SLA Rhode Island Dinner for LIS Students & Blog Talk, URI, 10/25, 6:30 p
Each year, the Special Libraries Association Rhode Island Chapter holds a special dinner intended to help library and information science students prepare for formal job interviews. When Tony Stankus, a science librarian at Holy Cross, first told me about it a few years ago, I thought it is a really cool idea. Little did I know he’d actually follow up on his idea of having me speak to the group. Instead of me discussing my quirky, fun, nontraditional job as he originally pondered, he decided the audience would much rather hear me ramble about blogs and feeds and the like. The event happens on Tuesday, October 25.
He wants me to tell you:
“[I]t’s a dress-up, sit-down dinner affair
(honest-to-goodness flowers, real candlelight, a full cash bar, ideally live mood music….. It will be [at] 6:30 pm [at] the [University of Rhode Island] University Club in Kingston, RIwith the cash bar and socializing probably starting around 6 pm
….tell them that this will be the 4th annual joint meeting between the school and its students (well, it orginally started as being for my Special Library’s course students, but it got kind of popular) and the hardworking members of RI/SLA,……. but that absolutely any librarian (special or any other type) or prospective librarian is welcomed….you might mention that I am a reasonably charming host, a fairly funny emcee, and that we have an incredible guest speaker this year…. that would be you…. “
Well, forget about the guest speaker. Come for the charming and funny emcee and for the opportunity to network with other professionals and students.
I feel kind of funny posting this notice to my weblog even though the event organizers urged me to do so because I don’t have all the event details yet and I couldn’t find them on the SLA Rhode Island Chapter Web site, so I guess this is really just a ’save the date’ announcement. Maybe they felt a little bit of jealousy after seeing me post something about SLA Boston Chapter’s kickoff in about two weeks. ha ha ha
Oh, and, if anyone could recommend a harpist … I’ve been lobbying hard for a jazz pianist, a vibraphonist, or an accordion player, but I’m not very persuasive …
September 8th, 2005 at 3:05 am
I /can/ recommend a harpist, but she’s in VA.
Sorry.
(I just left this comment in LJ. You need to do what others have done, and have comment links built in to your feed.
See http://www.livejournal.com/~shayde_blog and
http://www.livejournal.com/~nickvaracalli for examples.)
September 8th, 2005 at 11:52 am
Hey JB,
Yeah, I’ve gotten several recommendations for quite possibly the same harpist in Virginia … Thanks.
I thought comment links were built into this feed. I can see the code in the XML:
<comments>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/comments?u=jkbaumga&p=3922&link=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.harvard.edu%2Fjkbaumga%2F2005%2F09%2F08%23a3922</comments>
Maybe LJ just isn’t interpreting it. When I look at my feed in a desktop aggregator I use, I see the link to comments. The links to other Harvard-hosted Manila blogs also appear in my Manila aggregator. I don’t control my feed, so it’s not something I can change.
One of the reasons why I discourage people from pulling the scratchpad’s content into other systems is because comments usually don’t make it back to me. = ) Do you know if I can at least subscribe to a comment feed from the version of this blog that’s in LJ? When I was looking through LJ a few weeks ago, I thought I saw something about how if I would have set the LJ version up myself, I would have been able to get e-mail notification about comments, but maybe I’m wrong about that. I get the comments from the scratchpad e-mailed to me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t see most of them.
September 10th, 2005 at 2:19 am
No, you can’t get the comments from a feed in LJ, as the feed has no owner.
But, what I was suggesting (and you DID look at the links I included, no?)
was something you could do to make it easier for us feed reeders to get the
comments back to you – though, of course, the fact that I have to come back
here looking to see if you replied to my comment, rather than your system
sending me mail about your reply is one of those things that drives me bonkers
about almost all non-LJ blog SW.
September 18th, 2005 at 1:30 am
I can get comment notifications from Blogware sent to me. Yay, Blogware! = )
I looked at the feeds you mentioned and I see what you mean about the comment links. The links to leave and read comments go back to the original blog. I don’t know how to respond to that. The incarnation of this feed in Frassle–uh when there was one–pointed back to here for comments. I don’t know why LJ doesn’t.
I’m not sure how to make LJ do that. Since I’m not the one who set the feed of this blog up over there, I’m not sure if there’s anything I can do about it. Is there some way for me to claim the feed?