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By jdupuis on November 29, 2013.
  • Do Librarians Need Tenure? Depends on Which Ones You Ask.
  • The Hunt Library, Innovation, and Tenure
  • Academic Freedom! Huh! What is It Good For?
  • My Thoughts on Faculty Status for Academic Librarians
  • How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
  • An Academic Cartel?
  • Women and the Internet in Four Parts: Online and Offline Violence Towards Women; Context Collapse, Architecture, and Plows; Sexytime, Gender Roles, and Credit Where Due; Feminism's Twist Ending
  • The Gendering of Technology Work
  • Academic scattering
  • We Are Not Hypnotized (rejecting the extremes wrt online ed)
  • Libraries in the Time of MOOCs
  • The Changing Textbook Industry
  • Futurebook: Which Three Skills Do You Need To Make It In Publishing?
  • Why Big Data is bad for science
  • The day Anonymous took down … FriendFeed? and FriendFeed Resurrected: the Afterstory
  • 17 More Essential Altmetrics Resources (the Library Version)
  • What scared H. P. Lovecraft (Not what you think it might be...)
  • From Things to Conversations
  • 9 reasons why I am NOT a Social Constructivist
  • For Adults Who Want to Feel Good About Themselves: My daughter on Goldieblox
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