, or if I have just commented on other people’s blogs, but I’m not very fond [...]
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Fri 25 Aug 2006, 12:09 pm
I just got back from a quick talk to upper-class students who are leading New Student Orientation trips. They will be in charge of small groups of first-year students, taking them either out into the Southwest to do community service, or on camping trips in the Rockies. It is the kind of thing that would [...]
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Fri 18 Aug 2006, 7:41 am
Birthday cake by Tom-Tom on Flickr As I mentioned earlier this week, yesterday was the first blogversary for See Also…. I guess this is a low-key celebration, not a multimedia extravaganza like some people put on for their blog’s anniversary. I had originally hoped to celebrate with a big redesign of the site, or at [...]
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Wed 16 Aug 2006, 2:13 pm
View from the cupola Vampire in the vault At MPOW, we took our annual retreat yesterday. Instead of team-buliding or brainstorming or the like, we went to the Bessemer Historical Society, the site of the archives for the old Colorado Fuel and Iron (or CF&I) company, across Interstate 25 from the Pueblo steel works. The [...]
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Mon 14 Aug 2006, 11:47 pm
[Warning: we are entering the first anniversary week for See Also, so expect more navel gazing than usual this week. -SL] In my first post to See Also, almost a year ago, I wrote about Walt Crawford’s first biblioblogosphere survey in Cites & Insights. I finished with this: So the next time Crawford does his [...]
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Tue 1 Aug 2006, 2:30 pm
Cowbell Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre. …my OPAC needs more cowbell. The biblioblogosphere is bringing the funny today, I’ll tell you. Now, I wonder where I can put this image on my actual OPAC?
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Tue 1 Aug 2006, 2:13 pm
[Embedded YouTube video of David Lee King's "Are You Blogging This," wherein David sings an uptempo little number about web 2.0-ish stuff. Funny, geeky, catchy.] Yes! I am blogging this! Now stop yelling at me! (David Lee King celebrates two years of blogging. Looks like he filmed this at work: way to go!) Tags: david_lee_king, [...]
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