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		<title>Poll: What Video Card Should I Buy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this isn&#8217;t library related but I need a new videocard so I can keep geeking it up. Meaning play games on my computer. What should I buy? I need some suggestions&#8230;
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		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1643</link>
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		<title>Seven Strategies for Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back I did a &#8220;Lunch n&#8217; Learn&#8221; presentation for MoDOT staff on basic internet searching. I&#8217;m still not sure how useful it was (the presentation was very high-level), but I&#8217;m posting it here anyway. Lift, borrow, or plagiarize to your heart&#8217;s content.
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		<title>Is Free Information Really &#8220;Free?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve lived Ted Kaczynski style this past year, nobody in their right mind would say it&#8217;s been a harmonious one &#8211; politically, socially, or economically. I guess you can say a lot of people are pissed off. They&#8217;re pissed at heathcare reform, they&#8217;re pissed at the economy, and they&#8217;re pissed at a gazillion other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1574</link>
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		<title>Competetive Intelligence Without an MBA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took a quick trip to Ellis Library to read up on competitive intelligence.  Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but the majority of what I found was managerial business stuff that an MBA student would read. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Business and administration books have their value, even though I&#8217;m not interested in them, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1572</link>
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		<title>Existentalism for Librarians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I hinted that working as a solo librarian was making me feel alienated.
After reading a colleague&#8217;s post at Library Attack  I&#8217;m convinced that others feel the same way too. In fact, I&#8217;m willing to bet that any librarian who dosen&#8217;t work in a traditional environment will likely suffer from some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1559</link>
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		<title>A Year of Running</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year was not my best running year. Probably, the only worse years I&#8217;ve had were 2008 and before I started in High School. For whatever reason, I got started on the right foot around last February but fell apart by summer. Bigtime. Anyway, I&#8217;ve picked it up again and should be ready for Chicago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1522</link>
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		<title>Embedded Librarianship: An Ugly Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embedded Librarianship has gotten a good rap -  in part &#8211; thanks to patrons who opt to use the Internet instead of visiting libraries. This is a good thing, I think, but not many Librarians actually work with their patrons. Not surprisingly, then, the practical problems associated with being embedded don&#8217;t seem to be very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1517</link>
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		<title>How I Became A Librarian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During last summer&#8217;s  SLA Conference a colleague of mine summed up how most people become librarians. &#8220;We never expect to become one,&#8221; he said &#8220;but somehow we all end out scanning books anyway.&#8221; Ok, he didn&#8217;t exactly say that but his point was more or less the same &#8211; few people plan on the profession [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1502</link>
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		<title>Knowledge Mapping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I&#8217;m a bit of a pragmatist. Vague or trendy topics rarely command my attention and &#8220;knowledge management&#8221; is one such thing. Anyway, last week I had a chance to see a few knowledge maps &#8211; they are essentially visualizations of communication practices &#8211; and I realized just how useful that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1473</link>
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		<title>No to ASKPro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late yesterday, I found out that my professional organization&#8217;s membership &#8211; the Special Library Association &#8211; voted down it&#8217;s name change proposal. The reasons were fairly obvious. While a most members think that we need to branch out to other disciplines (which we do) the alternative name, well, sucked. The Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1469</link>
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		<title>The Value of Transportation Libraries, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 &#124; Part 2 
About a month ago I made a post on the value of transportation libraries. Specifically, I calculated my library&#8217;s return on investment (ROI) for inter-library loans and cataloging service. In this post, I take a similar approach but focus on two additional areas &#8211; circulation and reference services. Seeing as my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1372</link>
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		<title>What About Technical Services?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague e-mailed me the other day about my ROI numbers. Being a Cataloger, he pointed out that my technical services figures seem to be low, and as such I&#8217;d like to clarify a few things. This means presenting an updated figure. When I provided my time estimates they did not include weeding, sorting, shelving, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Transportation Libraries, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 &#124; Part 2 
When I started work at MoDOT one of the first things I did was read through my predecessors quarterly reports. Normally, this would have been an unnecessary (and tedious) task, but fortunately it wasn&#8217;t the case. Her narrative prominently outlined my library&#8217;s return on investment.
The catch is that she cited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1275</link>
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		<title>The Written Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it&#8217;s nice to know that no matter how much formats change other things always have staying power. The written word is one of those things. Check out Wordle. It&#8217;s art. It&#8217;s also very cool.

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		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1318</link>
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		<title>The Association Formerly Known as SLA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the Special Library Association&#8217;s leadership announced a new name&#8230; which they recommend we adopt as part of their ongoing realignment project. Henceforth, there is a chance I&#8217;ll be a member of the Association of Knowledge Professionals or &#8220;ASKPro.&#8221; The chance is small, for sure, but it&#8217;s not completely out of the question. Like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.amillion.us/archives/1268</link>
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