"Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Who gives the answer."

- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (quoted in jemufo's blog)

Paulo Freire "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" - situational learning
CDI - Brazil, Chile, elsewhere. Schools of Internet Training and Citizenship. (CDI= Committee for the Democratization of Information. Acronym used because "committee" has negative connotations associated with the old (Pinochet?) regime.)

D-Lib Magazine - internet, searching, digital preservation, etc. - short articles - intellectual property, open access...
http://www.dlib.org/

I'm reading the Pilgrim's Progress - an updated version. It is most excellent. Would like a smaller version of the updated version, though. (This one has notes and is quite a thick volume. How to lend/give people like that? I'm not reading the notes either.)

John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. I know it from the comic book version. And from Little Women (they use it a lot).

I figured what I like so much about GCF, beyond just the “really nice people”, and the “great Christian people, who are thoughtful and intelligent, diverse in disciplines yet united in mind, serious about their faith, and socially lots of fun—a great community of God’s people.” Being serious about the faith, thoughtful in struggling through the issues of how to integrate their faith and their academics and their lives in general… that’s what I identified earlier as special.

But now I see – it’s a maturity – that’s what I love about it. It’s having mature Christians of around my own age, who are struggling with similar issues, who have walked the road longer than me, and whom I can share with, learn from, and look up to.

And the ‘my own age’ part is significant – it’s not that I haven’t had Christians to look up to before… it’s fellow travelers on the same part of the road. Some a little ahead, some a little behind, in different places with different things, all in the same general vicinity, or at least have a deep understanding of the general vicinity (that’s for the older folk, who are a bit further along :)).

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

- Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Conley, Dalton. "Op-Ed Contributor: The Free Lane on the Information Highway" New York Times, March 19, 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19CONL.html?ex=1080741497&ei=1&en=9124b796e08a6189

Job stuff: Wonder if I should not have "gone soft" and sent the extra email offering to take the less desirable option for travel itinerary. Setting self up for being less valued? Or demonstrating good faith? Or just making sure self doesn't feel bad? Or putting ball back in the other's court? Or analyzing too much...

It doesn't matter anyhow.

Thank goodness for professional ethics. Had to practice them today (at the library).

From yi-xing's email signature:

"The call of God is not the echo of my nature." - Oswald Chambers

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In terms of guidance, good reminder!

"Many new book dealers think of the antiquarian bookseller as a second-hand junkman or as a weird character who obtains books by sorcery, prices them by cannibalistic necromancy, and sells them by black magic."

Sol Malkin, "Rare and Out-of-Print Books," in A Manual on Bookselling (New York: American Booksellers Association, 1974), 208. Quoted in Evans, Developing Library and Information Center Collections

"The search engines seem to be showing signs of strain in attempting to keep up with the explosive growth of the Web. Steve Lawrence & C. Lee Giles of the NEC Research Center conducted a scientifically rigorous survey of the search engine’s coverage of Web content in February 1999.

The findings of their survey, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, suggest that the combined coverage of the 11 search engines used for the study was about 42% of the total number of unique indexable pages on the Web (i.e. not including the ever-expanding "hidden Web"), with no search engine indexing more than about 16%."

From Gill, Tony. Metadata and the World Wide Web (2000)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/2_articles/gill/content.html#introduction

Introduction to Metadata V.2.0
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/1_introduction/index.html

Harvard Design Magazine - calling architecture and design fans... (urban, landscape, etc. included) for layperson as well as professional, academic or practitioner. It costs only USD 28 per year for student subscriptions in the US and Canada (though if you're a student you can probably get it at your uni, so it's a moot point, isn't it?). The online version has some freebie articles (for back issues as well as current). Font tiny, but pdfs available.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/current/index.html

Profiles in Science - papers of famous scientists, doctors, public health officials and activists. database-driven digital archive.

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

Changing the Face of Medicine - exceptional exhibit on women physicians in the U.S.. very inspiring. highlights numerous stories. shows not only pioneering but also building of infrastructure, wider reach - these women are black, white, Native American, Asian American, Hispanic, and more. They are doctors, researchers, public health officials, mothers, wives, activists. They set up hospitals, colleges, literacy initiatives. They work in diverse settings. It's a pretty cool conglomeration. The site also has other features besides the virtual content from the physical exhibit.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/exhibition/