Comments on: How to do research – special free sample http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:31:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Academic discovery and library catalogues | nostuff.org http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-590082 Academic discovery and library catalogues | nostuff.org Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:24:40 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-590082 [...] on the eXtensible Cataloge website I came across a link to this blog post from Alex Golub (Rex) an ‘adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i Manoa‘. [...] [...] on the eXtensible Cataloge website I came across a link to this blog post from Alex Golub (Rex) an ‘adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i Manoa‘. [...]

]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-509120 Rex Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:30:08 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-509120 I've seen Bookburro around before -- its an interesting tool, but ultimately its about finding low prices on books, not discovering free content online. Now if they had a link to Google Books on there, the publisher's website.... :) I won't get started on tools for use in the UH library -- as a geek I still want an interface that lets me tell the computer what I want rather than having it guess -- "guide" -- me to what it thinks I may want. Typing "Islands of History" or Sahlins, Marshall and not getting the records I needs is suboptimal -- I yearn for the days of au:sahlins,marshall The other thing about living in Hawaii is that you install BookBurro, ask for books in nearby libraries, and are told all you have to do is fly 2400 miles to San Fracisco...! I’ve seen Bookburro around before — its an interesting tool, but ultimately its about finding low prices on books, not discovering free content online. Now if they had a link to Google Books on there, the publisher’s website…. :)

I won’t get started on tools for use in the UH library — as a geek I still want an interface that lets me tell the computer what I want rather than having it guess — “guide” — me to what it thinks I may want. Typing “Islands of History” or Sahlins, Marshall and not getting the records I needs is suboptimal — I yearn for the days of au:sahlins,marshall

The other thing about living in Hawaii is that you install BookBurro, ask for books in nearby libraries, and are told all you have to do is fly 2400 miles to San Fracisco…!

]]> By: Stephen Francoeur http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-509062 Stephen Francoeur Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:12:38 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-509062 Looks like my attempt to embed links in my comment didn't work out. Here are the two URLs I wanted to link you to: http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/searchplugin/searchplugin.html http://www.bookburro.org/ Looks like my attempt to embed links in my comment didn’t work out. Here are the two URLs I wanted to link you to:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/searchplugin/searchplugin.html
http://www.bookburro.org/

]]> By: Stephen Francoeur http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-509061 Stephen Francoeur Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:08:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-509061 Thanks for sharing your process. As an academic librarian, I'm always eager to learn how faculty members and students navigate the flow of online information in their everyday lives. Reading about how you move from discovery via Amazon and then to access by looking up the title in your library's catalog made me wonder if you knew about a few useful shortcuts. Your library appears to have built a search plugin for the Firefox browser, which would allow you to copy and paste the book title into the Firefox search box and run the search in the library catalog. Another option, if you're a Firefox user, is to install the Book Burro extension, which will automatically do a lookup in WorldCat (which should have UH holdings in it) whenever you are viewing a book description page in Amazon. Thanks for sharing your process. As an academic librarian, I’m always eager to learn how faculty members and students navigate the flow of online information in their everyday lives. Reading about how you move from discovery via Amazon and then to access by looking up the title in your library’s catalog made me wonder if you knew about a few useful shortcuts. Your library appears to have built a search plugin for the Firefox browser, which would allow you to copy and paste the book title into the Firefox search box and run the search in the library catalog. Another option, if you’re a Firefox user, is to install the Book Burro extension, which will automatically do a lookup in WorldCat (which should have UH holdings in it) whenever you are viewing a book description page in Amazon.

]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-479670 Rex Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:15:26 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-479670 In retrospect I guess I should have called it "office as tickler file" In retrospect I guess I should have called it “office as tickler file”

]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-467505 Rex Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:03:13 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-467505 Luke's right to notice the resonances with GTD here -- in fact I'll be teaching some of that personal productivity literature in the professionalization class as well. Luke’s right to notice the resonances with GTD here — in fact I’ll be teaching some of that personal productivity literature in the professionalization class as well.

]]> By: MTBradley http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-462250 MTBradley Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:11:02 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-462250 One of the lessons that has stuck with me from my Linguistic Fieldwork course (intentionally not listed as "Linguistic Field Methods," but that's another sidebar) is my instructor telling us that throughout his career he made a point never to hire a graduate assistant to turn his field notebooks into slip files (in the old days) or databases. He said that the process of organizing his data was really inseparable from analysis for him. What actually made the point stick with me was the rather elegant analogy of the lab scientists who had their best ideas when they were washing out beakers. One of the lessons that has stuck with me from my Linguistic Fieldwork course (intentionally not listed as “Linguistic Field Methods,” but that’s another sidebar) is my instructor telling us that throughout his career he made a point never to hire a graduate assistant to turn his field notebooks into slip files (in the old days) or databases. He said that the process of organizing his data was really inseparable from analysis for him. What actually made the point stick with me was the rather elegant analogy of the lab scientists who had their best ideas when they were washing out beakers.

]]> By: Luke Winikates http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-462143 Luke Winikates Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:06:21 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-462143 Thanks for an interesting read; one thing that this kind of creative process diagramming reminds me of (Getting Things Done cheerleader) Merlin Mann's 43folders.com. Mann is a techie guy, and I forget exactly what it was that led me to his site since it's outside my techie ken a lot of the time, but he's another guy who's very interested in the mundane processes behind creativity. Generally it's not from an academic perspective, but it overlaps with your post here, Rex, in that he talks about how automated tools (like Amazon reccomendations) interlock with the the exploring and reading that so often plugs into ideas for organized research and writing projects. Nancy, Rex, and Savage Minds people in general might find him an interesting read as a source for ideas relevant "research/organization/productivity tools for academics." Thanks for an interesting read; one thing that this kind of creative process diagramming reminds me of (Getting Things Done cheerleader) Merlin Mann’s 43folders.com. Mann is a techie guy, and I forget exactly what it was that led me to his site since it’s outside my techie ken a lot of the time, but he’s another guy who’s very interested in the mundane processes behind creativity. Generally it’s not from an academic perspective, but it overlaps with your post here, Rex, in that he talks about how automated tools (like Amazon reccomendations) interlock with the the exploring and reading that so often plugs into ideas for organized research and writing projects. Nancy, Rex, and Savage Minds people in general might find him an interesting read as a source for ideas relevant “research/organization/productivity tools for academics.”

]]> By: Alexandre http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-459109 Alexandre Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:03:00 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-459109 Quite effective. Almost an academic version of "Getting Things Done." Also useful is the very thought process of going back through the steps which led you from the recommendation to the blogpost(s). This is probably something a lot of us have trained ourselves to do: tracing back streams of thought. Allows for a special kind of multi-tasking, well-suited for creative fields. It can possibly get you to experience what Csíkszentmihályi called "flow." And, yes, this process is very literally "meta." Quite effective. Almost an academic version of “Getting Things Done.”
Also useful is the very thought process of going back through the steps which led you from the recommendation to the blogpost(s). This is probably something a lot of us have trained ourselves to do: tracing back streams of thought. Allows for a special kind of multi-tasking, well-suited for creative fields. It can possibly get you to experience what Csíkszentmihályi called “flow.”
And, yes, this process is very literally “meta.”

]]> By: Nancy Fried Foster http://savageminds.org/2008/07/31/how-to-do-research-special-free-sample/comment-page-1/#comment-458054 Nancy Fried Foster Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:26:22 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1299#comment-458054 This is just wonderful - thank you! We've been doing research on exactly these sorts of processes in order to build a new kind of library "catalog" that supports the work practices of real live scholars. We've interviewed almost 100 people at four institutions amidst their books, papers, and computers and will be rolling our findings into design and development. (See www.extensiblecatalog.info for more information. btw, anyone who is willing is invited to comment their own work process there, too.) This is just wonderful – thank you! We’ve been doing research on exactly these sorts of processes in order to build a new kind of library “catalog” that supports the work practices of real live scholars. We’ve interviewed almost 100 people at four institutions amidst their books, papers, and computers and will be rolling our findings into design and development. (See http://www.extensiblecatalog.info for more information. btw, anyone who is willing is invited to comment their own work process there, too.)

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