On Jan. 21, 2012, Timothy Gowers, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, [web profile; Wikipedia entry] called for boycotting Elsevier because of the Company’s business practices with respect to its…
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Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices
01
Feb
On Jan. 21, 2012, Timothy Gowers, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, [web profile; Wikipedia entry] called for boycotting Elsevier because of the Company’s business practices with respect to its…
Should Librarians Care About Privacy Anymore? Live stream for free UNC Chapel Hill conference on Feb. 3
31
Jan
Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), SILS is hosting n conjunction with ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and the UNC School of Law a presentation, titled, “Should Librarians Care About Privacy Anymore?”…
Should Librarians Care About Privacy Anymore? Live stream for free UNC Chapel Hill conference on Feb. 3
31
Jan
Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), SILS is hosting in conjunction with ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and the UNC School of Law a presentation, titled, “Should Librarians Care About Privacy Anymore?”…
LLB Turns Seven Years Old Today
01
Jan
Happy New Year’s Day to all and happy anniversary to all the co-editors, contributing editors and readers of LLB since we started publishing on Jan. 1, 2005. [JH]
Some Thoughts On the Web’s 20th Birthday
10
Aug
Did anyone notice that last Saturday, August 6th, was the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web? The anniversary didn’t make much of an impact, or at least not enough to justify a Google doodle. Instead we had a graphic…
Understanding the US Constitution
04
Jul
OK, so today is not the anniversary of the US Constiution but after reading and understanding the drafting process that produced the Declaration of Independence (see above post), it seem logical that all interested non-specialists make an attempt to under…
Hein Turns the Table on the Anniversary Gift-Giving Tradition!
24
Jun
Normally landmark anniversaries means you give presents to the person(s) who achieved that milestone. Well, that not how the fine folks at William S. Hein & Co., Inc., see it. To mark the Company’s 50th anniversary, Hein is offering the…
At the Chelsea Flower Show
I just read in the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail of the celebrities attending the annual Chelsea Flower show in London. Another opportunity to show off their hats.
I see that my old sister-in-law Vanessa was there with her daughter Joely. She named a rose in honor of her other daughter Natasha, who died as the result of a foolish escapade on the slopes of a Canadian ski run a couple of years ago.
I cannot help but ask her why she could not do the same for her young sister Lynn, who has just past the first anniversary of her death on the flats of Kent, Connecticut.
It could be named THE PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (get it?). For Lynn felt she was always the second favorite daughter in her family.
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