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Is Linking Thinking?

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

After years (really, over a decade) of kicking these thoughts around, I’ve finally published my thoughts on the challenges of born-digital scholarship in a world that values tradition, legibility, and durability over innovation. You can find it at  http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/linking-thinking-addressing-and-assessing-scholarship-digital-era  It isn’t the final word, but it is nice to have this off my chest and [...]

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Profs Fail iEtiquette 101

Friday, March 1, 2013

I enjoyed Middlebury’s own Laurie Essig’s recent Chron article Profs Fail iEtiquette 101 which makes many useful points about the evolution of manners and good taste over time, but also about the mounting evidence that multi-tasking is actually not possible, and that it largely results in mediocre or worse results all around.  

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Words Fly Up: A Report from Chuck Henry’s Visit to Middlebury

Friday, May 4, 2012

Charles Henry, the President of the Council of Library and Information Resources (aka CLIR) visited Middlebury last week to give a talk about how the future of higher education is being disrupted by a set of major national and international initiatives that collectively bring both promise and challenges to the existing system of teaching, learning, [...]

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twitter and the social basketball scene

Monday, January 30, 2012

One of the big differences for me in moving to Vermont a few years ago is that I have a social life that is far more intermingled with my professional life than my pre-Vermont social life. For better and worse, this is one of the features of living in a small town where a great [...]

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Long, strange trip report: Educause 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

I made the annual pilgramage to the annual Educause meeting. This year’s event was in Anaheim. Here’s a quick summary of the topics, sessions, projects, and ideas that struck me as most interesting, in no particular order. The program, with lots of links to videos, twitter feeds, slides, and related resources can be found at [...]

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The dream of a single library

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Two states over from Vermont in the great state of Maine, our library colleagues at Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin are in the midst of what to many might seem to be a radical experiment. They have created what is known in Library Land as a shared approval plan for all three schools. They have all [...]

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Pricing Printing

Thursday, March 19, 2009

I’m not an economist by training or even by disposition, but my job requires me to think in economic terms on a regular basis. My latest challenge is to figure out a pricing scheme for charging for printing on campus. Free printing, like free anything, is an example of what economists call the tragedy of [...]

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Hello world!

Monday, March 9, 2009

Here’s a start to my blog, which will serve as a way to provide me (and whoever else might find such things interesting) access to all the various things that I’m working on or thinking about. Topics that I’m already composing in my head include: the future of word processing, the cult(ure) of print, email [...]

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