Archive for January, 2011

The games we play

Thu 20 Jan 2011, 10:44 pm

Thinking through Iris Jastram’s post, “Heads they win, tales we lose.”

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Abolish tenure in the name of academic freedom

Wed 19 Jan 2011, 3:57 pm

I have never worked at a college or university where the librarians had tenure-track or faculty-status positions. This doesn’t stop me from having an opinion on the subject, though–the topic ended up on the Library Society of the World list of evergreen topics for polite librarian arguments, so you know it’s the kind of thing [...]

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A short (and perhaps NSFW) note on libraries and metaphors

Fri 14 Jan 2011, 3:27 pm

The old metaphor was the universal library. The new metaphor is the brief assignation. (Adult words and pictures in the full post.)

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