Thursday, August 29, 2013

Asking For Allies: How to Win Friends and Influence People

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Too often, in my experience, academic libraries operate on an island, divorced from the rest of campus, from faculty, staff, and academic ad...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Orientation: Outreach Starts Here

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One of the colleges at my place of work (MPOW) had an orientation fair yesterday. For two hours, I got to pretend to be an extrovert, giving...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Beer, Museums, Archives

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On Monday, August 9th, as part of DC's Beer Week , a homebrewer and DC Brau premiered a recreation of a pre-prohibition beer once brewed...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Even More Thoughts on New Librarianship, Weeks 2-3: Structure, Agency, Ontology

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Earlier I discussed how R. David Lankes choice of conversation theory within a constructivist worldview lead to unexamined political biases,...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

More Thoughts on New Librarianship, Weeks 2-3: Bias in Librarianship

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In weeks two and three of R. David Lankes' MOOC on new librarianship, the course shifts from theory to practice, though the former infor...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Thoughts on New Librarianship, Week One

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Many moons ago, when I was in a political science PhD program, a group of us critiqued each other's prospecti. A colleague proposed ...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Glass Houses, Pots and Kettles...

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Source for all the above images is Wikipedia, because who needs libraries when everything is online. "Cengage Learning has f...