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- Answer: Unusual sports?The odd and unusual are fun to search for! As we noticed last week, there are lots of fascinating sporting (if you use that term loosely) events in the world, many of which deserve a bit of background research. I love these kinds of SearchResearch Challenges because I always learn a few fascinating things along the way. These slightly whacky events are pe […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (6/5/19): Unusual sports? There are plenty of amazing sports... ... many of which strike me as pretty unusual. There's the annual wife-carrying competition (multiple locations), an international "worm charming" championship in Chesire (UK), and the locally well-known "kinetic sculpture race" in which contestants race their home-made (and wonderfully whacky) […]
- Answer: Why do I hear a trumpet? The trumpet shall sound! This week's Challenge was a fun one, and tests your ability to sleuth out the backstory. I was walking down the street when I heard an odd trumpet tune being played. It was a surprising tune--not quite a melody, but something puzzling and a little odd. Here's the picture I snapped as I listened to the trumpet call. (And […]
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I read this article and thought, “Yes – THIS makes sense.”
How Netflix Reinvented HR: http://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr/ar/1 I really like Netflix’ approach…here is Harvard Business Review’s “Executive Summary” of the article (my comments in parentheses): Hire, reward, and tolerate only fully formed adults. Ask workers to rely on logic and common sense … Continue reading
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Tagged employee morale, performance reviews, talent management
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October = Teen Read Month
I love that YALSA devotes an entire month to Teen Reading – it offers a great opportunity for going to schools and discussing book titles as well as some great homework help services offered by libraries (like Brainfuse’s daily one-on-one … Continue reading
“SYLO” by D. J. MacHale: Military Sci-Fi Thriller series
SYLO by D.J. MacHale; pub date July 2, 2013; ISBN 9781595146656 “It was a perfect night for a football game. And for death.” Pemberwick Island is a idyllic place to live, and the big Friday night entertainment draw for this … Continue reading
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Tagged invasion, military fiction, Pemberwick Island, sci-fi
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My website is up!
Well, even though I had never written XHTML code before, I have successfully completed the "Build A Simple Website"…and it may be simple, but I am pleased with it. I might play around with Expression 3, if we’re allowed to … Continue reading
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Talking about ORE Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web, web based training for Reference Service from Ohio Library
A great site to practice Reference Interview skills, with thanks to April S!
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Maybe this year…..
So we did get some tomatoes out of the greenhouse, and one sugar pumpkin. The black kale was going great until the deer ate them down to nubs (it was too warm to keep them in the greenhouse). I was … Continue reading
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#20 Reflections
Looking over the "20 Things" initially, I was surprised to recognize I was already quite computer savvy. My husband and I have IM’d for years from different rooms in the house. It’s much better than yelling back and forth, "What did … Continue reading
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