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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German Wikipedia dead tree edition (4/23/2008) Bertelsmann AG is going to publish a volume containing the 50,000 most popular entries, available September 2008. Beate Varnhorn, head of publishing at Bertelsmann Encyclopedia Institute, said publishing all the entries didn't make sense, but "a yearbook really can be a documentation of the zeitgeist." |
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Britannica widgets (4/22/2008) Stick them on your website for dynamic content. Free for all web publishers. |
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Proposed cuts to California's higher education system in the news (4/17/2008) If the cuts go through, UCs and CSUs would have to decrease student enrollment by 27,000 over the next 2 and a half years. Cutbacks would affect low-income, first generation, and minority students as well as California's economy by depriving employers of educated workers. |
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Half of LA County libraries hold gaming events at least monthly (4/17/2008) Also, Friday, April 18 is National Gaming @ Your Library Day. |
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Georgia State sued over e-reserves (4/17/2008) This is huge. The suit was filed by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and SAGE Publications, with support from the Association of American Publishers. No statement has been issued by Georgia State yet. Also on NYT and Chronicle.com. |
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JK Rowling copyright/fair use trial (4/17/2008) If you haven't been keeping track, the trial surrounds publisher RDR's intention to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon, written by Steven Vander Ark, based on Vander Ark's fansite of the same name. Rowling and Warner Bros. argue that the Lexicon was plagiarized from Rowling's own work. According to the PW article, this case will probably drag on for some time. |
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See Dead People['s Books] (4/16/2008) Compare your reading tastes to those of famous dead people, such as Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Marie Antoinette, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Via SLJ.) |
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Fire Vox is... (4/04/2008) ...an open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox. Very cool! |
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Stuff Librarians Like (4/04/2008) Darn! I'm 5 days too late to register stufflibrarianslike.com! It was registered on March 31 by Blake Carver of LISNews and LISHost. And I had already come up with several things librarians like: sensible shoes, Google, old books, Harry Potter  ... Maybe I'll suggest them as topics to Blake? :)
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Library 2.0: YouCat (4/02/2008) Check out this hilarious April Fool's joke! Disclaimer: I really don't think tagging will result in mass unemployment for catalogers. That's like saying the Internet will result in mass closing of libraries. |
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