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Heather Morrison discusses what she calls an “access gap” for scholarly journals in public libraries. She claims:
The local public library will have interlibrary loan service; however, with limited staffing looking after everything from storytime for preschoolers to special services for teens, adults, seniors, and more, not to mention buying books and running the library, the [...]
TLA
What it stands for: Three-Letter-Acronym
What it should stand for: Lazy Coder’s Obfustication Device
How to recognize it: Three letters; used in place of actual words without explanation.
What it does: Makes computer geeks feel a little bit more sophisticated than they really are.
What a librarian needs to know [...]
It’s not exactly new, but Banana Slug is quite fun. It calls itself a “long tail” search engine. The way it works is by taking your search and adding a random word based on a category you choose.
Not sure how useful it is, but it is kind of fun to do [...]
When I was in my first year of Public Administration School at Dalhousie University, I met Marguerite Cassin, who is, perhaps, the smartest and wisest person I know (next to my wife).
Through Marguerite, I learned about Dorothy Smith and Institutional Ethnography (IE). Basically, IE is a path of inquiry that begins with individual experience [...]
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