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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
September 30, 2009
Category: academia
It's time for the annual Mocking of the Thomson session. Check out my previous iterations of this amusing pastime: 2002, 2006, 2007a, 2007b, 2008. Yes, I've been at this for a while, but to no avail. My main point in...
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September 28, 2009
Category: academia
Here's an amazing and fairly unique opportunity for a research-minded librarian who wants to significantly advance her or his research program. The appointment is for up to three years and the starting date is somewhat flexible. Here's the terms of...
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Category: science fiction
Those of you with long memories may recall that I was on the jury for the 2009 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Well, the names of the winners have just been released:Adult: The Gargoyle by Andrew DavidsonYoung...
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September 25, 2009
Category: friday fun
God, I love The Onion: Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M. An international panel of leading anthropologists, cultural critics, biologists, and social theorists announced this week that Western civilization will reach its lowest conceivable...
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September 24, 2009
Category: culture of science
Predicting the future is tricky business. Trust me, I know. But there's two ideas I always like to keep in mind when I put my futurologist's hat on: The future will be at least as diverse as the present, probably...
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September 23, 2009
Category: admin
If you feel the need to socially network with ScienceBlogs and any of us various SciBlings, you can do so on Facebook and Twitter. I suspect that most of us who are on those services are fans/followers of ScienceBlogs. The...
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September 21, 2009
Category: acad lib future
That's the question asked by Lance Fortnow in a recent Communications of the ACM Viewpoint article (free fulltext). Fortnow's article continues a discussion about scholarly communication patterns in computer science that's been going on for a while in the "pages"...
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September 18, 2009
Category: friday fun
As many have not doubt noticed over the months and years of my blog's existence, I am a hardcore science fiction fan. And just as with the science/librarian world, there are countless blogs and other sites about the science fictions/fantasy/horror...
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Category: music
I'm talking about the new-to-me Wolfgang's Vault! Among other things, it includes a Vault Store, where you can buy prints and other swag; the Concert vault with 2859 concerts, the Crawdaddy magazine & archives. The concerts material can be sliced...
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September 16, 2009
Category: acad lib future
I haven't done one of these in a while, so there's quite a backlog to clear. ReportsDigital Scholarly Communication: A Snapshot of Current Trends Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing: Reality Is a Sober Adversary Library Storage...
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