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eye candy.

7 April 2008 at 23:49 » Comments (0)

Collection of Penguin book covers, old and new. @Flickr.
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favorite new/changed lcsh of the week (12 march 2008)

5 April 2008 at 14:35 » Comments (3)

what if this is salient to my lit review??
150 Amateur architecture [May Subd Geog] [sp2008001492]
550 BT Architecture
I wonder if warrant for the creation of this heading came from books in the Who pooped in the park? series…
150 Animal droppings [May Subd Geog] [sp2007010638]
* 450 UF Animal dung
* 450 UF Animal scat
150 Captive […]



regarding popline.

5 April 2008 at 10:51 » Comments (3)

In a statement published yesterday, Michael J. Klag, the Dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health writes that has “directed that the POPLINE administrators restore “abortion” as a search term immediately.” He is also launching an inquiry to determine why the change occurred. And also:
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is […]



favorite new/changed lcsh of the week (march 19)

4 April 2008 at 9:21 » Comments (0)

given my reading lately, i’m all about “domestic space”
150 Domestic space in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2008000957]
150 First-wave feminism [May Subd Geog] [sp2008001557]
680 Here are entered works on the feminist movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that […]



welcome to america today.

3 April 2008 at 17:06 » Comments (1)

POPLINE is “the world’s largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.”
If you do a subject keyword search in POPLINE for abortion, the result is:
No records found by latest query.
If you do a subject keyword […]



reminder

3 April 2008 at 15:22 » Comments (0)

Today I was the guest speaker in Jeff Pomerantz’ digital libraries class. I spoke about personal information management and personal digital libraries. I had a rough morning and ended up leaving my drugs, my cell phone, and my notes at home. Oops. The session still went swimmingly sans notes, though I have a whole lot […]



thing i wish i had…

1 April 2008 at 10:25 » Comments (0)

…and/or wish I had the skills to make for myself:
So I downloaded the BookBurro Firefox extension last night. When you are looking at a page about a book, a little panel pops up and if you click the panel, it does a search of multiple online book vendors and libraries near you to see where […]