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Kill the Robot (McGilligan Books), a first novel by zinester Maggie MacDonald, will make you want to read this challenging book twice as it takes you with a dizzying thud into Moore White’s fragmented memories of an alternative reality of city checkpoints and the aphoria of the all-encompassing E-Soft Corporation. Moore’s memories are related in such an intriguing nonlinear fashion that you will find it hard to resist rereading random sections to more deeply understand her Read the rest of this entry »

Patron’s in the Driver’s Seat: Give Advanced Tool-Sets to Library Patrons by John Blyberg, Ann Arbor District Library: a lecture for the HigherEdBlogCon 2006 Conference. I’m intrigued by a number of concepts within this lecture. As a library staff member for the past 10 years at UBC I’ve seen the growth and hiccups resulted from moving from one library online system to another. Read the rest of this entry »

The HigherEdBlogCon 2006 is an online conference that is being held April 3-28, 2006 - “Transforming academic communities with new tools of the social web.” This innovative conference was planning by participants from 30 north american institutions using wiki social software. Read the rest of this entry »

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In the Woodward Library commons area a group of medical students are gathered around a new laptop looking pensively at the documents displayed on the screen while discussing and collaborating information gathered for their third case week in “Blood and Lymphatics”. Elsewhere you might find another group of students putting together their PowerPoint presentation for their Human Kinetics health promotion project due later that day. Read the rest of this entry »