Category Archives: LIS bits

Morsels from my studying and surfing in Library and Information Sciences

APHC: reference librarian

A Prairie Home Companion segment (from November 15, 2008) with a passionate reference librarian.

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Defending Dewey

Video of a librarian snapping when the Dewey decimal system is disregarded. (Scene from the movie Party Girl (1995))

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CLA’08-6: Saturday evening

Technically my evenings did not belong to the conference, because I did not stay to socialize. But as I am trying to blog about the whole weekend experience I might as well write it down. So after the last session … Continue reading

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CLA’08-5: Multiculture

For my second Saturday afternoon session I went to a room I was not planning to. But chatting with one of the exhibitors I learned that a Jewish author will be on a multicultural panel. As I realized my eyes … Continue reading

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CLA’08-4: Zotero

The first session I went after lunch (and checking my email) was on Zotero. It is a “free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources“. I heard about it in the past, but did … Continue reading

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CLA’08-3: Infopeople sessions

As by the time I got out of the native session it was too late to sneak in to any of the other sessions I headed to the exhibition floor again. I did not stay without intellectual stimulus there either. … Continue reading

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CLA’08-2: Dynamic leadership

At 10:15 on Saturday I had 15 minute break so I did a quick round in the exhibition floor, which was next to the series of rooms where the conference lectures were held. Then I headed for my next session … Continue reading

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CLA’08-1: Opening: Chabon/Waldman

The conference was opened by CLA’s president Monique le Conge. Then the keynote speakers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman were introduced. The official title of their discussion was “On being writers“, but in reality they mostly talked about what it … Continue reading

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CLA’08-0: Getting there

Last weekend I attended my first professional librarian conference. It was the California Library Association’s 110th annual conference. I was planning start Friday afternoon with a visit to Adobe System, but I missed the deadline for signing up for that. … Continue reading

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My MLIS degree

Yesterday my degree arrived. Click for full size.

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