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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
April 30, 2010
Category: academia
From The Cronk of Higher Education, New First Year Experience Class: How To Not Be An Asshole, this is very funny. The six-week class is comprised of five modules:So You're Drunk: A Guide To Quietly Stumbling Home Street Signs Are...
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April 28, 2010
Category: computer science
A great two-part series on great computing museums from the last few issues of Communications of the ACM (here and here). The museums they profile are:The Computer History Museum The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum The Science Museum in London The Deutches...
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April 23, 2010
Category: friday fun
This one's on Cracked.com and, unusually for them, is Safe for Work. Now, I'm down with making education more interactive, social, customizable, multitasking, multimedia and web-enabled and all that, but for every good thing there are potential downsides. And Cracked's...
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April 22, 2010
Category: computer science
A small selection from some tables of content from a few recent journals and proceedings. These will require subscription access to the ACM Digital Library. Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Connecting k-16 curriculum & policy: making computer science engaging,...
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April 20, 2010
Category: academia
That's the topic for the most recent Schubmehl-Prein Prize for Best Essay on Social Impact of Computing. The Schubmehl-Prein Prize for best analysis of the social impact of a particular aspect of computing technology will be awarded to a student...
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April 16, 2010
Category: friday fun
If you love sword & sorcery books and stories (and who doesn't!), SF Signal has one of their Mind Meld features in which they ask a bunch of writers and editors to name their favourites of the genre. Here's a...
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April 15, 2010
Category: academia
A month or so ago I posted on Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?, basically on the challenges that scholarly societies face in the digital age. I got a few good comments, getting a nice discussion going. I also posed a few...
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April 14, 2010
Category: acad lib future
From Twitter, here's the announcement: Have you ever sent out a "tweet" on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. That's right. Every public tweet, ever,...
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Category: acad lib future
This is one of those books that I just seemed to argue with constantly while I was reading it. You know, "Hey, you, book, you're just plain wrong about this!" But, as much as I argued with it, as much...
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April 13, 2010
Category: acad lib future
There's a massive libraryland industry organized around figuring out what students want from us in terms of space, collections, services, etc. We survey, observe and focus group them to death. And that's great and incredibly valuable. But sometimes I think...
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