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Thunder and rain and lightning and lakes

Rain was too irresistible tonight. (Or far more fun to explore than work on this lingering paper.) Here is the file: MayStorm

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First HASTAC blog entry up!

Earlier today I drafted and published my first blog post as a HASTAC Scholar. Our sponsors suggested that we use our first post to introduce ourselves to the community, and, well, my introduction had to get all thinky and turned

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Video: Why do librarians need a master’s?

Great video by a SLIS student at Syracuse, Dan Enders. Thirty-second answer to “Why does one need a master’s degree to become a librarian?” is proposed at minute 2:20. Enders addresses the question from a school media and teacher-librarian perspective.

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Video: Library School: Hurts So Good

New video using Xtranormal.com, which allows users to have their text acted out by animated avatars. This one pits the overly optimistic library student wannabe against the pessimistic dream-smasher. I believe a line I wrote in a paper was paraphrased

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Video: The Most Interesting Librarian in the World

Video made by Syracuse students using concepts and librarian stereotypes discussed in the typical Library and Information Science program.

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Video: The Masters of Library Science

Notice the “Shhhhh!” at minute 4:01. Most library videos seem to require at least one “Shhhh!”

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