Archive for October, 2011

Occupy Scholarly Communications

Fri 21 Oct 2011, 12:02 pm

Thanks Barbara Fister for Occupy Knowledge and John Dupuis for The power of blogs, or #OccupyScholComm who helped inspire this post. Let’s talk money. The current inflation rate is 3.87%. Academic library budgets are flat, or worse. But at my college library, SAGE is charging us about a 9% increase over what we paid last [...]

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Good for you?

Wed 12 Oct 2011, 10:20 am

Catherine Pellegrino wrote about talking to students about “good sources” today, and that’s something that has come up a lot for me this fall in classes with first-year students. Catherine’s answer to the question, “is this a good source?” starts with “it depends on what you are using it for,” and that’s where I often [...]

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