It’s that time of year when a professional association I belong to, the Special Libraries Association Boston Chapter, organizes a day-on-the-job event for local library and information science students. I’ve hosted students ever since I’ve had this job and have made arrangements for three students to visit me so far this month. The first one [...]
There was a library/information science Ph.D. student at tonight’s blog meeting. Because of how far apart we sat at dinner, I didn’t get a chance to talk to him until we were leaving the restaurant. His thesis about e-mail and related issues, like why people use multiple e-mail addresses, interests me. He asked for my [...]
Jayson Blair is a former New York Times and Boston Globe reporter who lost his job because editors determined he plagiarized and fabricated some of his work. The New York Times has released some kind of archive of his work. Unfortunately, it crashes both of the browsers I use, so I can’t get to it [...]
Dave Winer just said he heard about this quote at a librarian’s conference about librarians: “We’re a bunch of Lisas in a world full of Barts.” For those who are clueless, that’s an analogy based on the American cartoon The Simpsons. Lisa is an incredibly intelligent, witty little girl. Bart is her older brother who [...]