Category: Observations

  • The Long Road To Open: On Access and Licensing

    flickr photo shared by Todd Huffman under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license Yesterday during a meeting I thought about how far we’ve come (and not) with open data in transportation research. In one respect we’ve come far enough that people just assume it’s happening and understand it’s a good thing. But there’s still…

  • The Evolution of Libraries: Ack! Change is hard.

    flickr photo shared by Tom Simpson under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license This week the internet is going mad for the revival of Bloom County, which reminds me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. People like the familiar and they love nostalgia. I would be a hypocrite if…

  • Libraries and Weeding: Balancing the visceral and the necessary

    flickr photo shared by That Guy DouG under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license This week my local public library is in the news about its new weeding project. The director has tried to explain the project in another local website, but it’s the sort of thing that’s hard to do. Weeding is one of…

  • Listen closely: Can we bridge communication gaps?

    flickr photo shared by lizkentleon under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license Something I’ve been ruminating on for the past few weeks are communications issues I’ve been facing in my professional spheres where decorum and harmony matter quite a lot. One of the big issues with the SLA Recommendations Report was that it didn’t…

  • More thoughts on SLA: Love and Madness

    Well I’m back from SLA 2015, kind of caught up on sleep, and detoxed by going to the Alameda County fair and fairing it up. (Air brushed shirt? Check. Brick of curly fries? Check. Tigers Blood snow cone? Check. Tour the collections? Check. Also if you don’t understand why I’d get a shirt saying “Hate…