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September 11

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Ronna

Tuesday, September 11 is the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Please take a moment to remember those men and women who lost their lives that day, and those men and women who have served to defend … Continue reading →

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10 years later: September 11

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Ronna

If you’re old enough to remember when September 11 was just another day on the calendar, then you probably remember where you were on September 11, 2001. I was in graduate school at UW-Madison. I learned the towers had been … Continue reading →

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Fair Use and YouTube

Posted on January 24, 2008 by kyle

Ahh, the joys of copyright. We deal with it everyday, whether you utilize e-reserves or download music to your iPod (hopefully in a legal fashion). But did it ever cross your mind that when you laughed at the Dramatic Prairie … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Journal for Free

Posted on November 14, 2007 by kyle

More and more newspapers are shifting their online business models to compensate their declining print circulation numbers. The Wall Street Journal is no exception. The New York Times reported yesterday that Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, anticipates dropping the … Continue reading →

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Is Google Going Down?

Posted on November 7, 2007 by kyle

Imagine your life without Google. You would have to search the interwebs using some other search engine. You wouldn’t have the discrete advertising to the right of your search results. You might actually have to come into the library for … Continue reading →

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Pentagon 9/11

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Kate

A lot has been written about the Twin Towers on September 11th. Here’s your chance to find out more about the attack on the Pentagon and the rebuilding efforts. Published by the Defense Department, Pentagon 9/11 provides insightful details into … Continue reading →

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Western Carolina University adopting “Scholarship Reconsidered” as Tenure Policy

Posted on October 2, 2007 by huangj

While academia praised Ernest Boyer’s idea in Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) to abandon the traditional “teaching vs research” model, most campuses were paying only lip service. Tenure and promotion decisions are still based on traditional measures of research success: books or … Continue reading →

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Banned Books Week (Sept 29-Oct 6)

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Barbara

Banned Books Week is Sept. 29-Oct. 6, 2007. Have you read any of these? They are the most-challenged titles from 2000-2005. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor “Of … Continue reading →

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New Stuff Tuesday – September 4

Posted on September 4, 2007 by kyle

“They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration By Aviva Chomsky JV6455 .C46 2007 New Book Island, 2nd floor Immigration, one of the hot-button topics of the last few years and major key issues of the upcoming election, … Continue reading →

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Wait, Don’t Destroy Those Ones Yet

Posted on August 20, 2007 by kyle

As a follow-up to the August 6 post about Cambridge University Press and their libel lawsuit, it turns out that libel does not equal a death sentence for books in question. Yale University Press (YUP) faced a lawsuit from a … Continue reading →

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