By Barbara Fister. My reasons why it makes no sense at all to scrap majors to prepare students for the “future of work.” More...

By Barbara Fister. Librarians know research can be frustrating for undergraduates, but it's great to see how it turns out. More...

Online Library Wants It All, Every Book
This account of the digital Library of Alexandria being implemented in Egypt is a generally critical review of the project. Noting that few people have used the specialized software, and that only 100,000 pages of mostly medieval Arabic works have been scanned, the author casts doubt on the feasibility of such a project in the contemporary publishing world. More...

At the Online Library
Is this what we should be doing: "building large digital resources that require a keen understanding of complex licensing and copyright agreements with publishers?" This, in part, is the new role for libraries described in this article. More...