Weirdest book mark you've found in a library book? A new exhibit at Vienna's central library displays some doozies: "A belt, tweezers, hair and even a slice of sausage were discovered over the years. That last reader was tracked down and promptly fined." (h/t @jacobsberg.bsky.socialwapo.st/3zICSRt
The Vienna central library has a new exhibition drawn from its collection of 8,000 items found over the past 20 years.
I’ve always considered the food infrastructure issue a Very Special Issue.
It doesn’t get much more exciting than choosing metadata elements to include in our websites HTML headers, or distinguishing between our journal-level, issue-level, & article-level DOIs. So much adrenaline now coursing through my veins.
Putting my library degree to use working on the relaunch of limn.it. Determining metadata for website; figuring out author agreements & copyright; explaining why metadata pathways are crucial; working w/ a digital-library partner on preservation. The other editors were privy to little of this.
Outlining Contemporary Problems
Great to see this: after reading the Munger piece last week, I was wondering who was looking at the religious analogies used in discussions of science reform.
We've just posted a new preprint, "Care for the Soul of Science", by @sarahderijcke.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/me...#metascience#sts We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/
Great work going on at TU Delft | Library and TU Delft | OPEN Publishing! New fund for supporting open scholarly communication initiatives. I especially like the breadth of what is in scope. Congratulations the TU Delft library team! library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl/2024/10/inno...
At TU Delft Library, we're taking bold steps to address the evolving landscape of scholarly communication. We are committed to advancing open access that not only shared knowledge, but is financially ...
Stigler's Law of Eponymy states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. It was first proposed by sociologist Robert K. Merton, but statistician Stephen Stigler, in fulfillment of the law, named it after himself in 1980, tongue-in-cheek. You may know Robert Merton ...