This space is dedicated to the news and other reports I read on a daily basis. Much of the reading is about libraries and library related news, but some is of higher education and general interest.
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which “going to college” means packing up, getting a dorm room, and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges can’t survive.
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2024 Award Winners
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The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in
print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists,
webliograph...
(Dis)Association
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I have been reflecting on the future of a national association I belong to
that has struggled with relevancy and with closing the distance between
itself a...
Grow with Google is coming to a library near you
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This guest post by Grow with Google Vice President Lisa Gevelber originally
appeared in Google’s blog The Keyword. Since we launched Grow with Google a
l...