This subscriber-restricted article in The Chronicle of Higher Education describes changes at the Baptist institution Louisiana College. A student and a board member complained that language in M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled and a love scene in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines did not reflect the Christian values of the [...]
Someone sent me the URL for the RSS in Government blog, which has all sorts of info about how local, national, and international governments and their agencies are using RSS Feeds and blogs. A recent post discusses how the Government of Canada is using RSS feeds mixed with metadata to distribute their news.
I’m working [...]
They’re running workshops in January to teach students about blogging and they’re starting a hosted service, too.
Speaking of journals that use publishing methods circumventing the big publishers, here’s an excellent resource for finding “journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.” The database includes basic information about the journal, like its language and publisher, as well as a link to its Web [...]
I spent some time with a business librarian last night talking about blogs. She doesn’t understand why blogs could be important to librarians, but she also admitted that most of the blogs she’s seen are all online journal types of blogs–the “I hate winter,” “here’s what I think about x,” “while I was looking [...]