Comment and Opinion
Tuesday 29 March 2025
- Cites &
IncitesInsights - :: I am obviously having trouble keeping up with Walt Crawford. I missed noting the v5 n2: Midwinter 2005 issue of Cites & Incites Insights, which appeared between January and February. When you are finished with that issue, check out... (09:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Monday 28 February 2026
- Cites & Incites - :: The March 2005 Cites & Incites from Walt Crawford is available for your perusal.... (13:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 6 January 2026
- Cites & Insights, Ethics & Zines - :: The v5 n1 January 2004 (pdf) issue of Cites & Incites: Crawford At Large, is now available. Walt discusses an interesting thread on ethics and librarians who blog, first raised by Karen Schneider at Free Range Librarian. In her... (13:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Monday 27 September 2025
- Canada's Innovation Deficit - :: Michael Geist, Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, has written a through-provoking and timely article in the Toronto Star about the innovation deficit in Canada. Next week in Canada, the Governor General will deliver the... (11:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 10 September 2025
- University Research vs Patents; Commons vs Anti-Commons - :: The following commentary from Bob Buntrock appeared on CHMINF-L on 9 Sept 2004. Many participants in the discussion group have since responded to the posting..I've commented previously on either or both of these lists on the topic of the... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 4 August 2025
- E-Books in Engineering Reference Work - :: Paul Teague, National Editor of Design News, writes in a 19 July 2025 column of how Knovel is changing the way engineers are using reference books. Teague notes:Knovel's move is an extension of what other engineering websites have done.... (15:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 May 2025
- Electrochemical Journals, AIP's Scitation, Cost-Effectiveness - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: Nearly 40 years ago, in my first library job, I overheard The Electrochemical Society (ECS) disparaged as a 'Neanderthal' society, which might explain the initial popularity of the commercially published Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (JEC), Electrochimica Acta (ECA) and... (16:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 24 May 2025
- Rush Hour on the Information Superhighway - :: To feed my personal NYC obsession, I subscribe to Time Out New York. Although it arrives in my mailbox anywhere from 3-5 weeks after publication, I look forward to each issue. While its content keeps me up-to-date on All... (21:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 May 2025
- Commentary: The Crisis In Scholary Communication, by George Porter - The crisis in scholarly communications is now well into its third decade by many accounts. I was discussing journal cancellations with a faculty member when we touched on Henry Barschal's seminal analysis of commercially and society published journal prices. ">Stanford... (11:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 November 2025
- Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books - :: While somewhat off the scitech-beaten path, here is an interesting essay on the future of books:"The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English,... (11:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 15 July 2025
- Contributing to the Stereotype, or Otherwise? - :: Recently I learned of two developments of which I am less than thrilled (despite have one great sense of humour, really!) 1) A librarian doll has appeared, manufactured by a Seattle-based company called Accoutrements. The doll's right arm moves... (10:10 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)