An NPR piece from July 8, 2010, Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries, continues the e-book conversation. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most […]
Category: all things digital
What Is Angel Falls?
My favorite story of the last couple of weeks is about Watson, the I.B.M. supercomputer who’s been working out on pro-grade Jeopardy players in real-time test matches. The idea is […]
Open source textbooks at U of I?
The local newspaper, The News-Gazette, has a feature story this morning on the University’s pursuit of an open source textbook model. The leader of the initiative, Charles Evans, is considering […]
Academic presses vs. academic libraries
The June 14, 2010, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a long piece on the university press suit of Georgia State University. The case, known as Cambridge University Press, et al. […]
E-profit
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the use of e-textbooks at for-profit universities. E-textbooks might be the most-talked about and least-used learning tools in traditional higher education. Campus libraries and […]
Lady Gaga’s New Clothes
Thanks to Tony over at the Penn State Press blog for bringing this video, apparently from a Dorling Kindersley sales conference, to my attention. Perfect food for thought late on a Friday afternoon […]
Google is also doing my taxes
Simon Mackie at the New York Times shares his top ten Google tricks, which include currency conversion, area-code lookup, and calculation (which makes me worry about how many first-graders are […]
One copy for the whole class
Inside Higher Ed reports today on a copyright case at UCLA. The school offers password protected access to assigned films for students to view outside the classroom on their personal computers. […]
Chicago Manual of Style online forum
Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of Chicago Press has launched an online forum for discussion about (or is it “of”?) The Chicago Manual of Style (and other matters). “People pressed […]
Latest chatter
A roundup of recent publishing news: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the growth of open access scholarly journals and publisher efforts to stop book piracy, The Electronic Frontier Foundation […]
Back to the Future
On February 15, 2010, The Scholarly Kitchen blog reported on the newly released UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report. 728 pages! The reoccurring theme in the report is that academia is a […]
Heavy shelves
Scott McLemee, writing in today’s Inside Higher Ed, ruminates on personal and institutional book collections. A few months ago, I was happy to be able to acquire an obscure volume of […]