Archive for October, 2006
Keeping Up Helps To Make The Point
Recently I received an e-mail from a fellow library director at a university somewhat similar to my own wanting to know if we could chat sometime about some issues she was confronting at her institution. She had developed some strategies, but wanted to bounce them off a colleague for some feedback. I was glad to [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 30th, 2006 under Administration/Leadership.
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Paying Attention
Marilyn Pukkila, head of instruction services at Colby College, has often posted thoughtful issues on the ILI-L list. She has kindly contributed this guest post for ACRLog readers – on the blurring of boundaries for multitaskers and the difficulty of paying attention to those quiet voices inside.
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This snippet from a Business Week article got [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 28th, 2006 under Simplicity vs. Complexity, Student Issues, Technology Issues.
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Topology Resignations
Although this was announced over the summer, the New York Sun and now the Chronicle are reporting on the resignations of the entire editorial board of the mathematics journal Topology, published by Elsevier, which charges United States institutions $1,665 per year for the journal.
The Chronicle article links to a math blog, Not Even Wrong with [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on October 27th, 2006 under Scholarly Communications.
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Wikipedia And Academia
The Wikipedia discussion at the Chronicle yesterday failed to get me change my basic view of Wikipedia, which is that the errors are too random and the editing too chaotic. I understand that all sources have errors and that all sources need to be examined critically, but with Wikipedia you never know if some [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on October 27th, 2006 under Libraries and Learning, Research Issues, Student Issues, Technology Issues.
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Shootouts at the Not-OK Corral
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a lengthy look at goliath Google as a lighting rod for lawsuits, complete with an in-your-face New Yawkerish slug – “We’re Google. So Sue Us.” Digital copyright law is a real frontier, complete with its own “not OK” corrals. And there seem to more and more shootouts [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 24th, 2006 under Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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