I had a great time talking to library and information science students today. About ten came out to hang with me on the Union Terrace. No better place to be than that, for sure.
A few asked about my professional experience, job, recommended courses, and professional development activities.
I realized when one asked what courses I found [...]
Bill Ives, who admits earlier “I used the wikipedia a lot and now have renewed confidence in it,” points to posts on Many2Many and Freedom to Tinker concerning the debate about whether Wikipedia is better than Encyclopedia Britannica.
Freedom to Tinker’s evaluation often mentions which source is more current. It’s too bad no one talks about [...]
The other night, I borrowed someone’s computer to blog and encountered these errors when I tried to post some news items and update my tagline:
“Sorry! There was an error: Can’t evaluate the expression because the name “referer” hasn’t been defined. The error was detected by Frontier 9.0 in mainResponder.respond. Webmaster: weblogmaster@cyber … .”
and
[Macro error: Can't [...]
My talk to the library/information science class went well, except for a number of technical problems involving the projector prohibiting me from showing them my presentation or the databases I brought with me. Thanks to a late night whim fulfilling the request of a blog reader, I tossed a draft outline of my presentation on [...]
I know from talking to Josh that he has some interesting thoughts on copyright law. I haven’t read this first-in-a-series-of-three post yet, but I think some of you who are interested in copyright law might want to read it. He ” … begin[s] by examining what factors influence a person
Jessica Baumgart
Harvard University
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Ed Cortez’ LIS 551 course
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
I. How did I get where I am
A. Librarianship from the start
B. Project assistantship in this university