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E-research, cyberinfrastructure, data curation, open access... an academic librarian examines how computers change research and libraries.
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October 29, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
If you're not reading comments here, you're missing out. For reasons I don't entirely understand, some of the best in the business are seeing fit to comment here. They have more to teach than I do! Chris Rusbridge (of, among...
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October 28, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I pointed out Mike Lesk's slideshow in my last tidbits post, finding it a good critical précis of the data problem. It's pleasantly aware of human problems, human problems many treatments of cyberinfrastructure (including, unfortunately, this otherwise useful call to...
Posted 5:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Jargon
It's been a while since I did anything on my series about library ways of knowing. If you'd like to refresh your memory: The classical librarian The humble index Classification Today I'll finish my discussion of classification, and distinguish it...
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October 23, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
My del.icio.us tag overfloweth… A challenge to libraries from an information science professor: "I wish I could say that libraries were the obvious organization to take care of data… But… they have not been ambitious, they lack the subject area...
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October 20, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
I have intentionally steered Book of Trogool away from open access. I still believe in it; I still work for it. Toward the waning days of Caveat Lector, however, it became clear that I was shedding more heat than light...
Posted 6:54 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 17, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I've lived all my short career in academic libraries thus far on the new-service frontier. In so doing, I've looked around and learned a bit about how academic libraries, research libraries in particular, tend to manage new services. With apologies...
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October 16, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I'm still buried in translating a presentation into Spanish for Monday and finishing another in English for Wednesday, but here's a small thought to tide folks over, a thought that came to me shortly before my presentation at Access. At...
Posted 4:54 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 13, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
If you've been having trouble commenting, you're not alone—the comment form quit working for me a couple days ago. I wrote in to Erin, and from where I'm sitting, the problem has been fixed. If you're not getting comment-form love,...
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October 10, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I will be speaking for UKSG's conference next April. They haven't given me a topic… but they want a talk title by the end of this month. I have to write a paper alongside the talk, and I hate writing...
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October 7, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Roy Tennant sent me an email about my Access presentation in which he asked what libraries should do about the laundry-list of data-curation challenges I presented. (If you're curious, you can go view the presentation yourself, courtesy of the wonderful...
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