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“The Inevitable” by Kevin Kelly (and what it means for libraries)
I recently read The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly and was taken by his description of the technological forces busy shaping our future. I’ve given a couple of talks based on what I got out of this book and...
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Books, eBooks and Preserving Public Knowledge
Here is a link to a recent radio interview that I did with 2ser 107.3 on a range of topics concerning libraries. At nine minutes it is not that long and the wonderful producer Jake Morcom has edited...
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My thoughts on revolutionising scholarly publishing in the digital age
On 14 February I was on a panel talking about the future of academic publishing for ALIA Information Online 2017. As there was no time for me to explain all of this I thought I’d post it all here with...
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The Broken Years
Image source: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P04604.016 Dr Bill Gammage AM, FASSA is an academic historian who wrote The Broken Years based on his PhD thesis at the ANU. First published in 1974 it...
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What is Inevitable about UTS Library (Pt 1 of 3)
This is the guts of a presentation I gave at EduTECHAU on 9 June 2017. It’ll be a bunch of images, text to explain those images and a few links. Thanks to my colleague Dr Belinda Tiffen for her...
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What is Inevitable about UTS Library (Pt 2 of 3)
Open Access is something we strongly believe in at UTS Library. We have taken action in many dimensions: to improve our institutional repository; as an advocate for OA at UTS (& the sponsor of our...
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What is Inevitable about UTS Library (Pt 3 of 3)
In The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly discusses every surface becoming a screen in the Screening chapter, but this technological force isn’t just about converting surfaces into screens. He also discusses the...
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More Thoughts About Scholarly Publishing #openaccess
This post presents some of my own views. It does not represent or reflect the views of the institution that I work for. The post comes about as a result of a late night and early morning Twitter...
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#OpenAccess Journals for Librarians #LIS
A good colleague of mine at UTS, Dr Bhuva Narayan wrote an excellent recent blog post about the deliberate academic practice of sharing research outputs openly: Learning to be Open: Open Access as a...
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