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Blackboard, You’re On Notice!

As I’ve mentioned in previous entries, my place of work subscribes to the Summon unified discovery service. Summon quite nicely provides RSS-powered search alerts. Summon uses the RSS 2.0 (or perhaps the 2.0.1?) specification. This is pretty standard. Summon’s feeds … Continue reading

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I couldn’t resist

John N. Berry, Editor-at-Large of Library Journal, recently posted an editorial that essential defends the spiteful and nasty rhetoric of the Annoyed Librarian as “free expression.” Apparently, those of us who think that the anonymity of this blogger makes him … Continue reading

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Why ALA is bad on ethics, part 1

I’m part of a group here at Grand Valley that meets to discuss issues of technology and ethics. The group is run by a professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, and is comprised mostly of computer science … Continue reading

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Those Harvard Ph.D.s

In the LSW chat room, Walt Crawford mentioned a recent kerfuffle inspired by Anna Kushnir’s post about how much she hates PubMed. Walt also thoughtfully pointed out the responses of David Rothman and the Krafty Librarian. Frankly, I agree wholeheartedly … Continue reading

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Why there aren’t more women in technology

As a woman interested in technology, I like to keep up on the latest by reading about new gadgets, new software, and so on. So, a few years back, I started reading Gizmodo and Engadget. I stopped reading Gizmodo because … Continue reading

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