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By jdupuis on November 14, 2014.
  • Against Productivity
  • How to Escape The Age of Mediocrity
  • Re-imagining the McGill University Library and Archives - Feasibility Study (scope report here, planning page here)
  • Surprising Gadgets, Not Just Books, Are Ready for Checkout at College Libraries
  • Commodification of the information profession: A critique of Higher Education under neoliberalism
  • Understanding Facebook's lost generation of teens
  • What's the Academic's Role?
  • Get Cracking
  • Culture of cruelty: why bullying thrives in higher education
  • Being Irrelevant: How Library Data Interchange Standards Have Kept Us Off the Internet
  • On "Pitching" and What Goes Unmentioned
  • The Dads of Tech
  • Where is technology’s critical culture?
  • Science Research Needs an Overhaul
  • The Library of the Future
  • 4 Ways Academic Libraries Are Adapting For The Future
  • Librarians Are Dedicated to User Privacy. The Tech They Have to Use Is Not.
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