By Barbara Fister. Allison Gopnik, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, had an interesting piece in last Sunday’s New York Times that has been sticking to my brain like a burr. Read more...
26 août 2016
26 août 2016
David Lewis’s Library Reimagined
By Barbara Fister. I’ve read David Lewis’s wide-angle provocations in the past, so when I picked up his new book, Reimagining the Academic Library, I expected my thoughts to be provoked. Read more...
26 août 2016
The Way We Publish Now
By Barbara Fister. All signs point toward an open access future for scholarship. The pressure from funders as well as from academic authors to publish openly is growing. Read more...
26 août 2016
Donald Trump Thinks I’m Stupid
By Tracy Mitrano. My mother died as the result of a surgical accident, a nicked bowel with a single stitch from an ovarian biopsy that proved negative. Nine months in ICU, six major surgeries, a year and two days later, she gave up. Read more...
26 août 2016
Presidential Leadership
By Tracy Mitrano. Thirty-five years ago when I graduated college and set my career sites on higher education, I wanted to be a college president. Read more...
26 août 2016
A Thin Place
By Tracy Mitrano. From the Celts, and the home to some of the greatest lyrical writers in the Western world, comes the notion of thin places. “A place where the veil between this world and the eternal world is thin. A thin place is where one can walk in two worlds - the worlds are fused together, knitted loosely where the differences can be discerned or tightly where the two worlds become one.” Read more...
26 août 2016
Bring Snowden Home
By Tracy Mitrano. My hand to G-d, I included a sentence at the end of a draft of my last blog about the Russian hack of the DNC servers, “And Trump is falling for it hook, line and sinker” that I deleted before I sent the final to be posted. Read more...
26 août 2016
Three Developments
By Tracy Mitrano. Three tech-related headlines caught my eye this week. Google is behind Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing. Yahoo is selling its core business to Verizon. Russia figured in the Democratic National Committee hack … with a possible implication of a Russia connection to WikiLeaks. Read more...
26 août 2016
A Key Win by Microsoft
By Tracy Mitrano. Mark the Second Circuit decision in the Microsoft case as a turning point. The win for Microsoft is a victory for U.S. innovation, manufacturing and Internet companies, privacy advocates, and legal due process. Read more...
26 août 2016
U. of Chicago Asks for Safe Space ... for Administrators
By John Warner. It seems that many who read the “welcome” letter from University of Chicago Dean of Students, John (Jay) Ellison, were pleased to read a strong statement defending core academic values: freedom of expression and inquiry without fear of censorship, as well as “rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement,” including a refusal to “support” trigger warnings or “condone” safe spaces. Read more...
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