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mehlib to Library Society of the World
Slacker, here. Who should I vote for for ALA Council? Other offices?

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in addition to Rochelle, of course - mehlib - -

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i would vote for henry mensch as a councillor-at-large, as well as rochelle (who is so awesome i don't think it needs explained to this group). besides being a lsw member he is one of my favorite people from my cohort. and in far less selfish terms, he is smart, dedicated, creative, and hella experienced in IT before bringing his passion for helping to the library world. as a plus for YOU, mehlib, he has a biomedical background :D. - Marianne - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World
how are we liking it here?

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so, I'm realizing, if I send this to the LSW feed, I don't think it goes to my other friends. or does it? all my friends are libraryfolk thus far here - mehlib - -

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I just now got in...every time I tried to sign up previously, the site was down. The discourse forums seem like more work to stay caught up in, but if most people are there... It's very bad for my time management attempts to be looking in more than one place for LSW! - fitzm - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
New post: The Open Access Landscape: 8. Earth Sciences http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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ellbeecee to ellbeecee's feed, Library Society of the World, laura x
Aha! You want to make sure that it's going to "il mio feed", not just, say, LSW? It looks to me like if you just post, it goes to your feed by default. If you pick a room, it goes just to that by default, but you can have it go to both by selecting both? Maybe?

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Yeah, you have to enter your own feed if you want it to go to both. This confused me at first. - John B. - -

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anyway if no recipient is specified it goes to your feed ("mio feed" is "My feed" as said above) - if you're specifying a different recipient (room or user) the default feed is disabled, and you should re-enable it. - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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lris to lris's feed, Library Society of the World
Looks like a bunch of private FF feeds got made public here. Gah. http://FriendFeed.me

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Look for http://FriendFeed.me/feed... [username] [ETA: url corrected] - lris from Android - -

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Wow. This is all interesting and a sober reminder of the realities of the online social world. Thank you very much for your efforts and the updates April! - Galadriel from Android - -

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SAM to Library Society of the World
We have an awesome client trying to find service volunteers to fill a library need in Costa Rica. http://www.islonline.org/... They usually fill their teams with college kids, but I thought librarians might be interested in participating on this one. Any ideas on how they could get this shared to librarian peeps quickly and effectively? I could probably swing them some scholarship funds if they are interested.

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Might want to reach out to Reforma http://www.reforma.org/ - hedgehoglib - -

Ooh, thanks. I'll check that out. - SAM - -

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laura x to Library Society of the World
Your favorite Jedi mind tricks for overcoming imposter syndrome. Go!

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1) fake it till you make it, 2) everyone else probably thinks they're the impostor rather than you. 3) crying into my wine (I don't actually recommend that last one). - lris - -

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I put the following internal monologue on repeat: "I can do hard things." - Galadriel from Android - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
I'll just hide this casual comment here: Reading Twitter stream, encountered a new Outsell report on OA. $100 a page--for each reader, that is. Clearly, I've been in the wrong game. (But, of course, Outsell has Sekrit Sources thus providing Authoritative Info.)

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They had a report on OA last year (or 2?) that was about $1,295 or some such. One could find the pdf of it that someone posed for free on the Internet. - Joe from iPad - -

Gee, only $2,595... http://www.outsellinc.com... - Joe - -

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Kirsten to Library Society of the World
Have put in so many hours editing this committee report, am beginning to think that it would have been less time-consuming to just write the damn thing myself.

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And I'm late getting the damned thing done because other people can't finish their bits. I ask for two pieces, and get back one. *cries* - Kirsten - -

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*sips tea* Yup. At least in school I could usually get everyone to do what I wanted. Too low on the totem pole for that in this committee. - Kirsten - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
Sundaybrarian!

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I am absurdly comforted by the reappearance of the Melvil[le] Dewey/Dui codslap graphic for this room. - Catherine Pellegrino - -

I just helped the most adorably Type-A student try to shrink down engineering homework solution pages into the allowable one-page "cheat sheet" for an exam. We didn't manage to get them readable at the size that she needed, but we had fun anyway. - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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baldgeekinmd to Library Society of the World
well that hurt. FF V 1.0 is no more.

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lris to Library Society of the World
Medlibs! I'm looking for documented models for providing patient-centered support/advocacy for mental health patients by non-specialists. Bonus points for dealing with patients who are about to be discharged (not admitted) after an ER visit.

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Galadriel to Library Society of the World
[cross posting in all the LSW places] - We presently do not have an official policy regarding which e-resources do or do not go on our e-resource A-Z list.

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However, my general practice has been to add databases (A&I and full text), links to purchased primary text collections, and platform links to dynamic and large collections such as journals where new content is consistently added. When it comes to e-book platform links, like EBL, Ebrary, EBSCO as well as things like Cambridge Companions, they too are added because they are dynamic and/or large (over 100 titles). - Galadriel - -

What is the e-resource A-Z list policy/practice at your library? - Galadriel - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World
43 and holding

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48 - Stephan1eCogSc1L1brar1an - -

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Stephen Francoeur to Library Society of the World
Trying out Discourse as another alternative platform for the LSW. Come check it out at http://thelsw.org/

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hey Stephen - I'd love to try out the site, but I've tried 3 times now (the first 2 a couple of days ago) to get it to send me the email verification link (so I can register / start logging in) and have yet to receive the email. Any chance there's a stuck email-sending queue? - Marianne - -

I got it okay yesterday, no problems. I presume you've checked the usual junk mail folders? - deborahfitchett - -

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baldgeekinmd to Library Society of the World
Hey there everyone. I made the switch to the N00b friendfeed.

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hi there :) - ellbeecee - -

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Hi! - Galadriel - -

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Aaron Tay to Library Society of the World
Is this place going to be a permanent? Or at least a Candidate to consider? I feel like having this place dilutes focus.

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I was thinking about that this morning. We need a place that is good enough. While we only have 44 subscribers, we will most likely loose some LSWers in the transition no matter where we go. Unless something better comes along or gets built, I think this place is good enough for me. Now, if the LSW room languishes over time, then I will probably migrate my conversation someplace else. - Joe - -

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Not surprising this place feels very close to FF compared to http://thelsw.org/ - Aaron Tay - -

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JohnDupuis to Library Society of the World
I'm here! I'm here! Let the bells ring out and the banners fly! Feast your eyes on me! It's too good to be true, but I'm here! I'm here!

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(Er, sorry, always wanted to do that.) - JohnDupuis - -

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A fond memory from my youth: https://www.youtube.com/w... - JohnDupuis - -

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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Library Society of the World
We sent Derrick to Italy. Maybe now we need to plan a group trip...

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I like the way you think. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I've been to that Dublin! To a conference, even! - Julian - -

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Joe to Library Society of the World
From Pete. http://c3.staticflickr.co...

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Other sizes can be found at http://www.flickr.com/pho... - Joe - -

I've made that my avatar for now :) - Pete Smith - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World
Greetings from the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN

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👋 - Julian - -

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then we had a good chat later. I like her. - mehlib - -

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Grumpator to Library Society of the World
I appreciated the tips on adding an avatar pic, so now I had to see how it looks on the feed.

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heyther to Library Society of the World
How to lose my attention during a sales pitch: call turnaways "unsubscribed ebook usage".

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I can't even make that mean something in my head. - ellbeecee - -

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That's the worst! - kaijsa - -

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Aaron Tay to Library Society of the World
Anyone done a study where you went thru Faculty citations and counted % that are not available via library resources? Maybe kinda like http://libraryconnect.els... but not just for grant proposals. I guess % using library resources will fall through the years?

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I haven't seen such a study, probably because it's still so time-intensive to get an accurate list of faculty publications. It'd be cool and probably eye-opening, though. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Anyway, some context, I may have some extra hands going in and this was a suggested area to work on. - Aaron Tay - -

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kaijsa to Library Society of the World
Who is going to be at ACRL? My schedule is crazy and I don't know if I can do a meetup, but I want to be on the lookout for you people to at least say hi!

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No, but please look out for a couple of my students: Elliott Shuppy and -- oh gosh, I forget who else. I'll check tomorrow and let you know. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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