Meeting Dave Sim’s cousin {via}
Comics for this week, Flight 2 comes out and I am ashamed to admit that my copy of Flight 1 vanished when I was on an apartment cleaning binge and I haven’t read it yet 
Texts in Context {via}
Notes from Google Scholar blog on ACRL. I can see why the Information Literacy pendulum is swinging. I’m not saying that teaching people how to use the library isn’t a Good Thing (it is my job after all), but sometimes ‘Information Literacy’ seems more like a misguided branding effort that only librarians understand as opposed to something substantive. Why aren’t we also doing cool interface design while we are teaching hard to use research tools?
Using high quality data sources with poorly designed interfaces has much in common with certain theologies: “Redemption through suffering.”