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By jdupuis on October 10, 2012.
  • The PC is Over
  • The Last PC Laptop
  • What if Libraries were the Problem?
  • Annealing the Library
  • Librarians Talk of Abandoning E-Books
  • Re-Inventing Public Libraries For The Digital Age
  • 5 Ways That edX Could Change Education
  • The State of the Internet (ie. mobilemobilemobile)
  • Does Open Access Tackle, Perpetuate, or Exacerbate the Matthew Effect?
  • PeerJ: Could it Transform Open Access Publishing?
  • Best Practices for Scientific Computing
  • Publishers And Google Reach Agreement
  • Preventing the Second Big Deal (etextbooks rather than ejounals)
  • Failure, crisis, disruption: The (perpetual) end of higher ed
  • How to Use Social Media to Advance Science Programs
  • Information Professionals 2050: Educational Possibilities and Pathways
  • Oatmeal fundraiser for Tesla museum is a triumph
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