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June 04, 2014
To university administrators and librarians: ...enablement becomes transformation... "Shelf of journals" image from Flickr user University of Illinois Library. Used by permission. As a university administrator or librarian, you may see the future in open-access journal publishing and may be motivated to help bring that future about.1 I would urge...
March 13, 2014
…my solution to the problem… (Demonstrating the Scan-dle to my colleagues from the OSC over a beer in a local pub. Photo: Reinhard Engels) They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. — William Congreve For a project that...
May 29, 2012
John Tenniel, c. 1864. Study for illustration to Alice's adventures in wonderland. Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll, Houghton Library, Harvard University. We've just completed spring semester during which I taught a system design course jointly in Engineering Sciences and Computer Science. The aim of ES96/CS96 is to help the students learn...
April 27, 2012
“Old Books” photo by flickr user Iguana Joe, used by permission (CC-by-nc) Earlier this week, the Harvard Library announced its new open metadata policy, which was approved by the Library Board earlier this year, along with an initial two metadata releases. The policy is straightforward: The Harvard Library provides open access...
February 26, 2012
“...the interpersonal processes that a student goes through...” Harvard students (2008) by E>mar via flickr. Used by permission (CC by-nc-nd) Is the pot calling the kettle black? Oh sure, journal prices are going up, but so is tuition. How can universities complain about journal price hyperinflation if tuition is hyperinflating...
December 01, 2011
“...dog-eared in thirty-one places...” I've been reading Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, The Narrative of John Smith, just published for the first time by the British Library. It's no The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, that's for sure. For one thing, he seems to have left out any semblance of plot....
October 13, 2011
Petrus Spronk, “Architectural Fragment”, 1992. Photo © 2005 Robert Laddish (www.laddish.net), used by permission. I've just been at the conference in honor of the 30th anniversary of the University of Sao Paulo Integrated Library System (SIBi USP). David Palmer, one of the speakers at the conference, used in his presentation a picture...
April 18, 2011
The owld White Harse wants zettin to rights And the Squire hev promised good cheer, Zo we'll gee un a scrape to kip un in zhape, And a'll last for many a year. — Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse, 1859 On a recent trip to London, I...
