Eileen Daly

About Me

I'm the Philosophy Reference Librarian at the University of Rochester. I'm trying out MySpace as a way to have a virtual presence besides the one at UR. I taught at SUNY Geneseo for about 9 years - I'd like to hear from students from those days too! Any former students of mine from SUNY Brockport or Nazareth College are also more than welcome to drop in and say hello!

My Interests

Academically: metaphysics, epistemology,women's studies, and ethics. For fun: science fiction, Romanticism, running, cycling, hiking, Guinness, Thoreau, Whitman, Austen, all things Irish and Scottish.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in philosophy, anyone from the University of Rochester, or any one interested in library science and academic librarianship. People affiliated with SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Brockport or Nazareth College of Rochester are welcome!

Music:

Celtic, folk, Old Blind Dogs, Weepies, jazz, Dick Gaughan, Dougie MacLean, Richard Shindell, John Gorka.

Movies:

Boondock Saints, Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Lord of the Rings, Last Stop Wonderland, Strictly Ballroom, Dead Again, Ghost Dog, all musicals.

Television:

The Office, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Sports Night, Daily Show and the Colbert Report.

Books:

Thoreau's Walden, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sarah Vowell (everything), David Sedaris' Naked, Camus, David Lewis, Dante, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Nick Hornby.

Heroes:

Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics

My Blog

Thinking about color

Yesterday, I attended David Hilbert's (University of Illinois at Chicago) talk, Color Constancy and the Complexity of Color. As it turns out, I never realized how little I tho...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:43:00 PST

the joy of librarianship

I'm excited for the beginning of this semester - especially with respect to my role as the subject librarian for Philosophy. Not only am I the Lurking Librarian in History of Modern Philosophy, ...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:09:00 PST

reading list

I've been reading some chick-lit lately: Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Paula Marantz Cohen (a modern version of Persuasion - easy read and not bad), Dating Dead Men by Harley Ja...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST

Embedded Librarian and Popular Reading

I'm back after a hiatus - I helped complete a move-and-shift of a sizeable portion of our Level 3 stacks - and then had a nice break for the holidays.I've become an "embedded librar...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:28:00 PST

The Quest for Information

I've picked up a couple more books - so I'm halfway through too many to keep track of. I just began James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds, and while it's a good read, I find the theory so unre...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:21:00 PST

The library as conversation

Today, I've been reading the draft of a paper to be presented at the Winter meeting of ALA. It's by R. David Lankes and Joanne Silverstein, and it's called, "Participatory Networks: The Library as Con...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:04:00 PST

Wikis, blogs, MySpace and Second Life

Today has been a day of researching some new ways to make information more accessible. I've been looking into a mostly-private wiki for bibliographers, which led to the option...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:23:00 PST

What I'm reading

Just a quick update on what I'm reading now. I've just finished Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck - a head's up for what awaits women when they reach 50. I'm in the midst of Jon Kab...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:42:00 PST

New to MySpace

I'm new to this. At Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester, we've been doing a lot of research on social networking and how today's university students do their work. I'm going to try...
Posted by Eileen Daly on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:47:00 PST

I am here for Friends and Networking