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Follow Along

I’m a HUGE fan of Twitter. I know that many of my colleagues, associates, and people in general still don’t get it. They don’t understand how a continuing stream of bits of information could be...

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Repeat After Me

Preparing for some upcoming work, I took part in a webinar on systematic reviews yesterday morning. It was a brief, but good, review/overview of the process and the roles librarians and/or information...

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Data Hoarder

Next time you have to teach data management to a group of researchers or students, here’s a very funny piece you can share (with the right audience, of course). Thanks to my colleague, Katie Houk, at...

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TEDMED at Home

My workplace is live streaming the terrific annual event, TEDMED, this week. Many of the talks eventually become available through the TED website, so if you’re not able to watch now, do check in at a...

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Candy Cane 11: Are we leaping (like the lords) to conclusions?

 December 11 - Managing Information and/or Managing Data I admit that I struggle greatly with how easily we librarians interchangeably use the terms information and data. I believe that there are...

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Do you REALLY want it all?

Feeling the Big Squeeze? Remember that even a squeeze box can make a pretty song. There’s a billboard across the street from my office building, promoting the hospital that’s affiliated with the...

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Is Big Data Missing the Big Picture?

When I was defending my graduate thesis a number of years ago, I was asked by one of the faculty in attendance to explain why I had done “x” rather than “y” with my data. I stumbled for a bit until I...

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Finding Hope in a Haystack

[Before I was a librarian, before I was an exercise physiologist, I was a minister. I was recently asked, after many years, to serve as a guest preacher one Sunday. I would usually share this on my...

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