Dear Reader, in the first of what will be few-and-far-between “look what I made” posts, I present this jumper.
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We spent the past weekend in Melbourne, a city we usually visit at least annually. This time around, we stayed in Fitzroy since we spend most of our time there. We visited the National Gallery of Victoria to see Dutch Masters and ACMI, whose current exhibition is Sonic the Hedgehog. What was somewhat worrying about […]
A recent editorial in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Who’s to blame for article duplication? raises a few important points and questions –
“The recent discovery of systematic and covert article duplication in Emerald/MCB University Press journals has caused controversy in both academic and publishing circles. […] it is even more disturbing for me to […]
Recent reading
Published by July 18th, 2005 in Research/Writing, Open Access and Commons. 0 CommentsI finally read Dismantling the Public Sphere by John Buschman. Not for lack of wanting, but rather since I’ve had a resolution over the last year to borrow books more than I buy, I had to wait until I was able to borrow it. This is somewhat relevant to the book itself – in a […]
Meredith asks why librarians research, prompted by a post at Wanderings of a Student Librarian.
Have any of you taken good research classes?
To start with context, in Australia, LIS students do not take research methods classes if they are completing the BA or Grad Dip, but they might if they do the Masters (which is […]
A new article about the role of law librarians [via explodedlibrary.info] reminds me strongly of observations I made about news librarians in the process of writing my MA thesis.
In 1995 Baker & McKenzie went so far as to fire all 10 members of its main library staff in Chicago, asserting that the move would […]
An article critiquing the Creative Commons by the creators of the Libre Commons project has been published [via Library Autonomous Zone].
It’s an interesting article given recent comments about the CC licenses being a layer. There are some things in Berry and Moss’ article that I agree with, and others that I disagree with. […]
I am entirely unsure as to whether this is ironic or just plain annoying - this morning I updated my iPod with the latest episodes of my podcasts, I clicked on the Inside Mac podcast. Click, iPod goes into grey apple reboot mode and my entire iPod is hosed. Ok, so I was looking for […]
An short article about the possible negatives of buy local campaigns on the free trade agreement with the US -
An agriculture counsellor with the US Embassy in Canberra, Andrew Burst, says a buy local campaign could endanger our export markets.
“It doesn’t really sound like free trade to me and we have entered a free trade […]
Another diversionary post:
Happy Bastille Day! There are not one but two French parties happening in Sydney this year, one at @Newtown and the other at Candy’s Apartment. And neither of them are Babypop. Yes, it feels odd to us too Even odder was the appearance of an article extolling the virtues of […]
