I Stand With Faculty at LIU Brooklyn #LIUlockout

Rather than me telling you how to do some part of your job better, or how I learned to do my job better, I'm going to ask you to spread ...

On Bias

source When I teach undergraduates (or anyone, really) about assessing websites for academic use, I start by asking them how they judge webs...

Continuity or Revolution: Choose Your Own Adventure

A little while ago I saw this tweet: "How much of what seems real or reasonable to you is decided by a preference for continuity?"...

They're Back: Giving Students the Respect They Deserve

source For me, the first few weeks of a semester are kind of like a party. Yes, I'm busy - crazily so, this year, with hiring and traini...

Best Practices and Research Based Practices: Don't Be A Lemming

Lemmus lemmus Summer is over. New students will show up later this week and returning students will be here next weekend. Transitions always...

Know When to Hold 'Em and Know When to Fold 'Em: On Being Privileged Sometimes

"Privilege" is a word that comes with steamer trunks' worth of baggage. For the purpose of this post, I am using this word wit...

The "Snake People" Are Coming to a Generalization Near You

I hate generational labels. I remember when I first encountered "generation x" as a label for my generation, That article talked a...

Embracing Librarianship, Warts and All: My ENY/ACRL Keynote

Note: This is as close as I can come to recreating the keynote I gave at the annual conference of the Eastern New York chapter of the Associ...

Constant Vigilance, by Galen Charlton

source Constant vigilance! CONSTANT VIGILANCE! Mad-eye Moody�s catchphrase in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire expresses his view of the...