An Accidental Academic (Librarian)
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Inside Higher Ed: Giving Digital Preservation a Backbone
Preservation is an ongoing source of concern with regard to digital scholarship—something even a go-online, go-OA advocate such as myself can appreciate. But it can’t be left to commercial enterprise, either. (Though see also Dorothea Salo’s comment concerning HathiTrust and Portico—and nobody mentioned LOCKSS at all.)
Inside Higher Ed: Academic Libraries in Flux
The general theme: less print, more digital, and e-books have arrived. Now, about open access…
ZDNet: Sign of the times: Johns Hopkins shuttering its medical library
It’s pretty clear that library spaces have to reconfigure or go away. The one where I work is one of the busiest buildings on campus, but it’s a study and collaboration space (with research assistance) rather than a place where one goes primarily to browse or locate print journals.
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