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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
July 31, 2009
Category: blogging
My son Sam is a budding scientist and blogger. He came to the ScienceOnline09 conference in North Carolina with me this past January and had a great time. Needless to say, Bora has tracked him down and interviewed him here....
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Category: friday fun
Most of these look odd, interesting, weird, useless or some combination of the above. Here's a couple of examples:Underwater Basket Weaving Philosophy and Star Trek Joy of Garbage (Via Ask-Dr-Kirk.)...
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July 29, 2009
Category: culture of science
During my summer blogging break, I thought I'd repost of few of my "greatest hits" from my old blog, just so you all wouldn't miss me so much. This one is from November 7, 2007. It generated quite a few...
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July 24, 2009
Category: personal
Yes, it's here. My annual summer blogging break. A time to recharge my blogging batteries. Time to pack up my virtual bags, hop on my ePlane and take a posting holiday. As usual, I'll be offline for the next four...
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July 23, 2009
Category: acad lib future
Scott Delman, Group Publisher of the ACM, has responded to my post earlier this month on society publishers and open access. That post generated some very good discussion in the post comments that are well worth checking out. Delman's article...
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July 21, 2009
Category: science books
My traditional summer blogging break is fast approaching. It's the time of year when I take a 4-6 week break away from it all and recharge my blogging batteries. It's something I've done for years and it really works for...
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July 18, 2009
Category: admin
That's four librar* blogs here at ScienceBlogs, of course, with hopefully more to come. We're taking over! I'll let Dorothea introduce herself: I'm very pleased to welcome you all to The Book of Trogool, a brand-new blog about e-research. My...
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July 17, 2009
Category: acad lib future
Those of you with long memories may recall that I gave a presentation at the Ontario Library Association conference in 2008 based on the My Job in 10 years blog posts. Shortly after that presentation, I was approached by Cecile...
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July 16, 2009
Category: web 2.0
This is a great looking afternoon here in Toronto on Wednesday July 29th, organized by Greg Wilson and taking place at the MaRS Centre: Science 2.0: What every scientist needs to know about how the web is changing the way...
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July 13, 2009
Category: personal
Between the fact that I'm still not completely recovered from my epically awful day last Friday and the blogging lethargy that always comes as my summer blogging break approaches, all the blogging-related brain cells I have left are completely fried....
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