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By jdupuis on August 31, 2011.
  • The Patent System Is The World's Biggest Threat To Innovation Today
  • How Google Dominates Us
  • The Status of Science: We Have No-one to Blame but Ourselves
  • Resilience vs. Sustainability: The Future of Libraries
  • Getting first sale wrong
  • College Students: The Gadget Generation
  • Our kids' glorious new age of distraction
  • Study this: E-Textbook readers compared
  • Academic E-books and their Role in the Emerging Scholarly Communications Landscape
  • "Librarians" -- An Endangered Species?
  • What Students Don't Know
  • The Library, it's academic
  • Why it matters how faculty view librarians
  • Three Reasons We Struggle to Measure Value
  • Preprint: "Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes Toward E-Books"
  • Identifying Core Reference Competencies from an Employers' Perspective: Implications
    for Instruction
  • Why One-shot Information Literacy Sessions Are Not the Future of Instruction: A Case
    for Online Credit Courses
  • So when does academic publishing get disrupted?
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