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Reading Diary: Marketing for Scientists by Marc J. Kuchner
Posted by John Dupuis on April 11, 2012 It’s probably best to start with what Marc J. Kuchner’s new book — Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times — isn’t. It isn’t a social media jackass recipe book for “Success through Twitter.” It isn’t a detailed treatise on marketing theory. It doesn’t come with a guarantee of grants, publications and prizes…
Reading Diary: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Posted by John Dupuis on February 9, 2012 Walter Isaacson’s book on Apple founder & CEO Steve Jobs is a fairly long book. It’s not exactly a thriller either, especially since I know how it ends. As a result it took me a while to plow through it. I tended to read it in bursts of 40 or 50 pages over a few…
A year of books: 2011
Posted by John Dupuis on January 5, 2012 I’m including here a list of all the books I’ve read in 2011, as well as some commentary on my particular year in reading. I always enjoy when people post these sorts of lists online and actually rather enjoy doing so myself. I’ve been doing this for a few years now: 2010, 2009, 2008 and…
Reading Diary: Feynman by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick
Posted by John Dupuis on November 21, 2011 I like to think I’m developing a little niche here on Confessions of a Science Librarian, at least as far as some of my book reviews. And I like to think that niche is reviewing science-oriented graphic novels. And I’ve reviewed a few over the past couple of years. Logicomix (review), Evolution: The Story of…
Reading Diary: Summer reading with Bradbury x 2, Burke, Maberry, Lemire and more
Posted by John Dupuis on September 26, 2011 My 2011 summer reading was pretty meagre this year. For various reasons too boring to go into here, there wasn’t much actually much vacation for me this summer. I think I’ll probably have a better December/Christmas reading list than summer. Such is life. Anyways, what I did read was pretty good, so let’s get to…
Reading Diary: Required Reading: The “Very Best” of CronkNews.com
Posted by John Dupuis on July 27, 2011 As anyone who’s a regular reader of my Friday Fun series will know, I’m a huge fan of The Cronk, that paragon of higher ed satire. In fact, you could call me the grand high poobah of Cronk fandom with the Cronk as the Sultan of Satire! You can see some of my posts here,…
From the Archives: Follies of science: 20th century visions of our fantastic future by Eric & Jonathan Dregni
Posted by John Dupuis on June 19, 2011 I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I’m going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I’ll mostly be doing the posts one or two per…
Reading Diary: Open Access: What You Need to Know Now by Walt Crawford
Posted by John Dupuis on June 6, 2011 Sometimes we Open Access advocates tend to assume everybody is already on our side. You know, all our librarian and scientist colleagues out there. Surely by now they’ve seen the light. They understand the main issues and flavours of OA, can ably summarize the major arguments for OA and refute the major complaints against. Of…
From the Archives: Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder by David Weinberger
Posted by John Dupuis on June 5, 2011 I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I’m going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I’ll mostly be doing the posts one or two per…
From the Archives: Sharing, Privacy and Trust in a Networked World by OCLC
Posted by John Dupuis on May 22, 2011 I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I’m going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I’ll mostly be doing the posts one or two per…
