- The death of death?
- Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries
- Tinkering with the IEEE and ACM copyright policies
- How can a university best use social media for internal communications?
- Being a More Efficient, Productive Academic II: Thinking About References
- Taiga by the Tail
- When talking about the library remember N3P3: an advocacy talking points framework for academic libraries
- PDA and the Research Library
- A Pilot Survey of the Numbers of Full-Text Items in Institutional Repositories
- where credit is due
- Boycotting the Plaintiffs?
- PDA and the Research Library
- Pixie Dust & The Mountain of Mediocrity
- Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?
- Is Wikipedia anti-intellectual?
- Dating with data: OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan on how data shapes the dating business.
- Mind Control & the Internet
- Pixie Dust & The Mountain of Mediocrity (Kathy Sierra on gamification)
- Should we "gamify" education?
- IEEE Report on the Future of the Social Web
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Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):
As is occasionally my habit when a big story breaks, I have gathered together all the relevant documents I could find concerning the recent controversy about the Canadian Conservative government's recent consolidation of the libraries at their Department of Fisheries & Oceans.
7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing
Library without books debuts at Florida’s newest college
Thanks to Mark Spicer for bringing this item to my attention. Note that the site I'm linking to sells printer cartridges, but still has some cool content.
I would be more interested in those circulation numbers if the researchers could also say something about what is being asked of the students and how that has changed over time.
PS the CEEA conference was excellent this year.
Good point, Ian. I imagine that the nature of the assignments that profs give to students has changed somewhat over time. Unfortunately, that's harder to quantify.
As for CEEA, I'm sorry I missed it. I really enjoyed it last year in Kingston. Of course, so many conferences, so little time. And money. Where is it next year?
Next year CEEA is being held @ U Manitoba.
Thanks, Ian. I hope I can make it!
I must say John, this is a very rich post. Full of great blog postings, articles, etc. Thanks for all the legwork providing this very important reading. Your blog is still my favorite!
Thanks for your kind words, Ed. I really appreciate it.