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By jdupuis on August 2, 2012.
  • Horses, motorcars and mergers on the LIS horizon
  • Mergers, boundaries, and image
  • St. Kate’s MLIS program is going under the business school
  • Maker Faire KC 2012 and what it means for libraries
  • At Libraries, Quiet Makes a Comeback
  • Blogs as Serialized Scholarship
  • Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff
  • Concrete options for a society journal to go OA
  • I Want It Today: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail.
  • Online Higher Education
  • Opening Ceremonies (changes in schol comm starting to seem inevitable)
  • Is online learning really cracking open the public post-secondary system?
  • A Study of Faculty Data Curation Behaviors and Attitudes at a Teaching-Centered University
  • The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal
  • Khan Academy: The hype and the reality & response from Sal Khan
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