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By jdupuis on September 24, 2011.
  • The Future of Libraries
  • The Guardian's 9/11 mistake shows we're still learning the boundaries of Twitter
  • Feeling pointy
  • A Quick Buck by Copy and Paste: A review of Gamification by Design
  • Stop the Internet, we want to get off!
  • Open Access Is Infrastructure, Not Religion
  • Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals
  • Think Different? Not in Higher Ed
  • Counting books is boring
  • Note to vendors:
  • Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities
  • Introverts and Customer Service in the Library: An Unexpected Fit
  • What does curation mean, anyway?
  • Why do we continue to use Citations?
  • 'Hotspots' and international scientific collaboration
  • Tinkering
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