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 some attempts to pay attention to the details.
I work as academic, and although this site contains the usual academic genres (e.g., a CV), the purpose of this site is broader.
This site is built for browsing and exploring. There is no JavaScript here, and thus the site is perfectly usable in a text-mode browser. Text-mode browsers are web browsers accessed from the command line. Some common ones include w3m, Elinks, and more. The About page contains additional details.
Now
- Currently reading: Sophie's Choice / . It's taking me forever to finish this book.
- Mood: I'd rather be reading documentation.
- Learning: Reading about old Unix.
- Researching: Juggling like six projects right now.
- Academic reading: Revisiting Knorr Cetina's work on Epistemic Cultures.
Personal Content
The Text
The Text is the most frequently updated 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'm keeping Notes. This section of the site is where I put longer form works.
Reading
Reading books is important. Here's my virtual bookshelf. These are works I read for leisure or personal interest. Otherwise I'm reading in my academic interests. I use Zotero to track those readings.
Academic and Scholarly Work
Research
My research topics broadly cover areas in scholarly communication, open science, open access, information retrieval, academic libraries, and technology in 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. This page includes links to five open access textbooks I've written for my courses.