More Provocative (if less provoking) Statements
Not long ago Steven B asked us to take a look at the Taiga Provocative Statements for 2009. We went, we read, we were provoked. I have to admit I’m much more intrigued – and, frankly, charmed – by the...
View ArticleHeather Has Two Mommies and Just Canceled her Amazon Account
A current kerfuffle on the Internets has to do with Amazon de-ranking GLBT-themed books as reported on the LA Times Jacket Copy blog. Amazon’s policy of removing “adult” content from its rankings seems...
View ArticleWe Can Handle the Truth
We recently lost a great champion of intellectual freedom – Judith Krug, who called attention to attempts to withdraw books from libraries, challenged the government on Internet censorship, and built...
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This Journal Brought to You By . . .
It was shocking at the end of April when The Scientist reported that Elsevier had published a scholarly-journal-like series that was actually advertising paid for by Merck. The peer-reviewed-like...
View ArticleDigital Natives, Scholarly Immigrants?
While browsing through my table of contents alerts recently I came across an interesting article in the current issue of the Journal of Higher Education: “University Students’ Perceptions of...
View ArticleSocial Hacking at the Library
I’m always interested to read about ideas that folks outside of librarianship have about libraries. The other day my partner forwarded me a tweet from tech publisher Tim O’Reilly: Interesting note...
View ArticleStranger Than Fiction
My head’s been buzzing since I first read yesterday on the New York Times Bits Blog that coder and activist Aaron Swartz was indicted under federal hacking laws for illegally downloading millions of...
View ArticlePersonal Content Capitalism
I’ve been hearing less and less about Google+ lately, the social network launched by the search giant over the summer. I can’t comment on its functionality because I haven’t tried it; while I’m...
View ArticleThe Bearer of Bad News
One of the college service projects I’m working on involves the creation of a new digital platform for teaching and learning at my college. As faculty have begun to use the platform for their courses...
View ArticleOnce More to the Breach
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Mark Herring, Dean of Library Services at Winthrop University. Summer’s over, I know, but we must go once more to the breach of web privacy. A California librarian...
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Theory as a keel: Developing a critical framework for open education, Part 2
“If open is the answer, then what is the question?” was posed by educator and researcher Catherine Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway) in her keynote address for the Open Education...
View ArticleHypothes.is and the dream of universal web annotation
Digital, networked technology has irrevocably altered the way humans process, analyze, and share information, a reality not lost on those in scholarly communications, where traditional modes research...
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No, Fair! Evolving Perspectives on Excessive Use in Research
Midterm brings its share of bustle to the library with last minute research questions to ask and copiers and printers to locate. Library staff are also busy negotiating licenses, finalizing renewals,...
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What We Know and What They Know: Scholarly Communication, Usability, and...
Over the past handful of years, a lot of digital ink has been spilled on library responses to #icanhazpdf, SciHub, and, most recently, the #Twitterlibraryloan movement. This hit home in my life because...
View ArticleThoughts on the OWL/Chegg partnership
On the ILI-L (Information Literacy Instruction) listserv, there’s been a discussion of the relatively new partnership between the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) and Chegg, the for-profit...
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“Wait a minute Honey, I’m gonna add it up:” Kanopies, DRM, and the Permanence...
In my new position at the University of Washington I have a long commute, as one would expect, in a large city like Seattle. On this commute I listen to music and read and on the bus last week I...
View ArticleComplex or clickbait?: The problematic Media Bias Chart
This guest post was submitted by Candice Benjes-Small, Head of Research at William & Mary, and Nathan Elwood, Library Administrator at the Missouri Legislative Library. The Media Bias Chart,...
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