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By jdupuis on August 16, 2011.
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Copy
  • The Children They Never Had (regrets about not having kids among mostly female science faculty)
  • Why We Inflate Grades
  • Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong
  • Faculty inertia and change in scholarly publishing
  • Blogs: face the conversation
  • No Offence, But Insults Have Merit in Academia
  • Overexposed? Baby Photos in the Age of Facebook
  • What People Don't Get About Working in a Library
  • Building Canada's Digital Law Library
  • Subtle Things That Hold Women Back
  • Facebook and Branding
  • The importance of language and framing, part eleventy-thousand
  • Fall From Grace (prof in trouble for disputing literal truth of Genesis)
  • How Do You Define an Academic?
  • Spend More Money On Technology
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