Archive for 'Top Issues'
Latest Ithaka Study On Faculty – A Small Step Forward
Today we learned from both Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle that the Ithaka Group released their Faculty Study 2009. I’m not going to write about the latest report in any great detail. You should read what these other sources had to say about it, and take a look at all the comments (I left [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 7th, 2010 under Top Issues, Worth Reading.
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Chance To Influence Next Generation Higher Education Administrators
I was intrigued by this new initiative created by the folks at Inside Higher Ed and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. It allows anyone to submit a 1,000 word, well-researched and documented essay on any news story published by Inside Higher Ed. While some essays must be based on a set of [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 15th, 2009 under Higher Education, Top Issues.
Comments: 2
Academic Librarians Are Not Salespeople – But They Should Be
Have you seen the latest set of “Provocative Statements“ from the 2009 Taiga Forum yet? The statements were released a few weeks ago, and I think there’s been little discussion about them thus far. By contrast the first set of provocative statements generated in 2006 created a great deal of discussion. So far I think [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 24th, 2009 under Top Issues, Worth Reading.
Comments: 16
Adventures in Wonderland
Here’s an interesting blog post that was recently brought to my attention. Olivia (my fellow first-year-blogger) and I were going to both make comments, because there’s lots of great stuff here that is useful both for long-time librarians and newbies like us. Unfortunately Olivia had to bow out of this joint project, though she did provide many of the [...]
Posted by ssmith on March 5th, 2009 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Professional Development, Top Issues.
Comments: 1
Planning For Transformational Times
Did you know that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is currently in the process of renewing its strategic plan? I didn’t and despite regularly monitoring what’s happening at ARL this somehow evaded tracking on my radar screen. Since my own library is also currently engaged in a new planning process, I was pleased to [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 10th, 2009 under Open Access, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications, Top Issues.
Comments: 1