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The U.S. Department of Education’s plan to drop data on libraries as part of its main postsecondary data system has generated intense blowback from academic librarians. The federal government’s ...

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Dr. Hall's major teaching interests are academic library service, library administration, organization of materials, technical processes and social aspects of information systems. Major research ...

After arguments over whether scientific research should be open to all rather than stuck behind paywalls, a new initiative in the U.K. is granting online access to journals in public libraries. The ...

The annual Fostering Change for Academic Library Leaders cohort is a nine-week, virtual program that aims to build a ...

The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a shorthand justification for an ideology that would ...

Faculty and librarians work on a research sprint at the University of Kansas Libraries in 2017. Photo: University of Kansas Libraries The race is on at universities in Kansas and Minnesota, where a ...

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