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Virtue Information Literacy: Flourishing in an Age of Information Anarchy
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2022/07/virtue-information-literacy-flourishing-in-an-age-of-information-anarchy/
Published: July 18, 2022 14:21
What I’ve been doing the last few years instead of blogging: Virtue Information Literacy: Flourishing in an Age of Information Anarchy Virtue Information Literacy draws upon virtue ethics and virtue epistemology to develop a new, ethical conception of…
Virtue Information Literacy
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2021/03/virtue-information-literacy/
Published: March 1, 2021 17:26
I’ve been mostly absent from the blog since a long illness three years ago, but about a year ago I started doing some scholarly writing again. I’m currently working on a book applying Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology to Information … Continue reading…
On Having Nothing Nice to Say
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2018/04/on-having-nothing-nice-to-say/
Published: April 26, 2018 12:09
Within the last week I’ve read about a leftist creative writing professor writing nasty things on Twitter and the ensuing right-wing demand that she be fired or punished, as well as about a feminist journalist in Canada who was vilified … Continue reading…
A Career in a Life
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2018/03/a-career-in-a-life/
Published: March 28, 2018 12:02
In addition to a lot of time to meditate, my last year of serious illness has given me a lot of time to think, including about my job and career. I seem to be of the age where people start … Continue reading →
Professional Contingency and the Cosmic Perspective
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2017/06/professional-contingency-and-the-cosmic-perspective/
Published: June 2, 2017 13:22
This blog is approaching its tenth anniversary, and I realized that its tenth year has been one of silence. Partly I’ve been working (slowly) on another book, partly I’ve been chairing a really busy ACRL committee that produces lengthy documents, ……
The Research Essay from an Instructor’s Perspective
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2016/03/the-research-essay-from-an-instructors-perspective/
Published: March 24, 2016 17:07
[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. I thought similar librarians might be interested in the research essay from an…
Sci-Hub and Information Apartheid
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2016/03/sci-hub-and-information-apartheid/
Published: March 2, 2016 18:02
From what I’ve read, the methods Sci-Hub uses to acquire material range from the dangerous and stupid (e.g., providing strangers access to your network) to the illegal and unethical (e.g. phishing scams). Both of those are bad. However, the ethics ……
Scholarly Conversations, Seed Documents, and the Regressive New WorldCat
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2016/01/scholarly-conversations-seed-documents-and-the-regressive-new-worldcat/
Published: January 29, 2016 16:13
I write this after a traumatic experience. Yesterday, through force of circumstances, I had to use the new WorldCat interface to demonstrate research techniques, and the experience wounded me. Some background: I teach a library school course called…
Calculating My Odds
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2015/12/calculating-my-odds/
Published: December 8, 2015 18:26
Donald Trump and his ilk are fearmongering about terrorism and President Obama wants to calm my nerves. Maybe it’s just that I’m congenitally not a worrier, but in my daily life I’m not in the least worried about being the … Continue reading →
Conservative Librarians and Liberal Librarians
https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2015/07/conservative-librarians-and-liberal-librarians/
Published: July 27, 2015 15:34
In my last post I claimed there were two kinds of librarians–those who divide librarians into two kinds and those who don’t–and that I’m the former kind. Being a divider makes things easy, because once you start looking at the world … Continue reading →