Just for fun, I was checking out our stats in the new 2009 Statistical Abstract. Table 596 (Employed persons by occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic origin 2007 data) shows that librarians are now 215,000 strong – up a bit from the 1998 figure of 208,000. We remain just over 83% female and are ever-so-slightly more [...]
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I had lunch with a group of medical librarians & library staff last month, and we started comparing our most memorable adventures. I took my son skydiving for his 23rd birthday; Mary has a medal for ziplining in Alaska; Etta’s a world traveler, telling us about visiting tunnels in the Holy Land excavated by soldiers in [...]
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Wikiality: Reality as defined by consensus, particularly in collaborative endeavors such as Wikipedia. Attributed to Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, 31 July 2006. (Word Spy)
Monica Hesse at the Washington Post explores the relationship between truth (fact), information and knowledge in Truth: Can You Handle It? In addition to discussing “Wikiality,” Hesse also takes us behind the scenes to talk with librarian Chad Stark, [...]
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“EBLIP is an open access, peer reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services and supported by an international team of editorial advisors. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP [...]
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We are all challenged to keep up with the latest information in the library & information science field. I’m currently listening my way through the many hours of presentations from Computers in Library 2007, since I bought the 2-CD set to catch the ones I couldn’t attend in April and to refresh my memory of [...]
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