March 2011
6 posts
When government publications disappear… « RIPS Law... →
Save the US Statistical Abstract!
K-12: Electronic Typewriter
Undergraduate: Word Processor
Graduate: Online...
Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee... →
One language down, thousands to go!
APA Style Blog: Lists, Part 5: Bulleted Lists →
Tonight marks my first MLIS paper with a bulleted list. We’ll see if my prof is up to speed on the 6th edition once I turn it in. Fingers crossed!
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
14 posts
LA Unified School District to Eliminate All... →
So, I suppose I should consider moving after my MLIS is completed. Sigh.
Saving the Google students - latimes.com →
“For the Google generation, closing school libraries could be disastrous…”
The Word - Wikiality | July 31,2006 | ColbertNation.com
Yale Law Library Adds Bobblehead Dolls to Its... →
Another reason to love my undergrad alma mater: UC Santa Barbara’s...
– mental_floss Blog » 11 (Extra) Special Collections in University Libraries
Book Review - 'This Book Is Overdue - How... →
“In “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All,” [Marilyn Johnson] offers a lively parade of people and places, all related to library science, or sort of related.”
February 2010
7 posts
ALA | YALSA announces new research journal, editor →
Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults launching in Fall 2010
Flavorwire » Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About... →
LibGuides on Vimeo (via Vimeo) - A brief intro to LibGuides by Cindi Trainor.
Information Wants To Be Free →
Meredith Farkas: librarian, author of: Social Software in Libraries, and my Library 2.0 instructor.
January 2010
2 posts
Library Day in the Life / Round 4, January 2010 →
Day (or week) blogs & twitters from librarians all over the world in all types of libraries.
California Library Association: Conference... →
November 2009
2 posts
Awful Library Books →
Weeding out the worst of the worst from the library. However… these are the exact books I look to collect for my personal kitschy collection. :)
October 2009
4 posts
Son of Citation Machine →
Revised to include APA 6th edition! Hooray!
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
9 posts
David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous, recently talked with astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson about why we humans have insisted on acting as if there’s only one way to slice up a universe that is far more miscellaneous than that. This podcast interview is the fourth in a series sponsored by Wired News and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
FORA.tv - Glut: Mastering Information Though the... →
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,...
– Egads! I’ll take monetary library fines any day over the monastic curses placed upon delinquent borrowers!
via “Kleptomania, bibliokleptomania, and other stealing manias” from wordsources.info
Bronze Guts
– The best ancient librarian nickname definitely has to go to Didymus Chalkenteros!
When Pericles and Sophocles were in school in Athens they had the same trouble...
– “Triumphs from the ancient world’s first think tank.” | Smithsonian | June 1, 1985
And so it begins...
10 years after graduating with my BA in English, I am finally starting graduate school.
Returning to college after a few years of adult life behind me, and settled into a rent-controlled apartment, I opted for an online graduate school program via San Jose State University. Regardless of where my life’s path takes me, I can take my education with me… that is, at least until I decide to go for a...