Contributing to history
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A few things I did to increase access to the Randolph Historical Society.
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Elon University selects TIND Digital Archive, TIND Institutional Repository and TIND Research Data Management - (December 12, 2025). Elon University has selected TIND to bring its digital collections, scholarly works and research data into a single repository platfor...1 day ago
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500 years of Edinburgh Miscellanea - This blog is written by Thom Durham, a student of the Library and Information Science postgraduate course at the University of Strathclyde, who before his ...1 day ago
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Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences. - If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? Does that mean that people are less literate in general? Counterintuitively, there has never been a...2 days ago
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Save the Date! PKP is hosting “OMP Fest” to celebrate our Community and Open Monograph Press - PKP invites Open Monograph Press users and community members to join OMP Fest for a half-day on Wednesday March 25th, 2026, 9 AM PT, and shares a Call fo...3 days ago
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The Future in Mendeley: AI features are here! - At Mendeley, our mission has always been simple: empower researchers to focus on their research, not admin. From discovery to delivery, we’ve built tools t...
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Recherche documentaire et IA : il est temps de mettre à jour notre propre système - 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...1 week ago
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what do americans think of higher ed anyway? - 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....1 month ago
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Drawing on Location - 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...1 month ago
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Repost: Construct objects with idiomatic R code - *Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-objects-with-idiomatic-r-code* --- Today I discovered the constructive package ...2 months ago
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Rest as a productive act - I’m a member of an online support group for the autoimmune condition I have and one of the recently diagnosed people wrote a post about how hard it is to…3 months ago
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Musings About Librarianship Is Moving—Farewell Blogger, Hello Substack! - 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...
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Atelier 2025-2026 - Atelier organisé par Claire Lemercier, directrice de recherche au CNRS et Claire Zalc, directrice de recherche au CNRS et directrices d'études à l'EHESS,...6 months ago
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Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain - 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...10 months ago
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Judge Rules Craig Wright is Not Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto - 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...1 year ago
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IS News - We will no longer be posting news to InformS. The new home for IS News is go.hw.ac.uk/ISnews2 years ago
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Achievement unlocked – 52 movies - Well, after saying last year that we never accomplish this goal, this year we did. It did take a last-minute decision to take New Years’ Eve off, but that...5 years ago
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Thanks Cedar Rapids Public Library! - 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 - 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 - 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! - 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...6 years ago
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FREE ACCESS to my Apps for Librarians video collection! - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - The HELIN Library Consortium, which includes seven academic libraries in the northeastern United States, is now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Serv...8 years ago
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Stop saying “print” when that’s not what you really mean - 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...9 years ago
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Did ancient hominids bury their dead? - 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 ...
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P C R : Publish, Cite Cyagen and get a Reward of $100 or more !? - 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 - Shared I Like What Bob Likes. Shared high tide. Shared New Years at Mars.10 years ago
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The Problem with Computer Science Research Prototypes - 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...
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Still rambling (probably) but no more a librarian - 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...11 years ago
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Review of my book: Information Today - 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 - 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...12 years ago
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Running Bundler on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit - 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...12 years ago
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Rencontrez le livre de vos rêves - 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! - 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 - 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 ...
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Mini-Reviews, Long Noncoding RNA, and the Bread Used in Sandwiches: Why None of These Should Be Taken for Granted - 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: - *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 - 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...15 years ago
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Sanatorium - 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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