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Back Away From The Survey Monkey!, James M. Donovan
Back Away From The Survey Monkey!, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
In an environment of too many—and too many ill-designed—surveys, our twin aims should be to reduce the number of surveys overall and to improve the quality of those that do circulate. This burden falls on both those who distribute questionnaires—to make them as efficient as possible—and those answering—to decline to participate in any project that shows signs of unthoughtful design, thereby forcing surveyors to “up their game.” Good surveying, a difficult task in the best of circumstances, becomes even more complicated when pushed through the favored medium of the online discussion list (commonly called a listserv), a choice that can …
Broun Is Mere Opportunist, James M. Donovan
Broun Is Mere Opportunist, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Only Congressman Paul Broun could compress so many misleading statements and factual errors into such a brief space, beginning with his appeal to the Founding Fathers.
Online version available at http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/051509/let_439920953.shtml
Gay Marriage: The Issue, James M. Donovan
Gay Marriage: The Issue, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Comment in response to Bob Ostertag, "Why Gay Marriage Is the Wrong Issue," Flagpole, January 14, 2009.
Slightly different version available online at http://flagpole.com/Weekly/Comment/GayMarriageTheIssue.11Feb09
Libraries As Doppelgängers: A Meditation On Collection Development, James M. Donovan
Libraries As Doppelgängers: A Meditation On Collection Development, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Debates about the balance between electronic and paper resouces typically employ points on economics or patron access. That line of argument can be shown to depend upon an understanding of libraries as reducible to their contents. After showing that this premise must be discarded as logically inconsistent with the broader assertions made in favor of digital materials, the question is posed as to what qualities of libraries are not reducible to the materials they contain. The attractiveness of digital content, even if conclusive from a merely economic perspective, may still founder on the intrinsic properties of library qua "library."
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