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

MARCH 19, 2024

The Australia Institute report, released on Wednesday, questioned if more public money should be used for research and education instead of being directed to international academic publishers. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

As a part of Open Access Week, The MIT Libraries will be hosting several events that are relevant to PhDs and postdocs. Legal Issues in Computational Research Using Text and Data Mining with Dave Hansen, the Executive Director of the Authors Alliance. The Nexus, Hayden Library (14S-130) Here is the Link to register.

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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? I did not do enough research to answer the questions I was posing. The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work.

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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Elizabeth Dellavedova, associate library director at a community college, connected with me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Q: Can you share your concerns about my blog post on academic library spending? Encouraging students to visit the library is not enough.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 7, 2023

Greetings from the ANU New Research Showcase: Climate, Energy & Disasters. This included a flood through the Library behind him, and a hailstorm, after which the roof is still being repaired (you can see the orange plastic wrap in the photo). where the Vice Chancellor is opening the event.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A Comprehensive Guide to Library Management System Software. This tough task is now simplified, thanks to the library management system software. Let’s try to learn more about library management system software in this blog post. . How in general is a library managed? Wed, 12/07/2022 - 00:44.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

She served as the community liaison for the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School within the Houston Public Library system. Erika Thompson Erika Thompson has been appointed associate director of the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University in Texas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

Neelam Bharti Neelam Bharti has been appointed associate dean of research and learning services for Florida State University Libraries. Bharti earned a master’s in library and information science from the University of Missouri and a doctoral degree in bio-medicinal chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia in India.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Lewis said that too often, conversations about urban education fail to bring practitioners to the table with researchers and policymakers to brainstorm solutions. And to have such a solutions-oriented conference is refreshing. That local community outreach in the host country of the conference, Lewis added, is critically important. “We

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It really is unfortunate that libraries and educational institutions are sort of caught up in the flip-flopping and back-and-forth,” says Katherine Klosek, director of information policy and federal relations for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Digital Library is in fact comprised of three services: Development & Systems Digital Imaging Unit uCreate Studio These services offer a range of technical support to the University focused on the provision of digital services, assets and technologies, all in support of research, teaching and learning.

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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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 28, 2019

Photo credit: The University of Edinburgh In this extra post, Christine Love-Rodgers, College Lead for Library Academic Support (CAHSS), highlights the important role that the Library Academic Support team play in developing students’ information literacy….

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What that means for research libraries remains to be seen. Internet Archive Court Loss Leaves Higher Ed in Gray Area Lauren.Coffey@… Mon, 09/09/2024 - 03:30 AM The nonprofit published thousands of ebooks for free, violating copyright law. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Dr. 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. Bryn Geffert, dean of libraries at UVM. “It

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need a better content library. In response to our discussion, the Enroll360 creative team crowdsourced a list of tips and suggestions for enrollment and marketing teams who want to create the ideal asset library. What is an asset library? 7 Tenets of an Effective Campaign Asset Library. Mind the minimum quality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2024

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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Photo Credit: University of Edinburgh Image Collections CC0 Welcome to the February issue: Library and University Collections This month’s issue of Teaching Matters puts Library and University Collections firmly in the spotlight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Lauren Di Monte Lauren Di Monte has been appointed associate university librarian for research and learning at Yale University Library. Di Monte holds a bachelor’s degree in visual studies and a master’s in information from the University of Toronto and in interdisciplinary studies from York University in Toronto.

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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 Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, who holds the Louise R.

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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 We remember spending hours poring over the library’s card catalog to do further research for papers we were writing.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

by Anita Toh As scholarly research into and using generative AI tools like ChatGPT becomes more prevalent, it is crucial for researchers to understand the intersections of copyright, fair use, and use of generative AI in research. This evokes the question: Why doesn’t the proposed research align with fair use?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

A member of the Crow Tribe of Montana and a Sioux, Ponca and Chickasaw descendent, Fitzpatrick, an attorney, previously served as a specialist in natural resources policy for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. For the sake of libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope they don’t succeed. and Penguin Random House assert that the Internet Archive is not a real library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It requires that schools teach students about the research process and how information is created and produced, the difference between facts, points of view, and opinions, and the ethical production of information. Bill S588 received bipartisan support and passed today by a 36-0 vote.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Strauss, director of Brown’s John Hay Library , which acquired Abu-Jamal’s records, writings, and artwork last year together with Brown’s Pembroke Center. “By Abu-Jamal’s papers will be available for research Sept.

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CU Work-Life Balance

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Explore new AI tools in Skillsoft Percipio CU’s recently upgraded Skillsoft Percipio learning platform features an expanded library of courses, ebooks, and audiobooks, many of which focus on AI. You can also access it from the library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity. 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.”

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