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Saturday, October 31, 2015

The Rise of the GLAM - G(alleries), L(ibraries), A(rchives), M(useums)

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Yuan Dynasty (1165-1368 C.E.) I've been conducting research on the area of GLAMs (an acronym that stands for galleries, libraries, a...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Flora of Descriptions for the Internet of Things

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I've been writing about the emerging technologies for the past decade, and ever since the Internet of Things first appeared, I've...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Library Cafe's as Trendsetters

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Lelystad Public Library There was a trend in the Library and Information Science literature beginning in the late 1990's that last...
Monday, July 06, 2015

End of College? But the Start of What?

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Having worked in higher education for more than a decade, I've seen first hand the wholesale transformation of the university.  As the...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

YouTube, social media, and academic libraries: building a digital collection

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I recently presented at the Acquisitions Institute 2015  on a panel with Stacy Sieck (Taylor & Francis) and Zoe Pettway Unno (Calif...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Cantonese Worlds Workshop at UBC #ItsAboutTime

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I recently presented at the Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents presents: Cantonese Worlds (May 14-15th, 2015).  Over the last 50 years, migr...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Fraser Valley Regional Library, 1930's - 1945 #TBT

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Yes, it's rare and it's kind of unsexy.  But it's #ThrowBackThursday.  So we must deal with it.  This brief historical footag...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Asian Canadian Archives (Re)Visited

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Here is a "digital story" video created by a student at UBC as part of an undergraduate film studies course.   In my work as a ...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

McDonaldization and Higher Education & Academic Libraries

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I've been an academic librarian for almost eight years now: how time flies .  One of my favourite writers since I was a student has...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Price of Admission Is a Steep One For Learning

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Price of Admission , although published in 2006, still rings true in academia today.  In an age when tuition fees have continued to balloone...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Smartcuts - Breaking Conventions In the Name of Innovation

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Smartcuts is an unbelievably entertaining and informative book by technology journalist Shane Snow .   It is not simply about shortcuts, ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Copyright Infingement, Intellectual Property, and Artistic Plagiarism: Do They Mix?

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Canadian authors Wayson Choy, Paul Yee and Sky Lee have launched a $6 million lawsuit against Chinese author Ling Zhang ,  alleging copyri...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Digital Scholarship Librarian - Simon Fraser University Library

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Digital scholarship has been an emerging if not critical area in academia for the past decade.  From areas such as data management, to in...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Search: The Final Frontier

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Search as we know it now is based on words and text, but this is limiting in many ways.  Merely searching the web of links and URLs no lon...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Class Hierarchies and the Ivy Leagues

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In Excellent Sheep , the author, essayist, and literary critic  Bill Deresiewicz writes about the state of American education: the the en...