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A Proper Substitution?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Books, Libs, Scripts

Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University and a participant in the decision process to award the Pulitzer prizes in journalism every year, had this to say about journalism schools in his book Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A New Press … Continue reading →

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A Known Quantity

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Books, Libs, Scripts

I was talking to A. (smart man) about his reading preferences, and he said that he likes to read writers whose books he’s liked in the past. So do I; so do a lot of people. There’s certainly nothing to … Continue reading →

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Librarians as Research Assistants

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Books, Libs, Scripts

Lately, there’s been a lot of angst in the profession about the role of librarians in the future libraries. The basic anxiety is that as both information and information-location tools proliferate, end-users seem to require less & less “mediation” by … Continue reading →

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