Friday, November 22, 2013

On Failure: “Elizabethtown: Embedded Librarianship as Overreach.”

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The following is a web-based version of a presentation given at the Fall Program of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Maryl...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Failure, Organizational Culture, and Library Management

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Image via Memecenter . People fail, and they fail often. Failure is natural and organic. It happens. Organizations, however, are differe...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

My Bloody Valentine at The Electric Factory, Philadelphia, 11/9/13

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It's difficult to assess something that shouldn't be. My Bloody Valentine hadn't released an album in over twenty years until ea...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Subtle Joys of Selecting on the Dependent Variable

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Academic research in the social sciences has a variety of aims, but much of it seeks to explain or elucidate phenomena or condition(s) and t...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Data and the Surveillance State: Toward a New Ecology of Libraries

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Image from the film The Lives of Others . It's excellent. Go see it .  Years from now, we're going to need someone to help us ma...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Dear Aspiring Librarians (On MLIS Program Placement and Salaries)

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Let's revisit the US News and World Report rankings for Masters of Library and Information Science programs. The rankings: Source i...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Your Special Collections Won't Save You

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There are people who need a unique item to do research, but those people won't save your library. The same is true of your special co...