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Social Networking = Cheating?

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Ryerson University in Toronto has punished a student for creating a study group on Facebook. According to the University, by creating an online study group in which students could discuss assignments and class lectures, the student had created “the potential for cheating on a large scale.”
As this article points out, Ryerson’s actions are a […]

War and Culture

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

In a time of war, there is loss of life. There is also loss of culture.
Dr. Saad Eskander, the director of the National Archives in Iraq, has been fighting to preserve the cultural history of his country since 2003. On any given day, his task is a difficult (and perhaps losing) battle. […]

ALA Alert on Access to Research

Monday, July 16th, 2007

From the ALA Alert:
Effective yesterday, both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have proposed fiscal year (FY) 2008 spending bills that direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to change its Public Access Policy so that NIH-funded researchers are required to deposit copies of NIH-funded research into the online archive of the National Library of […]

Comments on More Than Coffee and Wireless

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

The question of “library as place” has been bounced around for quite a while now. It is an issue that gets right to the heart of why patrons would want to spend their time at the library–what can they find within those four walls that is not available on the internet or in a […]