Maybe I could see the future when I wrote that post on Language and Travel. In any event, it turns out that preparing for a move abroad cuts down on my ability to post anything on either of my blogs…so I’ll see you in July or August 🙂
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Copyright, scholarly communication, ebooks, textbooks…we’re putting together an e-reader bar, so I suppose it makes sense that my focus is where it is at the moment.
International Music Score Library Project Raises Concerns (NYT)
Free ‘Video Book’ From Academic Press Challenges Limits of Scholarship (Chronicle)
New sites for Kindle readers to ‘Lendle’ to each other (Guardian)
Apple Tightens Rule on E-Book App Developers (NYT)
Nevada Econ Professor Incorporates YouTube into Textbook (Nevada News)
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My Midlife French Lessons (The Chronicle – subscription required): As a faculty member and occasional Spanish literature student (at the upper-division undergrad level), I enjoyed this.
Postcard from Venice: Notes from a Study-Abroad Librarian (Duke University): My dream project…with one of our programs in Spain or Latin America, though.
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For Minorities, New ‘Digital Divide’ Seen (Washington Post)
Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills (NPR) [this article is about kids and play, but it would have interesting implications for LIS folks I know who research play and creativity in the workplace]
Colleges Weigh How to Estimate Cost to Families (Chronicle)
Cherokee, Apple Partner to Put Language on iPhones (Yahoo/AP)
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The Shadow Scholar (The Chronicle)
Students Finally Wake Up To Facebook Privacy Issues (ars technica)
Wikilobbying (Colbert Report)
Diversify Diversity: Remembering Gay Students in Recruiting (The Chronicle)
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CUNY Social Network Mixes Scholarship with Facebook-Style Friendship, from the Chronicle
Managing E-Resources for Users, 100%, from ACRLog
Make Life Easier: Ask a Librarian, from the Huffington Post
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Long-Form Journalism Starts a New Chapter (Guardian)
10 Myths About Legacy Preferences in College Admissions (Chronicle)
On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography (BookTwo)
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Weekly, monthly, whatever 🙂 Do *you* keep up with blogging the first two weeks of the semester? Didn’t think so!
Indian Scholars Gather to Share Native Perspective on History
As E-Books Gain, Barnes and Noble Tries to Stay Ahead
Wikipedia Age Challenges Scholars’ Sacred Peer Review
Libraries, Low-Income People, and Social Exclusion (blog post – the article they link is worth a read, if you’ve got access)
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This is the first in what will (hopefully) be a regular weekly series of posts pulling together pieces on libraries, technology, social media, academia, diversity, information policy…and anything else I’m interested in.
What I did When I Couldn’t Find a Job (paywall) via the Chronicle
Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age via NYTimes
Why eBook Economics Don’t Work in Libraries via LibraryThing
More than a Paycheck via Inside Higher Ed
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Although I’ve used WordPress before, I’ve never used it to put together a website (rather than a blog). I’m excited to use this free tool to pull together some of my library-related pages and writings. Enjoy!
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Madeline Mundt 