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“Ebooks in 2013: Promises Broken, Promises Kept, and Faustian Bargains” is an article by Clifford Lynch Coalition for Networked Information executive director. It appears in the latest American Libraries digital supplement, Digital Content: What’s Next? and provides an insightful and provocative critique of the current world of ebooks [...]
Read More... →Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access is an article posted at PBS’s MediaShift website by Lucy Bernholz a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a Fellow with the Hybrid Reality Institute and former Fellow of the New America Foundation. In short, she is [...]
Read More... →Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries is an article by Meredith Schwartz that was posted on the Library Journal website last week.
There has been a lot of talk about libraries and MOOCs lately as librarians try [...]
Read More... →“A Self-Publishing Gold Rush” is an article that appeared in this week Chronicle of Higher Education written by Marc Bousquet, director of college writing and an associate professor of English at Emory University.
Mr. Bousquet begins his piece by pointing to the differences between popular and academic self-publishing. In order to make these [...]
Read More... →Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment
Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment is “a white paper published by the Association of College & Research [...]
Read More... →“Elsevier Acquires Mendeley” is an article by Barbara Brynko that appeared on the Information Today website last week about a landmark acquisition that promises to have a significant impact on the worlds of academic publishing, research, and libraries.
Those unfamiliar with the particulars will welcome Ms. Brynko’s efforts in distilling the [...]
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