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Comment on Essay, “Falling In,” to appear in Kore Press anthology, “Powder” by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:18:28 +0000

Jonathan, I know… I feel that, too.

Comment on Essay, “Falling In,” to appear in Kore Press anthology, “Powder” by Jonathon

Jonathon — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:36:45 +0000

Three months later, WC is up to 54 copies of BCN2. Six are within 250 miles of Pittsburgh. None is less than 100 miles. Still, progress, I suppose.

Comment on Just Published: “David, Just as he was,” White Crane, Summer 2007 by Free Range Librarian › Remembering David on World AIDS Day

Free Range Librarian › Remembering David on World AIDS Day — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:25:32 +0000

[...] wrote about our friendship in an essay, “David, Just as He Was,” which was published in the Summer 2007 issue of White Crane, a small, elegant literary [...]

Comment on It’s not too late to bake fruitcake by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:27:59 +0000

Years ago I got rid of an old edition of Joy of Cooking that had all the good candy recipes. WHAT WAS I THINKING…

Comment on It’s not too late to bake fruitcake by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:27:06 +0000

I upgraded Wordpress last night and it clobbered some comments, so here’s one from Gayle:

My absolute favorite recipe. Three years ago we moved and I mistakenly sold my New York Times Cookbook which had this recipe in it. EGAD!!!! Thank goodness and thank you, I found your recipe on line. The fruit is actually soaking in spiced rum as I’m writing this. Again, I’ll have my favorite Christmas treat that I had enjoy for many years except the previous three.

Comment on Over the river and through the blogs… by Amy

Amy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:18:01 +0000

Thank you for introducing Feel-Good Librarian. She’s a rare gem! I enjoyed your entire post, too.

Comment on The death of peer review by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:24:12 +0000

Dale, you raise the most important questions, including how we empower expertise in a new environment.

Comment on It’s not too late to bake fruitcake by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:28:03 +0000

Catherine, thanks — corrected! I was worried I had made an error of fact (really a bad idea in a recipe) and I appreciate having this error pointed out.

Fiona, if you are an Army of One in the fruitcake-eating department, it wouldn’t hurt to cut this recipe in half (and I’m sorry if you measure things differently in Australia — I didn’t check :> )

Comment on It’s not too late to bake fruitcake by Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:37:18 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Time to get cooking

Comment on The death of peer review by Dale

Dale — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:55:32 +0000

I’m not commenting on the Annoyed Lib. I just can’t bring myself to care. (I mean, to care about that person.)

However, I am a reviewer for a journal in our fine profession (RUSQ). Is the journal perfect? No, it’s not.

But I think it’s a good journal and I think it adds to the knowledge about librarianship. I know that the peer review process works well there, as I’ve seen articles be greatly improved, authors encouraged, hypotheses tightened, and so on.

On the downside, the process is very slow. And there is always a shortage of reviewers who will do more than just say “publish as is” or “don’t publish”.

As a working library administrator, I find very little time to turn to the research literature. I do read a few journals, but not as many as I might.

I read a lot of news about libraries (and share interesting bits with colleagues), a little opinion, a even less research. Maybe I’m part of the problem with journals of research–that is, who is reading them?