skip to main | skip to sidebar

What I Read Today

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.

My shared items

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Because It Matters | Bringing Back Civility

Because It Matters | Bringing Back Civility

Because It Matters | Bringing Back Civility

Posted by Trevor at 12:48 PM

Newer Post Older Post Home

About Me

Trevor: View my resume.

View my complete profile

Blogs I read regularly

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

Higher Education Bears Some Responsibiity For Its Elitist Image - The Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently set off a ruckus when he attacked America’s colleges as “indoctrination mills” from which God-fe...
43 minutes ago
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Afghanistan Avalanche Strikes Remote Villages; Dozens Feared Trapped In Snow - KABUL, Afghanistan -- An avalanche struck two remote villages in northeast Afghanistan on Monday and 45 people were feared trapped in the snow, authoriti...
1 hour ago
Inside Higher Ed

Thiel Says College Isn't Needed, but Will Teach at Stanford -
1 hour ago
ACRL Insider

ACRL Podcast: Value of Academic Libraries – Nancy Marlin - In this podcast, C&RL News editor-in-chief David Free talks to Nancy Marlin, provost at San Diego State University, about ways libraries can use existing d...
2 days ago
In the Library with the Lead Pipe

From the Frying Pan Into the Fire (and Back Again): Adventures in Subject-Based, Credit Instruction - My best experience as a teacher-librarian was leading a credit, semester-long course while a librarian at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) du...
4 days ago
Library Journal - Academic Libraries

ARL Salary Survey: U.S. Academic Librarians’ Salaries Up 1.5 Percent - The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released its annual salary survey today which showed academic librarians' salaries in 2010-2011 increased 1.5 p...
2 months ago
ACRLog

Embracing Discovery - This summer my library, like over 60 others, is implementing Summon. Serials Solutions’ discovery layer is meant to provide our users with that “one search...
9 months ago
District Dispatch

Massachusetts businesswoman named winner of 2011 White House Conference on Library and Information Services Award - The American Library Association (ALA) today announced that Alison Kenney, a business owner from Marblehead, Mass., is the winner of the 2011 White House C...
10 months ago
Library Journal News

Morristown, NJ, Library Recovering from Explosion, but Still Closed - Utility explosion caused millions of dollars in damage.
1 year ago
The OLE Project

Mellon foundation awards $2.3 million for OLE development - A $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Indiana University will be used to develop software created specifically for the management o...
2 years ago
AL Inside Scoop

You’re in the archives… - Inside Scoop is now integrated into American Libraries’ new web site. Jump directly to the blog. This site will continue to exist, but not be updated.
2 years ago
AL Online News

Community Outrage Prompts Officials to Reopen Colton Libraries -
2 years ago
The Chronicle: Daily News Blog

A Chancellor Urges College Planners to Rethink Education - George P. Pernsteiner, chancellor of the Oregon University system, stood before a crowd here Tuesday to restate a question that consultants and managemen...
2 years ago
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog

U. of Michigan Library Will Offer 400,000 Titles in On-Demand Reprints - The library will print soft-cover books though an agreement with BookSurge, part of Amazon.
2 years ago

Blog Archive

► 2011 (33)
- ► June (1)
  - Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College C...
- ► May (5)
- ► April (2)
  - Stuck in the Past | Office Hours
  - Librarians Talk Google Books, Orphan Works, and Wh...
- ► March (12)
- ► February (8)
- ► January (5)

▼ 2010 (69)
- ► December (20)
- ▼ November (10)
- ► October (25)
- ► September (11)
- ► August (3)

► 2009 (58)
- ► November (10)
- ► October (2)
- ► September (1)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (9)
- ► March (12)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (12)

► 2008 (7)
- ► December (5)
- ► November (2)

Twitter Updates

Twitter Updates

follow me on Twitter

Subscribe To

Posts

Posts

Comments

Comments

Snap Shots

Followers

Facebook Badge

Trevor A. Dawes's Profile | Create Your Badge