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The Academic Library: Cowpath or Path to the Future?
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This article looks at how one academic library rejected tradition, got off the cowpath and created a different kind of academic library, one that is innovative and fits the mission of an experimental new college.Abstract:
This paper relates the traditional academic library to the expression, âdonât pave the cowpathâ. Originating in the IT world, this expression means to not integrate technology into an established practice without assessing whether the process is still effective or still needed. Even though sustaining technologies have simplified information retrieval and library tasks, library organizational structure and processes remain pretty much unchanged. This article discusses the cowpath that academic libraries have followed for decades and the challenges disruptive technologies pose to the traditional model. It looks at how one academic library rejected tradition, got off the cowpath and created a different kind of academic libraryâone that is innovative and fits the mission of an experimental new college. Âread more
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TL;DR: This is the final textual volume in The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882 1953, published in 3 series comprising 37 volumes: "The Early Works", 1882 1898 "(5 vols.); "The Middle Works, 1899 1924 "(15 vols.)); "Later Works, 1925 1953 "(17 vols.). Volume 17 contains Dewey s writings discovered after publication of the appropriate volume of The Selected Works and spans most of his publishing life.
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The Inevitability of Open Access
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