«When it comes to work, my professional skills have always been stronger than my civil position…»

When I my received my M

This article intends to discuss Information Technology diploma programs as an alternate means of educating systems librarians and preparing them for the new challenges faced by library systems offices. The first section outlines my own experience marrying an MLIS with a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology as a means of moving into systems librarianship. The second discusses the applicati...

Take my word for it: How professional vocabularies foster organizing

Professional vocabularies are sources of categories that non-professionals borrow and use. Accordingly, professions play a key role in divisions of linguistic labor, generating and distributing, but maintaining control over, words that other use to guide their thinking and behavior. Collectively, organizations and fields coordinate in part through integrating words borrowed from multiple profes...

When Walmart comes to town: Always low housing prices? Always?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2014.10.004 0094-1190/ 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. q We thank Emek Basker, Nick Kuminoff, Lars Lefgren, Chris Parmeter and Arden Pope and seminar participants at Brigham Young University, the summer meetings of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and the meetings of theWeimer/Seldin School for Advanced Studies, as well a...

We Have Always Been . . . Cyborgs

philosophy of mathematics suited well the ‘‘general emphasisin later nineteenth-century mathematics on revisiting foundationalquestions’’ (p. 61). Pure geometry as it emerged from Frege, Paschand Hilbert, provided a diagram-free, purely sentential notion ofproof, which has lasted unto our own day.In the second, and greater, part of the book, Greaves traces outthe interre...

Keeping my professional development continuous