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Technology Left Behind — Pinning in the Library

Column Editor:  Cris Ferguson  (Outreach Librarian, James B. Duke Library, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett
Highway, Greenville, SC 29613;  Phone: 864-294-2713)  <cris.ferguson@furman.edu>

Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) is one of the fastest-growing social media networks on the Internet.  Self-described as a place to “organize and share all the [...]

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v24 #2 Back Talk

On May 9, 2012 By

Today’s Academic Library: Student Centered and Convenient

Column Editor:  Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson  (Library and Information Science Consultant and former Hong Kong University Librarian;  now relocated to Sahuarita, Arizona)  <anthony.ferguson185@gmail.com>

I was recently asked to go to Taiwan to speak about academic library trends in the age of globalization.  I readily accepted for two [...]

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At the Only Edge that Means Anything / How We Understand What We Do by Dennis Brunning  (E Humanities Development Librarian, Arizona State University)  <dennis.brunning@gmail.com>

Annals of Search: Meta-Data 101

More information rather than less counts in book buyer’s decision.  So claims a press release from NielsonBook.  This UK Company, a subsidiary of the [...]

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