Harry Boyte on Beyond the Knowledge Wars
Harry Boyte, a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, spoke to the Minnesota Independent Scholars Forum on the topic Beyond the Knowledge Wars. The event was held at...
View ArticleNina Simon on the Participatory Museum at Walker Art Center
Nina Simon the author of The Participatory Museum and the Museum 2.0 weblog was in the Twin Cities this week to promote her book at an event hosted by the Walker Art Center. I was already at the Walker...
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Guillermo Kuitca at Walker Art Center
A new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Guillermo Kuitca, the Argentinian artist, just opened at the Walker Art Center this weekend. I went in to view the exhibition and see the artist...
View ArticleJose-Marie Griffith Speaks at UT School of Information Science
Jose-Marie Griffith spoke at a research forum today about Leadership in Context, specifically in connection with library and information science professions and institutions. She covered material on...
View ArticleStephen Gardiner On Climate Policy in a Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner from the University of Washington visited UTK today to speak about climate change and environmental ethics. He identified three major “storms” that we face when trying to deal with...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky Lays It Down
Today Noam Chomsky, still kicking it at the age of 82, addressed a standing-room only crowd at the Cox Auditorium on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His hour-long speech boiled...
View ArticleTesting a new installation of wordpress
I’m experimenting with a new installation of WordPress. I’ve tried to use WP in the past before and been less than impressed with it’s usability, at least in the admin sections. So far I’m impressed...
View ArticleTom Wilson on Preservation – #asist2011
ASIST 2011 kicked off with a keynote by Tom Wilson on the challenges of preservation in the digital age. What we know about the past has been preserved through a series of happenstance and...
View ArticleSteve Kelling on citizen science – #asist2011
Steve Kelling from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the eBird project presented the second ASIST 2011 keynote on citizen science. Kelling began by describing the background of the ornithology lab and...
View ArticleBest Paper at BOBCATSSS 2013!
The big story was winning the best conference paper award for my presentation, co-authored with my adviser Suzie Allard, on libraries and citizen science. The basic argument of the paper was that...
View ArticleHow I spent my summer vacation – in Toronto
I’ve spent the last week at the University of Toronto attending the summer doctoral program hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Conveniently abbreviated as OIISDP. Every summer the institute hosts...
View ArticleJohn Unsworth at CLIR Camp plus Libraries and Scholars Interacting Over Time
John Unsworth spoke at the CLIR-DLF postdoctoral camp last week. I thought he presented some interesting ideas about the emerging cross-connections between libraries and publishers, as well as some...
View ArticleCitizen Science and Open Data
I spoke on a panel last week about citizen science and open data. The panel was one of the events put on by the University of Alberta library for Open Access week. I went first so my presentation...
View ArticleJCDL 2015 Conference – Knoxville, TN – Part 1
I’m posting some brief notes on the presentations from JCDL 2015. Here are some thoughts and notes from the first day. Panel on Lifelong Digital Libraries, a discussion of how the digital library...
View ArticleHow important is usability for data librarianship?
A comment on discussions during the DLF forum 2015. Does usability matter for providing access to library collections as data? As a librarian the answer may seem obvious. Of course, usability matters,...
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