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More on Keeping Up

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Wayne Bivens-Tatum - “The difference between these librarians and some of us more kept-up librarians isn’t that some of us work like we’re in a library sweatshop and others of us just goof off playing around with…

The Juvenal of Librarianship (Academic Librarian)

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I’m currently writing an article about the Annoyed Librarian and her role in debates within librarianship. In fact, I just finished it yesterday and after finishing, I started reading some library blogs.…

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Wired music: from PLOrk to ChucK and beyond

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[ plork_rich_julia.jpg] As part of an hourlong feature on wired art, . of having a stroke and developing technologies to help those who suffer from aphasia. Trueman has spent . Aleister Kronos, who recently got a s…

Monopoly

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Yesterday I mentioned the conflict between libraries and commercial vendors. One wants to collect, organize, and disseminate information. The other wants to make money. (Or, at least they usually do. This morning…

Making Time (Academic Librarian)

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I read around a lot on the various librarian blogs that discuss keeping up or learning new things, especially techie things. This is one I like that discusses both the how and the why of keeping up. The reasons to…

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No Textbooks

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It’s that time of the year when I begin to think about teaching again. I’m on vacation this week, and one of the things I have to do is revise my writing seminar syllabus for the upcoming semester to…