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Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines. Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats. The best suit for your body type. Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling angry and …

Links 22-May-08

This paper studies the CVs of assistant professors of economics at several American universities and finds “evidence of a strong brain drain” and a “predominance of empirical work.” If you searched the CVs of assistant professors at top-10 IS/LS schools, what do you think you’d find? [via Marginal Revolution] Michael Leddy (of the consistently fun …