Fighting through the decline

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Thoughts on the Revised SLA Recommendations

    flickr photo shared by ierdnall under a Creative Commons ( BY-SA ) license Nothing says “Friday afternoon in July” like an email from SLA about the Revised Recommendations and the proposed Roadmap for the Future of SLA. (You’ll need to login to access the documents.) So I read them and I’m still not really happy…