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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Master of Switching In An Age of Information

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In an age of surveillance, propaganda, and fake news, I'm currently re-reading a 2010 title, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of In...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Anti-Racism Titles for a Better, More Informed World

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Photo by Cyrus Gomez I compiled a shortlist of titles after being asked by a colleague for some recommendations.  There are far too man...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

ACRL Academic Library Services for Graduate Students Interest Group - Online Library Services to Graduate Students

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ACRL Academic Library Services for Graduate Students Interest Group next Tuesday afternoon for a panel discussion about online services ...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Response to the World of Covid-19

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Racial diversity in librarianship is important because libraries and archives are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the histor...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

Understanding the Evolution of the Academic Library Research Commons

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Photo by Henry Be I have been Research Commons Librarian for two-years now , and it's been a wonderful time learning this role and n...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

COVID-19 and the Residue It Leaves Us as a Society

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COVID-19, the disease that causes a respiratory illness with flu-like symptoms, has forever changed and reshaped the way the society has c...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Text Analysis: A Hermeneutical Exercise

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I'll be teaching a short intro workshop on text analysis using Voyant, an open-source, web-based application.   Geoffrey Rockwell (Pro...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Using Palladio and Gephi as Data Visualization Tools

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Much has been published about data visualization tools.  Miriam Posner has written in this area which I often use as a reference.   Some ha...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Was Shakespeare Really Shakespeare? "Shakespeare has now fully entered the era of Big Data."

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Is Shakespeare really Shakespeare?   This is a question I pose whenever I'm asked about what is digital humanities.  In  Shakespeare B...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Mining Register of Headtax Records using R and Palladio

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In 2009, I began working with researchers and librarians UBC Library and SFU Library on a project that sought to collect and digitize materi...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Canadian Libraries - Reflections From The Last Decade

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I recently presented at the Saskatchewan Libraries Association (SLA) 2019  with my colleagues Maha Kumaran and Jian Wang.   It was a se...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

The Emotional Fatigue of Unseen Labour in Librarianship

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Photo by Fahrul Azmi on Unsplash Recently, there was an article that had ripples across the academic community at UBC.  Although it...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

The Big Academic Publishers Going Into Data Analytics Business

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The latest  SPARC Landscape Analysis  is a fascinating read.  It's surprising to learn that not only are the so-called big-three acade...
Friday, December 07, 2018

Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 34 Issue 3 (Special Theme on Digital Humanities)

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I'm excited to see our issue of Digital Library Perspectives  published. The theme “digital humanities” (DH) – its history, major proj...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Excellent Opportunity -- JSTOR Digital Humanities Fellow

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An excellent opportunity for those with interest in the digital humanities. ITHAKA is looking for a digital humanities practitioner and ed...