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Friday Fun: Pulpy reading goodness at Bookgasm! - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Reminder: Help me choose my summer reading: http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Sunburst Award 2009 Shortlist: Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Shortlist for Sunburst Award for Cdn Fantastic Fiction: http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
The Bees of Brookline…Real Estate Schadenfreude Post « The Inverse Square Blog - http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009...
"How would you like to find four feet or so of working honey bee hive inside the wall of your house?" - John Dupuis
On the plus side, it'd be nice on toast for breakfast. - Deborah Fitchett
For those that haven't checked out the post, Tom's pictures are amazing! - John Dupuis
@edbilodeau But still young at heart, of course!
@edbilodeau How do alumni get access to create a profile?
@lemire IEEE works for me...proxy server maybe?
News: Who Controls Journals? - Inside Higher Ed - http://www.insidehighered.com/news...
Interesting. The fact of coverage of this may suggest that these ordinary disputes loom larger now that there seem to be more-or-less legitimate ALTERNATIVES to the status quo. - D0r0th34
My Job in 10 Years: Provisional table of contents - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Dude, that's at least five books' worth of ideas. - Bill Hooker
Looks like it will be an awesome book. - Joe Kraus
Did you see these two videos of Michael Jensen? http://psupress.blogspot.com/2009... They support a bunch of your text. - Joe Kraus
Thanks, Joe. I haven't seen the videos yet but will take a look at them soon. - John Dupuis
Yes, Bill, it will be a challenge to squeeze it all in! - John Dupuis
Jensen has a transcript of those vids at http://www.nap.edu/staff... . The talk reads to me as INCENDIARY. I emailed him to ask how it was received, and he says it went over pretty well, though! - D0r0th34
I've been thinking about the book, John, and the question I'm left with is this: are you really talking about *your* job, or academic librarianship writ large? I sort of see some of both, since you don't talk much about (frex) cataloguing, but you do include such a broad array of other areas that any one person would need 48 hours in a workday to do it all. - D0r0th34
Dorothea, both. I already do a huge variety of things. I'm an administrator, I do reference, collections, instruction, some research support stuff, a bunch of committees including ones about web design. Since I'm a branch head, I think a lot about our physical space and what it means to students. Related to that, I try and advocate to administrators and faculty about the value of the library to their students because that's largely invisible to them. - John Dupuis
So, yes, it's about my job. It's also about a range of things I might find myself doing in the future or that someone in a job similar to mine might find themselves doing. But, it's a good point, I'll have to find a way to be more explicit that it's about a range of possibilites not that everyone will be doing everything. - John Dupuis
Re: the Jensen vids, I have toyed with the idea of talking about environmental sustainability issues and how that could affect, for example, the affordability of the various gadgets we assume everyone will have in the future and the collection decisions we make. But, as Bill suggests, that's probably a whole different book by itself. - John Dupuis
It prolly is a whole different book, but that doesn't mean you can't use that perspective to inform the other things you're writing. I'm sort of envious of the breadth and varied nature of your work... there are days I think I need to be working with a smaller staff, honestly. - D0r0th34
Yeah, that sounds like a plan. Re: variety, it is frankly the thing I like the best about my job. On the other hand, some days I get a weird kind of analysis paralysis and can't figure out what I should be doing. Right now, for example, I think I need to catch up on some book ordering. - John Dupuis
Canada joins international effort to provide access to health research - News - NRC-CNRC - http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng...
"The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced a three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada)" - John Dupuis
My Job in 10 Years: Provisional table of contents: http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
@adhamilton I know what you mean. We've had a Cobs in the neighbourhood for a couple of years and we usually get scones & sourdough.
@adhamilton Oooh. My favourite too!
Giles: Hero Librarian by GraceAnne A. DeCandido - http://www.well.com/~ladyha...
"Giles has definite issues with computers and online technology. He is a living metaphor for what those of us d'un certain ­ge might have gone through as the profession we thought we had joined transmuted itself into something very, very Else. " - John Dupuis
RT @newjackalmanac New Jack Librarian: The library is a macroscope: I am a non-designer who wants to bring bette.. http://www.newjackalmanac.ca/2009...
RT @doctorow My next novel MAKERS serialized in 81 parts, starting today, with cool, CC-licensed interlocking art http://www.tor.com/index...
Weblogg-ed » Digital Inclusion - http://weblogg-ed.com/2009...
"I think too often I fall into looking at these tools and wonder what they can add to our classrooms and our teaching when the real question is how can our classrooms and teaching add capacity to the tools." - John Dupuis
RT @library2 Write a book about Google Chrome just to annoy Michael Gorman
@copystar doesn't surprise me. Why would they want to play well with an open system?
RT @Montreal_Expos Great article on the return of Felipe and Moises Alou to Mtl yesterday for charity softball game: http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports...
My 140conf Talk: Twitter as Publishing - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
"I tried to draw the connections, and to explain how "social media" means drawing from, curating, and amplifying the voices of a community. I suggest that the role of an editor and publisher is analogous to the role of a point guard in basketball, handing out "assists" and improving the performance of his or her teammates." via Michael Nielsen - John Dupuis
RT @gsiemens I've decided that I love walking through libraries and bookstores. I'd like to live in either (with a coffee shop).
@adhamilton @mjecclestone BMV rocks. I practically have to walk past the Yonge & Eg one on the way home from work every day.
RT @library2 Embed Walt Crawford by harnessing the awesome power of "The Long Tail"
RT @scottros I challenge the idea of "static text." Well-written txt dances and sings. It ceases to be static when it lands in your brainpan
Friday Fun: Chess set made from vacuum tubes! - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
@simonowens Congrats! Hope it means a big traffic spike.
RT @bonnieswoger Choosing your measure of scientific impact wisely: http://undergraduatesciencelib...
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