In a recent post, Barbara pulled out this quote from Paul Courant’s article “Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google,”
Collaboration, across time and space, is the fundamental method of scholarship, and without it we can do nothing of value.
Hmm, what about the solitary researcher who works tirelessly but alone [...]

Well, those of us who submitted proposals for papers and panel sessions for the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore (Mar. 31, 2007 – April 1, 2007) learned the fate of our proposals last Friday. I had previously reported on the number of proposals submitted for the number of slots available – and the odds [...]