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Is There A Social Media Librarian In Your Library’s Future
Academic libraries are leveraging social networks to increase opportunities to connect with students and faculty. Facebook or Twitter are the primary social media tools used for this purpose, but others are exploring how geo-location sites may play into a social strategy. It’s not clear how academic libraries are tackling these new methods of marketing and [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 3rd, 2010 under Marketing, Worth Reading.
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Add Cyberwar Contingencies To Your Disaster Plan
Two new reports from ACRL serve to remind the academic library community that our future is increasingly one based on digital collections and a virtual presence. Both the Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 and the 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries point to the importance of paying attention to our [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 29th, 2010 under Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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Do Open Academic Libraries Need Academic Librarians
I started the day by doing a quick dive into an open course on education futures. Open courses are nothing new. MIT began offering them some time ago, and a number of institutions have followed suit. This one caught my attention because it was being offered by two education gurus in a totally independent setting. [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 10th, 2010 under Libraries and Community, Worth Reading.
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Washington Post Improves Its Higher Ed Coverage
You’ve got to hand it to the Washington Post for improving their coverage of higher education.
Posted by StevenB on May 3rd, 2010 under Worth Reading.
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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.
Comments: 4