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The first episode of Greg Schwartz' brain child, Uncontrolled Vocabulary, an internet streaming audio show for libary discussion, was last night. You'll hear me once or twice. A call-in show is not my best forum for expression (you're reading my best forum for expression), but that's okay. Sometimes, life really is just about showing up and being part of things. I had a great time hanging out with other librarians and I'm looking forward to doing it again next week -- same time (Thursday at 10PM EDT, 9PMCDT), same place.
You don't have to call in to participate. You can simply listen. You can register and download the software so that you can also use the typed chat feature and see the list of participants. You can listen to the MP3 recording after the live event. All of that is explained on the Uncontrolled Vocabulary blog.
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A couple of games via Off the Mark to amuse me on a day when my best friend is a Kleenex box. Both quite on track.
Which Punctuation Mark Are You?
You are comfortable around others. While you don't have to go out every night, yet you take pride in being easy to get along with. This should not, however, be misconstrued as believing (as many do) that you are without subtlety. In fact, you have the power to inform the anal retentive that, indeed, they are discussing an anal-retentive issue. Who else can do that? Quotation marks intimidate you a little bit.
| Link: The Which Punctuation Mark Are You Test written by Gazda on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Well, well, well. How did someone like you end up with the least common personality type of them all? In a group of 100 Americans, only 0.5 others would be just like you. You really are one of a kind... In fact, I do believe that that's one of the definitions for the word "FREAK."
Freak's not such a bad word to describe you actually.
You are deep, complex, secretive and extremely difficult to understand. If that doesn't scream "Freak!" I don't know what does. No-one actually knows the REAL you, do they?
You probably have deep interests in creative expression as well as issues of spirituality and human development.
You've probably even been called a "psychic" before, because of your uncanny knack to understand and "read" people without quite knowing how you do it. Don't fret. You're not actually psychic. That would make you special and you'll never accomplish that.
You're also quite possible the most emotional of them all, so don't take this all too hard. Nevertheless you most definitely have the strangest personality type and that's not necessarily a good thing.
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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.
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The other personality types are as follows...
Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
| Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
I'm a Board Member on the Liber8 Library Advisory Board for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. I've never been on a Board. Apparently it means I get lunch, great professional discussion, and schwag. The Federal Reserve Bank has cool schwag--a baggie of shredded money!
Don't know much about the Fed? This is my third visit since starting library school, so I'm finally figuring it out. Here's an easy explanation. The Fed shows up in the news when the Board of Governors sets the discount rate (not quite so simple an explanation) and twice a year when the Chairman of the Board of Governors (currently Ben Bernanke, formerly Alan Greenspan) speaks before Congress as required by law.
Each of the 12 branches of the Federal Reserve Bank has a specialty--San Francisco specializes in the Pacific Rim, Dallas has immigration, etc. The St. Louis Fed specializes in data. Since the Fed is a quasi-federal agency, that data is freely available. The data is compiled by economists for economists, not particularly accessible to the rest of us.
This is where Liber8 comes in--a website designed to be a portal for librarians and other non-economists interested in economic data. Before Liber8, I might have started at the overwhelming Bureau of Labor Statistics website or the confusing FedStats website. Liber8 will lead me to those sites as necessary, but through a directory structure that makes more sense to me as a librarian.
The reason the Liber8 Library Advisory Board met this week was to discuss a new effort by the librarians responsible for Liber8--an e-newsletter. We saw a couple of drafts and it looks really exciting. Each month's issue (9 times a year--roughly when schools are in session) will have a theme and include a brief (2 or 3 paragraphs) explanatory article signed by the economics researcher who wrote it, links to recent articles about that theme that are selected to be accessible to the non-economist, and links to free sources of data on that theme.
We saw these newsletter drafts in print form and they fit on two pages. The plan, however, is for them to be distributed electronically. You can guess my significant contribution to the discussions: RSS feed. Watch for it in August!
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Following up on my Organizing for Conference Programming post, here is some advice for myself next year (as chair of the MLA Computer and Information Technology SIG) and for Robin Hastings (the officer coming along after me). This advice will be of some use to others participating in the Missouri Library Association and, to some degree, any state library association. I'm still fuzzy on some details. I hope to participate next year in at least these events so that I have better advice to pass on to Robin this time next year.
January - Stakeholder's Meeting. This introduces the parties to each other. Being at this meeting sends a signal that our SIG intends to be a player this year and gives us a heads up on the scheduling, including, I suspect, how to do budget requests.
March - send out a Call For Proposals for programs for the conference.
April - submit the proposed programs to meet the deadline.
May - Stakeholder's Meeting. This is where the preliminary schedule is presented and discussed.
May - Board Meeting. The preliminary schedule is approved at this board meeting.
May - After the Board Meeting, let speakers know that their program has been approved.
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