Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. confessions
  2. Around the Web: Everyone is angsty in higher ed, not just librarians

Around the Web: Everyone is angsty in higher ed, not just librarians

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
User Image
By jdupuis on May 30, 2013.
  • Academic library existence at risk?
  • The Myth and the Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation"
  • Fending off university-attacking zombies
  • The online threat to the American professor
  • Educational Hucksterism: Or, MOOCs are not an Educational Technology
  • Laptop U: Has the future of college moved online?
  • Libraries into career centres, campus residences into senior homes
  • Embrace Moocs or face decline, warns v-c
  • Library holds consultation sessions on proposed closure of the Life Sciences Library (McGill)
  • Editorial: why academic freedom matters to librarians
  • The Librarian Doesn’t Exist
  • Harvard Professors Call for Greater Oversight of MOOCs
  • One scenario for the death of the academic library
  • Academic library existence at risk?
  • Libraries in New York City: Why We Give a Damn and Why You Should Too
  • Malcolm Gladwell Attacks NYPL: 'Luxury Condos Would Look Wonderful There'
Tags
acad lib future
around the web
education

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Valentine’s Day Psychology: The Pet Name Your Date Is Most Likely To Hate Is...
  • Misandry Vs Manosphere: Both Use Unscientific Woo To Advance Their Beliefs But One Sells Better

Science Codex

More by this author

ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving
October 30, 2017
As of November 1st, 2017, ScienceBlogs is shutting down, necessitating relocation of this blog. It's been over eight years and 1279 posts. It's been predatory open access publishers, April Fool's posts and multiple wars on science. A long and wonderful trip, career-transforming, network building…
Science in Canada: Save PEARL, The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory
September 26, 2017
Deja vu all over again. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Canadian science under the Harper government from 2006 to 2015 was a horrific era of cuts and closures and muzzling and a whole lot of other attack on science. One of the most egregious was the threat to close the PEARL…
The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters
September 11, 2017
The last one of these was in mid-June, so we're picking up all the summer stories of scientific mayhem in the Trump era. The last couple of months have seemed especially apocalyptic, with Nazis marching in the streets and nuclear war suddenly not so distant a possibility. But along with those…
Friday Fun: Is Game of Thrones an allegory for global climate change?
August 18, 2017
After a bit of an unexpected summer hiatus, I'm back to regular blogging, at least as regular as it's been the last year or two. Of course, I'm a committed Game of Thrones fan. I read the first book in paperback soon after it was reprinted, some twenty years ago. And I've also been a fan of the HBO…
The Trump War on Science: EPA budget cuts, More on climate change, The war on wildlife and other recent stories
June 16, 2017
Another couple of weeks' worth of stories about how science is faring under the Donald Trump regime. If I'm missing anything important, please let me know either in the comments or at my email jdupuis at yorku dot ca. If you want to use a non-work email for me, it's dupuisj at gmail dot com. The…

More reads

Once more on little Caperea
Given that we're all enjoying gawping at Caperea so much, I may as well finish up and use the rest of the photos that Joy Reidenberg kindly provided. First off, here's the skull from the side. It's really weird: that lower jaw shape is utterly unlike anything else present in baleen whales, being comparatively deep and 'heavy' in appearance, with a downward flexure near the tip (is it just me, or…
Women Who Changed the World Through Science: Stephanie Kwolek
PLEASE SHARE IF YOU ARE INSPIRED BY THIS STORY! (Send us your opinion today: Think of the various ways you can combine your hobbies and other interests into a  possible career in science! Stephanie merged her love of chemistry with her penchant for textiles and fabrics -- resulting in a life-saving invention!  Tell us what you think about that!) The next time you ride in a car, cross a…
014/366: Summer Stars
Today was Rosh Hashanah-- happy new year to those who celebrate it-- meaning that both SteelyKid's school and The Pip's day care were closed. In an effort to maintain my sanity while keeping them entertained, I took them to the local science museum to rampage through hands-on exhibits. We also caught the planetarium show, because why not. The show wasn't really pitched right for my 7- and 3.8-…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.