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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In planning for the new library, the financially challenged institution seeks to forge a path that balances cost with quality, while also reaching a wider swath of the state’s rural residents. As part of the transition, the university has planned for an “all-digital” academic library, which it announced in a Feb.

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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. Still, Hulbert said she learned a lesson. How do they understand it?

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5 High Tech Solutions that Enable High Touch Campus Experiences

University Business

Researcher and author Hana Ben-Shabat discusses this in her book, Gen Z 360. Library Services: An increasing number of automated and self-service solutions have hit the market to help manage library resources such as checking out books and devices. It’s quick, easy and integrated with ID management systems.

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The Growth of Online Education Provides Opportunities: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 9

The Change Leader, Inc.

In its 2017 report, the Babson Survey Research Group looked at online education in the United States and reported the following: Seventy-one percent of the 4,717 U.S. Project-based learning A growing trend in online learning, this approach allows students to research, present and share their ideas to demonstrate real-world skills.

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Dissertation Week in the Library: 11-15 November 2019

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post, Christine Love-Rodgers, College Lead for Library Academic Support (CAHSS), provides an in-depth assessment of the University’s first Dissertation Week event that took place in November 2019… The University of Edinburgh Library held its first Dissertation Week on November 11-15 2019.