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Depository Library Council
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern announces the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC). DLC members advise the GPO Director on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and access to U.S. Government information. In addition to experience working in various types of libraries,…
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JSTOR Daily: The First Famous Football Team Behind Bars
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Democracy’s Data Cartels
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AMS Scholars Program: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
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University Donates Collection to Internet Archive
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THE DATA DISCOVERY COLLABORATION
Happy to accept an invitation to serve a two-year term on the Data Discovery Collaboration Advisory Board. The Data Discovery Collaboration (DCC) is a multi-institutional consortium that works together in order to address concerns around data discovery through discussions of metadata, outreach, software development, and systems and metadata interoperability.
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Leading Change Institute 2022 Participants Named
Thirty individuals have been selected to participate in the 2022 Leading Change Institute (LCI), to be held in Washington DC July 10–15. Jointly sponsored by CLIR and EDUCAUSE, LCI is designed for leaders in higher education, including CIOs, librarians, information technology professionals, and administrators, who want to work collaboratively to promote and initiate change on critical issues…
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Alumni Memorial Scholars Movie Night
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FORCE 2021 Conference
Check out our poster during the community presentations at the Force 2021 Conference.
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Music Club: Heavy Rotation
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WRCU 90.1 FM
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Colgate Living Writers
I had the great pleasure of discussing Dana Spiotta’s new novel, Wayward, with a great roundtable of faculty. You can listen to a snippet here.
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Project: The Thing is…
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Seize the Time Scholarship
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Wax Ecstatic
If you scroll ahead to the 16:00 mark, you might just hear a question from yours truly.
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HOT COMPOST
“HOT COMPOST is an all day durational broadcast event led by amazing Margaretha Haughwout and team in Hamilton, NY. It’s art, it’s gardening/permaculture/compost, it’s about changing systems and transforming shit into something that can grow and nourish.” ~ Thea Quiray Tagle We were happy to be part of this event on election day 2020!
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The New American
In her debut novel, Three Apples Fell from Heaven, Marcom explored the traumatic aftermath of the Armenian genocide through the imagined thoughts and feelings of those left behind. Here, she pens a poetic reflection on deportation, immigration, and the abstract notion of home. The story follows Emilio, a young Guatemalan American college student who is…
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EveryLibrary Creates Fund to Help Library Workers in Need Because of COVID-19 Shutdowns
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Transformative Library and Information Work: Profiles in Social Justice
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Awesome Libraries Pitch @ ALA Midwinter
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Data To Dome Workshop
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New York Data Carpentries Library Consortium
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Very Sad Lab
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EveryLibrary Institute Partners with Awesome Libraries Chapter to Support Innovative Library Projects
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ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Nucleus – Deploying Research Data Management Infrastructure At The Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian Cain, Martin Klein, and Joshua Finnell
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Awesome Summit
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Reference Librarianship & Justice: Critical Interventions
Reference Librarianship & Justice: Critical Interventions Book Launch Celebration and Discussion Friday, March 8 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Happy hour with beer, wine, non-alcoholic beverages, and snacks to follow Join us for a half day event to celebrate the recent publication of Reference Librarianship & Justice: History, Practice and Praxis. METRO Library Council, along with…
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2019 Endangered Data Week
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The Librarian Hour
Today, from 12-2 p.m., the Central New York airwaves will be filled with my nasal voice + some my favorite jams from 2018. I look forward to guest DJing the Librarian Hour on @wrcucolgate You can stream the show 👇https://t.co/4Mt5oiyGHY — Joshua Finnell (@JoshuaFinnell) February 20, 2019
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LJ Reviewers of the Year 2018
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A Grand Challenges-Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science
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University of Illinois: 150 Years & Beyond
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Collaborating Around Data: Partnership Between UCT and Colgate University Bears Fruit in the eResearch Space
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LJ Best Books of 2018
Had a great time selecting this year’s best literary fiction titles for Library Journal.
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Reference Librarianship & Justice: History, Practice & Praxis
It’s here! Reference Librarianship & Justice: History, Practice & Praxis, edited by @xsublibrarian @ibeilin & me. You can find more info at @LibJuicePress: https://t.co/X9O1RtDqd2 and order it here! https://t.co/cphVJjePuC #critlib pic.twitter.com/GOW1rZHRev — Eamon Tewell (@EamonTewell) October 1, 2018
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Horizons Colloquium Series
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Writing Music
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Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians
A truly inspiring week at #lial2018.
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Immersive Technology Institute
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A Shout in the Ruins
Powers’s debut novel, The Yellow Birds, a National Book Award finalist, offered a poignant rumination on America’s reverence for patriotism but simultaneous amnesia regarding the lives of deployed soldiers in a story drawn from the author’s own experience as an Iraq War veteran. This second novel, set in Powers’s hometown of Richmond, VA, probes the…
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A Terrible Country
In his debut novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, Gessen penned a passing nod to F. Scott Fitzgerald with an autobiographical tale of three writers struggling to turn their literary ambitions into a lasting legacy. Similar themes from Gessen’s life emerge here, as the author ruminates on the complexities of his homeland from the…
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Nation of Makers 2018
Just sent off my piece to @MakeSantaFe for the #wetherosies project at #nomcom. Thanks to @douglasjhiggins for his enthusiasm and contribution as well. https://t.co/NIT05NhNRI pic.twitter.com/vbBwyNCOKG — Joshua Finnell (@JoshuaFinnell) May 11, 2018
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The Overstory
Standing as silent witnesses to our interweaving genealogies, cyclical wars, and collapsing empires, trees contain our collective history in addition to our climate record. Here, the acclaimed Powers (Orfeo; The Time of Our Singing) employs literary dendrochronology to weave the stories of nine strangers connected through their collective action in preventing a forest from falling…
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National Library Week
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2018 ALA Midwinter Presentations
Seeding the Future: The Innovation in Libraries Awesome Foundation Chapter (Symposium on the Future of Libraries) Saturday, February 10 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM An Awesome Ideas Pitch for Libraries (Symposium on the Future of Libraries) Saturday, February 10 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
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Anatomy of a Miracle
Satire at its best is constructive social criticism, and Miles (Dear American Airlines; Want Not) is perfecting this craft in the 21st century. Outside a convenience store in Biloxi, MS, Cameron Harris waits in his wheelchair while his sister runs in to buy beer. Cameron is an alcoholic. Cameron is a paraplegic. Cameron is a…
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American Histories
Throughout his decorated literary career, Wideman (Sent for You Yesterday; Philadelphia Fire) has compiled an extended meditation on how we are able to heal by transmuting personal and historical facts into constant reimagining. This sprawling collection of short stories is an unapologetic resurrection of those facts in today’s political climate, with Wideman’s introduction addressed directly…
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All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
With the premiere of The Deuce on HBO, interest in the work of David Simon has been reignited, and The Wire is his magnum opus. Journalist and author Abrams (Boys Among Men) delves deep into the show’s creation and enduring legacy through interviews with the actors, writers, and producers who brought the show to life.…
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A Long Way From Home
One of Australia’s greatest authors, two-time Booker Prize winner Carey (Oscar and Lucinda; True History of the Kelly Gang) has drawn inspiration from his native country throughout his career, weaving historical and fantastical tales ranging from the 1942 Battle of Brisbane to transporting a glass church from Sydney to Bellingen. Here, he uses the famous…
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