Interestingly, my folkloric teacher Chamilova always instructed us to keep our back straight ...
Other aspects of the morning corporate reflections reminded me of Peter Varghese: reflections on a most fortunate public life....
Government confusion over Brexit means our world class civil service is going to waste Prospect. Another example of wistful thinking, based on the past rather than reflective of present realities — sadly, Britain’s civil service isn’t what it used to be, either in size or competence.
It has been 20 years since the historian Annette Gordon-Reed published “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” a book that successfully challenged the prevailing perceptions of both figures. In a piece for The New York Times Book Review, submitted just before the tragic events in Charlottesville, Va., Gordon-Reed reflects on the complexities that endure in our understanding of Hemings and the language we use to characterize her
Billions: Our new TV antiheroes are just like us: they don’t want to fall out of the middle class
Rachel Stewart: Men in suits scariest gang of all - NZ Herald
Where do all those books come from in restaurant libraries?Sadly, by the time I read about it on Twitter, the post had been taken down.
Why did the post come down? Probably because it was instantly and ruthlessly scorned, mostly because it claimed Nintendo had been founded in 1985 (it was founded in 1889). It has now been reposted with the dates corrected.
Unfortunately, the GOP didn’t correct the bigger flaw in the post: it promised something awesome and failed to deliver. See, what do Zelda an the Internal Revenue Code have in common? Zelda was released in 1986 and the last fundamental tax reform happened in 1986. Continue reading
Report: 2016 Governmentwide Management Report
Infographic: Building an Engaging Workplace
Summary: Understanding and Using Engagement Drivers
Report: The Keys to Unlocking Engagement
Office of Personnel Management, Office Of Personnel Management 2017 SES Exit Report, July 2017.
14th librarian of Congress is the first African American and first woman to hold the position”
via Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart – A Washington Post opinions podcast
ThomsonReuters White Paper – Taking a Closer Look at the Changing Role of Today’s Law Librarians – Study indicates substantial change to the demands of the role and a shift in responsibilities
Via LLRX.com – Assistant Professor of Law and Reference Librarian Brandon Adler’s pathfinder succinctly and instructively communicates how your law library can encourage seniors from local high schools to attend a programming activity in the law library to learn about the opportunities of pursuing a J.D. program
Via LLRX.com – Assistant Professor of Law and Reference Librarian Brandon Adler’s pathfinder succinctly and instructively communicates how your law library can encourage seniors from local high schools to attend a programming activity in the law library to learn about the opportunities of pursuing a J.D. program
“The legal profession has undergone nearly a decade of fundamental change, and perhaps no single role has seen greater impact than the law firm librarian. Budget pressures, shrinking law library footprints, a decreasing reliance on print, a greater push for online resources, and the advent of new job responsibilities are just a few of the factors that have combined to push law librarians into new territory.
British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: “With the support of a Research Data Strategy since 2010, the Library has been active in services for research data for a number of years. This work has included European-funded projects such as ODE, ODINand THOR; Providing the DataCite UKservice and involvement in other activities such as data discovery andunlocking thesis data. Since 2010 a lot has changed. Due to activities like DataCite or the FAIR Data Principles, data are now considered a first class research output. This has led to more researchers and organisations sharing their data and getting credit for it. As data become more widely available and better integrated into research workflows, services around data are key to the way the British Library needs to support research and business. This is already recognised in Living Knowledge, with data a priority to achieving the Library’s Research Purpose. With this changing landscape, we have re-evaluated our research data strategy in order to move forward with new services for research data. n the new Research Data Strategy, some things remain the same. We take a very broad definition of ‘research data’, based on the Open Data Concordat. We still exclude day-to-day management and administrative data. But some activities that the Library had previously excluded will now be considered as we move forward. Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as integrated into our collections, research and services as text is today. The British Library’s users will be able to consume research data online through tools that enable it to be analysed, visualised and understood by non-specialists. Research data will be integrated into our collections and shared storage hubs and we will deliver data from trusted external hosts. All will be easy to discover and linked to related research outputs, be they text, data or multimedia…
- The strategy is structured around 4 central themes for the activities we will be taking forward. These themes and rough outlines of their content are given below.Data Management; Data Creation; Data Archiving and Preservation; Data Access, Discovery and Reuse..”
Hey Ivan, the 'big boys' may have got it right | afr.com
Through Glencore's long march to existential crisis in 2014
and 2015, chief executive Ivan
Glasenberg consistently lampooned his peer group in global mining for screwing
up the mining boom.