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Nobody (but me) Likes Kindle for Coursepacks
I want a Kindle option for my digital coursepack. Almost everyone I'm working with insists that this is a bad...
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How I keep up with the constant flow
What's new [with technology]? How do you do it? You must be online all the time? I get asked these...
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Friday Fragments
Actual dinner conversation: TW: So-and-so is dumb as a rock. TG: Rocks aren’t dumb! TB: Yeah! Rocks tell scientists lots...
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Puzzled by Patron-Driven Acquisitions
The buzz at the recent Charleston Conference (and practically every other recent conference at which academic librarians have gathered) is...
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Connecting With My Intellectual Family
I like conferences, I confess. There are so many types of conferences these days that it is hard to choose...
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Math Geek Mom: Wisdom from the Neighborhood
One way that economists commonly use statistics is to do “forecasting”, to take what is known about today and to...
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Motherhood After Tenure: book covers and first impressions
It's time to order the books for my spring courses. Because I teach Victorian novels, I'm continually trying to negotiate...
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The State of the Rankings
Efforts to evaluate universities from around the world may be flawed, but they aren't going away so they need to be understood, writes Philip G. Altbach.