My Co-op So Far, Part I
Research Metrics Under the guidance of the Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian (BRIL), I have been working on a series of ongoing projects related to institutional and faculty research impact […]
Kill, Hearts and Magenta: User Tags vs. Subject Headings
User tags or subject headings? Of course there is no such thing as a perfect system. Looking into the red hot category of young adult, the first book that I […]
MINE THE GAP: LEVERAGING OPEN ACCESS THROUGH CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE
…In the advent of social networks and the rise of citizen scientists, however, shouldn’t we move toward empowering the citizen via user-centered, curiosity-minded and outcome-driven social engagements?… My take, inspirations […]
Walkability Before Sunrise
I fully enjoyed the last two documentaries featured at the yowLAB FilmFest but was wondering, hey, what about exploring what makes cities click through works of fiction? Maybe it would bring […]
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Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects By Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (Birkhäuser) When it comes to designing the next “smart” electronics, is smaller, faster while featuring more […]
“Library Space is Community Place”: A Retrospect on the Success Story of the Relocation of London Public Library’s Central Branch
On August 15, 2002, a sprawling human chain of close to 2,000 volunteers passed books hand-to-hand off the old shelves of the London Central Library to its new home (Gillespie, […]
A Blast from the Past and Back to the Future
“These racks and shelves contain a lot of books. Tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands. Perhaps millions… How do you feel about them?” so begins this 1947 vocational guidance video […]
