in my information retrieval class discussing different forms of truncation
“i had some embedded truncation during a movie last night.
i took a nap.”
funny and a good prof!
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i love waking up in the morning to great items in my RSS aggregator. like this one, about LIS students:
We’ve begun to make it easier for change to come and for them to have a stronger voice in our march to freedom of information and enlightenment for all. We’d like to pick and choose among [...]

and i love her!
her name is Bette (all my compys have names. yup, that’s how i roll.) and she is so wonderfully functional.
(and no, my cat is not huge, that’s really how small Bette is.)

i’ve been using the XO to email, use the Google suite of fun stuff, update this blog, [...]

so everyone and their dog is talking about the demise of newspapers. the topic has even made it into pop culture, most recently in the newest season of The Wire (great line from the 20 minute promo: “You don’t do more with less. You do less with less.”) and a recent episode of The Simpsons [...]

… but maybe not the best use of my time.
to do today:

finish berloody CAIS proposal so that i can tell folks about chat reference in SL (don’t get me wrong, i really wanna go and think my research is interesting – but CFPs kill me)
wade through the pile of amazing submissions to Library Student Journal [...]

had some interesting chats with library muckety-mucks over the holidays, trying to figure out what people are looking for from recent LIS graduates.
from what i can tell it all boils down to one thing: professionalism.

don’t send in a 1 page c.v.
in your letter of application, make links between what the job is looking for and [...]