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Monday, October 25, 2010

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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  • Inside Higher Ed
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  • ACRL Insider
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  • In the Library with the Lead Pipe
    Are we implementing neuroinclusive hiring practices?: An investigation for academic library positions - In Brief This study investigates neuroinclusive hiring practices in academic libraries, focusing on best practices for designing hiring experiences that ar...
    3 days ago
  • ALA Press Releases
    Carnegie Whitney Grant 2024 Award Winners - The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliograph...
    1 year ago
  • Free Range Librarian
    (Dis)Association - 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...
    6 years ago
  • District Dispatch
    Grow with Google is coming to a library near you - 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...
    6 years ago

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