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Florida State Acquires Newly Discovered Papers for Emmett Till Archives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Emmett Till Archives, featuring primary and secondary source material related to the life, murder, and memory of Emmett Louis Till, is part of special collections at the Florida State University Libraries. Houck established the Emmett Till Archives to serve as a focal point for research related to Till’s story.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. Budget cuts—real or imagined—are not the only challenge.

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Admissions Counselor on the Mission of a Liberal Arts College

Great College Advice

You might grab a coffee with them after class to discuss your research paper. Faculty incentives are different in liberal arts college than in major research universities. Teaching is more highly valued at liberal arts colleges–even as research is also encouraged and supported.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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3 Questions for a Retired Academic Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” David Lewis took me to task for not doing the necessary research to answer the questions posed. Academic libraries are going to change and if you work in them, you will need to grow and change as well.

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Scholarly Conversations, Seed Documents, and the Regressive New WorldCat

Academic Librarian

Yesterday, through force of circumstances, I had to use the new WorldCat interface to demonstrate research techniques, and the experience wounded me. Students working on research essays in the humanities should try to find, and ideally enter, scholarly conversations on the topics of their research.

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Object Based Learning at the Centre for Research Collections

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this post, Dr Francesca Baseby, Manager of the Centre for Research Collections, reveals the benefits of Object Based Learning, an experiential learning method available to students and staff at the university… The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) provides access to The University of Edinburgh’s unique cultural and heritage collections.