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Tuesday, March 08, 2016

The Rise of the Innovation Commons

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On my research study, I took the opportunity to visit the City University of Hong Kong, which is globally recognized as a top institution...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

Introducing the Horizon Report 2016

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The latest NMC Horizon Report has just been released.  Like many of involved in higher education, I've always been curious as to what...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Vaporized? That's the World We Live In Now, So We Must Deal With (Embrace) It

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Emerging technologies has been a theme of this site for as long as I have blogged.   While libraries have been slow to in the digital migr...
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...