MBL Beach, Woods Hole, Mass.

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A chilly day on the Marine Biological Laboratory Beach at Woods Hole, Mass.

Plane De-Icing, Willard Airport, Illinois

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The University of Illinois Willard Airport outside of Urbana-Champaign is an interesting little spot where the staff does a lot of multi-tasking. Here's a photo of sweeping the plane of snow (after de-icing) in February 2007

2007.02 Data Curation

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Data Curation discussion at the University of Illinois, February 9, 2007.

The UIUC/GSLIS program held a meeting of the Data Curation Education Program that brought together a number of stakeholders for their thoughts on this important 21st century concept.

2007.02 Digital Curation Education Program

The University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science is working on an interesting new program for education dedicated in Data Curation.

More information on the project at:
Sci @ GLIS

This was my trip to Seattle

2007.02 EoL Meeting, MBL

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Dave Remsen visiting the uBio offices during the Encyclopedia of Life meeting at MBL.

The meeting was held to discuss the informatics component of the Encyclopedia of Life project.

2007.02 BHL Meeting

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Biodiversity Heritage Library meeting held at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

A large contingent of BHL library members, and a number of observers, met to discuss the emerging BHL and where it was going.

Mad Fish

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The Cat in the Hat's 50th birthday was celebrated at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Seattle.

So much action in only 236 words!

Changed Priorities Ahead

While at the OCLC Blogger's Salon last night, I ran into Stephen Abrams and we commented on the "Changed Priorities" road sign in London.

I was in Knightsbridge in January 2005 and saw this sign and found it quite apt. So, I was surprised when at the 2006 ASIDIC I saw Stephen had also taken the same shot (see his fabulous presentation here.

Obviously, this is a clear message to the information profession. So, go out there and change your priorities!

World's Largest Book

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Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom" weighs in at more than 130 pounds and stands at five by seven feet. The book features more than 100 pages of spectacular images of Bhutan. This copy is at the Internet Archive in San Francisco

How many issues in a volume?

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Biodiversity Heritage Library members and Internet Archive staff discuss the difficulties of seriality

Columbia, SC Starbucks - Night!

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A quite nice Starbucks in Five Points neighborhood. It was a hot night out and I sat by the fountain while drinking a coffee.

Strom Thurmond

Outside the South Carolina State Capitol with the statue of Strom Thurmond striding off into the distance! It was a pretty hot day in Columbia when I visited the State Capitol. The grounds were quite nice.

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