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21 décembre 2014

5 Hesitations to Going Chromebook

By Joshua Kim. Last week my younger daughter’s 11-inch MacBook Air died. Turns out that the solid state hard drive is fried. Parts are being ordered now, and we hope to have the little laptop back home in a few days. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

A Note to Walter Isaacson on “The Innovators”

By Joshua Kim. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Published in October of 2014.
Dear Mr. Isaacson,
I was initially hesitant to download The Innovators. This was a story that I thought that I knew. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

Evolution and Change in Graduate Professional School Libraries

By Joshua Kim. Our IHE community has been having a good discussion about the future of the academic library. I hope that this Q&A contributes to our conversation. Jim Fries, the Director of the Feldberg Business-Engineering Library at Dartmouth College, and his colleague Anne Esler, graciously agreed to answer my questions about how the world of graduate professional libraries are evolving and changing. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

2014 Books

By Joshua Kim. The only reason that I can share with you every book that I read in 2014 is that every book that I read was downloaded. Amazon makes it relatively easy (although not easy enough) to generate a list of all the Kindle and Audible books that have been purchased in a year. The reason that I’m sharing this list is that unless I write about what I have read I will forget about what I have read. Grouping the books in categories also helps. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

Sustainability commandment #7

By G. Rendell. If you spend faster than you earn, financial trouble awaits. If you eat faster than you burn calories, obesity and heart disease and diabetes and having to spend extra money for plus-sized clothing are all in your future. An occasional instance of either behavior pattern doesn't spell disaster, but make a habit of either one and bad things happen. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

What I Learned This Year

By Eric Stoller. Higher education may or may not be a business. We don't like to talk about the enterprise of education as being a business. It is, but it isn't. More...

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21 décembre 2014

Building Community with Yik Yak

By Eric Stoller. In what could best be described as a social media community building exercise, Colgate University faculty took to Yik Yak in droves last week. Instead of ignoring the controversial app, more than 50 faculty members shared a variety of comments within a 1.5 mile "yak" radius. More...

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21 décembre 2014

“Chuck” and friends

By Rosemarie Emanuele. If you take an amount of something (such as coffee at the office coffee pot) and keep taking away half of that amount, the remaining amount will decline steadily, but, theoretically, will never reach an amount of zero. I found myself thinking of this recently as I face the first Christmas where there are only two people remaining in my immediate family of origin. Where there used to be four, there are now two. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

Show People You Care by Buying Stuff

By Oronte. Well, Price Waterhouse wants you to. In any case, here are some last-minute holiday gift ideas for higher-ed workers. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

'Samuel Taylor’s Last Night,' a Novel by Joe Amato

By Oronte. Academics, they tell you, offers a life of stability and quiet. So they tell you—a big lie that’s made an easy target for many an author. Just this year, Julie Schumacher achieved a fresh, barbed hilarity in Dear Committee Members. Now Joe Amato has come out with his own academic novel, Samuel Taylor’s Last Night. Read more...

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