The Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian!: It’s A Man’s World-The Final Chorus For whatever reason I still cannot quite articulate, men seem to be able to set aside (or sidestep entirely) mundane issues and do some serious navel-gazing. Add to it the fact that technology has always been a male bastion and what [...]

Library Voice » Using a wiki as a research guide: a year’s experience I have been very pleased with my experience of using a wiki as a research guide, and I can tell you that I have no intentios of returning to my old traditional html guides. Only time will tell how the Biz Wiki [...]

Peter Suber, Open Access News More evidence that journal prices don’t correlate with quality or impact

In The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games – Game Revolution, Duke Ferris did research at the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Statistics and found that violence among youth has actually dropped since the advent of video games. According to his stats, in 2004 youth homicide was at the lowest levels ever recorded. [...]

2 Cents Worth » Why Libraries are Important When the child graduates, the teacher will be gone. The classroom will be gone. The textbooks will be gone. But for the first time in history, continual learning will be the ONLY road to prosperity. Teacher and classroom as the model for continual learning will be meaningless. [...]

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Ten Rules for the New Librarians

Peter Suber, Open Access News The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects. The software will be available under the BSD open-source license. The software, developed by a France-based Microsoft partner, will allow people to use Microsoft Office to open and save documents [...]

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