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About the Book Banner
Jumbled Book Banner, 2011 About the new banner. To put your fears at rest (or not), these books really are in a jumbled pile and are sitting outside in the sun. In fact, they’re in a very large...
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Notes on the 2011 Oregon Library Association Conference
OLA 2011 Logo I attended the 2011 Oregon Library Association Conference (PDF of program), and came away with the following notes. It was a wonderful conference! One nice aspect about the OLA...
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Google’s New Algorithm
Google Headquarters Google just changed it algorithm for the better just in time for the weekend! In an announcement on the Google Blog yesterday, Google will now rank recent content higher on its...
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11-22-1963 (Book Review)
11-22-1963 By Roy Widing 2011 In his debut into the historical fiction genre, author Roy Widing has created a suspenseful short novel based on the historical facts of JFK’s assassination. Granted, the...
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Introduction to Modern Information Retreival (Book Review)
This excerpt is taken from the College & Research Libraries (C&RL) journal, March 11, 2011 (vol 72, no. 2). G.G. Chowdhury. Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. 3rd ed. London: Facet,...
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Past Oregon Library Association (OLA) Conference Programs, 1942 to Present
A few years ago I served on the Oregon Library Association (OLA) Programming Committee to help organize the annual conference. During that time, I was intrigued by the lack of access to past OLA...
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1909 OR/WA Library Conference?
Was the first OLA conference actually held in 1909 instead of 1942? Well, no… It turns out that the letter below actually is in regards to the creation of the Pacific Northwest Library Association...
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First Oregon Bookmobile?
This Allegheny County bookmobile is a larger version of what an early Oregon bookmobile could have looked like. (Photo source: http://aclabookmobile.org/aboutus.html) During my research at the Oregon...
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1946 Funding of Libraries Through Oregon Taxes
For those historian out there, here is an interesting snapshot of the Oregon Counties in 1946-47 that funded libraries and their taxable allotment. Oregon Counties Taxable Property Values, Population,...
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Oldest OLA Constitution
And yet another gem that I stumbled upon at the Oregon State Library (State of Oregon Library) is the oldest Oregon Library Association (OLA) constitution established around 1942. Our library...
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Brief Sabbatical
For those who follow this blog, I’ve been on an unplanned sabbatical of sorts this past year which is why there have not been many posts. Hopefully I will be able to return to regularly posting on...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 18,000 views in 2012....
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Intro to ArcGIS
I’m currently taking a three week intro course to GIS. At first I was a little hesitant to take it since I have a background in GIS already, but then reconsidered and am using this opportunity to view...
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Firehalls in the City of Vancouver, and Parks & Garbage Centers of Mesquite...
This is a demo map of a GIS map I created using pre-existing latitude and longitude data in an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was uploaded into Google Drive and saved as a CSV file which is shared...
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Point Map of Summit Libraries
Below is a point map which displays all of the current the academic library members (their institutions) that are apart of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance Consortium. The consortium is made up of 37...
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