Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Libraries, Technology and Web 2.0 on Jun 27th, 2008
A grad school classmate of mine, Dianne Dietrich, has created an excellent set of tutorials for librarians who want to learn how to use command line. Here’s why:
If you’re a librarian, and you’re working with lots of information — and I mean, lots, like information overload lots — you need to be equipped with a [...]
Posted in Open Access on Jun 19th, 2008
I’ve uploaded another presentation to Slideshare, and given it its own page here:
Open Access for Subject Specialists
I gave this presentation to a meeting of subject specialist librarians at the University of Michigan, as a part of a larger forum that included a brief statement from University Librarian Paul Courant, and presentations from a number of [...]
Posted in Collected Stories, Creative Commons Evangelism, Libraries, Publishing on Jun 13th, 2008
I just got back from a week of vacation, followed by a week of post-vacation crunch, so here’s a small assortment of things I would have blogged about sooner, but didn’t.
Paul Krugman says it better In a column titled Bits, Bands, and Books: Paying for Creativity in a Digital World, Paul Krugman describes the impact [...]
