Information Nation

A new educational focus is emerging in some institutions of higher education. These schools are taking an interdisciplinary approach to educating tomorrow’s information professionals, by mixing together science, technology, social science, and design. These new programs are beginning to educate students in these new professions – not as programmers or coders or software developers, but as professional analysts, architects, and creators of our planet’s critical information infrastructure.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Brief Article in Library Connect

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A while back I wrote a brief article - an editorial comment, really - for the professional newsletter "Library Connect." The web v...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Open Science Resources for R

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Just came across a set of packages under development for R that provide interface to open source resources for science: http://ropensci.org ...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Getting Plugins for Ardour

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More on the open source audio journey: The Ardour multi-track software does not come with any effects. There are several different effects p...

Linux Based, Open Source Audio Production

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Open source software is just amazing. I've been working on turning an old laptop into a multi-track audio production station using all o...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Goodbye Borders, Hello Kobo

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I was surprised to learn from the publisher that Infomation Nation is now available on the Kobo eBook reader. I had assumed that with the de...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Lots Happening in Data Science

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Data Science is emerging as the big container for eScience, eResearch, and other curriculum categories pertaining to large scale data manage...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

iSchool Hiring Postdoc in eScience/eResearch

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Syracuse University's School of Information Studies is seeking a postdoctoral research associate in the area of eResearch and eScience. ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Information Nation on the Kindle

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I'm excited to say that Information Nation is now available for purchase in the Amazon Kindle store: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004WOZ2IU...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Who Takes Advantage of Family Friendly Policies

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A recent study by researchers at the Association of American Medical Colleges suggests that when institutions enact family friendly policies...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

CE21 Conference

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Attending the NSF sponsored, CE21 conference over the past couple days. CE21 is a new acronym and program area for NSF - it stands for Compu...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Obama's State of the Union and Information Schools

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In his 2011 state of the union speech, President Barack Obama said, "Maintaining our leadership in research and technology is crucial t...
Friday, January 7, 2011

ASVAB, Income Inequality, and Libraries

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Following up on a hunch from a comment, I dug out a state-by-state ranking on income inequality from PBS's NOW documentary program (base...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

ASVAB and Libraries

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The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is a standardized aptitude test administered to all individuals who apply to the U.S....
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Online Learning - Some Thoughts That Never Made it into Information Nation

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The following material is an edited excerpt of some of the writing that the authors were not able to fit into the final version of Informati...
Monday, December 20, 2010

eScience: From My New Article

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Large, collaboratively managed datasets have become essential to many scientific and engineering endeavors, and their management has increas...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Recruiting Women Faculty in STEM

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STEM refers to science, technology, engineering, and math. Finding and hiring women faculty members in STEM is important for a variety of re...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

eScience and eResearch

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The "killer app" over the next ten years in the information professions is going to be eResearch and its close cousin eScience. Sc...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Digital Learning in the California Classroom

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Public schools in California just received $36 million in federal grants to increase the amount of innovative educational technology used in...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Policymakers want more technology in classrooms

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In a recent summit by the Foundation for Excellence in Education, policymakers wanted more information technology integrated into the K-12 c...

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