Urgent Action Needed On NIH Policy – Call Your Reps
A friend writes: You all know firsthand as academic librarians that the present system of scholarly communication is badly broken. Faster and wider sharing of knowledge, like that funded by the...
View ArticleUnconstitutional! but hold that thought…
Yes! A judge has just said (again) that NSLs are unconstitutional!! Well, duh, we knew that. But it’s good to have it on record, and with a civics lesson built right in. Specifically, the automatic and...
View ArticleSelective Dissemination of Information
A researcher recently discovered something odd: she couldn’t use “abortion” in a keyword search Popline, a standard database on reproductive health hosted at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at...
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Another Meaning of “Access”
Pardon me while my head explodes. The word “access†is one with generally good connotations among librarians. It’s in a lot of mission statements. It takes on a more mercenary meaning when it...
View ArticleOn Critical Habits of Mind
This semester I’ve been working with a First Year Seminar on Business Ethics & Corporate Responsibility. For their semester-long research assignment, each student selected a company from the 2016...
View ArticleDigging for Gratitude
A little over a year ago, I took a flight to Los Angeles to interview for my job at UCLA – it was the night before the election. At the time, natives and their allies were fighting to re-route Dakota...
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Digital Empathy, #ThinkTanks, and Grievances
We live in an unprecedented time. Our web connected lives let us go in and out of conversations, of our colleagues’ lives, and, on occasion, into the fray of online controversies. Such a controversy...
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Lesson: Culture is Hungry
Two weeks ago, I attended the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians at the University of Minnesota. The Institute is a week-long program focusing upon academic librarians within their first...
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