I’ve been thinking a lot lately about access to information and the creation of knowledge. My thinking focuses on this:
The point of creating new knowledge is to help us understand our world better.
Lots of types of knowledge can be created.
Knowledge can be documented in many forms: articles, blog posts, videos, etc.
Knowledge can be created by [...]
I don’t read very many journals or trade magazines cover to cover. Most of my professional development reading happens online, and most of that is in the blogosphere. However, one of the ones that I do take the time to read cover to cover was nice enough to publish an article of mine, and [...]
Today my place of work had an inter-library workshop on Scholarly Communication. Yay!! So, in the spirit of professional development reporting, here are my notes:
Molly Keener kicked off with an explanation of the committee and workshop.
The material (podcast, links, etc) will be on the library website.
Molly and Sarah Jeong gave an introduction to scholarly communications.
Defining [...]
As much as I love online content creation, I like the dead-tree stuff, too. My most recent contribution to that realm is here, in Feminist Collections:
It’s a book review of The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy. Good stuff for this BA in philosophy with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies!
Another topic I’ve been thinking about lately is professional identity. I know a lot of people who are happy to come in to work eight hours a day, but don’t plan to continue their work at home. I know others who seem to spend every waking minute on some aspect of their professional life. [...]
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