Below is a presentation I gave last week at ACRL’s IdeaPower Unconference in Philadelphia. Great format as it allows some fairly “edge” ideas (read “unproven”) out in the open. The presentation narrative is in comment fields in the native pptx file, and so you’ll need to download the file in order to understand what it’s [...]
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Business Insider has an interesting argument indicating that Craiglist is being slowly, but surely, disrupted. Generally speaking, Craigslist has been “good enough” to not be disrupted head-on. Nevertheless, the world moves on, and the gaps in their product (due to a stubborn obstinate refusal to invest in technology) grow wider and wider. As tablets, smartphones, [...]
I doubt this is the seminal instance, but I just heard an interesting On the Media podcast which talked to Cal Tech economics professor R. Preston McAfee about his textbook Introduction to Economic Analysis (ISBN 160049000X) which he has released using a creative commons license. This touches tangentially on a recent post I had on [...]
Ithaka has released an interesting study it has been working with since 2000 on academic libraries and faculty perceptions. What I like most from this is a useful model of academic library services that they’ve broken into three aspects: purchaser, archive, and gateway. They describe these as: The purchaser role was described in the survey [...]