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Cool Tools for School

At the start of new semester, it's time to share three neat tools that might be useful for class projects.

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Information Wants to Be Free, But Not Always

I have a confession. And you may have some dead links on your site.

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My Take on the Amazon Workplace Exposé

A muckraking New York Times article on white collar Amazon labor conditions prompts me to think about library values in an era of productivity measures, competition, and scale.

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Situating Serendipity in the Research Process

Can we teach the seemingly inefficient process of serendipitously encountering information instead of searching for it? Maybe not..

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Open for Business

Why some open access models seem a little fishy.

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Negotiating a New Social Contract for Digital Data

We need to talk about big data.

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Reddit and Weep

Online communities depend on sensitive moderation and on balancing the interests of members and owners. It's tough. Take Reddit, for example ...

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Summer Reading: danah boyd’s It’s Complicated

A book for anyone working with teens or with people who have recently been teens - and for everyone else, too.

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