C. Sean Burns
This is a personal website in the spirit of a digital garden. It contains pages about niche things like plain text, reading, writing, coding, computer systems (and their history), research projects, teaching, education, cooking, family, and my attempts to pay attention to the details.
This site is built for browsing and exploring. New pages and edits happen quietly. Writing is provisional.
The site is perfectly usable in a text-mode browser, such as w3m, Elinks, and more.
My About page contains some details.
Now
- Currently reading: Sophie's Choice / .
- Mood: Good. We're between semesters, and it's time to take a breath.
- Learning: Playing around with substring expansion and printf in
bash. - Researching: Working on a project about librarian publishing patterns.
- Academic reading: Revisiting Knorr Cetina's work on Epistemic Cultures.
I'm an academic, but most of this site does not abide by the usual academic genres.
Personal Content
The Text
The Text is probably the main page of this site. It's a single page, with a table of contents, that contains hundreds of short posts on a variety of topics. I started the page on April 23, 2019. It includes an RSS feed.
Notes
I've been keeping some Notes.
Reading
Reading books is important. Here's my virtual bookshelf.
Academic and Scholarly Work
Research
My research topics broadly cover areas in scholarly communication, open science, open access, information retrieval, and academic libraries.
See my research summary page or my CV.
Teaching
I teach in Library Science (LS) and in Information, Communication, Technology (ICT) programs.
See my teaching summary page.