GRISTLE
(Gathering of Random
Investigations into SciTech Library Enigma’s)
"When
you’re chewing on life’s gristle
don’t grumble, give a whistle…"
(From the song
“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” – by Eric Idle,
1979, in Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
Librarians
are good at detective work, putting individual pieces of a puzzle together,
knowing when pieces don’t fit, doggedly hunting down missing pieces, and
deciphering which parts are correct and which are not. But some puzzles take longer to complete
than others. So, GRISTLE is a place
to park projects that are still being chewed on, as well as other miscellaneous
things to keep in a handy spot.
Project
Pages –
constantly under construction
o
Careers in
Academic & Science Librarianship
o
Comptes Rendus – information on tracking down journal citations
in this series – short
version (41kb) & detailed
version (56.5kb) – Microsoft Word files
o
Crisis in Scientific
Publishing
o
Current
Awareness and Professional Aids for Science Librarians
o
Interpersonal
Skills Self-Assessment
o
Science
Librarian Success Stories
o
Thumb
Rules – Donald
B. Reynolds, Jr., provides some excellent rules for working together
harmoniously – #1 on the list is “Each of us has control of our own
lives.”
Library-Related
Links
o
Contacts
for Book/Journal Donations – this site has good information on
donating “used” materials to needy libraries worldwide.
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False
Oracles:
Consumer Reaction to Learning the Truth About How Search Engines Work (Consumer
Reports WebWatch – June 30, 2003)
o
Issues in
Science & Technology Librarianship
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Librarian’s Lao
Tzu: The Book of the Library and
Its Ways
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LibrarySpot – for quick reference questions
o
LIBREF-L searchable
archives (listserv for reference librarians)
o
Linda Hall Library
of Science, Engineering & Technology – privately funded library in
the Kansas City metro area.
Extensive collections of technical reports & journals.
o
Professionalism
and Librarians –
written by James E. Manasco and Reinette
F. Jones in 2002. Published in Kentucky
Libraries, v. 66, issue 4, p. 18-19.
Main focus is on acceptance and tolerance of “eccentrics” in
librarianship, but along the way they discuss the meaning of professionalism in
librarianship in general.
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Science Watch – formerly Sci-Bytes from ISI – contains information on
“high impact” research universities and journals ranked by impact
in select disciplines.
o
STS
Professional Continuing Education on the Web – database
training guides and professional education tools.
o
STS-L searchable
archives (listserv for SciTech librarians)
o
Those Dark Hiding
Places:
The Invisible Web Revealed
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TRAIL
(Technical Report Archive & Image Library)
Extracurricular
Activities
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Curious George
o
Eggplant
o
League Standing
Sheets – current leagues:
ISU Faculty (#3048) and Roundhouse (#14871)
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Make-A-Wish Foundation
– Donating
airline miles
o
Quotations: My Favorite
– also Library Quotations
and Scientific Quotations
Created: July 25, 2003
Links checked: February 24, 2013
Last updated: March 10, 2013
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