Where the Rubber Hits the Road (Part II)
A fantastic recording, btw! When we first saw the request for proposals that ultimately secured the supplemental grant for an informationist and brought me into this work, we began to think about the...
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Really, she was both. Be both. Quick update (as promised) on my post from last week. As you might recall, I had a meeting scheduled with the folks from the Community Engagement Research (CER) Section...
View ArticleThe $64,000 Question (Odds and Ends)
My week of birthday celebration is behind me now and what a week it was, filled with a party and a holiday and a lecture to a data management class and a professional group board meeting. One is...
View ArticleSomething to SHOUT About!
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’m giving a lecture in a course on team science next week. Check out one of the objectives from the syllabus for the class! Now THIS is progress. When we can...
View ArticleWhat is it again that you do?
Have you ever noticed how if you’re thinking of something in particular, it begins appearing more often in your life? It happens all the time. If you’re thinking of some old song, it pops-up on the...
View ArticleNo Informationist is an Island
I recently had an article published in the Journal of eScience Librarianship, outlining my work as an informationist on the mammography intervention study – “A Librarian by Any Other Name” by Sally A....
View ArticleSomeday is TODAY!
Grab a Tiger by the Tail! (Photo: Kimberly Brown-Azzarello, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kb-a/) Several years ago, I was invited to be a part of a journal club that discussed topics related to...
View ArticleWhad’ya Know? (Not Much)
You may or may not be a fan of Michael Feldman’s radio show, “Whad’ya Know?” Me, I make more time for “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” and “A Prairie Home Companion,” but despite the fact that I rarely...
View ArticleThe Talented Mr. Ripley in the Library with the Candlestick
I’ve had a rotten week or at least the kind of week where too many things haven’t gone the way I’d like them to go; online conference applications, insurance company coverage changes, my puppy. I say...
View ArticleSo DO You Want to be a Data Scientist?
Last week, a colleague that I follow on Twitter retweeted a post from the blog, NatureJobs, titled , So you want to be a data scientist by Michael Koploy of SoftwareAdvice.com. The colleague who...
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