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SOPA: Why it’s a bad idea
Posted by John Dupuis on January 18, 2012 The Stop Online Piracy Act is a piece of legislation in the US whose aims are: The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could…
Science Online 2012: Library and librarian sessions
Posted by John Dupuis on January 13, 2012 With the final countdown underway and the conference less than a week away, this post follows my post on library people in attendance at Science Online 2012 from a few weeks ago. And I’d like to start off with another best-tweet-ever, this time Marieclaire Shanahan retweeting Colin Schutze: + they’ll be fascinating! RT @_ColinS_: #Scio12…
Best Social Media Books 2011: Frogloop
Posted by John Dupuis on December 27, 2011 Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2011 lists…
Around the Web: Resources on academic blogging and social media use
Posted by John Dupuis on December 6, 2011 I’m doing a short presentation tomorrow on blogging for researchers as part of a day-long communications workshop for faculty here at York. And since a few months back I created a reading list for a social media presentation for grad students, I thought I’d expand that list in this post and add some more specifically…
Charleston Conference Presentation: Keeping Up with the Things That Matter
Posted by John Dupuis on November 9, 2011 I was at The Charleston Conference last week, thanks to Mike Diaz of Proquest who invited me to be on a panel that he moderated, along with Karen Downing and Clifford Lynch. The topic of the panel was Keeping Up with the Things That Matter: Current Awareness Tools and Strategies for Academic Libraries. Karen, Cliff…
Books I’d like to read
Posted by John Dupuis on October 24, 2011 For your reading and collection development pleasure! Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are…
The power of blogs, or #OccupyScholComm
Posted by John Dupuis on October 19, 2011 I’ve long been a believer in the power of blogs to drive and aggregate conversations at every level. Frivolous, for sure. But also serious and scholarly. The rise of science blogs over the last few years has certainly demonstrated that. In librarianship as well, blogs are a powerful source of comment, theory and practical advice.…
Hacking stereotypes in educating people about computing
Posted by John Dupuis on September 27, 2011 Computer science and computer science education are a couple of my evergreen topics here on this blog, as you can see by perusing the computer science tag. And of course, my trip to Harvard for LIAL this past summer perhaps has that institution on my radar a bit more than usual. So how wonderful is…
On the evilness of the emerging ebook app ecosystem
Posted by John Dupuis on August 29, 2011 The theme at the upcoming Science Online NYC panel is Enhanced eBooks & BookApps: the Promise and Perils and I guess I’m the perils guy. The purpose of this post is helping me to get some of my thoughts down on pixels and, as a by-product, I guess it’s tipping my hand a little bit…
So who the heck is still on ScienceBlogs anyways, 2011 edition
Posted by John Dupuis on August 26, 2011 What with the latest round of departures seemingly immanent with the new “no pseudonymous bloggers” policy, I thought I’d revisit the list I did last year at about this time. With a few exceptions, I’ll call blogs dormant if there hasn’t been a post in 2011. 2010 World Science Festival Blog (Dormant, 1 post in…
