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On Saturday, I presented a paper at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2015 Conference, which was held in Portland, Oregon. I had the unlucky time slot of 8:30am on the last day of the conference, and so have decided to share my slides and link to the paper for those who were unable to attend. Slides     Paper The complete proceedings have been published as an open access pdf. The papers are also available individually on ACRL website, where you will find a pdf of my paper, “A ‘Digital Wasteland’: Modernist Periodical Studies, Digital Remediation, and Copyright.” Two corrections that I’dRead More →

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I recently attended the 2014 LACUNY Institute: “Information Literacy to Empower: Theory and Practice.” Usually I just tweet a lot at conferences as a form of personal notetaking, but this time the amazing keynote (from librarian-hero Barbara Fister) and super-smart presentations have lingered longer than expected. The conference, as a whole, was tons of fun, full of invigorating thoughts from smart, engaged, and passionate practitioners who take their theory seriously. During a break, I was chatting with another librarian who asked why I was there. Was I an instruction librarian? Did I actually teach as part of my job? The answer, of course, was no.Read More →