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Newt Gingrich: Brad Pitt Should Play Lead Role In My Movie (LISTEN) - Newt Gingrich has high hopes for his 2012 presidential run. As for who would play him in a movie about his life, the former House speaker's expectations ...
24 minutes ago
ACRL Insider

ACRL Joins Letter Opposing Research Works Act - On January 24, 2012, ACRL joined ALA and eight other library, publishing, and advocacy organizations in sending a letter to the U.S. House of Representativ...
2 hours ago
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

Just The Latest Incident In The Manipulation Of College Rankings - Any love-hate relationship must have its share of pain, so the academic world, in its obsession with college rankings, is suitably dismayed by news that an e...
3 hours ago
Inside Higher Ed

ABC’s and PhD’s: Fame and failure - Mama PhD In a casual bedtime discussion on potential careers with my almost-13-year-old daughter, she recapitulated to me her long-standing intent to beco...
9 hours ago
In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Consensus Decision-Making and its Possibilities in Libraries - Introduction Since Occupy Wall Street finally started getting mainstream media coverage, the idea of consensus decision-making seems to have permeated our ...
1 week 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...
1 month 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...
8 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...
8 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

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