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Karen Snow, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Dominican University; and Elizabeth Shoemaker, Rare Book Cataloger, Stuart A...

<Extremely Remi Malek voice> Hey, it's been a while. Here's what's new. My good friend and colleague Jessica Olin had be...

Over the summer I was asked to talk about institutional repositories and how to define what makes them successful as part of a job interview...

A few recent conversations in libraryland, mostly sparked by troublesome catalogers, have me thinking about the relationship between technic...

Our reference librarian is leaving, and it feels kind of like losing a limb. What I'd like to do is make a smooth transition from someth...

"...his contempt for his own university faculty is astonishing; when he was asked about the quality of SJSU’s [San Jose State Unive...

As a thought experiment, let's say we "win." Professional and academic associations go open access, as much of physics has . T...

Last week, while libraryland discussed important issues, like the death of Aaron Swartz , and somewhat less important ones, like rockstar...

It's been quiet here for the last month as we train new staff and bombard the campus with information literacy one-shots. In addition, m...

I spent much of last Thursday cataloging. It had been a while. Beyond the frustrations of the Voyager integrated library system, which ar...