Tomorrow's Professor Blog: 772. Academic Freedom
Tomorrow’s Professor Blog: 772. Academic Freedom: This function of tenure has been challenged as “absolutizing” academic freedom: “[T]enure can never protect of guarantee academic freedom,” John Silber opined. “Academic freedom is protected and guaranteed by the courage of individual professors, and by individual administrators who protect individual members of the faculty, and by students. If […]
Read MoreYouTube – March of the Librarians
YouTube – March of the Librarians:
Read MoreCan you trust your mind? at hvattum.net
Can you trust your mind? at hvattum.net: How good are you when it comes to concentration and perception? Here is a cool experiment where you can test you ability to focus attention on a certain object in a short video. —- no, one can’t trust one’s mind, but eh..
Read MoreRadical Society – Review of Culture & Politics
Radical Society – Review of Culture & Politics: THE SKEPTIC IS GENERALLY PORTRAYED AS standing, on purpose, outside the normal flow of life. The skeptic refuses to assent to things that most people take for granted, perceiving the world through a protective lens of doubt and incredulity. The skeptic is the one who pauses just […]
Read MoreIn You More Than Yourself — In These Times
In You More Than Yourself — In These Times: And the same goes for my partners who I communicate with in cyberspace: I can never be sure who they are. Are they “really†the way they describe themselves? Is there a “real†person at all behind a screen-persona or is the screen-persona a mask for […]
Read MoreCult Of 2.0
Cult Of 2.0: Confession: I have my own religious mental picture of librarians and libraries and the primary symbol has always been the monk and the monastery. People driven by and dedicated to structure and fundamentals. That’s not all a library is but in truth I believe the majority of what constitutes a library is […]
Read MorePaper Daisies: NYC
Paper Daisies: NYC: These things happen all the time I’ve always said (well, since I moved here 4 months ago) that NYC smells like a toilet. Apparently, though, these things happen all the time. I didn’t notice this today, but I guess many others did. ——- This is an interesting post… for those interested in […]
Read Morecddc in the new.. sort of Peter Suber, Open Access News
Peter Suber, Open Access News : Is China blocking OA to Chinese Marxist texts? Noam Cohen, Who’s Attacking an Online Marxist Archive? China Is Suspected of Trying to Block Access to Texts, New York Times, February 5, 2007. Excerpt: …According to the Marxist Internet Archive, an online community that produces and organizes an ever-growing [open […]
Read More$21,280 starting salary in a Virginia public library system
$21,280 starting salary in a Virginia public library system: There is really no need for a study. The study will, however, provide quantitative evidence to support the self-evident–that $21,280 is a paltry starting salary for a professional with a master’s degree (who may be carrying sizeable student debt incurred while earning that degree). A study […]
Read MoreYouTube – A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto
YouTube – A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto: —— This is an interesting library 2.0 manifest from the standpoint of a librarian.
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