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Competing with “Free,” Part One and Part Two (Re)Defining the Library, Part 1: Why?, Part 2: How? Smoking Gun on Sexism? (scientists are biased against women) What Libraries Should Be: A Values Proposition The matter of credit Report on the International Workshop on Contribution and Scholarly Attribution Please Stop The Social An Introvert's Thoughts on Being A Professional Speaker and Consultant Introverts and the ‘new groupthink’ Not So Fast on 'Open Access' (Historians having second thoughts?) Rethinking What “Academic” Means The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our…
So you got a job with your prof: advice for undergrads Undergrad Herding The Great Geek Sexism Debate New York Public Library Shifts Plan for 5th Ave. Building New York Public Library Dials Back Plan to Move Books New York Public Library Board of Trustees Approves Construction of Additional Book Storage at Landmark 42nd Street Building Lions in Winter, Part One and Part Two Amanda Palmer’s Million-Dollar Music Project and Kickstarter’s Accountability Problem Why Reducing Faculty Stress Should Be An Explicit Goal of Academic IT Mature Market for Online Education MOOC Host Expands (Coursera…
Before You Jump on the Bandwagon ... (MOOCs) It’s not about skills (hiring the right people and letting them do their job) All is revealed: the real crisis on campus Crafting an Engaging Lecture MOOCs' Missing Pieces MOOCs' Contradictions Publishers Double Down (GSU copyright case) Doing DH versus Doing Digital Digital Textbooks Still Not Catching On With College Students Time to go it alone on Open Access As Students Scatter Online, Colleges Try to Keep Up (email is so 2011) Hats off to Amazon (for cornering a whole bunch of ebook markets) The Plagiarism Perplex MOOCing On Site (site-based…
When did addiction become a good thing? Getting scientists to take ethics seriously: strategies that are probably doomed to failure. Why I Pay for Content (And Why That Makes Me Feel Like a Sucker) On the importance of networking in academic settings Two things prompted by a new website: space as a service and full library discovery Still Here: A funny thing happened on the way to its predicted obsolescence. The library became more popular than ever (NYPL renovation) Understanding Digital Civics Should we learn from the Masters or from the Pupils? (should students read the original papers on…
Patents Considered Evil The MOOC debate Higher Ed 2020: Epic Fail? The Digital Age and Higher Education Smart Writing: It’s good to be published, and better to be understood Writing Books People Want to Read 3 Reasons Why There's No Measuring ROI On Social Media Getting scientists to take ethics seriously: strategies that are probably doomed to failure. Elitism, Equality and MOOCs MOOCs and the overprepared student Grading Clout? (using Klout to assign marks) Learning From One Another (peer grading on Coursera) Heard: The Sad Anthropological Truth About The Adjunct Professor Life Bury Your…
An Academic Ghostwriter, the 'Shadow Scholar,' Comes Clean The Mechanical MOOC Rewriting the Journal (what will online do to journal publishing) The Siege of Academe The Self-Centered Library: A Paradox (why do we do what we do) Tweeting By Faith (calculating social media ROI for universities) Streaming content: Why buy when you can borrow so much more? Carleton U reveals new donor deal in controversial political management program>MOOCs will mean the death of universities? Not likely The Problems with Peer Grading in Coursera Building a Stellar Team (building an academic executive team…
Let's Talk about Academic Integrity, Part I: BI (Before the Internet) and Part II AI (After the Internet) Mining the astronomical literature 26 Internet safety talking points Save the [Insert Noun Here] (library catastrophism) Libraries and eBook Publishers: Friend Zone Level 300 An Unexpected Ass Kicking and 7 Things I Learned From My Encounter With Russell Kirsch Twitter Is Where Conversations Go To Die How should academic libraries communicate their own value? What You Need to Know About MOOC's Ask the Administrator: What Does “College Ready” Mean? The Post-petroleum Future of Academic…
Integrating Integrity (teaching research ethics to grad students) How to Train Graduate Students in Research Ethics: Lessons From 6 Universities Connecting With New Faculty, Or, Welcome to Our World Why Online Education Won't Replace College—Yet How America learned to love summer reading Make Us Do the Math (on the recent Hacker article) Self archiving science is not the solution “Innovation” and governance: Ontario’s proposed PSE system overhaul Following the herd, or joining the merry MOOCscapades of higher-ed bloggers What’s a Board to Do? (UVa post) Assisting Research Versus Research…
I’m breaking up with eBooks (and you can too) Ebooks Choices and the Soul of Librarianship Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online The Last Future Uncovering the world's 'unseen' science (preprint) HBO Rightly Decides Not to Cater to Cord Cutters In Virtual Play, Sex Harassment Is All Too Real High and low: what RIM's failure is doing to the people of Waterloo The Online Pecking Order: 'Conventional' online universities consider strategic response to MOOCs Digital Deadline (campuses will be completely digital in 3 years, textbooks that is) Supporting Public Access to…
The Naked and the TED The TED Takedown Everyone’s Talking About Jonah Lehrer, TED, and the narrative dark arts The New Republic gets Download-The-Universe-ish! I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All. The Trouble with TED The End of the Twilight of Doom What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs Peter Thiel's College Dropouts: How's That Working Out? The Banality of Textbooks Digital Deadline and Following the Lead of McGraw-Hill's Brian Kibby Why I'm not mad at Amazon What do we do and why do we do it? (philosophy of librarianship) Cord-cutting is no…
This is some vacation catch-up... Is Algebra Necessary? Mathematical Illiteracy in the NYT There Are Many Ways to Improve High School Education: Dumbing It Down Is NOT One of Them Does mathematics have a place in higher education? Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer It’s Not the Algebra, It’s the Arithmetic The challenge for scholarly societies Concrete Options For A Society Journal To Go OA Re-skilling for Research: An investigation into the role and skills of subject and liaison librarians required to effectively support the evolving information needs of researchers The future of…
Horses, motorcars and mergers on the LIS horizon Mergers, boundaries, and image St. Kate’s MLIS program is going under the business school Maker Faire KC 2012 and what it means for libraries At Libraries, Quiet Makes a Comeback Blogs as Serialized Scholarship Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff Concrete options for a society journal to go OA I Want It Today: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. Online Higher Education Opening Ceremonies (changes in schol comm starting to seem inevitable) Is online learning really cracking open the public post-…
Archives as Discovery Zones Don't Use Khan Academy without Watching this First Credit for Datasets Digital Makeover in Your Future? (eportfolios) Are Apps The Future of Book Publishing? The Finch Report in a global Open Access landscape Why Johnny Can’t Add Without a Calculator To Remain Relevant, Libraries Should Help Patrons Create Media beyond the marketplace A practical guide to the Georgia State eReserves Copyright Case for Librarians Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Status and Challenges for the Information Systems Community AppleU Idea for Apple's Low-Paid Store…
Academic Librarians As Campus Hubs Intellectual Freedom and the Library as a Workplace MLA Shift on Copyright Book Beat 2012 (on university presses at BEA) Commencement Address to Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (Laurence Lessig on political corruption) How to Fail When Using Internal Social Media The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (by Cory Doctorow) Reaching Out: Why Geeks Need a Manifesto How journals once facilitated and now hinder scientific progress. Top Libraries in U.S. and Canada Issue Statement Demanding Better Ebook Services How President Obama could really lead on open access…
Open access will bankrupt us, publishers’ report claims What data can and cannot do I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All. Why Library and eBooks Issues Matter Sports Subsidies and Library Spending Improving Research Skills RUK: The Maturing Threat of Open Access Letter from Books of Wonder to DOJ about ebooks lawsuit Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming" Reaching Out: Why are scientists trapped in the ivory tower and what can be done to escape? What the Forbes model of contributed content means for journalism Open Access:…
#scholpub , Maxwell and the Laws of Acadynamics Please Don't Learn to Code Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer The Radical New Humanities Ph.D. The Classroom Is Obsolete: It's Time for Something New Dead-Tree Luddites Open Access and the Future of Academic Scholarship Helping Students Think About Thinking Why the Facebook IPO Matters to Ed Tech and Higher Ed Unglue.it: A Crowdfunded, E-Book Liberation Project Unglue.it Launches on Thursday Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges Playing the Role of MOOC Skeptic: 7 Concerns Don’t mention income…
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks Daunt: library e-lending "disruptive" to high street A "License to Read": The Effect of E-Books on Publishers, Libraries, and the First Sale Doctrine Inside the Georgia State Opinion The GSU decision -- not an easy road for anyone The GSU decision E-Reservations The Greatest Threat to Amazon May Just Be Libraries Technology is a Double-Edged Sword In Defense of the New York Public Library Colloquium on Rethinking the Future of Scientific Communication Why Nikola Tesla is the greatest geek who ever lived OLA Statement on Copyright for the…
Universities have been taken over by administrators Making Our Ideas More Accessible (by blogging, twitter, etc) University Of Toronto's Lawyer In Access Copyright Deal Also Advised Access Copyright On Related Legislation NLLA advising universities & colleges not to sign AUCC's proposed model license with Access Copyright Motion for Senate concerning Access Copyright (8 May 2012) Why Investing In Faculty Is the Best Method To Promote Innovation RUSQ, Open Access, and Me HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy Periodicals Price Survey 2012 Research Blogs and the…
The ugly underbelly of coder culture Used-Book Stores in the Digital Age The Massive Open Online Professor Leave only footprints: how Google's ethical ignorance gets it in trouble The Arrogance of Publishers vs. Academic Culture - Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain Becoming Prof 2.0 Library Journal Design Institute, Denver The New York Public Library Central Library Plan and its Critics The academic ethics of open access to research and scholarship You have to share Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations? Communications, Social Media, and Technology Are Not Synonyms If online education…
It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make EdX: A Platform for More MOOCs and an Opportunity for More Research about Teaching and Learning Online The Problem With EdX How Should Your University Respond to edX? Resisting the Robo-Assignment The Immersion Method -- I & II (intensive "great books" courses) Reconsidering Academic Careers Libraries as Indoctrination Mills The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity Pay up, Yochai Benkler (the Benkler-Carr wager on the nature of the web) The economics of digital sharecropping Open letter to college graduates A revolutionary new approach…