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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
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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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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Category: yorku
I don't usually talk about local York stuff here, but I'd like to make an exception for the event we had last week (Tuesday, November 3rd) here at my library, The Steacie Science & Engineering Library. The event is called...
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Category: SO'10
Registration for Science Online 2010 is open. The conference web site is here and program info is here. Time is running out. There are currently about 175 registered and the organizers are going to cap it at 250. I've attended...
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Category: acad lib future
A few weeks ago Bill Gasarch published his Journal Manifesto 2.0 on the Computational Complexity blog. Basically, his idea was to start a scholarly publishing revolution from the inside: Keep in mind: I am NOT talking to the NSF or...
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Category: acad lib future
As I mentioned in my previous post, I did a little Q&A about the new outsourcing arrangement that CISTI has negotiated with Infotrieve. Q1. What's the effect on jobs at CISTI from this move? As you may know, NRC-CISTI is...
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Category: acad lib future
As has been buzzing around the scitech library mailing lists lately (thanks, Joe!), the great news is that the STELLA! Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action unconference is coming up in Denver in January 2010. What is the...
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Category: acad lib future
A silly title to reflect some overhyped posturing found, guess where, on the Internet. First up, Joe Murphy on librarians and their proper relationship to Twitter: "it's reprehensible for information professionals not to be on Twitter." A loaded and diva-dramatic...
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Category: acad lib future
I rarely mention here when Walt Crawford publishes a new issue of his very fine ejournal Cites & Insights, mostly because I sort of assume you all read it already. Of course, that's probably not true so I'll remedy the...
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Category: computer science
The IEEE Computer Society's magazine IT Professional has a special issue on Ontologies, OWL, and the Semantic Web (v11i5). There's lots of very cool-looking stuff, mostly pretty basic. Guest Editor's Introduction: Ontologies, OWL, and the Semantic Web by Jepsen, Thomas...
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