Can librarians act on their principles? Barbara Fister hopes so.
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Regular LJ Academic Newswire column from Barbara Fister (librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN) covering collection development, academic publishing, intellectual freedom, and other issues that matter to academic librarians today.
Joining the Movement: A Call to Action | Peer to Peer Review
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review Tagged With: Elsevier, Research Works Act
It’s a Jungle Out There | Peer to Peer Review
Barbara Fister connects the dots between chicken farmers, microbreweries, book lovers, and scholars.
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review Tagged With: amazon, Elsevier, Goodreads, Research Works Act
Tiptoeing Toward the Tipping Point | Peer to Peer Review
Controversy over the Research Works Act is turning many scholars into activists, writes Barbara Fister.
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review Tagged With: aap, Open Access, Research Works Act
Making Sense in a Digital World | Peer to Peer Review
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review Tagged With: Digital Book World, ebooks, internet archive
Weathering the IP Storms | Peer to Peer Review
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Copyright and Fair Use, Legislation, Peer to Peer Review Tagged With: Apple, PIPA, Research Works Act, SOPA
Information Literacy: Undervalued or Ubiquitous? | Peer to Peer Review
The Department of Education has just released a preliminary glimpse at academic library statistics from 2010 and Steve Kolowich of Inside Higher Ed did us a favor by looking at the tables and extracting interesting information from them. Here are a few highlights: In 2010, academic libraries spent more than they did in 2008, but [...]
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review
There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch | Peer to Peer Review
On Sunday, the New York Times published an article on how giant food corporations have found ways to get in on a free lunch. Thanks to the recession, more children than ever are eligible for subsidized school lunches, with 21 million children now in the program. The federal government provides food to schools to help [...]
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review
Libraries Will Abide | Peer to Peer Review
Photo by Debora Miller I watched the cult classic film Blade Runner again last night. It was fascinating to see what the future looked like from the perspective of 1982 and Ridley Scott’s fevered imagination. His vision of 2019 is a dark place—literally dark, with crowds moving through urban canyons in the rain. They speak [...]
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The World Turned Upside Down | Peer to Peer Review
There are strange things afoot these days in the book world. Penguin, one of the Big Six publishers has just launched a self-publishing service built on its online community for genre fans, Book Country. Now anyone can be published by Penguin-only in this case, the author pays the publisher instead of the other way around. [...]
Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Peer to Peer Review, Publishing
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