13.Jul.2010 Rabid Intellectuals
Professor Henry A. Giroux of McMaster University issues a manifesto for intellectuals to engage with public life.
08.Jun.2010 Commodification
Students as commodities: “affinity agreements” pay schools to steer students to credit cards.
20.Apr.2010 Overdue Support for Externally Focused Writers
IsMyThesisHotorNot.com offers useless advice to incompetent writers. Huzzah.
07.Apr.2010 One School, One Library, One Librarian
Equal Access for All mobilizes to get South African schools a library and a librarian each.
01.Apr.2010 If a School Is a Business, Is It a Bread Shop or a Porno Store?
Professor Robert N. Watson cites research that shows humanities departments are not the cash-suck UC President Yudof believes they are.
31.Mar.2010 Free With Purchase of Second Item of Equal or Lesser Value
Seton Hall is giving away iPads to its students.
29.Mar.2010 Singing For One’s Supper
The first-ever study of public access computing finds that millions of people rely on libraries for education, career help, health, and networking.
27.Mar.2010 Homegrown IT Soultions
Home Grown IT in Kenya: goat shit.
24.Mar.2010 We Are The Children
People always think being a librarian is about telling kids to shut up (true) and memorizing the Dewey Decimal System (false). Sara Scribner, a librarian at Blair International Baccalaureate School, knows that library science is about saving the children, as she points out in this charming and cogent L.A. Times op-ed: An info-literate student can [...]
20.Mar.2010 Wikipedia is for Lovers
Still struggling to incorporate Wikipedia in academics and journalism.