5. There are startling similarities between Desmond Hume's
time traveling and Billy Pilgrim's time traveling. Daniel
Faraday even goes so far to call it being "unstuck in
time," the exact terminology which Vonnegut used to
describe Billy Pilgrim's experiences.
The novel (and its author) are a question asked on a
game show watched by Michael Dawson shortly before
his third attempted suicide.
Billy meets aliens in the book who can perceive the past,
present and future all at once. They know the universe
will end accidentally with the push of a button; when he
asks them why they don't prevent it, they reply:
“'He has always pressed it, and he always will.
We always let him and we always will let him. The
moment is structured that way.”
This is the same theory of time travel which Lost uses
and which Miles attempts to explain to Hurley (in other
words, what happened happened).
The button on Lost may be a reference to the
aforementioned button that would end the world.
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five
6. Slaughterhouse-Five:
• Acknowledges that homosexual
men were among the victims of
the Holocaust.
• Depicts sex.
• Characters (mostly soldiers at
war) use the f-bomb in a realistic
manner.
7. Anyone here work at Missouri State?
Dr. Wesley Scroggins, Associate Professor of Business at Missouri State
8. Dr. Elizabeth Fowler (PhD.)
on those who suggested
banning the Harry Potter books:
“You know…anything that
dumb people dislike this much
is probably pretty good. Let’s
order these.”
9. Links for Dr. Scroggins:
• Order Speak from Amazon:
http://goo.gl/aSag
• Look up Speak on WorldCat:
http://goo.gl/MlJH
10. Links for Dr. Scroggins:
• On Missouri State’s OPAC:
http://goo.gl/eg6x
Scroggin’s letter to the editor published 9/18/2010, so that’s
only 11 days.
Kudos to Missouri State’s libraries (and to student
protestors)!
Please: Any time a member of your faculty suggests a
particular book should be banned? Order it immediately.
22. Working with the I.S. Department
• Troubleshoot, train users, develop
training materials, and identify user
needs.
• Filtering what issues reach I.S.
• Administration of online on-call
scheduling system, meeting room
reservation system, support of mobile
devices, RoboHelp, etc…
23. Working with the I.S. Department
Making a library intranet portal
that I.S. could live with
• No Web development software
• Must be maintainable by non-geeks
26. Cheap, Easy Way to Try Ubuntu
•Install VirtualBox, install Ubuntu on your virtual machine
http://lifehacker.com/5204434/the-beginners-guide-to-creating-
virtual-machines-with-virtualbox
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/newtoubuntu/C/welcome.html
Heads-up: New version (10.10) drops on Sunday 10/10/10!
27. Free Productivity Tools I Use: PDFescape
http://www.pdfescape.com/
• Online tool works in browser
• Great for filling out forms
• Can “edit” protected PDFs
• Useful for marking up a PDF if you need to make notes
on an article you’re sending to a patron
– Example:
http://davidrothman.net/wp-
content/uploads/2010/10/examplePDFEscape1.pdf
28. I WOULD NEVER Use: PDFpirate
(Because subverting DRM is wrong…)
http://pdfpirate.org/plugins/remove_restrictions/
See also:
http://www.ensode.net/pdf-crack.jsf
29. Free Productivity Tools I Use: Mendeley
Mendenley
Demonstrations:
•Installed app
•Web site
•Bookmarklet
30. Free Productivity Tools I Use: cb2Bib
Cb2bib
http://www.molspaces.com/cb2bib/index.html
• Awesome for extracting metadata from PDFs (and Web
pages and email alerts!)
• BibTeX output
• If it can’t extract, it’ll help you extract
• If you give it SOME metadata, it can frequently look up
the rest for you
34. Free Productivity Tools I Use: Drop.io
Drop.io
Useful when dealing with size limits for sender
or receiver of email.
http://drop.io
• Simple, easy-to-use interface
• Share even very large PDFs- say up to 15 MBs.
• For legal reasons, we want the download to be password-
protected
• File automatically deleted after set number of days passed
35. Free Productivity Tools I Use: Web2PDF
Web-to-PDF bookmarklets
http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf_bookmarklet.html
http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/pdf-browser.aspx
http://pdfmyurl.com/
• Ideal for patrons who know they want a PDF, but
don’t know exactly why.
