Category: Rants
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Impostering the Scholarly
… is an impossibly rewarding endeavour of everlasting proportions. Whether you are a systems librarian (Gordon, 2003), insecure with your academic identity (Knights & Clarke, 2013), or my therapist (DeAngelis, 1987), at some point as you transition into a community of practice, you may for a wondrous and fleeting moment in history “feel like you’re…
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A failed attempt at re-contextualizing the scholarly for the purposes of more exposure
In a recent survey conducted in my head, 9, 999, 999 out of 10, 000, 000 imaginary people rarely read scholarly work because in the words of Wolff (2007 ) “it is rather hard to escape the conclusion that academic writing is boring because academics wouldn’t have it any other way” (as cited in Guthrie,…
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Oh but have you read Scoville and Milner
Many of us have had the embarrassing public opportunity to witness a voice in the room that at one point sounds out “Oh but have you read so-and-so who says this-and-this”. The proclamation, a challenge perhaps to some argumentative futurist discourse stops time itself, freezes the interrupted, taking the horse off the track and causing…