A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Stefanie Botelho. As recently as 10 years ago, the campus website was not viewed as a legitimate source of marketing, nor was its upkeep considered the responsibility of communications professionals. More...

By Barbara Fister. Quite a few librarians noticed when Joe Nocera, a columnist for The New York Times, profiled Kevin Carey, director of the New America Foundation’s educational policy program and author of The End of College. The gist of the column: College costs too much, and that cost comes from luxuries we can’t afford - like libraries. Read more...

By Barbara Fister. Many academic authors by now have heard the phrase “predatory publishers.” It’s usually associated with a list of fraudulent  pseudo-publishing operations maintained by Jeffrey Beall, whose crusade to name and shame these shady opportunists has made it to The New York Times. What worries me far more than these fairly obvious scams are the emerging business practices being used by highly profitable publishers with long and distinguished pedigrees that are treating open access as a new revenue stream that can be both open and closed – earning money through subscriptions and author fees. Read more...