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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Books I Like
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Also, I'm currently reading
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Dress your Yahoo! avatar in a READ shirt (6/29/2007) 1. Go to http://avatars.yahoo.com/ 2. Select the tab marked "extras" 3. Click on "issues and causes." 4. Look for the white "READ" T-shirt. (Via 2CoolTools) |
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Internet Archive recognized as library by State of California (6/28/2007) They needed the official recognition for federal funding. |
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NPR's summer reading list includes graphic novels (6/20/2007) I got complimentary copies of Mouse Guard  and The Plain Janes at ALA Midwinter in Seattle and was astounded at how good both of them were.
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Promoting library services in Facebook (6/15/2007) Includes both how to's on making students aware of your library's presence in Facebook as well as services you can provide to students who've already added your library in Facebook. |
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Mo Willems on graphic novels (6/07/2007) What's so wrong with gore splattered Jane Austen?? |
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CIC libraries join Google library project; Emory goes alone (6/07/2007) The CIC consists of the University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the latter two having already signed on to Google scanning projects previously. More info about the CIC/Google agreement here. Meanwhile, Emory's new print-on-demand scanning project will support rather than overshadow the libraries' existing publishing efforts. |
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New Library of Congress post recognizes importance of children's literature (6/07/2007) Modeled after the U.K.'s Children's Laureate, the new National Ambassador for Young People's' Literature will travel throughout the country to speak on literacy and education. |
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International Manga Award recognizes manga artists outside Japan (6/06/2007) Tokyopop  editor Lillian Diaz-Przybyl believes the award signifies acceptance. "We've been creating original manga in the United States for [years]; and it's been a fight all that time, with purist fans saying, 'If it's not from Japan, then it's not really manga; it's imitation, it's fake, it's phony.'"
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13-year-old emails manuscript to HarperCollins, gets published (6/06/2007) While doing research for her book, Swordbird  , young author Nancy Yi Fan visited her local public library:I thought I knew all about birds but then I discovered there are lots of species divided into subspecies. The autonomy of birds, their habits. So I went to my local library and the librarian was very helpful. She showed me lots of books, and after I checked them out, I loaded them onto a cart and pushed it out, and the librarian smiled. And other people thought it was very bizarre to see a kid pushing a cart full of books. I love stories about librarians helping kids. |
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Arizona public library ditches Dewey decimal (6/06/2007) The entire 31,000 item collection will be arranged by topic and alphabetized by author's last name, similar to how it's done in bookstores. Fascinating! |
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The next time you shop online, you might be helping to digitize a book (6/05/2007) Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, has developed a system that harnesses the power of CAPTCHA puzzles, the pictures of words that we have to decipher before registering at a website or making an online purchase. Currently, humans are wasting 150,000 hours solving 60 million+ CAPTCHA puzzles everyday. By chopping up scanned text into single words to be used as a new kind of CAPTCHA puzzle, dubbed reCAPTCHAs, von Ahn's system will allow potentially millions of people to assist in the Internet Archive's digitization efforts. (More at CMU.) |
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The four habits of highly effective librarians (6/03/2007) I think I've got 3 of 4 down. I wonder what Gilman has to say about information overload. |
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