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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
I dunno how the barista knew about my professional affiliation: https://pbs.twimg.com/med... (cross-posted from Twitter)

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Elsevier clashes with researchers over open access publishing for academic texts http://www.abc.net.au/rad... (via Library Link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/libr... )

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Before I go trying to recreate the wheel, does anyone have a sharable training outline which covers Copyright and the TEACH Act for online course instructors? (cross-posted to other LSW channels, too)

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Lily to Library Society of the World, Lily's feed
Oh hey, I showed up in the "Comment Enabled" section of the latest American Libraries! I'm repping a collection of active vendor VPATs (product accessibility agreements) if anyone's curious: http://uniaccessig.org/lu...

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woo! - lris - -

lris to Library Society of the World
Prof: "This resource has stopped working! Help!"

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Me: Uh, we've never subscribed to that resource. - lris - -

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Sheesh. - Joe from iPad - -

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Lily to Library Society of the World, Lily's feed
Had to run some serious damage control for our Honors Program today. Its Dean has dropped the ball--apparently for the 3rd year in a row--on coordinating the 3 major groups of people involved in their year-long thesis project (library, writing center, several professors). There is no level of acceptable when one person's total lack of forethought and follow-through directly causes intense confusion and panic for these really hardworking students.

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
"The main thing our discovery layer is good for, is discovering problems with our link resolver." (paraphrased, from a librarian at an even smaller school near here)

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Today was one of those days in which I spent a good chunk of the morning defining words in McDonald's online job application and test for one of their applicants (who was using our computers) because he didn't feel like he could read well enough to use the dictionary I offered him the first time he asked me about a word. I'm really sad that the education system failed this guy.

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is there a literacy network or something in your area? - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I helped him as much as I ethically could. I was more than willing to define words for him in the statements, but I had to tell him that I couldn't choose the correct answers for him (it was one of those "which of these statements describes you best" career psych tests). At least he knew how to use the computer. It's really sad when the BMV sends people to us to print things the BMV used to print, and the people (who have never used a computer) learn that they have to have an email address before they set up the account at the BMV's website to get the one page printout that they need. I might have some unresolved anger issues involving the BMV. - Katy_S - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
My first reaction to the latest Bohannon "let's undermine science to improve ethics in science!" thing is to suggest that he's intent on becoming another Beall. My second reaction: Bohannon would take that as a compliment. Arggh.

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
I just spent over half an hour diagnosing and repairing a wireless doorbell. #ThingsIDidntLearnInGradSchool The biggest challenge was that the library's bottle of Elmer's had dried out so much that it was unusable.

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I sort of love this. Especially the part about the Elmers. - laura x from iPhone - -

Marianne to Library Society of the World, Marianne's feed
I just helped a student who graduated last week by going over his paperwork for his new job and being a second pair of eyes, plus helping him decode his W4 form. Another one for the not-in-the-formal-mission-definitely-part-of-my-mission category.

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Unshelved. May 25, 2015. http://www.unshelved.com/... http://get.unshelved.com/...

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Katy_S to Library Society of the World, Katy_S's feed
HELP! I'm off-site at a coffee shop with tablets to help kids doing elearning and an incredibly socially awkward guy cornered me to talk about cement. He keeps coming back.

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OMG! He's dancing to Blondie's Rapture. - Katy_S from iPhone - -

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With the first guy, I really wished I could put on some earphones like others in the area. Sadly, I was there to interact with people. - Katy_S - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
Another day, another faculty member coming to the shocking realization that they cannot use Big Research University Across The Street's electronic resources without being physically located on their campus. #librarylife

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Has there never been talk of a consortial arrangement? - Meg VMeg - -

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Well, the problem is basically that we're two separate, independent institutions (otherwise, MPOW would have a shitload more cash). We could declare ourselves a "consortium" but I don't think the vendors would go for it, and they DEFINITELY wouldn't go for ND just saying, "hey, couldja just add in my buddies across the street for a few extra bucks?" - Catherine Pellegrino - - [ 1 ]

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laura x to Library Society of the World, laura x's feed
Me to patron, via email: Please return these DVDs that are missing the discs. Patron to me: My ex-girlfriend has those. You should call her parole officer if you need them. Me to patron: Please note that items checked out on your card are your responsibility, per our policy. Patron to me: Let me know if you'd like to discuss it over dinner sometime.

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How Not to Pick Up Chicks 101. - laura x - [ 2 ] -

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This could also be filed under How Not To Get Your Library Fines Waived 101. - Catherine Pellegrino - [ 1 ] -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
If you care about OA and appreciate my research, please read this golden opportunity: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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then, there are the words I can't pronounce for my life.

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entrepreneurial. I can not say it. Just can't. - mehlib - -

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Norfolk. (The town in Virginia--I end up swearing by accident every time.) - Lily - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
Eh, I've been in a funk and avoiding the interwebz. Hello.

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hello. how are you? - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
Uncharitable thought on catching up with the latest comments in the marathon Skitch "predatory" thread: "You don't like the Spanish Inquisition? Build a better inquisition!"

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Yes, I did leave another comment suggesting that it's a bit hypocritical to insist that There Must Be A Blacklist for OA, when there's no such blacklist for subscription journals--implying, but not stating, that such a blacklist would have to include at least Elsevier and Emerald. - waltcrawford - -

And, going back once more after Joe E. seems to think I'm saying nobody's ever criticized Elsevier or Nature, realized that at a certain point responding to some of the Cooks is very much like feeding the trolls. Better things to do. Like set up my new notebook! Soon... - waltcrawford - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
List of words you can't spell for your life. Go!

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Sabatical. Sabbatical. Sabbaticcal. Sabaticcal. - mehlib - -

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I did, we don't eat junk food :-)) - ♕Dr. Eynollah ♕ - -

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lris to lris's feed, Library Society of the World
Evening reference while asleep. What could go wrong? #Zzzzzz

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Well the entire internet died for a bit. That certainly woke me up... - lris from Android - -

the red light on the black box stopped flashing, didn't it. DIDN'T IT. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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People! We got the Big Read!

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Aaron Tay to Library Society of the World
Looking at the new "featured results bar" in Primo feature where you can surface/callout a bar of results on the 4th result based on scope (ILS/PCI etc) or resource type (book dvd, database, images etc). Similar to Summon which does it for newspaper articles and images but more flexible. Wondering what to use (if at all) for a tab that does "Everything" (catalogue + PCI + IR).

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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Library Society of the World, Ondatra iSkoolicus's feed
#LSWsurvey Ten-dollar words you just can't stand?

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"Crepuscular." What a crapulent word. It gets used a lot in 19th-20th c. gooey-romantic-orientalist Spanish-language poetry, and I just cannot with it. It's gross. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Double-plus to all three of 'em. Also "ontological." - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
<snark>I see S.Abram has just labeled Denning's bizarre Forbes future-of-libraries column cum CIL keynote "fantastic." And he's right, for certain traditional meanings of fantastic.</snark>

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Is it at his lighthouse? - Joe - -

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I don' know about bizarre. Sort of 5 years ago, maybe? Not new an original as Aaron says. - Christina Pikas - -

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