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Adhocracy and the Transformation of Libraries
I’ve been mulling over a couple of documents that have generated a lot of chatter in my online circles in the past couple of weeks.…
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Tokens and Taboos: Making Books Open Access
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been acting cynical and complaining about our cult of excess information when what we need is access to…
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Love in a Time of Algorithms
In last Sunday’s New York Times Jonathan Franzen wrote about the ways love, technology, and consumerism are growing blurred. We collect friends, we show affection…
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Sources of Confusion
I’m always interested in what Project Information Literacy is up to. This week they have posted an interview with Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard,…
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Tinker Toy Story II
Last week, I riffed on a controversy over a library organization restructuring that led to new positions being created, old positions being eliminated, and a…
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You are Not a Tinker Toy: Libraries and Reorganization
When I read “Library Limbo,” a news story about library staff members being laid off the University of San Diego, I had to resist adding…
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The Myth of the Bookless Library
Ten years ago, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper published a nifty book about how and why people use paper in their workplaces. The Myth of…
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How to Hack Academic Book Publishing in Two (Not So) Easy Steps
The book based on the Hacking the Academy project is now online and soon will be available in print from Digital Culture Books, the innovative…
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Using Anthologize: An Experiment
I have been intrigued by the possibilities ever since I first heard of Anthologize – a WordPress plugin created by a “one tool, one week”…
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