I started this post on BART on my way home from a Jeff Mangum concert and it was definitely an experience. The concert itself was good. Honestly, having never heard Jeff Mangum/Neutral Milk Hotel before I started dating B, it wasn’t on my radar. The band is good, not necessarily my cup of tea though…… Continue reading A lesson in collective nostalgic hysteria
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What is this #libday8 thing going on…I guess I should participate?
It’s been months since I wrote anything as part of the series Day in the Life of an Electronic Resources Librarian. What a better time to restart it than during #libday8 and talk about my week so far. Even though it’s only Tuesday, I feel like I’ve had a long week….lots of ebook processing going… Continue reading What is this #libday8 thing going on…I guess I should participate?
Tourism is a big deal okay?!?!
So it looks like the United States has finally decided to join the civilized world and have an advertising campaign promoting itself as a tourist destination. Granted, they didn’t really need such a campaign, as most of the world loved to come to America anyway (See: Ellis Island, “roads paved with gold”, etc….) but I’m sure it couldn’t hurt… Continue reading Tourism is a big deal okay?!?!
Connecting our ideas through physical hyper-links
There is a beauty to visualizing connections. I sometimes daydream and think of how things are connected and how they flow from one to the other. However, my daydreams have nothing on this book. This artist has created a book in which we can trace the connections between words and ideas through a physical thread.… Continue reading Connecting our ideas through physical hyper-links
Competency 6 – use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
Interpretation Some people might suggest that I am a hoarder. However, instead of hoarding physical objects, I hoard ideas and thoughts (as well as a heavy collection of links, as evidenced by my Delicious account and the variety of social bookmarking tools I use). However, since joining this program, I’ve realized that there should be… Continue reading Competency 6 – use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
Fin de Siecle Vienna
One of the best classes I ever took at UCLA was a seminar lead by a German PhD student. I also happened to meet a pretty good friend in that class. The topic was fin de siecle Vienna – turn of the century Vienna. Given that I took it just after the turn of THIS… Continue reading Fin de Siecle Vienna
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You’ve come across what could possibly be the best read of your life on the Internet. This is the professional blog of Andrew Carlos. Aspiring information nerd, former sociologist, full time culture addict. You’ll find in these posts a variety of topics, related to information science, society, cultural events, technology, other stuff. Throughout the year,… Continue reading About