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lris to Library Society of the World
Spent some quality time today deactivating accounts for the librarian whose last day was yesterday. It's an odd feeling going through and cleaning up and shutting down the equivalent of someone's digital office.

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Lily to Library Society of the World, Lily's feed
Might anyone have an example they could share of a rubric for grading annotated bibliographies or citation exercises? We're working on creating some for the year-long thesis project our Honors students do, and are attempting to crowdsource a bit of inspiration.

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replied with this on the other thread, in case it's useful beyond just Lily. :-) Rubric for my bibliography assignment in basic reference at Simmons: https://www.dropbox.com/s... - Stephan1eCogSc1L1brar1an - [ 1 ] -

lris to Library Society of the World
Guess what! Today is Catherine's birthday!!!!!

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Happy, happy birthday Catherine! - Galadriel - -

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Happy late bday! - Joe from iPad - -

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mdelhaye to Library Society of the World
Hi all ! What is trending about ebooks in your libraries ? Our "ebooks interest group" is planning its conference next year and we're looking for ideas from abroad.

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Mostly we beat our heads against crazy license agreements here. - lris - -

lris to Library Society of the World
About to work out details and possibly take photos for my new library trading card. Squeeeee!

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I dunno what y'all can do to top the existing ones, but I look forward to finding out! - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

Just you wait! :-) - lris from Android - [ 1 ] -

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lris to Library Society of the World
Facing down a summer that's too full of disruption and major things, my co-worker and I made the sad but wise decision to table writing an article together. Sigh.

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Stephen Francoeur to Library Society of the World
Inspired by Chris Zammarelli's last blog post about using Slack at work, I decided to create a space for the LSW on Slack just so I could learn how to use it. Join me if you're interested.

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Here is the blog post by Chris that got me thinking about this: http://chris.zammarelli.c... - Stephen Francoeur - [ 1 ] -

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me, too. i have problems with frenf.it not showing any content on chrome or on my iphone - Christina Pikas - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
The auto-suggested ISBN isn't in our catalog. I...um, don't even know what to say to that: http://content.screencast...

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Grab bag! - Meg VMeg - -

Galadriel to Library Society of the World
{Cross Posted at All the LSW Spots} Hi Folks - I'm seeking your collective wisdom and feedback on a glossary of terms for e-journal subscriptions because I know that with more input and eyes it will be better :-). We're gearing up for an extensive e-resource evaluation in part because of significant budget cuts but also because we should be systematically reviewing our e-resource subscriptions. Part of this process will include training workshops for subject librarians...

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...and other non e-resources staff on e-journal package renewals; however, an initial needs assessment indicated that we needed to start with establishing a shared understanding of terms. Thus, this glossary. I would greatly appreciate your comments, questions, and ideas for additional terms! - Galadriel - -

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Aaron - sure! Please feel free to share it on Twitter. I've also posted a PDF version on my Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net... . - Galadriel - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
This one made me giggle: http://content.screencast...

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That's deep. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Sigh I have always noticed Primo's autosuggest is extremely bad even by library vendor standards. - Aaron Tay - -

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Katy_S to Library Society of the World, Lines From Books, Katy_S's feed
"The librarians I know are into, like, I dunno, tea and cozy mysteries, not breaking and entering." "Yeah, well. This is a different kind of library." from The Library at Mount Char.

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The first speaker may perhaps not know many librarians? - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 1 ] -

Well, I'll give him a break considering he was just approached in a bar by the librarian to engage in some breaking and entering. ;) - Katy_S - -

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lris to Library Society of the World, Ondatra iSkoolicus
LSW's own Ondatra iSkoolicus has a birthday today. Hip hip hooray!

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I AM A PRIME NUMBER. *nods* - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 3 ] -

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thank you! - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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bentley to Library Society of the World, bentley's feed
The New York Public Library Wars - "What went wrong at one of the world’s eminent research institutions? A group of scholars spearheaded a successful protest to stop radical changes at the library, but now it looks as if they may have lost anyway." http://chronicle.com/arti... (via http://www.aldaily.com/ )

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BBC forgotten list 'sets precedent' http://www.bbc.com/news/t... List of BBC web pages which have been removed from Google's search results http://www.bbc.co.uk/blog...

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“The links were removed as part of the "right to be forgotten" ruling put in place by the European court. It allows individuals to request certain links do not show up when a person searches their name. The BBC published a full list of [BBC] stories that had been removed so far. It would continue to do so, said David Jordan, head of editorial policy. "It's impossible to have a meaningful debate if you've not got an idea about what's being de-listed," he said. […] "It doesn't make [the stories] more findable for anybody looking for a name," he said. "What it does is give a sense of and a flavour of what kind of material is being delisted. That's important." […] The European Union Court of Justice ruled last year that search engine links to "irrelevant" and outdated data about a person should be erased on request. It only affects searches made by users in the European Union.” [From second link: “One caveat: when looking through this list it is worth noting that we are not told who has requested the delisting, and we should not leap to conclusions as to who is responsible. The request may not have come from the obvious subject of a story.”] - bentley - -

Katy_S to Library Society of the World, Katy_S's feed
I was helping a guy in the adult services department this afternoon. We had scanned a document to a flash drive and then attached the document to an email. He then wanted to look at the document on the drive to check what he had just sent. I don't think he realized the file folder could open up as tile images, since he very quickly minimized the folder as porn images popped into view.

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I kept it together until he left, but then I had to go hide in a little alcove behind the circ desk and spend some time laughing. - Katy_S - [ 7 ] -

Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
J's school let out for the summer yesterday, and my husband is out of town, so I brought him to the library today and put him to work annotating the "list of periodicals indexed" in one of our old print indexes, based on a master list of our library's holdings. Why pay a student worker to do this when you can get a 7-year-old to do it for free?

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I can't figure out if that's nepotism or exploitation. Nepxloitation? :-) - bentley - [ 3 ] -

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I used to alphabetize, file, and read off the last 4 digits of people's SSNs. - laura x - -

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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Library Society of the World, Ondatra iSkoolicus's feed
Born to the Purple Squirrel is nearing completion. If you're interested in writing an introduction/foreword/afterword and willing to license it CC-BY, give me a yell. http://purplesquirrel.dsa...

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laura x to Library Society of the World, laura x's feed
We're doing this retro tech program this summer and also setting up a display, and now we are all geeking out over payphones and slide projectors. http://coralvillepublicli...

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We have one of these, too: http://sleepingelephant.c... - laura x - [ 1 ] -

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Reminds me of the "Kids React to Technology" videos. https://www.youtube.com/w... - Stephen Francoeur - -

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Grumpator to Library Society of the World
No, Mr. Vendor, I am not going to give you someone else's number when I've told you that we won't make subscription decisions until we know next year's budget. I'd like to keep my job, thanks.

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Joe to Library Society of the World
Oh my. There’s a Gap in University of Denver Library Resources. Whatever shall we do! Oh, Elsevier, it looks like you would like us to pay you even more money. http://screencast.com/t/B...

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I don't know if we need to fill this much needed gap. - Joe - -

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Our students would probably think that a Gap on campus would be gauche. - Joe from iPad - -

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Tinfoilraccoon to Library Society of the World
Hello. I was just reminded to stop by.

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MISS YOU - Meg VMeg - -

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Then don't deal with 3-4 places. Stay here! :) - lris - [ 3 ] -

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bentley to Library Society of the World, The Reading Room, bentley's feed
We Tried — And Failed — To Identify The Most Banned Book In America http://fivethirtyeight.co... (via Library Link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/libr... )

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“But I soon found there was no way to get any raw data about challenges, as the Office for Intellectual Freedom refused to give me access to its database or any more details about the methodology behind its collection of challenges beyond what’s on the website. [..] The American Library Association is saying that its challenge database isn’t statistically valid and that despite the hundreds of news articles about its list, the database is not meant for public consumption.” - bentley - -

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I was surprised they included age appropriateness under "Challenges." - bentley - -

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Joe to Library Society of the World
Looks like the Russians have overtaken the EBSCO offices. http://screencast.com/t/v...

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laura x to Library Society of the World, laura x's feed
I got library cards for homeless people written into official library policy.

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You did good, girl. - Soup - -

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#winning - Julian - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
This Week in Awkward Book Cover Typos: https://twitter.com/twasm... https://pbs.twimg.com/med...

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ooooooooooooof. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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