Thursday, June 21, 2012

Libraries, Consortia, Associations, & Two-Level Games

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Librarians serve many masters, be they boards of directors, provosts, or deans, in addition to what is often a more explicit mission of a...
Monday, June 18, 2012

SAVOR 2012 Wrap Up

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Next year SAVOR heads to New York City, and in turn, DC gets the Craft Brewers Conference. It remains to be seen if this will be a fair tra...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Radiohead at the Verizon Center: On Alienation, Dubstep, & The Natural Order of Things

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Every so often I like to play music blogger , and I'm lucky I have some friends who will indulge me. On Sunday I attended a Radiohead c...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Is Information Snobby? Is Craft Beer?

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To me, the statement "I care about my library members but I don't care about what they read" sounds like cognative dissonance...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Chuck Brown and Information Literacy

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Chuck Brown passed away yesterday, Wednesday, May 16th, after a long battle with pneumonia. He's not terribly well-known outside of Wash...
Monday, May 14, 2012

New Year, New Library: Information Literacy Takeover

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I began working here in 2007, four years after my place of work (MPOW) switched from a college to a university. In the time I've bee...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

(The Beer of) Small States in World Markets

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In 1985, Cornell political scientist Peter Katzenstein wrote a book with an interesting argument. Katzenstein posited that small states,...