Calvin H. Wang was an assistant professor and librarian to the sciences in a small, liberal arts university, 2005-2022.
• Applying higher level thinking to lower level writing • [4 MIN READ] A definition of scholarship I like to use is ‘scholars writing for other scholars with scholarly intent’. As for the definition of scholar, I use ‘someone who contributes directly to schooling’, i.e., a teacher or an educator. Most of the time, suitable … More Common Knowledge and Relative Authority
• Seriously? Not really. • [1 MIN READ] A recent event that I wrote about (“Hello?”) was just a little bit of me being me. Apparently at least one friend saw potential for me being even more of me: “Calvin, this might be a new ministry area for you: Wrong numbers.” “You mean, ‘Hi, is … More An Experimental Line of Work
• A look back at the timing • [1½ MIN READ] Imposter Syndrome At various points in my early professional life, across careers and employers, there was a decent bit of uncertainty. A phrase that materialized during those stages and that is thematic for many early professionals is “imposter syndrome.” I, like those others, was … More Why This and Why Now
• A look back at the construction process • [1 MIN READ] iCandybyWangC.com began as a renewed blog in 2016 (Timeline) with traditional blog-length, professional Information Seeking content. It continued in that form until 2022. In 2018, I began publishing short-form running writing on Facebook as Cerebruns and in 2019 as Ruminations. That writing eased … More New Writing and a New Website
• When you decide not to hang up • [7 MIN READ] One of the people I get together with regularly is happy to break bread at any of a few places where we usually frequent, but occasionally we need to expand our horizons. A recent attempt to do just that became an exercise both … More Hello? I’m Looking for Information
• Well, which is it? ±? • On the morning when we were supposed to be on our way to AK for volunteer service work, Wife decided to do a COVID-19 home test. D-minus-3 days before, she had been en route back home from a late-developing work trip in NV and had started feeling an … More Positive Amid Negative
• Living as an evangelical Christian • I told my physical therapist that I’d be out for a few weeks because I was going to Alaska. Hearing a bit of news like that always makes people think “cruise”; which would be fine if the team of us was actually going on a cruise. So I … More Yes, People Actually Do That
I’m sure most jobs have aspects that are not part of the job description. They’re the stuff of water cooler conversations. And if the bulk of your job requires working with students, the drama can increase dramatically. How you react to an interaction can then make it the stuff of legend. Enter an honors student. … More Life Coach: A Legend in Their Own…
“Would you give me a list of acceptable journals for doing my research?” It seems like a reasonable question to ask, but the nature of scholarly information makes it easy to answer in an unexpected way: No. It’s a problem I face every time a department goes through accreditation and asks me to provide a … More Credible Journals
Being a university librarian affords me some amazing opportunities. Like the chance to attend a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate. Every year Arcadia University awards an honorary degree to 2 individuals at both our graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. This year we honored Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, M.D., and 1985 Nobel Prize laureate … More Lectured by a Nobel Prize Laureate and Returning the Favor
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