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  • Conferences, professionalism, and all those unwritten rules

    Conference flickr photo by Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license Next week is the SLA 2018 conference and I’m already starting to worry about packing. What am I going to wear? What’s the weather going to be like. Do I need to wear a suit? Are any…

  • More on library worker solidarity: Librarians need to make amends.

    Two young children push a dolls carriage and carry signs in support of their parents’ strike. Their signs read “Strike!” and “I Need a Healthy Diet!” flickr photo by Kheel Center, Cornell University Library shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Since I last wrote about library worker solidarity last month, something has really been…

  • Open Textbooks Playlist

    For those of you who saw Tara Robertson‘s presentation on open textbooks at Access 2015, “Can I actually use it?” Testing open textbooks for accessibility, that I provided a Creative Commons licensed musical augmentation for, and you want the full playlist — HERE YOU GO! Willbe, “Introduced Beats” Jared C. Blaogh, “Proven Groove” Wake, “Glytch…

  • SLA: Speak up, I can’t hear you.

    flickr photo shared by Ape Lad under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license Update: On 21 May, 2015 SLA signed on to the COAR statement. Way to go, SLA! This morning an announcement hit my inbox from ARL about a number of library groups denouncing Elsevier’s new sharing and hosting policy.  (I wrote about it…

  • Need a reality check? On peer-review and domain knowledge

    Entering the Subway, a photo by rosemarie_mckeon on Flickr. Last week I attended IDCC14 in San Francisco, where I was immersed in digital curation. Naturally, things like peer-review and domain knowledge/expertise were on my mind, as things to consider with research (data) publishing. Then I saw this story about a Twitter data scientist “hacking” BART.…