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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
February 26, 2010
Category: friday fun
Via Boing Boing, this is my kind of prize! You can vote for the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. The shortlist:Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter by David Cromptons (Glenstrae Press) Collectible Spoons of the Third...
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February 25, 2010
Category: acad lib future
My Lakehead University colleague Janice Mutz and I reprised the session I did at OLA two years ago this morning for an active and engaged crowd of about 50 librarians -- a great crowd for the very first session of...
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February 24, 2010
Category: engineering
Queen's University engineering librarian Michael White runs The Patent Librarian's Notebook, a very important resource for anyone interested in finding and making sense of patent information. He's done a very comprehensive review of the important 2009 developments in public patent...
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February 22, 2010
Category: academia
Here's what they're about: The first draft of Panton Principles was written in July 2009 by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks at the Panton Arms on Panton Street in Cambridge, UK, just down from the Chemistry...
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February 19, 2010
Category: friday fun
John Scalzi is one of my guaranteed Friday Fun go-to guys. Always amusing, always entertaining and occasionally controversial and provocative. He's definitely in the controversial and provocative mode here in a 2006 blog post entitled The Lie of Star Wars...
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Category: acad lib future
On Thursday, February 4th, I attended the Social Media and the Modern Day Classroom session that's part of Social Media Week Toronto. It was hosted here at York and most of the presenters were local faculty or staff. It was...
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February 17, 2010
Category: acad lib future
A bit of self-promotion. Forgive me. I'll be brief. My TAIGA fisking post from a while back is featured prominently in Walt Crawford's most recent Cites & Insights (March 2010) (pdf, html) with quite a bit of value-added comment from...
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Category: book review
I've always been a huge vampire fan -- I watched my first Dracula movie when I was about 8-10 years old, on TV, one of the vintage Hammer films with Christopher Lee. I read the original novel when I was...
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February 16, 2010
Category: acad lib future
As a follow up to my previous posts about the situation at Canada's national science library, NRC-CISTI, here, here and here, this was in the Ottawa Citizen today, NRC to lay off 86 workers in April. The National Research Council...
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February 12, 2010
Category: friday fun
Following up on my Onion post a few weeks back on a Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet I thought I'd do an update on The Onion's article Apple Finally Unveils iPad. Here's most of what...
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