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By jdupuis on March 29, 2012.
  • Philip Pullman: Libraries are not just about books
  • The Tech Savvy Presidency
  • Spain's Libranda Grows Up: E-reader, Library Lending Planned
  • Doing It for Themselves: Libraries and E-books
  • Visibility is currency in academia but it is scarcity in publishing. The push for open access shows that academic publishers can't serve two masters
  • Don't build a paywall, create a velvet rope instead
  • The Ed-Tech MacGuffin
  • Fish? Check. Barrel? Check.
  • 'Social-Media Blasphemy': Texas researcher adds 'Enemy' feature to Facebook
  • Reflections on the paywall
  • The Last Enclosures (More on WaPo article)
  • Stop Cultural Vandalism (About New York Public Library)
  • How the network works (Twitter, etc, for academics)
  • Stacked: Printed books may be dwindling, but libraries across Canada are getting along fine without them
  • Print Sales Held Up in January
  • Libraries Are Colleges' Most Effective Tech Investment, Surveys Find
  • Copyright isn't dead just because we're not willing to let it regulate us
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