“STEM” is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. We have a shortage of STEM majors of any gender in the US right now, but the shortage of women in STEM is particularly damaging. Although librarianship isn’t really a STEM field (at least the way most people practice it), I come to…
I’ve now been to two trainings at Bird Treatment & Learning Center (BirdTLC). At the first, they talked to us about BirdTLC’s history, about basic bird anatomy and behavior, about the permits that BirdTLC has from the state and federal government, and about how to give presentations about the birds.…
I am starting a new project, and I am super excited about it! So excited, in fact, that I’m writing all about it in my blog before I’ve even gone anywhere with it. :) There’s an organization in Anchorage that serves as a free veterinarian for wild birds. Part of…
I admit, this post is only tangentially related to librarianship. But I’m writing it because of a message that came out over the AkLA listserv, mentioning that San Diego’s airport has those awful backscatter machines and describing some of the implications of that. And because one of our medical librarians…
I’m still wrapping my head around this; it’s a report about a bunch of medical professionals setting up a file-sharing forum for articles from non-open access (NOA) journals. Techdirt reports that the site had 100,000 users and that 83% of requested articles were shared—over 5000 articles in a 6-month period.…
