Me [returning 1968 issue of Time Magazine]: this is really delicate. Are you sure you want me to put in the returns chute? Library employee: Yeah, put it in and don’t worry about it. We’ve got that in digital and microfilm format. I had originally gone to the issue because the digital version lacked some …
Continue reading “Things You Don’t Want to Hear at the University Library”
Steven Shaviro recently posted about pulling out of an Oxford University Press collection because they wanted to define his contribution as “work for hire.” This is objectionable for lots of reasons, but in particular because academics should retain the right to be associated with the ideas we produce, and so long as we’re above board …
Continue reading “Work for Hire and Oxford University Press”
I realize I should say something in support of the internet blackout going on today. You can learn more at Wikipedia. Yes, we should be terrified of these initiatives, which place a few companies in the position of judge and jury, and further enshrines the profit motive as the first principle of public policy on …
Continue reading “Not blacked out, but I won’t post on anything else until tomorrow”
I just returned the copyedits for MP3: The Meaning of a Format to Duke. That was a ton of work for my RAs and I. I have no idea how I would have done it without them, given the intensity of the last month. Thanks to their help I was able to do some …
I warned you about the quiet time. Just got back from a very nice day at Harvard, mostly in the music department but my talk was at the Mahindra Humanities Center. Met lots of cool people, had great conversations which made me think about stuff. What more can you ask for? Unrelated to any of …
Continue reading “Strike’s Over, Term’s Almost Over, but “it” is not over”
For the first time ever, we’re not really celebrating US thanksgiving in a formal way. This term has had lots of travel already and we’ve been sprinting nonstop (metaphor!) so didn’t feel like taking the time off right now to go somewhere. We did celebrate Canadian thanksgiving (“it’s slightly different”) so it’s not like we’re …
Continue reading “American Thanksgiving–Time to Give Thanks”
This is a more personal post. And I’m sure I’m like the 100,000th person to make this point in a blog on the internet. I realize that what I am about to say is nothing compared to what my colleagues in MUNACA are dealing with. They are marching in circles for four hours a day …
