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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
November 30, 2009
Category: music
Welcome to the latest feature here at Confessions of a Science Librarian -- Music Mondays! My plan is to have a vaguely music-related post here most Mondays, somewhat in the vein of my Friday Fun posts, but probably not quite...
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Category: acad lib future
...present of public and academic libraries? What got me thinking along these lines most recently was the recent Clay Shirky blog post, Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization. It's a pretty good post that puts a particular kind of physical...
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November 29, 2009
Category: best science books 2009
One of the most interesting lists every year is The Globe and Mail's Globe 100, and this year is no exception. There's relevant stuff all over the spectrum, from biography to history to graphic novels to popular science to the...
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November 28, 2009
Category: acad lib future
From the most recent issue of Locus magazine, November 2009, talking about his most recent novel Makers: The people in Makers experience a world in which technology giveth and taketh away. They live through the fallacy of the record and...
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November 27, 2009
Category: friday fun
Actually, not jackass, but asshole, but this is a family blog, at least as far as post titles are concerned. In any case, Scott Berkun's Asshole driven development post on practices in the software industry from a couple of years...
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November 24, 2009
Category: best science books 2009
Obviously, Strategy+Business is not going to be core science books, but I've always included social media, technology and innovation books in my very broad definition of science books. There are a couple of categories that have some very fine books...
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November 23, 2009
Category: science books
Unfortunately, LJ's Best Books 2009: 31 Titles, Plus Best Genres & How-To doesn't have a dedicated science section but there are a few good recommendations nevertheless. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman The Strangest Man:...
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November 20, 2009
Category: friday fun
I like to cook. I have a few standard, signature dishes where I more or less freestyle every time I make them -- beef stew, chili, quesadillas, pasta sauce. I also like to try new things. For example, I'll probably...
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November 18, 2009
Category: acad lib future
Or, Twitter & blogs as ways of knowing, Part 2. A month or so ago, I poked a little gentle fun at social media extremists, basically exploring the idea that engaging online is the be-all and end-all of the library...
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November 16, 2009
Category: best science books 2009
Sort of related to my ongoing series of Best Science Books 2009 lists, here's a nice list of the top 5 social media books I found on Mashable, via Tara Hunt. They're all 2009 books, after all. The list is...
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