Comments on: wherever you think you are http://mauraweb.com/blog/2009/03/31/wherever-you-think-you-are/ Wed, 09 May 2012 01:24:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: daniel http://mauraweb.com/blog/2009/03/31/wherever-you-think-you-are/comment-page-1/#comment-2040 daniel Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:47:47 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=352#comment-2040 “It is almost too fun for the University of Chicago, so I will make sure they read a bit of theory every week.” “It is almost too fun for the University of Chicago, so I will make sure they read a bit of theory every week.” I LOLed. And my anti-spam word is "wicked". “It is almost too fun for the University of Chicago, so I will make sure they read a bit of theory every week.” “It is almost too fun for the University of Chicago, so I will make sure they read a bit of theory every week.”

I LOLed.

And my anti-spam word is “wicked”.

]]> By: maura http://mauraweb.com/blog/2009/03/31/wherever-you-think-you-are/comment-page-1/#comment-2039 maura Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:59:49 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=352#comment-2039 Em, I think some folks do scan them in, scarily enough. Also my tech advisor says that sometimes textbook publishers make the PDF available to students who buy the book, so those students might then upload it and make it available to other students. Then it's just like any other bit torrent file (mp3, video) -- you download it to your computer and little pieces of it get sucked down from all over the internets, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Teavee" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wonkavision</a>! Anne, my main thing that I try to get across to the kids (other than that the reference librarians can help them!) is that different information is best found in different places. And that even though the internet seems easy, if you need scholarly info it's hard to find there! And maybe some of them even believe me. :) Em, I think some folks do scan them in, scarily enough. Also my tech advisor says that sometimes textbook publishers make the PDF available to students who buy the book, so those students might then upload it and make it available to other students.

Then it’s just like any other bit torrent file (mp3, video) — you download it to your computer and little pieces of it get sucked down from all over the internets, like Wonkavision!

Anne, my main thing that I try to get across to the kids (other than that the reference librarians can help them!) is that different information is best found in different places. And that even though the internet seems easy, if you need scholarly info it’s hard to find there! And maybe some of them even believe me. :)

]]> By: Anne http://mauraweb.com/blog/2009/03/31/wherever-you-think-you-are/comment-page-1/#comment-2038 Anne Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:58:52 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=352#comment-2038 Oh, I used to have to convince my superiors @ work that not everything was available (or if it was, that it was easy to use) on the Internet! Thank you for this, it makes me happy (today at least) that I don't have a job & that I did the right thing by leaving Pine Valley forever! Oh, I used to have to convince my superiors @ work that not everything was available (or if it was, that it was easy to use) on the Internet!

Thank you for this, it makes me happy (today at least) that I don’t have a job & that I did the right thing by leaving Pine Valley forever!

]]> By: Em http://mauraweb.com/blog/2009/03/31/wherever-you-think-you-are/comment-page-1/#comment-2037 Em Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:25:20 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=352#comment-2037 Maybe this is a naive question, but how to the books that are getting shared peer-to-peer get put into a shareable format? Does someone scan them in and save them as a massive .pdf? Maybe this is a naive question, but how to the books that are getting shared peer-to-peer get put into a shareable format? Does someone scan them in and save them as a massive .pdf?

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