Historical Archives
One of the more interesting conversations I had last week was about filtering. What we were discussing was the difference between what we do and say at work and what we do and say “off the clock.” We were describing how we filter our thoughts and words at work and that sometimes that varies depending…
In some ways I’m glad the wireless was too wonky for me to bother with posting every night. Instead of staring at my computer screen, I was out with lots of great people, sharing stories, laughing, and generally having a great time! A shout out to Matt, April, Kirt, Kyle, the entire orange team and…
I’m in a very lovely place, but it has the slowest internet ever. I’m participating in an institute for the next four days, a kind of intensive training course. I’m a little apprehensive about the whole process. I’m not sure I’ll fit in. I’m not sure what I’ll get out of it. I am looking…
I just watched a report on Good Morning America about paid maternity leave for mothers. The US is one of 5 countries that doesn’t have paid maternity leave. It’s interesting that people were shocked about this. I’ve been talking about it for 11 years–since I had my first kid. I’m one of those people who…
These will be longish bullets. Nothing on my mind fits neatly into a single blog post. Diet and exercise. I gained at least 15 pounds over the last year. My clothes are tight. This is not good. Since the new year, I’ve been trying to eat better, but am struggling. I’ve been traveling a fair…
Here’s some math. On any given day, I receive about 40 emails. About half of these require a response. I’d say that each response requires an average of 8 minutes. Conservatively, then, I could spend 2.67 hours every day dealing with email. That doesn’t even count dealing with our help system in which, on average…
I spent the weekend revising a couple of dissertation chapters. I had hoped to finish both of them, but the second one I was working on had figures and they did not want to stay put. I’m so glad I don’t work in a field that requires figures on a regular basis because I’d probably…
I’m so glad I didn’t have time to read this this morning. How many times are we going to have this discussion? Just keep marking the papers down. Or better yet, have your students edit the wiki. Yeah, I know, it’s hard to teach people how to do real research. /snark Please consider donating to…
Notional Slurry » Digitization access licensing and scholarship’s “best before” date At What Point Is It Her Fault? Heading Home from ELI–Lessons and Leanings Social Bookmarking, Folksonomies, and Web 2.0 Tools I changed the link to #4. It allows you to access the article via your own library. May not work for everyone, but it’s…
In talking to people over the last few weeks–and really years, I guess–I’ve noticed that people don’t always understand not only what I do, but the broad knowledge I have, and feel I need, in order to do my job effectively. So I just wanted to put this down off the top of my head:…
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