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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Free blogs for Educators at edublogs.org (2/28/2008) Just learned about this website. Its features include NO advertising and the ability to embed video and create podcasts. |
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Univ of Washington computer science students exploring social and technological implications of RFID (2/27/2008) Project leader Magda Balazinska, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering, says, "Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people's privacy at the same time," Balazinska said. "We want to get a handle on the issues that would crop up if these systems become a reality." What an extraordinary project! Can't wait to read the followups. (Via Wired via IEEE.) |
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Survey of librarian bloggers (2/26/2008) Count me among the 40 percent of librarians who say that blogging helps them to keep up in their profession :) |
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Harvard faculty to put all articles in Open Access repository (2/14/2008) "This is a large and very important step," said computer science professor Stuart Shieber. "It should be a very powerful message to the academic community that we want and should have more control over how our work is used and disseminated." The main reason given for this move to support open access is the ever-rising prices of journals. |
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Where's Tango? among most challenged children's books of 2006 (2/14/2008) I have no particular attachments to penguins, but one of the easiest ways to get a children's book on my radar (and my shopping list) is to challenge it. |
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