The Arcadia Project is a three-year project funded by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund to explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age. A major part of the project is a Fellowship Program which brings interesting people to Cambridge to work on aspects of this very broad subject. We have a project website which serves as the hub for our more formal activities. This blog is an informal space for exchanging ideas, contacts and sources.
Social Media Update for 2026 – a webinar
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I’m doing a social media update webinar for LibraryWorks on January 29,
2-3PM Eastern time. Please regis...
Death by Broetry
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I’ve been noticing a style of writing used in social media posts that uses
lots of short, staccato declarative sentences and tries to sound
insightful. It ...
Predictions 2026: My Friend HAL Makes the Future
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Predictions have been a hit or miss phenomenon at PND over the past few
years (since 2018 it seems) and in the intervening years since my last
essay thi...
Elsewhere…
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Last year, I “retired”, taking the early option to leave via a mutual
resignation scheme. The break was pretty much a clean one, except for a
visiting posi...