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		<title>WorldCat Local an improvement?</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/519</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My library recently implemented WorldCat Local as the default catalog/discovery interface for our collections. I learned about a new book today, so I went to the our new catalog to see about getting a copy. I typed the title of the book (&#8220;bright sided&#8221;) into the WorldCat Local search box and clicked search. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The more I practice, the worse I seem to skate {sigh}</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/515</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I skated for about 3 hours this morning, and it was really discouraging. I wasn&#8217;t particularly tired, and I wasn&#8217;t sore like I was from doing too many side lunges and squats in my at-home workout last week, but I just felt really sluggish and awkward on the ice today. My left knee isn&#8217;t holding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New coach</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/510</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Figure Skating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had my second lesson with my new coach at Sherwood Ice Arena, Leone Spalding. Things are going well so far. She has looked at all of my Juvenile MIF and my Bronze dances and given me some useful feedback. I had gotten lazy and learned to neglect my hips. Her first feedback to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needlebase released</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/507</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased that Needlebase has recently been released. This is the public version of the software/system that I worked with during my internship in Cambridge this past fall. This is great because it means that I will be able to continue exploring potential library applications for Needle technology. Yippee! This software can do some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New year, new activities</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/499</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SemanticWeb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pollock, Jeffrey T. Semantic Web for Dummies. &#8211;For dummies. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, 2009.
I received a copy of this book for Christmas and started reading it today. I&#8217;m familiar with a lot of the bits and pieces of Semantic Web technology, but I&#8217;m hoping this book will help me build a more coherent mental model. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont weekend</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/490</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I left the city for the first time since I arrived on August 12th. I rented a car and drove myself up to Vermont to visit my friend Melinda. We went to middle and high school together, and I hadn&#8217;t seen her since her wedding reception about 15 years ago. Melinda and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From cataloging to metadata curation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabbatical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the attractive things about the internship I&#8217;m doing was getting the opportunity to work with a tool specifically designed to facilitate the collection and, to a certain extent, curation of metadata. It seems like that&#8217;s increasingly what catalogers are being asked to do when we&#8217;re asked/expected to take metadata in a wide variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skating in Boston</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/469</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sabbatical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Figure skating in Boston isn&#8217;t as easy as I hoped it would be, but I&#8217;m managing to get some time in on the ice. Part of the difficulty is that most of the ice rinks in the Boston area are seasonal, and they don&#8217;t open until October or November. Most of the indoor rinks that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internship update</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/464</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly done with week 3 of my internship. I&#8217;ve gotten more familiar with the application, and I&#8217;m now able to work more independently, though I&#8217;m not yet doing every step in the process or using every aspect of the system. I think I&#8217;m more or less proficient with the entry-level stuff now, though. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban living</title>
		<link>http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/archives/454</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabbatical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This trip represents the first time that I&#8217;ve ever actually lived in a big city. I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to enjoy substantial vacations (staying in private apartments rather than hotels) in cities such as London, England and Moscow, Russia, and I&#8217;ve visited Portland, OR frequently throughout my life, but this is the first time [...]]]></description>
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