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John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca
May 29, 2009
Category: social media
I'd like to pick up a little where I left off in my last posting on social networking. In that post, I was highlighting a post by Wayne Bivens-Tatum on how he prefers to interact in online environments. Or more...
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Category: friday fun
Bookgasm is a great site that reviews a lot of fun reading in all kinds of genres. As the name indicates, they don't necessarily take themselves too seriously either. About a month ago they had a post on Paper or...
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May 27, 2009
Category: science books
Every year starting in November or so, I start to highlight various "year's best science books" lists I find around the web. Typically, one of the last is the long list for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Since...
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May 26, 2009
Category: acad lib future
Yes, the book. My Job in 10 Years: The Future of Academic Libraries. To rewind a bit, the story begins this past January. I did a little off-the-cuff post on how libraries could model their web presences on commercial book-related...
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May 25, 2009
Category: acad lib future
For those of you new to Confessions of a Science Librarian, I've been publishing various lists of books and reports/white papers for the last little while. The reports and books explore various ideas, issues and trends that I think will...
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May 22, 2009
Category: friday fun
My last Friday Fun post at the old home was a list of five hard rock songs that I really love. I enjoyed doing that list so much, I thought I'd do it again this time, but with a focus...
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Category: admin
Go on over and visit ScienceBlogs' newest librarian blogger: Christina Pikas at Christina's LIS Rant....
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May 21, 2009
Category: social media
Apparently, there are thousands of librarians that read ScienceBlogs. No surprisingly, the ScienceBlogs brain trust wants to know why. In particular, they are looking to gather some information about what librarians hope to get out of reading the site. The...
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Category: literature roundup
Lots of great articles in this issue! Pretty well every one is worth checking out: Percentile-Based Journal Impact Factors: A Neglected Collection Development Metric by A. Ben Wagner, University at Buffalo A Subject Librarian's Guide to Collaborating on e-Science Projects...
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May 19, 2009
Category: social media
As we race headlong into a future full of opportunities for online social networking, as we try and build systems to engage students, scientists, librarians or others, we have to remember one thing. When we build these systems, we need...
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