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By jdupuis on April 13, 2013.
  • Librarians as faculty? It's a red herring.
  • Why I think faculty status for librarians is (generally) a bad idea
  • Library employees protest changed title
  • As Role of Librarians Evolves, Some Colleges End Their Faculty Status
  • Stratification and losing faculty status
  • Gender, “thought leaders”, ego, and subversion
  • Unpacking “faculty status”
  • Postscript: faculty status and “administrative bloat”
  • What Is the Business of Literature?
  • Facebook Leans In
  • Digital Research, Not Teaching and Ithaka report here.
  • Free to Profit (Coursera makes some profit)
  • Systematic Errors of Judgement (bias against women in science)
  • Newspaper advertising makes no sense in a non-linear world
  • Learning to Adapt (adaptive learning in higher ed)
  • Open Data Field Guide
  • Who Killed the PrePrint and Could It Make a Return?
  • Is the time right for a preprint server for life science?
  • Data Scientist Training for Librarians
  • The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing
  • Data reuse and the open data citation advantage
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