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Acquisitions : the question of buying apps
Tomorrow we’ll have a department meeting at the library, about the future of our “digital lounge” , there it is behind the link. It has been three years now since it opened to the patrons, quite a...
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Words are more powerful than weapons.
One month ago, I came upon this trailer : I didn’t have the time to go and see the film, but I soon discovered it was based upon the novel “The Gate”, from french anthropologist François Bizot ; Bizot...
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Berezina
I am opening today a new section to share the life of our collections in the library. “Postcard from the shelves”, that means new bookcovers, new acquisitions, and stories behind these books. Perhaps...
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I experienced many apps on iOS/android to learn to recognize words in a live context, but either you have to pay, or it’s not totally satisfactory. There is no easy way out to improve your...
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Getting rid of itunes ecosystem
One month from now, I experienced some problems with my Mac Pro 1.1 (2008) computer. Yes, it’s that one on the floor, left side : Three years ago, I fitted a SSD hard drive to its motherboard, and my...
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Easter readings
Today I am sending a new “postcard from the shelves” : doing my duty at the reference desk last friday, this book came to my hands : “La stratégie du colibri”, which you can translate in english by...
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Radio France Internationale, a fantastic window to the world
After 28 days of strike, Radio-France resumed its normal programme. Fast one month of strike, in a national media, it’s unheard of in France, although we know we are the world champions of strikes, and...
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Replacing the battery of your ebook reader
There is nothing more annoying than an electronic device whose performances are crumbling down because of a lowering battery. I bought my Sony PRS-505 in 2008, and up to last autumn, I was happy with...
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Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet
I have the incredible chance to be able to go to work by foot, it’s a 20 minutes walk in the morning and another 20 minutes walk in the evening. It’s a luxury, I am totally aware of it, and I take...
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Studying chinese (4) – focus on goals / Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Studying mandarin chinese is a long path, you could say it’s a never ending travel, where you have the feeling to learn not one, but three languages at at time. Sometimes it’s so discouraging to see...
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Preserving dialects : the example of the picard language
Although I am currently working in the Brittany region in France, I am not a native of Brittany. I was born in Amiens, the regional capital of Picardy, which holds one of the most famous cathedral on...
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The “rentrée littéraire” (2)
I wrote a previous post last year about this strange phenomenon occuring each end of summer in France, so here we go again, the frenzy begins ! Last year there were altogether 607 novels published...
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What is your numeric weight ?
“No space left on hard drive”, how many times did you encounter this message ? Since I am a librarian, not so many times, because I do carefully and regularly monitor how much free space I can rely...
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Photography : from compact to mirrorless camera
In my last post, I talked about how the conservation of your photos is a sensible topic in the digital age. Now let’s talk more precisely about photography, and how you can change your point of view,...
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Studying Chinese (5) – new free resources
Today I will try to make chinese learners discover useful resources. Those may not be new to everyone but I found them relevant this year. We will focus on three resources, according to the level of...
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About MOOCs : experience feedback and perspectives
I first heard about MOOCs quite…two years ago, I guess ? I tested out a few courses on the french dedicated platform, and I came away with mixed impressions. Opportunely, we had an in-house training...
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International Librarians Network : exchange with colleagues around the world
CC Bailey Cheng https://www.flickr.com/photos/areyouin86/15982271853/ This one is for fellow librarians who consider it’s important to exchange on their job in order to progress and to make other...
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Why we must support independent editing !
Damn it, it’s been a long time since I haven’t been posting here… Blame it to the end of the winter, less energy with all those rainy days, and also I’ve been spending long hours of steady work to...
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Relax and go to Bordeaux
All right now, it has been a long winter, with a great (but reasonable) amount of workload, so when we saw spring vacations coming, we wondered with my wife where to go : Lisbon, Madrid, London,...
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Feel like travelling ? Books are our best companions !
Our taste in reading may change, depending on our mood ; these days I’ve been reading books that took me far away, three books that made me travel on the whole planet : The first one is from Philippe...
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