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		<title>Weapons of Research, Where and How I Learned to Wield Them</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I have been busy researching for an ongoing project.  I had some time to kill yesterday afternoon while my companion was busy.  So I rolled into my favorite Louisville Free Public Library Branch, Crescent Hill, and hit the computer station.  I logged into my library account, accessed the EBSCO databases and commenced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=548&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Information Professionals to Take Charge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be misinterpreting Stephen Arnold&#8217;s words with my headline, but if you read his post here and disagree with my interpretation, the comments field is open. As a law librarian, I took on the training of summer associates, fall associates and partners.  Their training needs were based upon the fact that they underutilized the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=494&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the old days, I thought the most power research tool was the telephone.  In this new social media age, I wonder just what is the most powerful tool? Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I still think the telephone or goodness, forbid a face-to-face conversation are very effective tools.  I&#8221;m just beginning to see the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=384&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hakia, a semantic search engine has put out a call for librarians to help unlock credible websites.  Read more about the announcement here. This prompts me to offer some advise about evaluating websites. It&#8217;s easier than you think to evaluate a site for credibility.  Probably all of you have seen this information at one point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=173&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to BunHeadKY for alerting me to this report:  How Readers Navigate to  Scholarly Content.  The results of this survey provide some interesting suggestions for publishers to make navigation to the full content easier for the users by promoting the role library collections play. The report includes some very interesting charts comparing the changes between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=142&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended a small networking event attended by professionals in a variety of businesses.  This event combined my efforts for networking on a business and volunteer level.  I served as the past-president of the Louisville Youth Group for several years and we are currently seeking board members, so I plugged that need last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=108&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Following Directions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I cooked dinner, baked a cake and assembled a new office chair. All of these tasks had distinct instructions that led to the final product. Sure the cooking has its own subtleties, but ultimately you can follow a recipe precisely and the results will be acceptable.  Research is a mixture of serendipity and precision. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=105&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patience is not one of my best virtues. Perseverance is. I am at heart a country girl. The other evening I watched three deer in the backfield at my grandfather’s house. During my visits over the past several months I have watched these same three deer. This evening at dusk I walked outside to watch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=31&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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