Law Librarianship

Posted by on December 2, 2010 No comments

The latest issue of Spectrum, the magazine of the American Association of Law Librarians, includes a paper by a colleague and I outlining the new joint degree program in Info and Law here at UT. We tried to write something …

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NPR: Just another opinion?

Posted by on November 15, 2010 No comments

There’s a lot of chatter about the federal funding of NPR on certain news channels and it’s clear NPR officials are worried. You can get a sense of the sentiment among many by reading or watching Fox News. One sad …

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Norman Horrocks, RIP.

Posted by on October 16, 2010 No comments

I truly was saddened today to learn of the death of Norman Horrocks. There will be many eulogies, and they will all be fitting because Norman was a breed apart — a gentleman, a scholar, and a man with a …

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Open peer review for publication? The debate continues

Posted by on July 27, 2010 2 comments

This week’s Chronicle of Higher Ed notes an experiment in open peer review of articles by Shakespeare Quarterly was viewed by the authors as most successful. Here, a selection of submitted article drafts was opened for comment by readers and …

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International Tour 2010

Posted by on July 2, 2010 No comments

I spent much of June traveling to conferences. First, I gave a keynote address at the Hypertext 2010 conference in Toronto where I found a community somewhat under threat by other web research conferences but nevertheless alive and kicking. The …

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Higher ed budget woes: LIS at LSU faces closure

Posted by on May 25, 2010 5 comments

The perilous state of public higher education is accepted as some kind of natural condition by many who have grown accustomed to the news of tuition hikes amid complaints from university officials that the economic model is broken. But this …

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More from the Taiga forum

Posted by on May 14, 2010 No comments

It’s been a while since I checked back with the Taiga forum and I find the site now largely locked down to members, but there are some updates for others to see. The most recently available in their series of …

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Faculty view library as irrelevant you say?

Posted by on May 5, 2010 1 comment

Another survey, this time the fourth of the three-yearly Ithaka studies of faculty perceptions of their libraries, suggests all is not well. Without putting too fine a point on it, the authors state up front: Since the first Faculty Survey …

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Digital preservation report released by Blue Ribbon Panel

Posted by on March 29, 2010 No comments

It’s been out a few weeks now but it’s sheer size makes it less than simple to digest, which might account for the rather limited attention it’s thus far received in the information community. This aside, the report can be …

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Symantec Ranks Cities for Cybercrime

Posted by on March 23, 2010 4 comments

Symantec this week released a study that purports to rank US cities in terms of their risk for cybercrime. The full report offers a ranking of the top 50, and might at first blush give you pause if you live …

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