Monday Jul 16th, 2012

Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks

By Michael Levine-Clark
One of the things that I love about being a librarian is that as a profession, we work together to share ideas and resources. Perhaps the most remarkable example of this collaborative spirit is interlibrary loan (ILL). We send each other books, DVDs, CDs, articles — whatever we can reasonably share. And we do this at considerable expense to our own institutions because we see a mutual benefit. read more »

Monday May 20th, 2013

They’re watching, but are they seeing?

Gautam Shroff on video surveillance
Sunday Apr 21st, 2013

The father of the modern computer

B. Jack Copeland on Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine
Monday Apr 1st, 2013

On the 100th anniversary of the assembly line

Vincent Curcio on Henry Ford’s assembly line
Wednesday
Feb 27th, 2013

Medical apocalypse

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Monday
Feb 25th, 2013

Social media and the culture of connectivity

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Wednesday
Feb 20th, 2013

American copyright in the digital age

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Tuesday
Feb 19th, 2013

Cyber attacks: electric shock

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Tuesday
Feb 5th, 2013

Are you still writing 2012 on your tweets?

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Sunday
Nov 25th, 2012

On animals and tools

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Thursday
Nov 8th, 2012

In praise of the podcast

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Saturday
Nov 3rd, 2012

How to avoid programming

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Friday
Oct 26th, 2012

The “Choice” Bazaar

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Wednesday
Oct 24th, 2012

Is the George Washington Bridge a work of art?

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Wednesday
Sep 12th, 2012

Computer programming is the new literacy

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