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Big Data Librarians Have Landed
We published a pretty special book this week – Amy Affelt’s The Accidental Data Scientist: Big Data Applications and Opportunities for Librarians and Information Professionals. I had a good feeling...
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Praise the book and pass the kohlrabi
Nan Badgett makes a great case for the indexing life in her new book, The Accidental Indexer. That’s not to say she doesn’t point out the perils, pitfalls, and personal suitability issues that anyone...
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The Day the Data Scientist Came To Town
I had the great pleasure last Tuesday of seeing one of ITI’s newest authors, Amy Affelt–she of The Accidental Data Scientist fame–when she came to New Jersey at the invitation of NJ SLA to receive the...
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The Scintillatin’ Cybrarian
I am always giddy as a schoolgirl when a new Information Today book debuts, and never more so than when the author is the remarkable Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis — the “scintillatin’ cybrarian” of the...
View ArticleReview of The Cybrarian’s Web
Here is an excellent review of The Cybrarian’s Web that ran in the Caribbean Library Journal. Key point: This text provides an interesting beginner’s guide for practical applications of Web 2.0 tools...
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Wishing You Peace and Happiness
To all our friends, everywhere around the world … to those we know and those we hope to meet … we send warm thoughts and wishes for the holiday season and throughout the New Year! Design and photo of...
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She never forgot it was ours
There’s a mind-boggling amount of publicly funded information out there — much of it useful, and most of it collected, organized, and made available by our government and its corps of dedicated...
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Planning to Retouch, Repair or Manipulate Digital Images?
Ernest Perez has a terrific new book out that describes the best of easy-to-use, free, and inexpensive apps for retouching, restoring, and manipulating digital images. Perez’s goal in writing Digital...
View ArticleAuthor Michael Gruenberg at Computers in Libraries 2016
CIL 2016 is over and I’m finally getting around to posting some video interviews with some of our authors. Here is Mike Gruenberg, author of Buying and Selling Information and why it’s important to...
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So long, it’s been good to know you
Last week, as I began cleaning out the drawers of the office I’ve worked in for about 15 of my 18 years at ITI, the refrain of a Woody Guthrie song got stuck in my head. No, not that most famous of...
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