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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'
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