Academe Links March 26, 2007

Nonprofit Colleges Are Likely to Challenge For-Profit Sector in Online Education, Report Predicts http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/03/2007032601t.htm?rss

Commencement Speakers

http://chronicle.com/free/speakers/?today=03-26-2007

Joyce Copyright Case

http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/03/2007032604n.htm?rss

http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_5517682

http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003739.shtml

Tenure Reform: The Time Has Come

http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/03/26/brown

Solid Raises for College Staff

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/26/salaries

What is the Future of Text Online?

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=119978

UK Schools refuse gifts of 'boring' classics http://lisnews.org/articles/07/03/21/1134208.shtml

How Google Books is Changing Academic History http://landscape.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-google-books-is-changing-academic.html

A National Information Literacy Framework http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/ils/framework.html

Tool: Zamzar (beta)

http://www.zamzar.com/

Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian, a new UK online forum http://www.digital-historian.net/

Tool: Zudos

http://zudos.com/

Second Life Info Island

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info Island/99/123/33/

Comparison of Bibliographic Search Engines http://mahbub.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/comparison-of-bibliographic-search-engines/

R. C. Rybnikar

Babson College Archives

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http://www.babson.edu/archives

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Comment from researcher to Horn Library staffer.