It’s probably not coincidence that my library is beginning a serious study of the eBook landscape just as there’s been a burst of discussion on that topic in the circles I inhabit. Seems like everywhere I turn someone’s linking to interesting articles on eBooks and other emerging publication formats. James Bridle just posted a fascinating
This week I had a post published over at ACRLog called The Age of Big Access. It starts: While we were all busy wondering what it means to be a librarian in the Age of Google, we got flanked. This is not the Age of Google after all. That was just a distraction — a
Search is all about term matching, and several times in the last couple of weeks I’ve had students think there was nothing on their topics simply because we hadn’t found the right terms yet. Once we’d dug enough to find some useful search terms, we uncovered previously hidden worlds of scholarship which could in turn
I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes people tick. Sometimes it’s so that I understand my friends better. Sometimes it’s so that I understand myself better. Sometimes it’s so that I can teach better. Sometimes it functions for all three purposes simultaneously. Like, lately I’ve been thinking about how human interaction works