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By jdupuis on November 13, 2013.
  • Admitting Our Agendas
  • A queer, feminist agenda for libraries: Significance, relevance and power
  • Agendas: Everyone has one
  • I dreamed of a book …
  • Why I'm not waiting for tenure to change the world...
  • Value of Libraries Megapost
  • Librarians, Gender, and Tech: Moving the Conversation Forward
  • Silencing, librarianship, and gender: award hate and the silencing of recognition
  • Public Libraries as Social Innovation Catalysts
  • The private-data-for-services trade fallacy
  • Business Model of the Internet Has Been Surveillance
  • Science and Its Skeptics
  • Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley
  • You Can't Get There From Here: Wayfinding in an Academic Library
  • Citing data (without tearing your hair out)
  • Coalition Letter to Federal Agencies and Offices Requesting Draft OSTP Public Access
  • Science reporters play the access game too: What embargoes have to do with Greenwald, Snowden, and Assange
  • Spy Kids: A sci-fi visionary on why the children of tomorrow are the NSA's biggest nightmare
  • New Zealand bans software patents
  • The End Is Not Near (ie. why profs do what they do)
  • Should you write a science blog?
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