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OEDb’s Online College Rankings 2008
No mention of the importance of libraries here, but the Online Education Database has just released OEDb’s Online College Rankings 2008. For each college, we gathered data for eight different metrics — acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited. Pleased to see the institution…
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Alchemist author increases sales by pirating his own book
Neat stuff! “Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is using BitTorrent and other filesharing networks as a way to promote his books. His publishers weren’t too keen on giving away free copies of his books, so he’s taken matters into his own hands. He’s convinced — and rightly so — that letting people…
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An update on the ANTS project
Hey, remember the ANTS screencast-sharing project? I’ve stepped way back from it since assuming my new duties here at the U of C, but it’s still going strong, and has undergone some major changes / improvements. Here’s an update that was sent to the COPPUL Distance Education group: As many of you are…
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Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries and wiki
Just learned that the new ACRL book Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries has an accompanying wiki. And of course Meredith has a website where she constantly refreshes links for her book, Social Software in Libraries. Neat ways to keep traditional print current!