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My trading card
Originally uploaded by newrambler.
Yup, I got one too. Make your own and join the group!

Greg cleverly set up a Carnival of the Infosciences wiki, which, of course, comes equipped with its own RSS feed, so if you’re not getting your Carnival updates elsewhere, go grab ‘em there!
Oh, and check out the past couple stops: #15 at Ask Nettie Day and #16 at Library Stuff.

Are you a geek, and a writer, and a female? Why not submit an essay to a book called She’s Such a Geek, forthcoming from Seal Press next fall.
This anthology will celebrate women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. We’re looking for a wide range of personal essays […]

I am still on a few mailing lists left over from my time as a graduate student at the University of Iowa. The other day, someone wrote to one about her experience taking a class on Extreme Web Searching at the UI Library, and she kindly gave me permission to reprint her remarks on the […]

I am going to stop apologizing for being so late in posting new installments of the Carnival of the Infosciences. As others have mentioned (I’m thinking at the moment of Walt Crawford’s “Blogging Trumps Life” [edit 11/5/05: of course I actually meant “Life Trumps Blogging”–duh–thanks to Walt for noticing that little discrepancy] essay in the […]

get real about your rights 3
Originally uploaded by newrambler.
Here’s a photo of the display I did on teen rights at the library in honor of Teen Read Week (theme this year: “Get Real”) and The September Project (I put it up back in September and spent a month adding to it).
Andrea Mercado did a very […]