"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
- Francis Bacon, Of Studies
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2009 issue of Informed is available
Posted on October 12th, 2009 No comments
The 2009 issue of Inforumed, the alumni magazine of the Faculty of Information (University of Toronto), is now available. I wrote some of the short articles for this issue as a member of the Alumni Association. I am excited by some of the research happening there and appreciate that the magazine offers a venue to connect with some of these projects. You can access the high-resolution PDF of the magazine online for free. The person pictured on the front cover of the magazine, shown above, is Professor Matt Ratto who has created a “Critical Making” class. I didn’t take that class as a student, but it definately looks creative and interesting. As I understand it, part of the class involves creating physical items to manifest abstract concepts (e.g. one assignment was to create “an ethical machine” and I gather that somebody made a STOP traffic sign as a result). -
New article: ‘The Sun was Obscured by the Smoke of Books’: Libraries and Memory Institutions in Conflict Since the End of the Cold War”
Posted on May 19th, 2009 No commentsIssue three of the Faculty of Information Quarterly is online. Now you can read my article, “‘The Sun was Obscured by the Smoke of Books’: Libraries and Memory Institutions in Conflict Since the End of the Cold War” (HTML version or PDF version). This paper was originally created as a conference paper, then submitted in a course and then it became this article. The thesis, in brief, is that war and other conflicts reveal much about the role of libraries and other cultural institutions (and how society is badly weakened and damaged when libraries are damaged).
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Interviewed for “Special Issues: Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services.”
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 No commentsI was interviewed for an article in the latest issue of CASLIS’s (CASLIS is a division of the CLA) publication, Special Issues: Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services Vol. 19 No. 1 (2009). Last summer, I had the opportunity to volunteer in CASLIS Ottawa to organize events for students working in the Ottawa area. There are several interesting articles in the issue such as advice for those attending conferences. If you are looking for the section involving me, that is on page 7 where I am interviewed with several other students.
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