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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
Posted in Library school
Tagged book banning, book challenge, how to, presentation, Prezi, succeed
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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
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
Posted in Books, Library school
Tagged book banning, challenged book, defense, obscenity, offensive language
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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
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
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
Posted in Library school, Uncategorized
Tagged names, privacy, retelling, speech, third person, truths
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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
Posted in Books, Library school, Writing
Tagged book review, criticism, Promises to Keep, William Fisher
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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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Tagged big science, data deluge, dh201, long tail, research data
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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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Tagged big science, data deluge, dh201, long tail, research data
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