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ACRL’s top ten assumptions for the future
At their recent annual meeting, the ACRL Research Committee released a list of their top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries. Coming in at #8: "Distance Learning will be an increasingly common option in higher education, and will co-exist but not threaten the traditional bricks-and-mortar model." If you visit that link…
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New York TimesSelect – Do Over! (may not be free for YOU!)
Following up on last month’s announcement that the New York TimesSelect service was opened up to all educational institutions, The Chronicle of Higher Education is now reporting that NYT is backtracking and now “says that Times Select archives will be available only to students of colleges that subscribe to database companies that carry Times content.” …
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CFP extended: Special Issue of Journal of Access Services
For a forthcoming double issue of the Journal of Access Services, a recent call for papers has been extended until May 15. The theme is Best Practices in Access Services, and the full details are as follows: The Journal of Access Services is currently accepting manuscripts for consideration of publication in a special issue on…
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Run Meebo in Firefox Sidebar
Lots of libraries seem to be using Meebo or MeeboMe to collect IM requests from multiple clients (AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk). Up until today I used Trillian to manage all my accounts. While Meebo works just fine, I didn’t like the fact that I had to have a web page open in order to see…