Days in the Life of a Science Librarian *With Footnotes #Libday7

White sign edged in brown wood that reads Cedar Point Biological Station.
Cedar Point Biological Station

Monday 7/25/11

Get up to take 7:15 am bus to center city area.

7:45 am get off bus at 11th and N.

Start 2 mile walk to Transportation Services (which is not located near any campus or city bus routes) to pick up a university car for our 5.5 hour trip to service the Cedar Point Research Station?s library.

I decided to pick up some books from Dr. Griep Vice, Chair of Chemistry since it and the library were on my way. When I arrived I assure Dr. Griep’s secretary that I was not really there, just passing through, and then dropped off the books at the library.

Photograph of Lake McConaughy showing the skyline just starting to darken toward sunset, the far shore in the distance, a large expanse of blue water, and a hillside in the foreground with grass and sunflowers.
Lake McConaughy

During the remaining 1.3 miles of the walk I discovered that the walking path takes you along a sewer route.*

I finally arrive at Transportation Services around 8:30 am drenched in sweat (did I mention it was super hot!) and receive my keys and a gas card

after signing my life away. ?I walked out and discover they’ve put me in a huge Chevy Malibu O_o.** After a moment to freak out about the monster car I?ve been assigned I got in the car, readjust mirrors, figure out how the darn thing works. I couldn’t find the release for the parking break at all, and it wasn’t set, so I didn’t use it. After successfully starting the car I drove to my apartment to pick up my luggage and a borrowed work computer before heading out to pick up my coworker who was accompanying me on the adventure and head out toward Cedar Point which is located next to Lake McConaughy.

Around 12:30pm we stop in a random town for lunch and find a great inexpensive Chinese Buffet, hurray! An hour later we are back on the road.

Open Data Open Science Link Roundup

A silver circle of chain metal links against a round black background.
Link Roundup

Here is a collection of links from my to be read folder about Open Data and Open Science. Can one really separate the two? (Catching up and deleting bookmarks is a wonderful thing.)

Feel free to share this list or use the comments to add a suggested reading.? (FYI, all comments with links are moderated to prevent spam from showing up but will be approved ASAP, no site registration is required.)

Some content has been removed in 2023 as those resources no longer exist.

Heather Piwowar’s Who Shares? Who Doesn’t? PloS ONE

From Deadly E. Coli to Endangered Polar Bear: GigaScience Provides First Citable Data (Slides)

What Can We Learn From Download Statistics for Institutional Repositories?

World Bank’s Open Data

PLoS ONE: Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions

MacKenzie Smith on Open Licences for Data

Digging into Data in the Humanities, Day 1

Open Access v. Cultural Protocols: Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems

Vancouver’s Open Data Catalogue

National Academic Press Free PDFs of all Publication

Data Documentation Initiative (Meta-data specifications for social and behavioral sciences)

BioMed Central Blog: On the unbearable lightness of mandatory data sharing

Data Citation Elephants

Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated Bibliography