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Youidiot.Com, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

While researching something else, I ran across an item in a business journal my eye ran across another item. In research this is called serendipity, something we do not hear so much about any more these days.

Vertigo, And A Void, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Why the Internet is no substitute for a library.

Reading At Risk, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Reading may be in jeopardy as we advance along the information superhighway. Is literacy to be technology's first roadkill?

Ah, Libraries: How I Love The Smell Of... Electronic Access?!, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

In the olden days, we Baby-Boomers would walk into our university or college libraries and pause just long enough to take in that wonderful smells of high grade cowhide leather and aging papyrus before rushing off to study. There was something about opening any leather bound edition of anything and being transported by the smell to some distant land, not unlike Charles Swann in Marcel Proust’s famous French novel, A La Recherché du Temps Perdu, Remembrance of Things Past.

What Do Academic Library Deans Do?, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

A recent discussion apropos of nothing set me to a thought-experiment: what is it deans of library services (or, as it often the case when I’m introduced, deans of library sciences) do? If one were to write up a short list of some of the most important general attributes of an effective dean, what would they be?

Libraries-As-Sex: The New Paradigm?, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

“Libraries are a lot like sex.”

There just had to be a way, I kept telling myself as I watched somnambulant freshperson after somnambulant freshperson (is that what we’re calling them now?) drag his or her soporific self into our library research classes.