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4 Study Tips to Help You Prepare for Exam Season
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At the start of exam season, everything feels manageable. Then the reading
lists grow, the notes multiply, and suddenly you’re spending more time
searching...
1 day ago
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Oregon Institute of Technology implements TIND Digital Archive and TIND
Institutional Repository
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(April 3, 2026). The Oregon Institute of Technology is migrating from
CONTENTdm to TIND Digital Archive and TIND Institutional Repository. By
consolidating...
1 day ago
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New library books – April 2026
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Our Resources Team throw the spotlight on some of our newly acquired books.
They suggest titles that you perhaps haven’t heard of, to tempt you to try
some...
1 day ago
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Connecting Communities, Advancing Open Access: The New Coalition Publica
Website
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Building on its growing international recognition, Coalition Publica (CP),
the partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), has
lau...
1 week ago
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Strike time, collective action, and moral conviction in library leadership
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I’m on strike right now, along with thousands of other faculty, academic
professionals, and staff at Portland Community College (that’s two unions,
friends...
2 weeks ago
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The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul
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The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul How did we get here? And how do we get
back? “Don’t think for one second that we don’t...
4 weeks ago
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เว็บหวยออนไลน์เว็บไหนดี เลือกเว็บมั่นคง จ่ายเต็ม ไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์
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เว็บหวยออนไลน์ เว็บไหนดี? วิธีเลือกเว็บตรงจ่ายจริง ปลอดภัย 24 ชั่วโมง
หากคุณกำลังค้นหาว่า เว็บหวยออนไลน์ เว็บไหนดี คำตอบไม่ได้อยู่ที่คำโฆษณาว่า
“จ่ายสูงท...
1 month ago
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Repost: OpenAI Codex App: Vibe-updating my old qqman R package to ggplot2
with plan+execute.
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Reposted from the original at
https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/openai-codex-app-qqman.
Earlier this week I reposted a Bluesky post from Ethan Mollick. I’m...
2 months ago
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2025 reading list and commentary
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A list of all the books which I read in 2025, categorized a few different
ways.
3 months ago
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Recherche documentaire et IA : il est temps de mettre à jour notre propre
système
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Un billet que j’ai trouvé particulièrement éclairant dans cette période où
l’IA* est partout, c’est celui-ci : “We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the
Kind Th...
4 months ago
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what do americans think of higher ed anyway?
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Two recent surveys give strikingly different answers. Pew’s American Trends
Survey finds that 70% of Americans think “the higher education system in
the U....
5 months ago
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Drawing on Location
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My timetable will be changing in the New Year, and so I’ve been looking at
options for sketching classes. Monday afternoons won’t work for me until
March a...
5 months ago
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Musings About Librarianship Is Moving—Farewell Blogger, Hello Substack!
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Aaron Tay's Musingsabout librarianship - Substack
(https://aarontay.substack.com/feed)
A Home Full of Memories—And a New Door Opening
When I first hi...
9 months ago
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Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science
reformers: A peek behind the curtain
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One interesting sidelight of the story of a much criticized and finally
retracted article on replication in psychology is that we get to read some
of the r...
1 year ago
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Judge Rules Craig Wright is Not Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto
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For nearly a decade, Craigh Wright has claimed to be Bitcoin creator
Satoshi Nakamoto. However, those claims just took a major blow.
The post Judge Rule...
2 years ago
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IS News
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We will no longer be posting news to InformS. The new home for IS News is
go.hw.ac.uk/ISnews
2 years ago
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FUJIYOSHI Takao updated their profile
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FUJIYOSHI Takao updated their profile
4 years ago
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Thanks Cedar Rapids Public Library!
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Sending a very warm thanks to all the staff at Cedar Rapids Public Library.
I spoke and facilitated an exploration of “Wholehearted Libraries” at their
Sta...
6 years ago
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Enjeux de construction, de diffusion et d’utilisation de la nomenclature
PCS 2020
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Cette journée d’étude interdisciplinaire consacrée à la rénovation de la
nomenclature des professions et catégories socio-professionnelle (PCS)
s’inscrit d...
6 years ago
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RIP LiB.net: 2003-2019
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I hereby declare this website well and truly deceased. I am immensely
thankful to all of my colleagues and readers over the years for the
glorious conversa...
6 years ago
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End of another era!
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Rather surprisingly to me, I have had this blog since 2006, when writing a
web journal was new, and amazingly clunky. But there was a real desire for
educa...
7 years ago
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FREE ACCESS to my Apps for Librarians video collection!
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Since I'm shortly going to be retiring I won't be doing any more work on
the Apps for Librarians video collection. This is a collection of over
FORTY diffe...
7 years ago
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No mofo rant today.
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Just a shout-out to you folks who staff my happy places, courtesy of Bruinhilda
on Tumblr:
*As a library worker, there’s something I want to ...
7 years ago
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Ways that closed access academic publishers could improve
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Accessing journal articles has certainly got easier over the years.
Nonetheless, there are still many issues with how closed-access journals
provide access...
8 years ago
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ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving
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ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving
As of November 1st, 2017, ScienceBlogs is shutting down, necessitating
relocation of...
8 years ago
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HELIN Library Consortium now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services
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The HELIN Library Consortium, which includes seven academic libraries in
the northeastern United States, is now live with OCLC WorldShare Management
Serv...
9 years ago
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Stop saying “print” when that’s not what you really mean
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At the reference desk, I occasionally see students who are looking for only
“print” resources. Their professors have asked them to find journal
articles or...
10 years ago
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Did ancient hominids bury their dead?
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Yesterday, I told you how *Homo naledi* was discovered. To refresh your
memory, check out this picture:
Marina Elliott works in the Rising Star cave near ...
10 years ago
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P C R : Publish, Cite Cyagen and get a Reward of $100 or more !?
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Thursday I got an odd mail from Cyagen. Cyagen offered me $100 or more in
reward for citing their animal model services in an article. Even more
surprising...
10 years ago
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January 7th Stream
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Shared I Like What Bob Likes. Shared high tide. Shared New Years at Mars.
11 years ago
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The Problem with Computer Science Research Prototypes
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Simply they are developed without due knowledge or understanding of prior
art. I read papers every day, and I have a long memory. In fact I’ve been
reading...
11 years ago
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Still rambling (probably) but no more a librarian
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Hello World.
Today's my last official day as a librarian. Today, 15 March 2014, is
exactly 17 years and 5 months since I started work at the National Libra...
12 years ago
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Review of my book: Information Today
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by Katherine Allen; From Science 2.0 to Pharma 3.0. Posted on July 29,
2013. “As a librarian in a large pharmaceutical company, Hervé Basset has
a perspe...
12 years ago
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The Battle of Web Analytics Solutions in 2013
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I’m loudly claiming that 2013 will be a great year for web analytics
solutions! Actually, that’s my two cents on this market I’m monitoring on
an everyda...
13 years ago
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Running Bundler on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
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This post is mostly a note to myself so that I remember how to do this next
time I upgrade or reinstall my system. But, perhaps it will be of use to
others...
13 years ago
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Rencontrez le livre de vos rêves
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Je voulais écrire un billet sur la multiplication des sites communautaires
autour du livre. Comme si ce marché était d’un tel potentiel économique,
qu’il p...
13 years ago
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Moving!
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I've moved to the SciAm network (yes!) where I'll be blogging in the Information
Culture blog, together with excellent blogger Bonnie Swoger. As you can
im...
13 years ago
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Le sport à Paris
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Il y a beaucoup de sportifs à Paris. Le dimanche, le jardin du Luxembourg
est bondé de joggeurs. De tous styles. La dernière fois que j'y ai couru,
j'ai ...
14 years ago
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Mini-Reviews, Long Noncoding RNA, and the Bread Used in Sandwiches: Why
None of These Should Be Taken for Granted
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At its simplest, bread hold the sandwich together by providing something
sturdy on which the generally wetter and more softly textured fillings can
be cont...
14 years ago
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Library and Information Science Trends and Research:
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*CALL FOR CHAPTERS*
Library and Information Science Trends and Research:
Asia-Oceania Region
Publisher:
Emerald Library and Information Science Book Seri...
15 years ago
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Fini
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Due to my changing job responsibilities and numerous serious personal
issues (I’ve been out of work for a month on medical leave) this blog has
run its cou...
16 years ago
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Sanatorium
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Si vous êtez cloué au lit pour plusieurs semaines dans un sanatorium… ou si
vous êtes sur le chômage… ou si vous êtes barge et n’avez rien à foutre (au
lie...
16 years ago
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