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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
A very nice article by Ian Brown in this past Saturday's Globe and Mail, Don't discard the librarians. He very nicely summarizes the recent library/librarian angst that's been free-flowing around the media and blogosphere over the last little while. The...
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Category: acad lib future
Hey, it wasn't me that said that. It wasn't even another academic librarian. It was Joshua Kim in his post from today's Inside Higher Ed, 5 Reasons Librarians Are the Future of Ed Tech. It's a great post, talking from...
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Category: acad lib future
This series of four posts by William M. Briggs is pretty interesting stuff. The kind of thing where I'm torn: is it the most brilliant and perceptive thing I've ever read about higher education or is it a series of...
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Category: acad lib future
My Stealth Librarianship Manifesto post from last month continues to gather comments and page views, albeit at a slower rate than before. Of course, that's very gratifiying to see. If you haven't checked in on the post in a while,...
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Category: acad lib future
In all of our organizations fostering innovation is an important goal. But how do you turn the innovation fawcett on? Somehow it seems so much easier to turn it off. Of course, it's all about institutional culture. The way problems...
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Category: culture of science
I saw this just after I published my previous post and think it really encompasses what I'd like to say to HarperCollins and its fellow travelers. This is from The Capitalist's Paradox by Umair Haque. So here's my question: Does...
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Category: acad lib future
Over the last week or so a huge issue has sprung up in the library and publishing world, which I touch on in my eBook Users' Bill of Rights post. The publisher HarperCollins has restricting the number of checkouts an...
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Category: acad lib future
Stealth librarianship is a way of being. This particular edition of the manifesto applies to academic libraries. The principles of stealth librarianship apply to all branches of the profession, each in particular ways. Other manifestos could exist for, say, public...
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Category: acad lib future
A portentous-sounding title for a not-so-portentous post, full of half-baked thoughts and idle musings. I was just thinking about the recent Jounal of Electronic Publishing issue on Reimagining the University Press and without actually reading very much of the issue...
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Category: acad lib future
Peter Brantley has a provocative post up on his blog Shimenawa: Get in the goddamn wagon. It's basically a call to arms -- specifically for younger librarians to seize a greater role in discussing and shaping the future of libraries....
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