August 22, 2018, 2:00 pm Eastern Register Now! Join several of our featured article authors for a discussion of the upcoming September issue of Against the Grain. The (Not So) Accidental Ontologist and other Tales of Alternative Librarianship: David Bender, Librarian...
By Nancy K. Herther (Click here for Part 1: OER Takes Main Stage; and here for Part 2: Should Commercial Publishers Worry? ) Between 2006 and 2016, the cost of higher education has risen by 63% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries, less federal...
Building last year’s FutureLab, the Charleston Conference invites broad participation in our new ATG Trendspotting Initiative, a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technology, and educational trends and...
Proposal and Nomination deadline is Friday, July 20! The Charleston Fast Pitch competition encourages proposals for ideas on improving or transforming the work environment at a library, or any information-related enterprise or organization in educational technology....
by Nancy K. Herther, Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota (herther@umn.edu) ( Click here for Part 1: OER Takes Main Stage ) A 2014 article by McKinsey & Company analysts considered the future of textbooks. The rise of online superstores like...
by Nancy K. Herther, Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota (herther@umn.edu) (Click here for Part 2: Should Commercial Publishers Worry?) In a just-released Survey of American College Students: Use of Textbooks & Open Access Educational...
By David Durant (This article offers some further thoughts and ideas from David Durant expanding on his recently published Charleston Briefing: Reading in a Digital Age.) The advent of digital reading has produced a tremendous debate on the future of the book, and of...
Building last year’s FutureLab, the Charleston Conference invites broad participation in our new ATG Trendspotting Initiative, a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technology, and educational trends and...
NORTH Business Research Librarian Professional, MIT Lincoln Library, Lexington, MA Consortial Systems Librarian - University of Maryland Libraries - College Park, MD Multiple Positions, CUNY Queens College, NY Assistant Director, Content Access - Princeton University...
NORTH Business Research Librarian Professional, MIT Lincoln Library, Lexington, MA Consortial Systems Librarian - University of Maryland Libraries - College Park, MD Multiple Positions, CUNY Queens College, NY Assistant Director, Content Access - Princeton University...
9-29-23 What wonderful people you meet living on the water at Sullivan’s Island! Just met Jake and Ruby and their teenage adult/children. They have come all the way from North Dakota and some of them have never seen the ocean! They have moved their business from North...
From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries - Webcast (ACRL) Join ACRL from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central on Wednesday, October 11 for the Online Learning webcast “From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries. Lately, it seems like everywhere...
University of Leeds Research Report on Potentials for AI in LIbraries According to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) "The Library at the University of Leeds in the UK has just issued a fascinating report on AI in what they call “library spaces” titled...
