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Presentation and interview
Well, I had decided to hold off on posting about this, but…oh hell, I figured why not. I am interviewing on Wednesday for the position of Head of Reference & Instruction at UTC.
As I understand it, I am one of three that is interviewing for the position, and I am the only internal candidate. I don’t know anything about my competition, which is one reason that I hadn’t talked about the interview and such before. You never know how much research they are doing on UTC, and it just felt ethically…icky….to talk about it without really knowing who was reading. But I’m interviewing on Wed., and my presentation is done, and there’s nothing really that will change twixt hither and yon. If my competition finds the blog, and uses the access to my presentation, well then…so be it.
So here it is, if anyone is interested: Information Literacy & the First Year Student, my presentation to the faculty.
Wish me luck on Wednesday!
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Join the Space Force!
Just wanted to draw some eyes towards the Home of the Space Force, the website of the novel of a good friend of mine, Ian Taylor. The novel is called Spindle, and it’s a phenomenal first novel…funny as hell. It’s a sci-fi comedy, very British (although he’s not). It reminds me of Douglas Adams/Terry Pratchett/Monty Python sort of stuff, but in space.
If you’ve got some left-over money from Christmahanukwanza, this would be a great place to drop some of it.
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links for 2006-01-06
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Last gasp of the christmas spirit
My family’s white german shepard, Dixie, gets into the xmas spirit.
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links for 2006-01-05
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metablog
I hate metablogging as much as the next guy, but here I go again. 🙂 Blogging is likely to be really light over the next week, given that I will be involved in an ongoing interview process, and working my ass off with research and presentation prep.
I’ll probably use the blog to think out loud about some information literacy concepts….do any of my readers have thoughts about the concept? What does the phrase mean to you? In what ways has the concept of “literacy” changed in the last 5 years? As a secondary question: what do you wish you had been told about research/the library when you were a freshman, that you later found useful?
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When the president talks to god
Looking around the ‘net for a copy of the new(er) Bright Eyes single, When the President Talks to God.
Found it on iTunes for 99 cents.
Then I found this link, through the publisher, for a free iTunes download of the song.
Thought to myself, “Self…that is really odd. Why would the publisher provide a free download through the iTunes interface, when iTunes charges for it? Why not simply have the iTunes link be a free download? Or instead provide an MP3 download on your site rather than pushing people through iTunes…”
Just another oddity in the world of DRM/copyright.