Fighting through the decline

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • SLA and its discontents: Disagreeing with grace

    flickr photo shared by wwarby under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license (I feel like this should be unnecessary, but let state for the record I want nothing but the best for SLA and its long term survival.) This week reminds me a football match that’s kind of ugly with little to show for…