Monthly Archives: May 2010

Higher ed budget woes: LIS at LSU faces closure

Posted by on May 25, 2010 5 comments

The perilous state of public higher education is accepted as some kind of natural condition by many who have grown accustomed to the news of tuition hikes amid complaints from university officials that the economic model is broken. But this …

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More from the Taiga forum

Posted by on May 14, 2010 No comments

It’s been a while since I checked back with the Taiga forum and I find the site now largely locked down to members, but there are some updates for others to see. The most recently available in their series of …

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Faculty view library as irrelevant you say?

Posted by on May 5, 2010 1 comment

Another survey, this time the fourth of the three-yearly Ithaka studies of faculty perceptions of their libraries, suggests all is not well. Without putting too fine a point on it, the authors state up front: Since the first Faculty Survey …

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