Archive for July 12th, 2006
Public Funding (sic) of Higher Ed
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for us here in New Jersey: flooding, government shutdown, and now the inevitable budget cuts to higher education. The Rutgers librarians I’ve seen recently look like they’ve been head-butted in the sternum, and the other state colleges and universities didn’t fare too well either. I had lunch with [...]
Posted: 12 July, 2006 in Higher Education.
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Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Choosing Where To Be Simple Or Complex I’ve ranted in the past about my annoyance with those who spout platitudes about library web sites needing to be more like Google or Amazon – although those two sites couldn’t be more different. Why do we need to be more like those web sites? Well if people [...]
Posted: 12 July, 2006 in ACRL News, Higher Education, Innovation, Libraries and Learning, Simplicity vs. Complexity.
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