Science Librarian at Penn State: Comments

Comment on "Easy Research"

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:05:46 -0500

Yep, I hear you! BTW, have you seen this new open peer-review site: http://www.peerevaluation.org/ . It's got some highly reputable researchers behind it, including our very own Lee Giles.
--Patricia

- PATRICIA M HSWE

Comment on "Reframing Academic Leadership (first 100 pages)"

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:49:33 -0500

interesting about advocacy vs. inquiry - in many situations they go hand in hand. I think you can have inquiry without advocacy but I don't think you can have advocacy without inquiry. But even then, inquiry will probably lead to advocacy.

- Marcy Bidney

Comment on "November C&RL with my impressions and thoughts"

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:02:57 -0500

Thanks John. Another job well done.

- RUSSELL HALL

Comment on "Reference trends from 1970s to 2000s"

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:06:03 -0500

Neither Wikipedia nor Google get any action pre 1999, so there is not much of a way to compare. However it looks like while discussion of Wikipedia is fading in the past 2 years, Google is trending up again after a dip in 2007.

- JOHN MEIER

Comment on "Reference trends from 1970s to 2000s"

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:58:41 -0500

Test "Wikipedia" and "Google" ? Bandage your wrists first, or ask a colleague to remove all sharp objects from the room, first.

- CHRISTOPHER WALKER

Comment on "May 2008 C&RL articles at a glance"

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:30:16 -0500

Ok, that means I need to get off my butt and read the Oud article. This whole issue has been sitting on top of my "to read" pile for a while now. Glad to hear it's a good one.

- RUSSELL HALL

Comment on "Quick post about myself"

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:24:33 -0500

Congrats!

- Russ Hall

Comment on "Quick post about myself"

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:21:51 -0500

John, congratulations. This is wonderful.

- Lisa German

Comment on "January 2008 C&RL articles at a glance"

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:16:01 -0500

As always, nice job. I'm going to check out the 11 endnotes in 13 sentences. That's got to be a record.

- Russ Hall

Comment on "2 Quick Questions"

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:32:36 -0500

Hello! You are absolutely inspirational! Found some of the content from 2004 and discovered how proactive you are in promoting science - will be featuring some of your work on a blog entry later today. :)

- podblack

Comment on "May 2007 C&RL articles at a glance"

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:46:11 -0500

John, I think you've found your true calling. You should do a "should be called" feature every month. Terrific!

- Russ Hall

Comment on "2 Quick Questions"

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:05:01 -0500

Yes, John, I read your blog and librarians at the Univ. of Illinois are tenure track faculty and there is a library school there. They interact quite a bit -- more in the last ten years than in the prior years. Library faculty teach at GSLIS and they are sometimes co-PIs on grants. The library employs many graduate students in library science.

- Lisa German

Comment on "2 Quick Questions"

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:22:52 -0500

I hate to be cynical, but doesn't it come down to money? Would a LIS school make money for Penn State? I tend to doubt it since the trend over the last, what, 20 years has been to close library schools. I'm going to dig around and find out the last time a new library school opened.

Couple that with the emergence of online MLIS programs offered by the existing schools and I just don't know that any university would have the incentive to open a new LIS school.

However, I'm very much willing to be convinced otherwise.

- Russ Hall

Comment on "2 Quick Questions"

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:35:23 -0500

@ Russ

> If so, I think you'd have to go larger and ask how Penn State could accommodate a whole LIS school.

Actually you have divined my true intentions in this post. Really I think it can grow out of IST and given the dynamic way that college came into being, I am hopeful that this would be a possibility. Let me know any thoughts y'all have on this too.

- John Meier

Comment on "2 Quick Questions"

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:15:53 -0500

I read your blog. I filter it into my google reader.
-Julie

- Julie

Comment on "2 Quick Questions"

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:33:02 -0500

1. Yes...I have it as a live bookmark in fact.

2. I was pretty sure the librarians at Pitt are tenure-line. So curiosity got the better of me and I gave their reference desk a call and the answer is: most of their full time librarians are tenure-line. I never worked there, I just went to school (undergrad and library school) there.

Now to go into pure speculation...I think that they are dis-similar. I think the library school faculty are off on their own and the "workaday" librarians perform similar functions to what we do here. I know they have at least one collaborative venture, which is the Hillman Library intern program that's run by Marnie Hampton. I wasn't fortunate enough to get into that program, but I met Marnie much later. If you're really interested, you could probably give her a call...she's pretty awesome.

How would Penn State accommodate them? That's a lot to ask in a little question. I suspect that you'd have to treat them differently in regard to tenure because they'd be teaching faculty. I don't think their process would be the same as ours. However, I'm wondering if that's what you mean by accommodate them or if you're talking about some larger accommodation. If so, I think you'd have to go larger and ask how Penn State could accommodate a whole LIS school.

- Russ Hall

Comment on "The information age is a cyberpunk dystopia"

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:07:15 -0500

I'm not sure which RPG you are talking about Comrade, uh I mean, Citizen. What would represent Friend Computer in the publishing world? Since I only have Red Clearance, I don't know.

I only played a few times

- John Meier

Comment on "The information age is a cyberpunk dystopia"

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:34:12 -0500

John, did you ever play the RPG Paranoia? I think it might be something more like that (except without the cloning :))

- Russ Hall

Comment on "Google's Peter Norvig on "Throwing more data at the problem""

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:24:59 -0500

David Weinberger makes a lot of the same points in defense of tagging in Everything is Miscellaneous; they may look noisy at first, but the signal gets much stronger as more tags are added because the malicious or irrelevant tags are drowned out by the good ones.

- Kevin

Comment on "Why video games in our academic library?"

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:11:18 -0500

Of course non-video games and food would work, though I do think that video games are very popular in comparison (well maybe not to food) The issues with food are there are even less spaces to have it and it is a money expenditure rather than an investment.

- John Meier