About Me
I am a librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. I have an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English. This weblog reflects my interests in library & information science, literature, language, culture, and the arts. Click for my full profile.
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julieshen (at) gmail (dot) com
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Books I Like
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Also, I'm currently reading
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What if we got rid of the library? (1/30/2007) What would happen if we gave each student and faculty a share of the library budget? Prediction #5: Each student and faculty member will subscribe to one online database of general full-text resources . . . Then the student or faculty member will subscribe to one database in the major or discipline . . . Now, he or she is over the allocated budget, and the research will have to be funded out of pocket. |
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British Library and US DOE to partner on science portal (1/29/2007) To be called "Science.world", the website will be available to scientists in all nations as well as anyone interested in science. |
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Gen Y survey from Pew Research Center (1/25/2007) About half of people ages 18-24 say they sent or received a text message over the phone in the past day, double the rate of Gen X (ages 26-40). About 40% have created a personal profile on a social networking site (e.g. MySpace). |
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Publish, Not Perish (1/25/2007) Developed by the University of Colorado libraries, this tutorial contains 5 modules focused on the following areas: overview of scholarly publishing, laying groundwork, manuscript preparation and submission, the editorial process, and developing a publishing plan. |
STS Hot Topics at ALA (1/20/2007)  Earlier this afternoon was the ACRL/STS Midwinter Hot Topics Discussion Group that I co-chaired with Kara Whatley. Our opening speaker was Jezmynne Westcott. We discussed training non-science librarians to do science reference. We had a good discussion; I definitely learned a thing or two. If you weren't able to attend, be sure to read Kara's writeup in the next issue of STS Signal.
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Celebrity Sighting at ALA (1/19/2007)  I'm at Midwinter conference right now. It's my first time attending an ALA conference. Midwinter is supposed to be much smaller than Annual, but it doesn't look very small to me. On the exhibit floor I came across the Overmedia booth and chatted with Bill Barnes, creator of the comic strip Unshelved. Bill is a celebrity in the library community. If you have never heard of Unshelved, you must not be a librarian.
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What do we learn from video games? (1/18/2007) True or false: "There is a fundamental order to the universe, and it works. If you play by its rules and defer to its requirements, you will lead a pretty fantastic life." |
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AKA why I use Google Scholar (PDF) (1/18/2007) A new report comparing Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The latter comes out looking pretty good for a free product. |
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Disney does MySpace (1/12/2007) Except you can't post pictures. Or write about yourself. |
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2006 the YouTube odyssey (1/12/2007) Will 2007 be the year the major players take over YouTube from the amateurs? The experts say yes. |
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Search for the people, by the people (1/04/2007) Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, is planning to create a search engine that determines relevancy based on input from users rather than algorithms that can be outsmarted by webpage owners. This sounds like the Librarians' Internet Index, except bigger. |
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