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By jdupuis on March 23, 2013.
  • What makes one a librarian?
  • Goodbye, Faculty Status
  • Library employees protest changed title: New designation for incoming employee provokes heated debate
  • why should librarians learn python? (a better answer)
  • Why Not Grow Coders from the inside of Libraries?
  • Alt-Ac: Breathing Life into Libraries or Eroding the Profession?
  • Of Hybrarians, Scholar-Librarians, Academic Refugees, & Feral Professionals
  • Fending off university-attacking zombies
  • Defining the library ... reflexively
  • The Powerful Art Of Resilience
  • Pages of History (end of the scholarly journal article?)
  • Topic Pages: PLoS Computational Biology Meets Wikipedia
  • Why Is Change So Difficult?
  • #btpdf2 #scholrev: Planning the scholarly revolution
  • When TED Lost Control of Its Crowd
  • Reselling E-Books and the One-Penny Problem
  • Arguments for Open Access to Research Results
  • The only winning move is not to play
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