Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Last week, Vermont State University announced plans for an “all-digital” academic library when the new institution, formed from the consolidation of three colleges, officially launches on July 1. “What we heard was that they need and want access to library resources where they are, whether on or off campus.”

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Last September, I started walking to the library every day. As a University College London alumnus, I get free membership of both the Senate House library and the universitys main library. That the destination is a library only compounds that. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books. It unknots me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It also showcased an exhibition co-created by the Georgetown University Library, highlighting the impact of the IBCSa graduate program dedicated to fostering Black Catholic theology, ministry, and leadership. The sale brought in about $115,000, which would be worth millions today, and helped pay off the universitys debts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 20, 2024

Library Faculty Eliminated Amid ‘Fiscal Insanity’ at Western Illinois kathryn.palmer… Tue, 08/20/2024 - 03:00 AM The university laid off all its library faculty as part of massive cuts, leaving employees and supporters to wonder how the library will serve campus constituents. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 16, 2024

The New College of Florida has thrown away hundreds of books from its main campus library, as well as from the library of its recently-shuttered Gender and Diversity Center, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported Thursday.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation How do academic libraries spend their money? The figure, created from IPEDS data collected in 2020, shows academic library spending in four categories across institution type. How much do academic libraries spend on databases vs. books vs. journals vs. everything else libraries lend?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

million to repair its library, which was damaged by pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied the building for four days in the spring, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Portland State University spent five months and $1.23

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 19, 2024

Davidson College, a private, liberal arts institution in North Carolina, has secured an $85 million donation to expand its library with a focus on bringing it into the digital age.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since opening in 1977, the University of Arizona’s Main Library in Tuscon has served as a central hub for students to study and conduct research, but it hadn’t changed much in four decades. The university recently completed major library renovations, and the first two floors have now been transformed into a bright, colorful and airy space…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 16, 2023

The Carole and Marcus Weinstein Learning Center – in the Boatwright Memorial Library – will integrate and expand student academic services, including effective speaking, writing, and peer tutoring. “We Carole and Marcus Weinstein. Our family and faith have encouraged us to make the world a better place,” the Weinsteins said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Bryn Geffert The move by UVM Press – overseen by UVM Libraries – is meant to eliminate financial hurdles and barriers to peer-reviewed research that traditional publishing and access models impose. It is indeed completely free,” said Dr. "It is indeed completely free,” said Dr. Bryn Geffert, dean of libraries at UVM. “It

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

At San Diego State University, a grassroots, student-led esports team grew so much that school officials decided to invest in a new Esports Engagement Center inside the school library. Esports has come a long way from its beginnings as a misunderstood, niche extracurricular activity bubbling up on college campuses in the early 21st century.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

The ACLU of Florida has responded to allegations that the New College of Florida discreetly dumped hundreds of library books in a landfill. This is not merely an administrative oversight; it is an intentional act of censorship that strikes at the heart of our democratic values and the very purpose of education.”

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 14, 2024

5 Key Features of Cloud-Based Library Management System Software admin Wed, 08/14/2024 - 06:35 Higher education libraries can be difficult to maintain, but a cloud-based library management system provides an easy-to-use but effective alternative. Students are free to provide reviews and give ratings to books.

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Great College Advice

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The library may be on limited hours if it is open at all. part of the college admissions process. Unfortunately, many families struggle with finding the best time for college tours. With school, work, and extracurricular activities, it can be difficult to plan college visits around everyday life.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Celia Rabinowitz, Assistant Vice-President for Academic Engagement & Director of the Mason Library at Keene State College, reached out after reading my piece How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? One represents the trends and challenges most of us in academic libraries are reading about. If not, ask why.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Professor Andrew Comrie reached out after reading my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. then versus about 1.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Klingenstein Library at New-York Historical. Through the CUNY SPS, which is historically tapped into a more diverse community of students – and professional studies in particular, these are sometimes people who are looking to make career changes,” said Paley, who oversees the program on behalf of the American museum and library.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vermont State University plans to repurpose libraries on its five campuses and move to an “all-digital academic library” system when it opens as a unified institution in July, VTDigger reported. The goal of the changes, Grewal said, is to provide "greater equity of access to our library services.”

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Top 10 benefits of cloud-based Library Management Software. The increasing advancement of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud, mobile, digital, and analytics have transformed the way libraries offer many services. It’s the time of Library Management Software. What is cloud-based Library Management Software?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The school library is the place where they are taught how to effectively search for, access, evaluate and use resources that are found online. Bill S588 received bipartisan support and passed today by a 36-0 vote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

The lawsuit is asking for the affected books to be put back on school library shelves. "[PEN Pérez added that these changes would most affect students with the fewest resources, those who depend on school libraries. Joining PEN are authors, parents, and the largest book publisher in the country: Penguin Random House.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The money will also go towards buying up to 150 laptops for campus and community use at Sheppard Library and its upcoming cybersecurity and information technology training center, as well as hiring faculty in technology. Stillman College has received $2.7 The upgrades are meant to improve and strengthen network infrastructure.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The fees typically cover lectures, tutorials, access to equipment, libraries and admin, among other things. The maximum universities can charge is currently £9,250 – a cap that has been in place since 2017. The increase was approved by the government as a result of the financial problems in the university sector.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

A prominent scholar, he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and is the former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library. Muhammad previously served as an associate professor at Indiana University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending. How do academic libraries spend their budgets?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Department of Education plans to convene youths, school leaders, elected officials, and afterschool and summer learning program providers for this year’s Engage Every Student Summit at the Martin Luther King, Jr. It was first launched in 2022 by U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

There have been two other spaces on Grinnell’s campus named for Renfrow Smith, including the Edith Renfrow Smith Black Women's Library in the Black Cultural Center and The Edith Renfrow Smith Gallery, located in the campus center. “By years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2024

The platform also offers access to a mobile app, comprehensive financial aid and scholarship information, online portfolios, and an extensive library of counselor resources in English and Spanish. The Common App has launched its 2024–2025 application for more than 1,100 colleges and universities worldwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. The library symbolically serves as the central point of academic learning in an academic institution.” The entire college is being designed specifically with the Black student in mind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

In CUNY's case, it looks like utilizing the public library system in New York makes a lot of sense. FAST will begin April 12 and continue until the end of this September, a CUNY spokesperson said in an email. The initiative is for students seeking financial aid for college this coming fall. to be able to be walked through it. “But

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

The event will feature courses such as “Back in My Day: An Exploration of the Past and the Future at the Library”; “Earthquakes and Engineering Challenge”; “Looking Back and Forging Ahead: The UI Campus its Architecture and its History”; and “Introduction to Falconry.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2024

Bluford Library Archives at A&T. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has renamed its Academic Classroom Building, one of its most high-profile buildings. The building, with its angular green and white façade, will be known as Henry E. and Shirley T. The Fryes — who met as undergraduates at A&T and married Aug.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Vermont State University has abandoned plans to go all virtual in its libraries, VTDigger reported. The university will also keep a small collection of “popular, casual, reading books” and children’s books in the libraries, administrators wrote. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

The school recently agreed to sell the Crowley Center, the Gary Library, and the Martin House to a group of business owners named “150 Main Street.” The Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) will be looking to sell three campus buildings to local buyers, WCAX reported. The buyers aim to turn the buildings into a health and wellness center.

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