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By jdupuis on February 5, 2014.
  • Taking a Longer View
  • Why librarianship is difficult and contentious
  • Schism in the Stacks: Is the University Library As We Know It Destined for Extinction?
  • The Future of Libraries: Harvard Students Are Thinking Outside the Box
  • Why piles of bad applications may not portend disaster
  • Silencing, librarianship, and gender: sticking up for stories
  • Making Space for the Silenced
  • A New Year’s Vision of the Future of Libraries as Ebookstores
  • How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box
  • 5 Futures for Libraries
  • How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
  • Who needs facts? We appear to be in the Post-Information Age now
  • Why I Started Paying for Music, Movies, Newspapers and Magazines Again
  • How far should we go with ‘full library discovery’?
  • The Two Cultures of Computing: User Culture Versus Programmer Culture
  • What’s the matter with e-books?
  • The Mission of Librarians is to Empower
  • It’s the Neoliberalism, Stupid: Why Open Access / Data / Science is not Enough
  • Gender, Librarian Commentary, and Organic Chemistry II
  • Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review
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