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By jdupuis on May 17, 2012.
  • Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
  • Daunt: library e-lending "disruptive" to high street
  • A "License to Read": The Effect of E-Books on Publishers, Libraries, and the First Sale Doctrine
  • Inside the Georgia State Opinion
  • The GSU decision -- not an easy road for anyone
  • The GSU decision
  • E-Reservations
  • The Greatest Threat to Amazon May Just Be Libraries
  • Technology is a Double-Edged Sword
  • In Defense of the New York Public Library
  • Colloquium on Rethinking the Future of Scientific Communication
  • Why Nikola Tesla is the greatest geek who ever lived
  • OLA Statement on Copyright for the Academic Sector
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We're Wired for Science & How Originality Differs in Science vs. Art
  • And So It Begins...(decline in textbook profitability)
  • Libraries and the Myth of Mobile Phone Use
  • The problem with nerd politics
  • Candor and Candidacy in Social Media (social media/twitter/etc use in academia)
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