Tech & Innovation

Blackboard's competitors gain, budget cuts continue, mobile apps and lecture capture look likely to grow, annual technology survey finds.

With tension of for-profit scrutiny in the air, leaders of online institutions convene in Washington to fret over state, federal oversight.

Lecture capture is hot, with publishers building ties to the field and debate roiling over the best business model.

Some colleges look to put a face on the library by assigning undergraduates "personal librarians."

Some students at Johns Hopkins are not happy about a new fee for classroom clickers.

The new engineering and technology library at U. of Texas at San Antonio holds no printed volumes -- a realization of a goal many libraries have set as a vision for the future.

As tighter belts lead to closer scrutiny, an academic library group tries to help academic libraries articulate why they are valuable.

Criticism from librarians prompts JSTOR to promise changes to its recently redesigned database portal.