With this announcement, we say goodbye to this incarnation of Non-Flat Culture ... (you know the drill).



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So NING's bubble has burst and they are going to kill off the freebies ... okay ... so it goes.



I'll capture as much content from here as possible and then announce a farewell to all that as soon as I can.



Guess I'm gonna have to soup… Continue

Lorcan Dempsey has an always-interesting blog over at http://orweblog.oclc.org/index.html that I try to read regularly. Today, one of my cohort here at Pronghorn U reminded me of one of Lorcan's recent postings...entitled "Lam-inating libraries" (okay, if you don't know the rules by now, they're very simple: go read the link, then come back ... or to paraphrase… Continue

Kate Theimer, who writes the ArchivesNext blog, has a new post up about the use of the term "citizen archivist' that I highly recommend and further endorse taking action. (Go ahead, you know I encourage you to read the articles I reference here before you continue on with my rants...you'll find her post here: http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=1214) Once again, language matters (thought I hope she will forgive my snicker upon mis-reading "citizen… Continue

This morning's email brought a link from Inside Higher Ed, and with it more questions than answers. Here's the link ... http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/07/survey ... you can go read it now and come back here if you're interested.



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First, some take-away quotes for those of you who didn't go read it (really, it's okay. Go ahead and follow… Continue