Category Archives: The Land of Suede Elbow Pads

The Wookie Always Wins

Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Keith

Paul Campos over at Lawyers Guns and Money makes an interesting observation about the lingua franca of our modern world, pop culture references: [...] at this point I find that the only two film references that I can always count … Continue reading →

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A New Utility: The Library as Critical Infrastructure

Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 by Keith

Everyone who plays the board game Monopoly knows that the real power properties to own are the utilities. If you have Water Works, the Electric Company and all four railroads in your pile, you’ve got a solid chance of winning, … Continue reading →

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Off to LA

Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 by Keith

We’re heading down to LA to visit friends and family. While there, I’ll be attending the Innovative Users Group Conference in Annehim. This means no posts until late next week, as if that’s different then my normal posting schedule, or … Continue reading →

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Elsevier’s Ethics Problem Goes Way Deeper

Posted on Saturday, May 9, 2009 by Keith

Elsevier it appears, was even less ethical, if you can imagine it: In a statement to The Scientist magazine, Elsevier at first said the company “does not today consider a compilation of reprinted articles a ‘journal’”. I would like to … Continue reading →

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Academic Ethics? What Are Those?

Posted on Sunday, May 3, 2009 by Keith

Pharm giant Merck came up with a novel way of advertising their drugs: they made up a phony peer-review Journal. And guess who published it for them? Every academic’s favorite publishing behemoth, Elsevier!* It’s a safe guess that somewhere at … Continue reading →

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Not-So-Balanced Libraries

Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 by Keith

Previously on The Invisible Library: After discovering that a two year old blog post of mine had been citied in a book on how to make libraries work better in the web 2.0 world, I wondered aloud about the context … Continue reading →

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Where Are Blogs Bred? In the Heart Or In the Head?

Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 by Keith

Last night, I was searching Amazon for something completely unrelated* and happened upon this book, Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change, by Walt Crawford. The author is trying to find the middle ground between the old school library way … Continue reading →

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