Over at http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/ . After 6.5 years and over 1300 posts, a new chapter begins. My sincerest thanks to everyone who's read, commented and supported this blog over the ...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/check-out-new-home-for-confessions-of.html
That I know of, we have three four groups of library faculty that have adopted declarations of one sort or another that promote more availability and openness for the content they produce, either...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/library-faculty-open-access.html
Thanks to Sharon Murphy of Queens for reminding me that the final deadline for the call for submissions is May 15th for The Sixth International Conference on Innovation and Practices in Enginee...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/c2e2cden-engineering-future.html
A nice sentiment from not one, but two profs: Eugene Wallingford and Rudbeckia Hirta !
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/real-reason-i-will-never-give-up-my-job.html
Thanks to Michael Geist for the information that tomorrow's Ivor Tossell column in the Globe and Mail will be his last. I've really enjoyed Tossell's column over the years, even (especially) w...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/theres-lot-of-things-you-can-do-with.html
Not my five favourite songs -- that list doesn't really exist. Not the five best songs. Not even five objectively great songs. Just five songs that really keep knocking around my head. This week ...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/friday-fun-five-songs-i-love.html
Such were the innocent words on the big ad on the ScienceBlogs site the other day. Well, I'm a librarian, I like the ScienceBlogs site quite a bit, so I clicked the link. Lo and behold a libr...
Good article in Saturday's Globe and Mail by Erin Anderssen and Anne McIlroy. > Ariana Rostami ranks chemistry and biology as her favourite classes. > She gets top marks in her...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-canada-losing-lab-rat-race.html
Hahahahahaha . This one really is priceless. When someone on Twitter says, "I’m here in but am so exhausted from the flight I’m gonna crash." What they really mean is, "Hey everyone, I go...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/05/friday-fun-explaining-twitterspeak-to.html
A very fine article by Claude Lalumière in the latest issue of Quill & Quire (Nothing online yet for the issue, but their editor just passed away recently , so I imagine they'll be a little be...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/bookstore-of-future.html
McSweeney's strikes again! Check out their syllabus for ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era : > As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and >�...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/friday-fun-writing-for-nonreaders-in.html
Yes, yes, I'm still completely obsessed with this futuristic prognostication business (consider that a bit of foreshadowing). I will continue to try and make the laundry lists a little shorter an...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/yet-more-reports-books-on-future-of.html
Such is the title of Moshe Y. Vardi Editor's Letter in the most recent Communications of the ACM (v52i5). I'll excerpt it a bit: > What I'm referring to is the way we go about publ...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/conferences-vs-journals-in-computing.html
I've always thought that Morgan & Claypool 's Synthesis product is one of the best, most forward-looking products out there. They give quality, targeted, born-digital content of the kind that I ...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/synthesis-lectures-on-information.html
Registration is open for this year's edition of SciBarCamp Toronto . Last year was a blast . This year, it's in collaboration with the Science Rendezvous series of events in and around Toronto...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/scibarcamp-2009-registration-is-open.html
My colleague Bill Denton and I whipped up a little article for the Libraries' spring faculty newsletter on some of the stuff we've been trying out recently. We called it YUL 2.0 . > Over t...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/york-university-libraries-20.html
Or at least Hana is. She's one of York's official student bloggers and her entries on the student blog YUBlog are always worth reading. First of all, I really like her response, Are we reall...
What with all the fuss and bother about the Taiga Provocative Statements , I thought I'd take a break from doom and gloom and highlight a more recent set of statement that certainly provide...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/darien-statements-on-library-and.html
Some selections from recently published journal issues. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, v31i1 , special issue on Asian Language Processing: History and Perspectives A Journey from Indi...
Calce, Michael with Craig Silverman. Mafiaboy: How I cracked the Internet and why it's still broken. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2008. 277pp. Doctorow, Cory. Content: Selected essays on technology, ...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/book-reviews-cory-doctorow-and-mafiaboy.html
A little while back the Taiga Forum: A Community of AULs and ADs released their TAIGA 2009 Provocative Statements . There's been a fair bit of commentary around the web , most not that impressed...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-provocative-statements.html
The Cluetrain Manifesto (full text ) is one of those books I've always meant to read but haven't. Not sure why, but it's probably due to the fact that when it came out initially I was just begin...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/03/cluetrain-manifesto-ten-years-later.html
We should probably all do this every once in a while, just as a way of expanding our connections a bit. Here are the social networks that I'm reasonably active on: Friendfeed Twitter Face...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/03/socially-network-with-me.html
It's been a while since I picked up something from Bookgasm , but this one really caught my eye. Although many of the reasons are decidedly NSFW (and hilarious), here's a few that are appropria...
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/03/friday-fun-50-reasons-no-one-wants-to.html
I did a workshop/presentation to York faculty as part of the Libraries' Research Frontiers series. As the title of this post suggests, it was on the usefulness of blogging to an academic career....
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/03/academic-blogging-promoting-your.html