Month: November 2009

because I don't think I've done one of these either recently or ever… at least not effectively. Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle. Step 2: Post the first line from the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track… Continue reading One of those lyric song guessing game things

Okay, so I don't much enjoy being sick. Sure that's an understatement, but it's the truth. I simply don't have time to be less than 100%. Which is, of course, also ridiculous, but the truth. I'm far too busy for that — now I realize that it's my own fault that I am as busy… Continue reading Sick, with what seems to be a cold, but it's still a mild inconvenience!

Also in early October, I volunteered at the AACL (American Association of Corpus Linquistics) conference at the UofA (in Lister Centre). Since the organizers knew I was planning on attending Mark Davies' Humanities Computing Colloquium on the 9th, I was given the opportunity to guide him across campus to our talk and back to the… Continue reading On Mark Davies' Talks (Oct 9-10, 2009)

During the week of October 5-11, Dr. Howard D. White from Drexel University's College of Information Science was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta's School of Library and Information Studies. He presented three excellent lectures during this time period. The first lecture was on the use of author-centered citation data. This lecture explained… Continue reading On Dr. Howard D. White's first talk (SLIS Distinguished Visitor)

Check out my guest post on the LibraryRoad Blog! This time it is about my group's field trip to the Alberta Legislature Library. Many thanks again to Maria for creating this avenue for blog posting about our library adventures.