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Why Not Read the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2013 This Summer?
Accessed from http://www.businessinsider.com/why-captain-underpants-is-the-most-banned-book-in-america-2013-9 According to ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog, Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants...
View ArticleDissertation Forum Addresses Needs of Doctoral Students
The Third Annual Dissertation Forum, held on March 7th, hosted by the Writing Center, the USF Tampa Library, and the Graduate School, provided resources and services to PhD candidates working on...
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The Huffington Post College Thesis Project
The Thesis Project: Pictures, Videos, Breaking News via kwout The recently launched College Thesis Project hopes to give students a chance to share with a wide audience their academic work. If you are...
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New Federal Data Shows the Cost of Tuition, School by School
Accessed from www.ibhe.state.il.us The U.S. Department of Education College Affordability and Transparency Center allows users to generate reports that compare university and college tuition and fee...
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Banned Books Week–Read a Banned Book Today!
It is Banned Books Week and time to celebrate the Freedom to Read. What banned books have you read? Check it out with the 2013 List of Most Challenged Books. Check out ALA’s Ideas and Resources page if...
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Book Publisher Rankings in Education
Book Citation Index – IP & Science – Thomson Reuters via kwout A recent article, Towards a Book Publishers Citation Reports, from the University of Navarra in Spain includes book publisher...
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Harvard University Says it Can’t Afford Journal Publishers’ Prices
Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices | Science | The Guardian via kwout When Harvard has had enough, then many libraries are likely to follow suit. Harvard University is...
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Call for Papers–Cybersecurity in Education: Pre-K through College
Accessed from http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/20520/security/security-questions-answers-expert.html Professors Glenn Smith, Michael Berson and Ilene Berson from USF’s College of Education, are...
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The Future of Privacy
Accessed from https://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4592915995/ A December 2014 Pew Report discusses the future of privacy in light of technological change as it is likely to extend into the next...
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Open Source Textbooks Offer Hope for More Affordability
Accessed from http://classroom-aid.com/2011/12/07/why-dont-teachers-publish-their-own-textbooks-k12/ A new report from The Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs), Open Textbooks: The...
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Making Your Course “Gameful” with GradeCraft
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a University of Michigan professor has used some aspects of gaming to develop GradeCraft, a learning management system that allows instructors to organize...
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Academic Libraries Will Play an Important Role in Data Storage for Researchers
Where Should You Keep Your Data? – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Karen Markin, talks about the mandates from federal granting...
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Education at a Glance: 2014 OECD Indicators
This OECD report has an interesting graphic for Indicator A4 which is To what extent does parents’ education influence participation in tertiary education (PDF)?
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Duke University Selects Altmetric Platform to Track Broader Impact of Faculty...
Altmetric for Institutions platform allows faculty and administrators at universities to track online dissemination and engagement surrounding research. This licensed software from a London-based...
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Book Selected for Common Reading Experience
This year’s Common Reading Experience (CRE) choice is Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. An uncommon coming of age tale, this award winning graphic novel chronicles the autobiographical story of the...
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The Calamity of Disappearing School Libraries
Debra Kachel, Professor of School Library and Information Technologies at Mansfield University of Pennyslvania points out in her blog post that school libraries have been neglected, defunded and...
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An Open Access Overview from ALA TechSource
This month Library Technology Reports released an helpful overview of the current trends, terminology, and issues facing the Open Access (OA) publishing model in libraries. Assessing the state of both...
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Student Success and Library Usage
A theme for the American Library Association this year is the transformative nature of libraries, and the recent study published in College and Research Libraries, “Investigating the Relationship of...
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Common Core’s Big Test: Tracking 2014-15 Results
Education Week has published test results for those using various state mandated tests in math and English, including Common Core tests. They caution that state to state comparisons at this point are...
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Online Piracy of Academic Materials Extends to Scholarly Books
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education outlines the problem University Presses are facing regarding piracy of thousands of their books on pirated web sites. One of the more highly...
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