YouIdiot.com

While researching something else, I ran across an item in a business journal my eye ran across another item. In research this is called serendipity, something we do not hear so much about any more these days.

Peer Review

The perils of peer review come home to roost in academe.

PASCAL

PASCAL is not about the famous French philosopher, but is a pensee of which he would approve

Vestiges

Can intelligent design be found?

A PASCAL Primer

PASCAL is the Palmetto State's new academic consortium. But can it survive in a state committed to exiguous state funding for higher ed?

Reading at Risk

Reading may be in jeopardy as we advance along the information superhighway. Is literacy to be technology's first roadkill?

Librarians Are the New Polymaths

Belle Greene may have been small in stature but her legacy is great.

Libraries in the Cyberage

Carol Clancy, Senior Council for the National Center for Children and Families, makes a scholarly plea for libraries to filter pornography.

Libraries in the Cyberage--Part I

First Amendment issues heat up with the advent of the digital age and its ability to bring pornography to every library, free of charge.

The Future of the Book: Does It Have One?

While the book has been with us for two millennia, digital artifact threaten its permanence. Now we being to wonder if it has a future at all.

Filter-tipped Libraries

Is it possible to say something positive about Internet filtering in libraries and not have everyone, including your mother, call you a wild-eyed, hidebound, neo-Nazi bashi-bazouk? No, of course not, but I'm going to try to anyway.

Here Lies The Book, R.I.P.: The Report of Its Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

The declaration that print books are dead may have been premature.

Oh! The Tangled Web

Now before hundreds rush in with that inane, “One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian” argument, permit me to define Internet pornography. It isn't difficult at all.

Giving Thanks

Indulge me for a few moments, will you? I write this column just as we approach the Thanksgiving. You will read it having spent the last few weeks recovering from the Christmas Holidays. It seems appropriate at this time, even conventional, to spend a few moments looking at what we all have to be thankful for, even joyous about. All too often the quotidian cares of life weigh us down unceremoniously, and we forget that we have much to be thankful for.

What Do Academic Library Deans Do?

A recent discussion apropos of nothing set me to a thought-experiment: what is it deans of library services (or, as it often the case when I’m introduced, deans of library sciences) do? If one were to write up a short list of some of the most important general attributes of an effective dean, what would they be?