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Thoughts on Libraries

This weekend I got an email from a librarian/blogger taking me to task for paying insufficient attention to librarian blogs...

ABCs and PhDs: Playground blues

I remember the day it became painfully obvious to me that I was different from the other kids in school...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Why travel?

I often wonder if the academic conference is going the way of the dinosaurs. They are expensive, after all, and...

Ask the Administrator: ERP!

A new correspondent writes: I am currently on the administrative market. I've had one interview, and this topic did not...

A Sonnet for Nicholas Hughes

Each suicide writes a new life storyWith obvious portents like something out of Dreiser Or like the junior high school...

Ask the Administrator: Internships

A new correspondent writes: Recently I've noticed an increase of reports in the popular press proclaiming an "internship arms race"...

On crashing and burning in public

My previous post was perhaps not worse than a crime, but it was definitely a blunder. To go 0-for-2 in...

The Adjunct Comedy

Comedy, it’s been said, is made possible by incomplete understanding. If one fully understood another’s suffering, the story would turn...