Out of the Jungle

(with thanks to Nancy Scott Hanway, in an article “A Foot in the Door at a Small Liberal-Arts College” at p. A23, in the Dec. 19 issue of...

Have your doctors' offices gotten on the bandwagon yet? There is this new trend to have Patient Gateways. The gateway keeps increasi...

A while ago, Marie posted here about teaching her students better Google searching skills. I was looking at what Google makes available a...

Ah, to be a law student in December! (or April) Not. This is a terrible time of year for our students, and they need our compassion...

I was so happy to see the headline about President Obama speaking out strongly in favor of Net Neutrality! It just made me glad. But a ...

A new essay published many years after being written by Isaac Asimov, in this month's MIT Technology Review . Asimov had been invited ...

Oh, my! I don't know what to say. Wall Street Journal reports in depth about the U. S. Food and Drug Administration snarling and gru...

Massachusetts is struggling with a problem that keeps popping up in the news. And people keep being stunned and amazed. Women in this st...

So, I have been teaching and nothing else for a while, and working on identity issues. Am I still a librarian? Hell, yeah. Always and ...

The FCC has reached an agreement with Marriott to pay a $60,000 penalty to resolve their investigation into a complaint that employees of a...