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"“Caught My Eye” by Katina"
According to this article from Inside Higher ED, American Sociological Association president, Erik Olin Wright is announcing “the Sociology in Wikipedia Initiative: a formal call to sociologists to help improve and expand Wikipedia entries that might benefit from their expertise and consider assigning their students to do the same.” Wright is making [...]
Read More... →In the 21st-Century University, Let’s Ban Books
Here is an article that is bound to ruffle more than a few feathers. In this Chronicle for Higher Education commentary piece, Marc Prensky articulates a book lover’s nightmare, at least a print book lover. Prensky observes that “just about everything that an undergraduate needs to read is [...]
Read More... →An Unusual Library Finds a New Home
This article from the NY Times discusses the Read/Write Library, Chicago’s largest depository of grass-roots printed materials. “Formerly known as the Chicago Underground Library, Read/Write rejects the selectivity of traditional libraries and collects “anything from university press to handmade artists’ books to zines made by [...]
Read More... →QuickWire: Tutoring Company Removes Copyrighted Materials From Web Site
November 9, 2011, 5:37 pm
By Alexandra Rice
The online tutoring site Student of Fortune, recently acquired by textbook vendor Chegg Inc., has reached a settlement over the claims of copyright and trademark infringement made against the site before the acquisition. The claims come from five [...]
Read More... →In this recent blog post Michael Eisen, a co-founder of the Public Library of Science, lends credence to the notion that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. He wryly observes that he has derived “considerable pleasure … over the past year or so, as one traditional publisher after another [...]
Read More... →The Long Wait | LJ‘s Placements & Salaries Survey 2011
Librarians of all types will be interested in the results from Library Journal Placements and Salaries Survey for 2011. This year’s survey received responses from 1,789 LIS graduates (approximately 37% of all 2010 graduates) and true to form, a number of interesting findings were reported. As [...]
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