Category: Observations

  • Publishing too much (transport) research?

    flickr photo shared by jambina under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license Today I stumbled across an editorial by the esteemed transport economist Kenneth Button in Transport Reviews that articulates a lot of ideas I’ve been working on the past few years. The editorial is titled, “Publishing Transport Research: Are We Learning Much of Use?” …

  • Look to the future and say, “Why yes!”

    flickr photo shared by Reuben Whitehouse under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of libraries (and my library in particular) lately. What will we be doing? What will we look like? Where will the funding come? To that end I read John Palfrey’s new book BiblioTech to…

  • Walled Gardens: Business as usual with proprietary platforms

    flickr photo shared by János Balázs under a Creative Commons ( BY-SA ) license During this week in 1961 construction on the Berlin Wall began. It was of the most famous walls in history, though know the construction boom in Berlin is helping its scar fade. (The wall interrupted filming of Billy Wilder’s One Two…

  • Curation and contemplation: How to serve up information.

    flickr photo shared by kendrak under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-SA ) license I just made my first LibGuide. It’s on the very broad and generic (for me) topic of “Transportation Engineering” and doesn’t really link to much besides the obvious. I spent a lot of time reading over LibGuide best practices and looking at good…

  • Open and the Public Good: More on open data and open access

    flickr photo shared by Boston Public Library under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license I’ve been thinking about issues surrounding open data and open access quite a bit since I blogged about it the other day. Some of it has been general existential thoughts about what it means to be a library or librarian…