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Mike Roy’s Notes from  BUCKNELL DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research, 14-16 November 2014 https://dsconf.blogs.bucknell.edu/ #BUDSC14 on twitter   “Performing Collaborative Scholarship” Chris Long (Pennsylvania State University)   Of particular interest to me in Long’s talk were His Digital Dialogue (http://www.cplong.org/digital-dialogue/ ) project , which “dedicated to cultivating the excellences of […]

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 […]

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.  

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]