Monthly Archives: October 2006

On Stereotyping

I’m not saying stereotyping is a good thing, let’s get that straight upfront. But if you sit down to watch network primetime with any member of the legal, medical, or forensic science professions, you will quickly learn that librarians aren’t … Continue reading

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How Do You Know Whether You’re Early or Late?

The conventional wisdom in adopting new tech is “Neither an early adopter nor a latecomer be.” But in our ramped up “faster” world, how do you know when you’re one or the other? I think it was just last fall … Continue reading

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Ingenta Shares Holdings with Google Scholar

This little note was squeezed into the middle of an All My Eye entry about Ingenta at the Frankfurt Book Fair: We’ve been working closely with Google for over 2 years now, and the latest development is that we will … Continue reading

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New Bird in Colombia

It’s my birthday, which means it’s time for another diversion. This guy (girl?), a YariguĂ­es brush finch, comes in my favorite colors and lives in “the last remnants of a remote Colombian cloud forest,” according to the National Geographic News … Continue reading

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iPRES Conference

I said in my last entry that I planned to blog the Digital Preservation Management Workshop after the fact. Well, it’s going to take me a little while to process the wealth of information I learned (as represented by a … Continue reading

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