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Thursday, February 04, 2021

Broken Publishing Gone Wild - Time for a Change

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The recent shock on Wall Street amateur investors used Reddit to challenge the investment establishment, stocks in GameStop rose suddenly fr...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Critical Race Theory and Academic Libraries - Opening the Pandora's Box of Bureaucracy

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Kudos to the  Canadian Journal of Academic Librarie s for its most recent issue Special Focus on Academic Libraries and the Irrational ( Vol...
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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Congratulations on 25 Years, Ricepaper!

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It's been a delight as the Executive Editor of Ricepaper Magazine for the past five years and before I knew it, the magazine celebrated ...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Farewell to 2020, Let's Move On

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Hindsight is 2020 and that’s what this year will go down in history, one that is transformative in not only the way we live but conduct work...
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...