Today’s Harvard Crimson, a student newspaper, reports that Harvard Business School Associate Professor of Business Management Michael D. Watkins has criticized the Harvard president’s role in the tenure process via his blog World Events on Weekdays. The pertinent blog posts are: Watkins’ post about not getting tenure “Death Knell for the Delicate Experiment at HBS” [...]
I check my referer log almost every night to get an idea of who’s coming to my blog through other Web sources. Anytime someone follows a link through a search engine, I get a line in my referer log telling me what the search was. I’ve written about attending campaign events for most of the [...]
At first, I told him I wasn’t going to take the money, but he insisted and said it was only fair. My response was worth it, he said, and he was prepared to pay money to have someone via Google Answers respond anyway. Besides, he added, I probably gave him information about questions he hadn’t [...]
This item from Burnham’s Beat discusses RSS’ limitations and its potential for failure because of information overload and the lack of ability to find relevant topics and organize feeds. As I read it, I couldn’t help recalling what people were saying in the early days of the Internet–some of which are still said today. The [...]
A new report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released Wednesday at the Public Library Association Conference shows that public libraries help narrow the digital divide by providing free access to computers and the Internet. From the announcement of the report: “Today, more than 95 percent of library buildings offer public access computing, and [...]
Several library blogs point to this survey for library workers about their managers for a forthcoming book. The questions are straightforward (what are the best and worst qualities of library managers) and the survey is very brief. There is the option to be anonymous, too. I have to think back a few years and think [...]
This Associate Press article via the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner gives an excellent overview of the issues surrounding whether parents should have access to their minor children’s library records. Some people argue that since parents can be held liable for lost or overdue library materials, they should have the right to know what materials their children [...]
LIS News reports that a book by Jayson Blair, the former New York Times and Boston Globe reporter who admitted plagiarizing and fabricating sources for some of his articles last year, should be published in early March. The book discusses his actions that led to him losing his job and the loss of an executive [...]
Elsevier includes some interesting statistics about journal usage in the United Kingdom as well as presenting arguments against Open Access publishing in their comments about academic publishing in the UK. I linked to the executive summary above. A 15-page .pdf report is also available. Seen on the ResourceShelf (This isn’t new. I’m slowly catching up [...]
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