May 2012
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As a good manager...
“The incentive that you want to give people is to do the right thing…. It’s [your] job to enable people to do their best work, to protect them from people who would try to undermine that, and to make sure that they have the tools and resources they need to get it accomplished without anybody screwing with them… A [good] leader is somebody that you trust to do the right...
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program or be programmed? meh.
Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people. But so are a lot of skills. I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing.
As someone who has neglected his Codecademy account for months now, I can sympathize with the idea. As much as I love the idea of coding, I’d much rather be...
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Just North of Something Important: Good lord, a... →
barthel:
Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United States just endorsed gay marriage several years after passing health care reform. Do you know how many of those things were inconceivable 5 years ago? You can be happy about this without having to be happy about everything else the man or the country does. Tomorrow morning we should certainly go back to being unhappy about...
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Crap. I'm a hipster. →
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thepinakes:
flaneurette replied to your post: Is it true that you’re sort of library/internet famous?
I think this is due to your post about being interviewed. She said you were famous…which made me wonder the same as the person asking! :^P
Right, that makes sense.
I think that was just a bit of flattery on the part of the Cardigan Librarian. Between twitter and tumblr I have a fair number...
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“May the 4th be with you (and also with you) We lift up our lightsabers (we lift...”
– via Kate K.
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Alt-Annual 2012 →
thepinakes:
The inimitable @johnxlibris has created Alt-Annual 2012, a community guide for the upcoming ALA Annual this June in Anaheim, California with suggestions for vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free food options, food trucks, specialty food venues, local breweries and coffeehouses, health food stores, comic book shops — everything the traveling librarian might need to know to get away from...
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Just call me operator
From CHE article on “The Plaid Avenger”:
Perched behind his 20-inch screen, wearing one of his trademark plaid jackets, Mr. Boyer fields questions pinged in as instant messages. He responds on Ustream, a free Web platform that lets anyone broadcast a video feed through a Webcam.
When I think about the virtual reference desk, this is what I think about… but with more...
Harvard vs. Yale: Open Access Publishing →
thepinakes:
Earlier this week, Yale university student, Emmanuel Quartey, posted a video interview with the school’s librarian, Susan Gibbons, in which he asked her about open-access publishing. Her response was far more ambivalent than the Harvard faculty council’s. Though she noted that open-access journals are more accessible, she worried that asking younger faculty to publish in open-access...
ALA Afterparty - Librarian Wardrobe Walkoff... →
thepinakes:
The fine folks behind the ALA Think Tank and Librarian Wardrobe are ready to strut their stuff on Saturday, June 23 near the close of this year’s Annual Conference of the American Library Association. Put on your finest and party with the finest. I won’t be at ALA this year, but I’ll be at this shindig — in spirit.
April 2012
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decaf librarian coffee blend
The Librarian’s Blend is named for that person who always told you to keep quiet when you were studying. This blend is representative of the soul of the librarian: steady, reassuring, and always there with that slight edge of eccentricity. It has a bold base with a bit of sparkle. Here’s to good reading.
I am unsteady. I will not reassure you of anything. Yes, I am eccentric. I am...
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For all the teenage geeks: It gets better →
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no one is forcing you to use it
“The real danger with Facebook is not that it allows us to isolate ourselves, but that by mixing our appetite for isolation with our vanity, it threatens to alter the very nature of solitude.” Facebook, [Marche] claims, has produced a “new isolation,” one that demands constant attention to the Internet and precludes any genuine retreat from the world. Facebook, he charges, “denies us a pleasure...
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An interesting idea...
“This can’t be a temporary ‘cleanse.’ This has to be me taking control of my interactions with media again, for the long run.” Source.
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“It was only later that I realized the value of being bored was actually pretty...”
– Clay Shirky
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“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
– Robert J. Hanlon, aka Hanlon’s razor.
March 2012
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Watch Star Wars in this order: IV, V, II, III, VI
We have a chance to save the next generation. Via Star Wars: Machete Order:
Here’s some stuff that you no longer have to see as part of your Star Wars viewing experience, thanks to skipping Episode I.
Virtually no Jar-Jar. Jar-Jar has about 5 lines in Episode II, and zero in Episode III.
No midichlorians. There is only one reference to midichlorians after Episode I, and in the context it...
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Latest episode from Jordan, Jesse, Go! Warning: it...
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February 2012
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
“Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front.”
“Preface” to the Eighty-Sixth Thousand of the 6/- Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Ed. Roger Lancelyn Green. New York: Oxford UP, 1971.
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