Liberal arts grads win long-term

Liberal arts majors may start off slower than others when it comes to the postgraduate career path, but they close much of the salary and unemployment gap over time, a new report shows. Read on @InsideHigherEd

Readers browsing books in bombed London library after WW2 air raid

@HistoryinPix The library: Holland House, Kensington, London. Photo: 1940 ©English Heritage

Online university courses: godsend or gimmick?

The Guardian launches a series – Extreme Learning – looking into the value of online education. Read @TheGuardian_education

Taking a stand

Take a stand…negotiating with publishers @ScholarlyCommunications_Duke

Thesis writing as method acting

Undergrads and scholarly writing, insights from Pegasus Librarian

The decentralized web

In light of the Snowden Effect, more people are thinking more about… @FreePress

Top ed-tech trends of 2013: hardware

Audrey Watters on top 2013 ed-tech trends

Liaison connection

As scholarly communication changes, as academic programs of cross-disciplinary clusters emerge and new media and means of distribution come on the scene, the culture of liaison librarians undergoes similar cross-disciplinary, collaborative shifts… @ACRLn

Quashing voice

This is not news, but there have been enough instances of it lately that it seems worth mentioning: a common strategy for serials publishers and vendors who feel beleaguered is to…Read on @LibraryLoon

The problem with Bill Gates’s vision

Rob Jenkins doesn’t begrudge the man his view, he just thinks it’s bad for higher education. Read @ChronicleHigherEducation

6 things I am wondering about discovery

More musings on and scrutiny of the knots of Discovery services… from Aaron Tay.

Redesigning the item record summary view in a library catalog and a discovery interface

Read @acrl_tech

Char Booth: re-imagining libraries/acting on ideas in and outside collaborative cultures

Project Information Literacy Interview with Booth

Student data is the new oil: MOOCs, metaphor and money

You can always count on Audrey Watters to ask pointed questions. Here, for instance… if educational data is indeed “the new oil,” how do we make sure that education technology isn’t poised simply to extract value from students? Read more… @HackEducation

What’s up?

Is it just greed? Is that what is behind the lawsuit over e-reserves and copyright infringement that publishers continue to pursue against Georgia State University? Read on… @ScholarlyCommunication_Duke

The big picture about peer-review

Speaking to a ‘bogus’ paper recently submitted to and accepted by an open access peer-reviewed journal, Scholarly Communications suggests that we look closely at “the limits of the label ‘peer-reviewed’,” adding that, it may be “open access itself that offers a better alternative.” Read more… @ScholarlyCommunications_Duke

MOOCs: corporate welfare for credit

Are MOOC (massive open online course) providers following a familiar strategy deployed by for-profit education in the charter reform movement? Read more…

Form+ adds more flexibility to your Google Forms

Use Google Forms for teaching? This handy tool can accept file uploads making it easier to organize student assignments. @FreeTechforteachers

Merchandising the circ desk: the importance of visual cues

If the intention of the reference desk is teaching then it shouldn’t look like an airline ticket counter or a traditional hotel front desk. Teaching space looks and behaves differently than answering-your-quick-question space. Read more… @TheUbiquituousLibrarian

Show your work | peer to peer review

Read @LibraryJournal