Category: notes
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What does the D&D5e Open Gaming License suggest for the future of Open Access?
What I am about to suggest is, admittedly a bit of stretch, but when I was watching a YouTube video about the D&D Open Gaming License, I couldn’t help but wonder there might be a parallel between game licensing and open access licensing.
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Words of 2022
Inspired by Matt Webb, I have been collecting words and phrases that are interesting to me since March 2021. Here’s my collection from 2022.
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List Making
One of the ways that I like to kick the tires of a new-to-me bibliographic system is to try to make list of the CBC Massey Lectures with it.
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Thinking in Systems
You might not know this but I have a newsletter that I published every Saturday morning called The University of Winds. Today’s issue dovetails nicely with library-related and library-adjacent topics, so I thought I’d republish a part of it here as well.
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Why would anyone pay $1500 to learn how to write notes?
Part one In 2018, musician and writer Claire L. Evans spoke at the XOXO Festival sharing some of the stories that she tells more fully in her book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. It was from this presentation that I first learned about the Microcosm system – a…
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Blogging is dead… here are some tips to manage your online working environment
Blogging is dead. Blogging as an ecosystem of blogrolls, blog rings, blog planets, RSS readers, and writers who link and respond to each other… it is long gone. Most people don’t even know that this network once existed, once thrived, and then was lost. That being said, I still believe blogging is good. Blogging can…
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The Librarian as DJ
On Saturday night I had a Zoom call with a friend of mine from high school. My friend prefaced our chat with a warning that she was going to keep the conversation short because video calls are exhausting. I heartily agreed. During this call, my daughter and her son would grace our screens and through…
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The Library of the Living and the Library of the Dead
I am in the process of re-organizing my Google Drive and in doing so, I stumbled upon a bit of writing from 2013 that would have been a perfect addition to the post Haunted libraries, invisible labour, and the librarian as an instrument of surveillance which I wrote earlier this year: When I was a…
