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Block Capitals: Professionalism

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A Cambridge library blog. Friday, 22 July 2011. In an earlier post here, I said that I wanted to think about the relation between professionalism and a political commitment. Having since read two essays that deal with the matter and express ideas basically similar to each other, I thought I should at least go into more detail. John Pilger's essay 'Brainwashing the Polite, Professional and British Way'. Is inspired by Jeff Schmidt's book. His study of a country doctor, is another approach.). In Britain, l...

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Block Capitals: July 2011

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A Cambridge library blog. Wednesday, 27 July 2011. I decided my film wasn’t worth remaking. Anyway, the grapes were sour: screencasting hadn’t excited me. For what’s at bottom a series of menu choices, I wondered if the putative puzzled person would find it quicker to take in written instructions, and easier to refer back to them. But really, this only shows that I couldn’t think of a truly visual library computer task (the LibrarySearch. Tuesday, 26 July 2011. To mark those killed. In Oslo and on Utøya,.

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Block Capitals: June 2011

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A Cambridge library blog. Friday, 24 June 2011. Neither did Template Designer give me control over the text size, or font properties other than colour, to apply to the blog description. It didn't give me control over the text size to apply to date headers. And I couldn't have my blog title appear in capitals (which seemed important). On the other hand, you're free to edit the HTML template, where I could do these things. Oh all right—Nintendo games. I'll post later on making my blog. Labels: 9 July 2011.

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Block Capitals: Pushnote and Evernote

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A Cambridge library blog. Friday, 2 September 2011. On first sight I thought Pushnote didn't do much that was new; that it was another social bookmarking system like Delicious. I do like those systems: pivot browsing on tags and—better—usernames can sometimes introduce you to worthwhile new sites. I've long lost the habit of keeping a social bookmarking account current, though. I don't think I'm missing much. 9 September 2011 at 10:52. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Girl in the Moon. Hobbit Hole, The.

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Gareth 2.0: Shopping

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Tuesday, 27 September 2011. I was honoured to be presented with a book token at last week's Cam23 party. In case anyone is interested in what I did with it, I went to Heffers after work today and emerged with this:. It's not one of the ones I've read, and I have a minor Everyman fetish (am reading an Everyman edition of Chekhov at the moment), so I am very proud to have this item in my possession. When I read it, I will think of you. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Things 19 and 20.

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Views from the LibRhi: July 2011

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Views from the LibRhi. Sunday, 31 July 2011. Since I've already talked about Twitter and RSS feeds in an earlier post. I'm just going to add that I have been using Google Reader a little more over the last few weeks. It seems I've been converted now that I am following more blogs (some cpd23 and some Cam23 2.0 participants). For me, the most interesting part of Pushnote is the browser extension, so that you if you come across a website you can click on the Pushnote icon and see how users have rated a site.

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Block Capitals: Social bookmarking

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A Cambridge library blog. Friday, 9 September 2011. Is absolutely great. I wrote my library school dissertation on social bookmarking, where I considered the usefulness of tagging for academic information seeking, although I made my experiments in another system, Connotea. It's convenient to be able to reach your bookmarks from any web computer; it's interesting to view the data organised by tag or username (pivot browsing). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Girl in the Moon. Hobbit Hole, The.

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Block Capitals: Unusual punishments

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A Cambridge library blog. Thursday, 18 August 2011. I'm not going to sign that petition. I feel like a lot could be said about the mindset that, confronted with last week's appalling riots, conceives this petition as a relevant answer. (I don't mean all the signatories too. It's an angry, urgent time.) But this won't be the place. I'll just add that I'm not going to sign the other petition. Keep a DEAD BADGER. In the sink at all times').*. Notice borrowed from Alexei Sayle. Labels: crime and punishment.

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Block Capitals: LibraryThing

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A Cambridge library blog. Thursday, 15 September 2011. I, er, already catalogue my books, largely because I want to be able to see them as an ordered whole and, until I moved to a new flat with Margot last week, they were stacked vertically in no order in a cupboard. I have a master catalogue, ordered alphabetically by author, and a few subject catalogues, following the. Chicago Manual of Style. Bibliography rules. They're just Word documents for now, although I intend to convert them into XML.

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Block Capitals: Reflection on 23 Things

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A Cambridge library blog. Wednesday, 7 September 2011. Reflection on 23 Things. The Things I've continued to use after my first try are my blog and—mainly as a reader—Twitter. I'm certain I'll use Doodle again, probably Google Docs, possibly Evernote. I will make another effort to get into the habit of checking a feed reader: that must be the most painless way to top up your library current awareness. I've not used iGoogle since my Oscar Wilde quote gadget broke down. And I expect it will again.