Archive for 'In The Disciplines'
Why are You a Librarian?
No, that isn’t meant to be said in the voice of a slightly-tipsy relative at a family gathering. You? A librarian? Why on earth . . .
It’s an invitation to a meme started over at Free Exchange on Campus, where I occasionally blog. It was inspired by Dr. Crazy’s wonderful post, “Why I Teach [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 28th, 2008 under Faculty, Higher Education, In The Disciplines, Information Literacy.
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You mean I can’t throw these out?
James Cortada, a historian of computing who works for IBM, has a nice screed (Save the Books!) over at the American Historical Association that heaps a bit of anger on us lil’ old academic librarians.
Fresh from reading Nicholson Baker and full of Google digitization anxiety, Cortada charges that a new spectre is [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on December 18th, 2007 under Books, In The Disciplines.
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HRN Joins SSRN
First - if you support the NIH plan to make tax-funded research publicly available, take a minute to call your senators. Right now. There are some amendments to be voted on today that could gut the NIH proposal. Tell them to vote no on Senator James Inhofe’s amendments #3416 and #3417 to the 2008 Labor-HHS-Education [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 22nd, 2007 under In The Disciplines, Open Access.
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Culture Clash
Inside Higher Ed has a good recap of the controversy kicked up by Anthrosource going to Wiley/Blackwell from U of C. The title of the piece says it all: it’s all about values. But which values? On the one hand, the value of a publication is that it generates the revenue to sustain a scholarly [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 22nd, 2007 under In The Disciplines, Scholarly Communications, Worth Reading.
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Register Now For A Google Course
As if Google wasn’t already getting enough attention in the mass media, now that fascination with Google is expanding into college classrooms. Courses about Google are appearing with greater frequency in college curriculums. These courses are typically offered in the computer science area, and often focus on the technical aspects of Google. But some newer [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, In The Disciplines.
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