It’s nice to see some new deals between libraries and journal publishers that account for both reading (subscription) costs and publishing costs (article processing charges), but I’d really like to see a deal that also accounts for the huge value of free peer review for journals.
It has finally happened, I have been Kondoed by my offspring
Me: “Could you run some errands with me?”
My daughter: “Running errands with you no longer brings me joy, so I am discarding it.”
There are no meals during Passover—only constant noshing.
—Yiddish proverb
Squirrel!
Y’all do know that Google Drive can OCR PDFs, right?
“The principles for a Shared Digital Europe, a proposal for a new framework for thinking about the digital space in Europe, are: Enable Self-Determination, Cultivate the Commons, Decentralise Infrastructure and Empower Public Institutions” (via @jilcos)
“The abundance of data from large scientific experiments, such as earth observation programs, radio astronomy sky surveys, and high-energy physics already exceeds the storage hardware globally fabricated per year.” The huge challenge of archiving it all
As the tense process of Brexit winds on, I talk with Mai’a Cross (@keapuolani), Professor @NUCSSH and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, about Europe’s long struggle to unify—and stay unified—on the last podcast of Season 2 of What’s New.
And here’s maybe the most evocative image of Notre Dame I found via @dpla: what looks like a home movie of a visit to Paris in 1955, in early color, from @uwmlibraries (skip to 5:00 for the cathedral)
Here’s a customized search for images of Notre Dame cathedral, from the oldest to most recent, in @dpla’s unified collection of digitized items from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.
“Oh, is this your chair? Are you sure? Maybe it could be my chair.”
And if you haven’t read his trilogy on slavery, starting with The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, you really should do so.
David Brion Davis was a groundbreaking and great historian, but you wouldn’t have known it from his fairly shy and quiet demeanor. I was lucky to have taken a couple of seminars with him in graduate school and found him always incredibly insightful. RIP
#BostonMarathon
Whoa the finish of the men’s race is going to be crazy with 15 runners within 5 seconds of each other at the base of Heartbreak Hill #BostonMarathon
Worknesh Degefa in the lead by two minutes (!) at the base of Heartbreak Hill #BostonMarathon
I am only now realizing that it is National Pet Day. Here is my dog Belle sleeping.
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to our library today—still time to drop a small (or big) donation our way if you would like to see things like this digitized and made more widely available: givingday.northeastern.edu/campaigns…
If I could time travel to 1982, I would definitely buy an Apple computer from Sherman Howe
Prince, with Sheila E. and Cat, 1987
Metallica, 1984
Hall & Oates, 1982
Donna Summer, 1981
Devo, 1980
