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  1. @jonjeffryes: got my collection slips for 10/31-11/7. Might want to check the Notifications tab in GOBI.
  2. New from ARL:Recognizing Opportunities: Conversational Openings to Talk About Scholarly Communication in Faculty Liaison http://bit.ly/4jmK1
  3. In case others can use this as an in: when I presented about the UDC at the stats faculty meeting, they got RCR continuing ed credit for it.
  4. Wiley gets a point for the best nanotechnology journal title: "Small."
  5. What happened to Twitter's character limit display? Breaking off my profound observations like that.
  6. Closed the door and opened the window of my tiny new office. Sound check will show if conversations can be heard in the library, but it ...
  7. @lisajohnston Is the scholarly communication you transformed good for a POV at http://www.lib.umn.edu/scho... ?
  8. "Joe Don Baker" won yesterday's Science Quiz Bowl--team of physics and aerospace undergrads, from field of 28 teams. We got video this time!
  9. bigM is the first team to register for the Science Quiz Bowl, about an hour after the IT Student newsletter went out.
  10. Slides from interesting ACRL webcast on "Open Notebook Science," by Drexel chem prof Jean-Claude Bradley, are at http://tinyurl.com/cwa37c
  11. Liking the new number puzzle, for which prime factorization is a useful skill. Those of us without the NYT can play at www.kenken.com/
  12. @jonjeffryes bus (and plane) talkers are the reason this curmudgeon got an iPod. Have to make sure to load music to read by.
  13. Statistical error analysis of MN senate vote by a well known computer scientist http://tinyurl.com/7x83qc . Thanks @carolh1 .
  14. Watching the inauguration in a room full of librarians, half blogging/twittering but still digging Yo-Yo Ma et al.
  15. @ummeghanlib & other PSE selectors: our YBP profile specifies slips for German and other languages. We can change that if you all want to.
  16. Anybody tried beta SearchTogether http://tinyurl.com/4at677 ? Or want to sign up & try it with me? IE plug-in : ( not surprising from MSoft.
  17. From Terry Teachout's blog http://tinyurl.com/3jk6mp : "Seen on a bumper sticker: FREE THE BOUND PERIODICALS."
  18. @umdatalib: earworm cure #1) listen to the whole song and get it over with; #2) sing the "By Mennen!" jingle (courtesy of Elliott Carter).
  19. @lisajohnston And it didn't even change his Erdos number http://www.oakland.edu/enp/
  20. 10 years after he died, a new paper co-written by Paul Erdos in a 2006 conference proceedings (http://tinyurl.com/6ookej). Long gestation.