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Bibliographies - the lazy way « Gillian’s Learning and Qualifications Blog

"Need to look at the free versions of noodlebib, easybib and bibme" -- HSM

Bibliographies - the lazy way

Remember when writing essays, articles and academic papers meant last-minute chasing round the desk, the library and the kitchen drawer for that vital reference you quoted at least three times?  Bad temper, tears, kicked cats - all that has gone.  Or it should have gone.  These days, you can even hire someone to do all your citations for you at a very reasonable number of cents or dollars per page.

NoodleBibs Express is one of the best free sources of help for occasional references but you can also sign up to their main service for under a dollar a month.  EasyBib and BibMe are also useful for pre-degree-level work.

For more advanced academic work, most researchers will be gratefully aware that EBSCO now permits automatic export of citations - so all you have to do is remember to check the box to spare yourself hours of wondering which ‘Smith’ published that most helpful statistic on which you based your best paragraph.  You can also use free tools such as CiteULike, Zotero, KnightCite, or  Citation Builder.  Of these, Zotero is particularly useful for Firefox users as it sits in the browser.

More commercial and sophisticated products such as RefWorks and EndNote do exist although, if you are interested in lazy ways to get your bibliography done, you probably don’t need these.  As tools they are solid, but for most people brought up in an era of Web2.0 tools that make bookmarking, tagging and electronic ’sticky notes’ part of their lives, they are perhpas best used only if provided as part of a ‘free’ university library package.

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Bibliographies - the lazy way « Gillian’s Learning and Qualifications Blog

scaffold [Zotero Developer Documentation]

need to look at this ..... to see if I can /want to look at creating any translators for Z0tero....HSM

 

scaffold [Zotero Developer Documentation]

Just for Fun....

 

NASA RESEARCH ANNOUNCES DISCOVERY OF A NEW ELEMENT
The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by GM
Research physisists. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no
protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of zero. However, it
does have 1 neutron, 125 asistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111
assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic number of 312. These 312
particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous
exchange of meson-like particles called morons.
Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be
detected chemically as it impedes every reaction that it comes in contact
with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Adimnistratium
caused one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have
normally occuered in less than one second. Administratium has a normal
half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually
decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons,
vice neutrons, and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Some studies
have shown that the atomic mass actually increases after each
reorganization.
Research at other laboratories indicates that Administratium occurs
naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such
as government agencies, large corporations and universities and can usually
be found in the newest, best appointed and best maintained buildings.
Scientists point out that Administratium is known to be toxic at any
detectable level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive
reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to
determine how Administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible
damage, but results to date are not promising.
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Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

Update from Film Library -- HSM

20th Fox Responds To Outpour Of Anger: "We Are Passionate About Film History"

Do read the furious but also informative comments from Hollywood folks who say that, contrary to 20th Century Fox's claims, the studio's film research library was and is constantly in use by both Fox lot personnel and outsiders. I hear Clint Eastwood is unhappy, too, because research for his Flags Of Our Fathers was done there. Also, the comments have some very interesting background info about the history of studio film research libraries in general. See my, What A Damn Shame. Meanwhile, everyone should know that the Warner Bros Research Library is alive and well and open, and I'm told by co-manager Steven Bingen that the studio's "management here, in all honestly, has always been very supportive of what we do. I wish my friends at Fox could be so lucky."

UPDATE: Fox gave me this statement tonight: "Contrary to implications, we are passionate about film history and about our fox history in particular. That's why we maintain one of the best and most costly photo archive departments in the business and keep comprehensive prop, art and film item archives from our films. It's why we organized the benefit for the motion picture home a couple years ago with Swann curating even our old contracts. That, however, is not what the research library is. Rather, it contains a number of general reference, broad interest books and periodicals, like a public library. That collection will be donated to a proper, curated library at a university or a guild, etc., where the public will have even greater access than they do now. The material will be taken care of in a first-class manner. As to the nostalgia that people feel for the days when studios were in many such non-movie specific businesses, we share it, too, and wish the world were still that way, but it's a muddling of points to lump this change into laments about lost film history, as it's not what it is."

Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

 

The quote by Joni Mitchell seemed appropriate.....HSM

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot"

WHAT A DAMN SHAME! 20th Fox To Close Second-To-Last Studio Research Library

UPDATE: I'm receiving a lot of emails and comments from Hollywood folks who say that, contrary to 20th Century Fox's claims, the studio's film research library was constantly in use by both Fox personnel and outsiders. I hear Clint Eastwood is unhappy, too, because considerable research for his Flags Of Our Fathers was done there.

EXCLUSIVE: I have confirmed that 20th Century Fox is very quietly shutting its film research library after 85 years in existence, the second-to-last such facility at a Hollywood studio making available books, drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, samples, and other one-of-a-kind materials. (The other studio libraries have been closed or sold off except for the Samuel Goldwyn Research Library, owned and managed by Lillian Michelson, and housed on the DreamWorks Animation lot.} "This is film history used and recycled everyday and also Los Angeles history," an insider tells me. "Once this goes, it's gone." I'm especially surprised by this decision not only because Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Tom Rothman considers himself something of a film historian, but also because I'm told the cost of keeping the library open is negligible. But what the film community loses is priceless access to archive material by art directors, costume designers and film historians. "I cannot tell you how serious this is to the below-the-line people and creatives around town," another source tells me. "There used to be wonderous film reference libraries at each studio. A designer could walk in, ask about damask curtains and get reams of data. Now there is none. I implore you to take up this matter." Still another insider complains, "I guess Fox has to tighten its belt -- or is it a noose?" However, 20th is claiming that the library is not used enough to justify its cost, and its "contents should be transferred to a more public resource so these materials are available to the entire film community rather than just confined to those on the Fox lot".

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