Archive for 'Faculty'
Faculty Blog Round Up: The Mark Taylor Op-Ed
It’s been over a month, and the faculty blogosphere is still buzzing about Mark Taylor’s New York Times editorial “End the University as We Know It.” That’s not too surprising, since Taylor called for, among other changes, abolishing both departments and tenure. ACRLog blogger Scott Walter linked to the editorial here right after it was [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on June 11th, 2009 under Faculty, Higher Education.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: The Publishing Cycle
Over at Edge of the American West, UC Irvine English professor Scott Eric Kaufman has a bit of a rant about both the delay and format of the January issue of the journal of the Modern Language Association.
Cheer up, SEK; it could be worse. The anonymous Lumpenprofessoriat tells a tale of woe, with an eventual [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on May 23rd, 2009 under Faculty, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications.
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Widespread Ignorance About Google B.S.
According to a story in this morning’s Chronicle, many scholars remain “wary” of the Google Book Search project. This is perhaps to be expected (many librarians are wary of it, too, although I prefer to think of our work more as “due diligence”), but more distressing is the conclusion drawn by Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on May 15th, 2009 under Copyright, Faculty, Google, Scholarly Communications.
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Faculty Blog Round Up: Teaching with Technology
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago we put out a call for someone to be our new faculty blog correspondent. With this post I’d like to introduce Laura Wimberley, the librarian we’ve selected to keep us up-to-date on what’s happening in the faculty blogosphere. Laura works at the Medical Center Library at the University [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on May 11th, 2009 under Faculty, In The Disciplines, Teaching, Technology Issues, Wikipedia, Worth Reading.
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Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back?
Editor’s Note: We welcome Maura Smale to the ACRLog blog team. Who is Maura Smale? If her name sounds familiar you may recall that she reported on her transition from archaeology to librarianship (with a sideline in online media) in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s online Careers column. Maura is the Information Literacy Librarian at [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on May 4th, 2009 under Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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