Category — General

Anniversary:
I feel like the luckest person in the world.
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rochelle lasted two years working in a library… amazing… just utterly, amazing! congratulations.

Whoa.:

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Go Axel Go!

Study:
mine turned out:
You have completed the African American – European American IAT.
Your Result
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.
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so i’m not biased according to this study. the key is to go really fast, don’t think about it, just go.

Proving Who I Am:
Valentin Groebner, Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe, translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck (New York: Zone books, 2007) is about the “histories and prehistories of identification and its documentation” (p. 8).
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this looks like it could be a great book to read for those interested in the histories of identification.

Team Ethno:
Following a problem with our service provider we have moved teamEthno-Online to www.teamEthno-Online.org.uk

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this is an interesting project, it is about ethnography and programming. some nice theory too.

Getting Into College, Strumming His Own Tune – New York Times:
“If you’re not dreadfully concerned with how you’re going to turn out,” he put it, “you’ll probably turn out fine.”

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this guy’s got it together… in the right way.

Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft – Social Design for the Web:
Wikis in Plain English

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handy introduction to wikis and their use.

Internet Library of Early Journals:

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this is a great idea. it is 18th and 19th century journal digitization from the U.K.

UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy: UNESCO-CI:
UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy

The e-learning portal will cover a number of self-learning modules, such as:

* Information Literacy,
* Information Literacy Models and Standards,
* Information Communication Technology (ICT),
* Information Services for the Disabled People,
* Information Literacy Assessment,
* Freedom of Information/Right to Information,
* Lifelong Learning and Development of Life Skills,
* Sample Information Literacy Programmes for Library and Community Information Centre Users.

The portal will be developed using Moodle Open Source software, an internationally renowned Courseware Management System (CMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

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ayeee the horror….