Latest wikileaks revelations

Posted by on April 25, 2011 No comments

Whatever one thinks of Julian Assange and the Wikileaks phenomenon, it is hard to swallow some of the material that is turning up before us. Today’s Guardian reports on their digest of the Guantanamo files outlines how an 89 year …

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On thinking in a time of ideology

Posted by on March 26, 2011 1 comment

Recent pronouncements from various think-tanks and would-be-reformers of higher education have convinced me that there is an effort afoot to eradicate a certain kind of thinking from our universities. Couched in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘productivity’, research universities are …

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Journal of IA, new issue

Posted by on February 1, 2011 No comments

Launching a new journal is difficult but sustaining it is perhaps even harder. All the more credit then to the editors of the Journal of Information Architecture for getting over the hurdles and keeping the publication moving. In its second …

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Refereeing papers: is it time for open reviews?

Posted by on January 24, 2011 No comments

For reasons that I can’t fully articulate, I’ve been frustrated with the quality of publications in many of our supposedly leading journals. Two decades of publishing my own work have taught me that there is huge variability in reviewer quality …

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The big society or local socialism? Public library future under ‘review’ in Yorkshire

Posted by on January 11, 2011 2 comments

Nice video piece from The Guardian covering the closure of libraries in Yorkshire, a situation described as the creation of the big society by a government keen to utilize local volunteers to run public services no longer deemed sustainable or …

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Culturomics is us

Posted by on December 16, 2010 No comments

According to a new paper in Science by Michel and Aiden, we are on the dawn of a new form of study, Cuturnomics, enabled by the Google Books. A research team analyzed the language in the millions of books now …

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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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