Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

what i’m reading now

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Marie Kennedy
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Science!

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Marie Kennedy
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Interview with BIGWIG

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

At the recent annual meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) I attended the BIGWIG meeting. BIGWIG (Blogs, Interactive Groupware Wikis Interest Group) is an interest group in the division of ALA called Library and Information Technology Association, and was … Continue reading →

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Standards are people!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

Q: Who writes the standards? A: You do! This was my take-away message from the recent conference of the American Library Association.  The library world likes standardization, or formalizing the best way to exchange bits of information.  I attended quite … Continue reading →

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it’s hard to explain

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Marie Kennedy
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whoa, cool! Visuwords: online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

i put in the word “organize” into the search box at visuwords, and the results were a visual mess. go ahead, give it a try and see what i mean. the results produce a fantastic thesaurus, so it’s worth a … Continue reading →

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