Yesterday Graphixia published its post number 202. It’s a post by me, where I briefly discuss the graphic novella 1874, by Mexican authors Bernardo Fernández “Bef” and Jorge F. Muñoz “Yorko”.
Nothing like the hottest day of the year so far in London town to start a new site. Today I set up the #citylis blog. The address is https://blogs.city.ac.uk/citylis/ Hopefully having this resource will allow us to have somewhere we can personally announce in a timely manner what we are currently doing at the Library and Information Science scheme at City University London. It will be nice to have a chronological archive of updates as well.
A quick note on the (lack of open) licensing in two of the REF2014 reports announced today.
A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis. #7: Dream Within A Dream. As always, images from the British Library Flickr Commons (Public Domain).
A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis. #6: Terror of London. As always, images from the British Library Flickr Commons (Public Domain).
If you have used open data in your teaching practice we would like to hear from you. It’s only three questions.
Where I attempt to extend some Tweets into a longer piece. I grew up in a house full of books. The more books we had access to the more books we knew we did not have. We were very privileged to have that kind of scarcity. My parents’ material wealth was their personal library, and their inheritance was a love for reading and a love for books (and other published, printed stuff). One book leads to other books;
A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis… issue #5: and the other the same distance south
The Scottish Comics Unconference Meet-Up was a success. Find out how many #comicsunconf15 Tweets there were and how many of us tweeted using the hashtag.
A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis.
A ndy Byers and I are going to Birmingham today to participate in the #dataspring Sandpit Workshop from Jisc. Research Data Spring is Jisc’s collaborative initiative for UK research: In case you are interested we have written about our idea here. The sandpit workshop runs for two days; Andy and I will be there today (Thursday) and Andy will stay for tomorrow too (I teach on Fridays). Looking forward to what comes up.