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Full circle
I generally call this my ‘personal’ professional blog, but this post is purely personal. Our professional demeanor can be a bit of a mask of inscrutability. Sometimes it’s good to let it slip. Giewont...
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Digital Humanities 2016 Kraków
Wawel Cathedral One interesting quirk of the DH conference is that so many talks are presented with a long list of collaborators in the program. It’s great to see collaborative work becoming more the...
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Access 2017 Saskatoon
Lovely view from the conference room After a long hiatus while on research leave, I’m back out on the road getting in touch with the profession and taking notes. Access is both a favourite and an...
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@Risk North in Ottawa
cc Asif A. Ali, flickr @Risk North was a further meeting of an initiative that the Center for Research Libraries kicked off a while back to address issues related to print preservation. I attended...
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CNI was informative and enriching as always. I had the opportunity this time around to participate in the executive roundtable on moving data to the cloud and enjoyed that environment as always. At...
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A Primer on Library Titles
National Technical Library, Prague For those of us working in academic libraries, the myriad roles in our organizations are generally fairly clear, but for the rest of our institution it seems that...
View ArticleAccess 2018 in Hamilton
As always, Access was a delight to attend. I am so grateful to my former colleagues and still friends at McMaster, who carried on with the planning after I put my hand up at last year’s wonderful event...
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CNI 2018 Fall Membership Meeting
CNI was information dense as always. Below are the notes I recorded. Mistakes and leaps in logic are mine, not the speakers’. It has been clear for a number of years that CNI is growing in popularity;...
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CNI 2019 Spring Membership Meeting
Busch Stadium, St. Louis – CC Joe Penniston, flickr Many thanks to CNI’s staff and leadership for a wonderful and engaging event. At this iteration of CNI, I took part in their series of Executive...
View ArticlePinto beans and cornbread
Note: Mita Williams writes an excellent weekly newsletter–University of Winds–that she always ends with a question to her readers. This week’s was a request to send our favourite bean recipe as her...
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