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- Outcry Grows Over Canadian Govt's Undermining of Climate Science
- What matters and what doesn't: open thoughts on academia
- Stop the silence, and some suggested reading (more about the state of academia)
- Changing Culture in Higher Education
- Personal Editorial: Managing High Potential Employees in Libraries: The Rock Star Dillemma
- The Internet of the Dead (The traces dead people leave on the Internet)
- Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
- The entrepreneurial library
- How can we build a future of post-industrial journalism?
- Ebook Collections Surging: New Data Available from LJ, SLJ Annual Usage Reports
- What price MOOCs?
- To MOOC or Not to MOOC?
- Wielding 'Power Users' (Coursera wants to get power users' help to improve courses)
- Two steps to a revolution in scholarly publishing – a thought experiment
- Scientists: Social Media Is Not Necessarily a Waste of Time
- You would not say, “Astronomers: The Original Telescope” (as opposed to "librarians: the original search engine")
- E-books May Solve Latin America’s Library Problem
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Hi John - thanks for making these interesting and informative link posts every now and then. I really appreciate them and often find something I would never have stumbled across otherwise. Just wanted you to know they are appreciated. All the best -- Chris
You're welcome, Chris. It's nice to know that my memory technique is helpful to others!