around the web
jdupuis | August 24, 2013
I'm Not Your Sweetheart (& interesting counterpoint)
Library and Repository Communities Join Together to Identify New Competencies for Academic Librarians
How to Scuttle a Scholarly Communication Initiative
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Anonymous asked: Have you personally received crap for being a Mover and Shaker, or are you taking statements against the award as being directed at its recipients?
30 Years of Change and Hype
ITHAKA 2012: A BELATED ANALYSIS
Why We Need Radical Change for Media Ethics, Not a Return to Basics
The Great Lakes Ecosystem: Uses, Abuses and the…
jdupuis | August 17, 2013
Wanted: Nonlibrarian Librarians
Image, Public Perception, and Lego Librarians
I'm Not Your Sweetheart
Why your librarian is a superhero
Are the Boomers Ruining Libraries?
Hurtling Towards Relevance
The Long Suffering Librarian
Self-Censorship in Libraryland
How to Answer “So You Need a Degree to Do That?”
Yes, Virginia, it matters which library school you go to
Silencing, librarianship, and gender: it is worse to speak ill than to do wrong
I Do Not Want My Daughter to Be ‘Nice’
To Move Ahead You Have to Know What to Leave Behind
Making Open the Default Position
Restoring Trust in Government…
jdupuis | July 27, 2013
Change Rhetoric: Good and Bad
Three challenges: Engaging, rightscaling and innovating
Time for a little dissent
To Be Or Not To Be A Library Director
How to Answer “So You Need a Degree to Do That?”
Putting Things in Perspective
Here’s how Amazon self-destructs
Amazon vs. your public library
Small Pieces Loosely Kludged: Peer Review and Publication in Math Scholarly Communication
The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life
If We Share Data, Will Anyone Use Them? Data Sharing and Reuse in the Long Tail of Science and Technology…
jdupuis | July 25, 2013
How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
The Fall of the American Worker
The Internet’s destroying work — and turning the old middle-class into the new proletariat
Giving Away Our Lunch
Reminders about the Economics of Becoming an Academic
Econ 101 is killing America: Forget the dumbed-down garbage most economists spew. Their myths are causing tragic results for everyday Americans
What Is College For?
The Great Dereliction
The Stakes for All of Us (higher education reform must be approached very carefully)
Cash-Strapped Universities Turn to Corporate-Style Consolidation
Information Consumerism: The…
jdupuis | July 18, 2013
Silencing, librarianship, and gender: a preface
Silencing, librarianship, and gender: what is silencing?
Gender and Digital Identity
Does the library world squash public dissent?
Library Schism: How Do Librarians Define Their Profession?
The Librarian Shortage Myth & Blaming Library School
Waiting for Batgirl
The MLS quasar, and Lists for the Perplexed
New Services, New Skills, and Renewing Staff
Breaking Up with Libraries
Hey Libraries: It’s Not Me, It’s You and Part 2: Who Gets to Keep the Couch?
SUL supports conference anti-harassment policies and My library supports anti-harassment…
jdupuis | July 17, 2013I have a son who's just finished his first year as a physics undergrad. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for…
jdupuis | July 5, 2013
Harvard’s First University-wide Library Mission Statement Approved by Library Board
Declaration for the Right to Libraries
Open Review: A Study of Contexts and Practices
The Cooler: PLoS ONE and the Panic Over Impact
NIH sees surge in open-access manuscripts
Academics don't let themselves be free
Guide to Creative Commons
Surge in 'digital dementia'
Library DIY: Unmediated point-of-need support
Ten trends shaping the future of publishing
Risk, responsibility, and public academics
‘Is the BA a ticket to nowhere?’ No. Employers want independent, critical thinking workers
Be employable, study…
jdupuis | June 26, 2013For various reasons, I've been collecting some resources around open access, open data and scientific and technological innovation in Canada. Since they might be more broadly useful that to just me, I thought I'd share them.
Of course, this list is incomplete. I've most likely left out whole swaths of stuff out there, both in terms of organizations and relevant posts and articles as well as institutional OA mandates and author funds I may have missed. Please feel free to suggest items in the comments.
One thing in particular I would like to add in a future iteration is a list of library/…
jdupuis | June 25, 2013
After Your Job Is Gone
Disruptions: The Echo Chamber of Silicon Valley
MOOCs as a Lightning Rod
The Stories We Tell about MOOCs
Fixing the Digital Economy
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Academic Library
Stop Scaring Students
An Avalanche is Coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead
Role of librarians changes in digital age
Exploring the future of academic libraries: A definitional approach
Why You Should Never Have Taken That Prestigious Internship
Notes From an Academic Nobody
What's a Library?
The End of Ownership
If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a…
jdupuis | June 22, 2013
In Praise of Traditional Libraries
How not to be a dick to a librarian
What Librarians Lack: The Importance of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
In Service? A Further Provocation on Digital Humanities Research in Libraries
What I Wish I’d Known in Graduate School
Academics will need both the physical and virtual library for years to come
Throwing the Books at Each Other
ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Bibliography
The Librarian’s Love/Hate/Love Relationship with Books
Life Sciences Library – Consultation News, Next Steps and Cruess-Boyer Report (McGill)
Opportunities and Barriers for Librarians in…
jdupuis | June 19, 2013I have a son who's just finished his first year as a physics undergrad. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for…
jdupuis | June 11, 2013
Joining a CHORUS, Publishers Offer the OSTP a Proactive, Modern, and Cost-Saving Public Access Solution
Publishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research
CHORUS: hoping for re-enclosure
CHORUS: It’s actually spelled C-A-B-A-L
Scientific Publishers Aim To Get Ahead Of Agency Repositories
A CHORUS of boos: publishers offer their “solution” to public access
All joined with a single voice to praise CHORUS, thus: “meh.”
Chapter, Verse, and CHORUS: A first pass critique
SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Proposed by AAU, APLU, ARL (proposal here)
‘Federated System’…
jdupuis | June 5, 2013
Don’t Panic: Why Catastrophism Fails Libraries
Breaking Up with Libraries
Resolved: All LIS students should not take that course
Once a Librarian, Always a Librarian?
Editorial: Libraries see opportunity in changing times
Look to the present of libraries to see the future
Results of the “Global Research Council” in Berlin Announced
Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters
Open-access initiatives to benefit the academy
Economics of scholarly communication in transition (Is there enough money in library budgets to unleash all of scholarship…
jdupuis | May 31, 2013
Challenge, don't worship, the chiefs and high priestesses of science: If we don't recognise the politics of science, we will just get played by those who do
Confronting The Woo-Woos Head-On...
45% Fewer Professional Working Musicians Since 2002
Academics and universities must continue to develop open access alternatives to break the monopoly of large publishers
It’s not about predators, it’s about journal quality
Open Access Advocates Trumpet the Fall of the Paywall
Survivorship bias and electronic publishing: practically no one is making any money
The Challenges of Measuring Social Impact…
jdupuis | May 30, 2013
Academic library existence at risk?
The Myth and the Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation"
Fending off university-attacking zombies
The online threat to the American professor
Educational Hucksterism: Or, MOOCs are not an Educational Technology
Laptop U: Has the future of college moved online?
Libraries into career centres, campus residences into senior homes
Embrace Moocs or face decline, warns v-c
Library holds consultation sessions on proposed closure of the Life Sciences Library (McGill)
Editorial: why academic freedom matters to librarians
The Librarian Doesn’t Exist
Harvard…
jdupuis | May 29, 2013I have a son who's just finished his first year as a physics undergrad. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for…
jdupuis | May 25, 2013
The Downside of Being Universally Liked
5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail – Published in 1864 (satire)
What's a Library?
Can Information Professionals Afford Apprenticeships? A Thought Experiment
Faculty Usage of Library Tools in a Learning Management System
The bravery of librarians
We Aim to Misbehave
Librarians need bigger egos
Beyond measure: Valuing libraries
Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics
New Higher Education Model
Higher Ed in 2018
Four ways open access enhances academic freedom
Open…
jdupuis | May 16, 2013
Yes, We Should Talk About the MLS
On Big Name Librarians
The Loon’s job
Why am I getting my MLIS? Because I have to.
So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian?
The Adjunctification of Academic Librarianship
Your candidate pools
Fork the Academy (github as a model for scholarly communcation)
Massive (But Not Open) (new online cs degree program)
[Expletive Deleted] Ed-Tech #Edinnovation (relates ed tech history as it is often told to how Argo treats the Canadian contribution to that story)
Making the peer review process public
Why is Science Behind a Paywall?
The Delete Squad Google, Twitter,…
jdupuis | May 1, 2013
Cults of Librarian Personalities
Let's upgrade undergrads to first-class citizens
Libraries and the informational future: some notes
Librarians Respond to DPLA Launch
Marketing Libraries Is like Marketing Mayonnaise
The Sibyl of Cumae (OA/costs of schol comm)
A matter of emphasis (librarians must read this post)
Send Me the Check That You Would Have Sent to Consultants This Year
Mash-Up This! Science Communication’s Image Problem
Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: The Incubator Blog at Rockefeller University
Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on (2nd hand…
jdupuis | April 27, 2013I have a son who's currently a first year physics student. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for outreach and…