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Gavia Libraria

On the horns of the rigor dilemma

The Loon’s not-entirely-well-read impression is that the notion that undergraduate education is stacked against the oppressed is fairly uncontroversial by now. What to do about that is strongly contested, of…

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Rigor

A backchannel conversation about the Loon’s last post convinced her that she had not made her central point about the challenge of setting classroom difficulty levels in a heterogeneous student…

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“Rigor,” diversity, and library schools

Those damn library schools. (Yes, we’re going there again. The Loon apologizes to those who come here for snarky technobabble or snarkier scholarly-communication commentary.) You know what the problem with…

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Rigor without rigor mortis

Ah, those soft, lazy library schools, says the Beerbrarian. Whatever are we to do about them? Let’s look at the Beerbrarian’s complaints and suggestions one at a time. The Affair…

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Tomato discourse

The Loon, as her longtime readers will doubtless recall, utterly loathes and finds herself personally insulted and traduced by the “library schools are bad and they should feel bad” discourse…

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