Archive for December, 2005

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Grades are in

Grades are in. I got 2 A’s and a B. Which makes my GPA 3.7. (No plus/minus system for grad students) It was a rough semester, I’m happy to do as well as I did. The statistics class, Quantitative Research I, was especially hard but at least I got a B. I’m taking Quantitative [...]

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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

The Lovesong of A. Radical Militant Librarian

Via Librarian’s Rant and LAW-LIB.
The Lovesong of A. Radical Militant Librarian
By: Robert S. Ryan - 12/16/05
Oh, I am just an RML
I’m militant. I’m radical.
I plot to thwart the FBI
When I am on sabbatical.
I hold the most bizarre beliefs,
Perhaps they are exotic -
Due process, law and privacy
Can still be Patriotic
That there are ways that we can [...]

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Monday, December 19th, 2005

Radical Militant Librarians

This memo has made about as many waves as the Hysterical Librarians by Ashcroft, but I haven’t seen an ALA press release about it yet.
And following in the footsteps of the Hysterical Librarians button there are also Radical Militant Librarians buttons. A red version just says Radical Militant Librarians (I got a few [...]

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Saturday, December 17th, 2005

He didn’t have one before?

Tim Berners Lee ( yeah, the Web inventor) has a blog now. Shouldn’t the Web go into a feedback loop now and implode or something?

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Friday, December 16th, 2005

Library Stories of 2005

Ok, so I’ve fallen off the LIS blogging bandwagon the last little bit…. To make up for it here are the top library related stories of 2005 from LISNews.

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