Category Archives: Library school

My First Prezi

I finally made a stab at creating a Prezi presentation. This is a pretty tame Prezi with little animation and a basic template, but I think it will do for a first try. Any suggestions? Do let me know if … Continue reading

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Reusing Content

Remember this post? It talks about how some of the pieces that appear on Books, Libs, Scripts originate as class assignments. (And if you didn’t remember, that’s OK. Neither did I.) Since writing that blog post, I have continued to re-purpose … Continue reading

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Defending a Challenged Book

An assignment for a class on “Censorship, Youth, and the Politics of Reading” that I’m taking this quarter has us write a defense for a challenged book of our choice. I found the exercise to be quite fun as it … Continue reading

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Wild Citation Chase

I was looking for a citation to the legal rule that To establish a successful copyright infringement claim, [a plaintiff] must show that he owns the copyright and that defendant copied protected elements of the work. Because, in most cases, … Continue reading

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On Forced Rereading

I will be attempting to write a 25-page paper in one fell sweep in about two weeks or so. Hubris, you say. What could a person possibly have to say in 25 pages that is not a full blown piece … Continue reading

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Talk and Tell — a Privacy Intrusion?

Suppose you have a talk with somebody, and something in the conversation kindles a discussion that you have with somebody else later. Is it a privacy intrusion to mention the first person’s name in talking to the second person? Is … Continue reading

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My First Book Review

I wrote my first ever book review for a class this quarter. I may be a late bloomer when it comes to these critical “a book review is not a book report” genre, but now having had the experience, I … Continue reading

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Analysis of the Proposed UC Open Access Mandate

I did a presentation on the proposed UC Open Access Mandate last quarter. Since comments on the proposal are due this Friday and, if ubiquitous positive, will decide the fate the mandate, I thought I throw my presentation on here.

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DH201 Post #7: Big Data, Second Draft

OK, here’s a more coherent entry for my Digital Humanities Encyclopedia project. The term big data is actually descriptive of the underlying phenomenon to which it refers. Big data refers to the streams of bits, numbers, texts, images, interactions, stimuli, … Continue reading

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DH201 Post #6: Big Data

In addition to different on different teams that work on different tasks for the final project, each person in our class is responsible for contributing a piece of content to the encyclopedia. My piece of content, i.e. my two cents, … Continue reading

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