The last time I was asked to speak at an AAUP meeting was in Denver in 1999 and naturally the topic was metadata. As I told the audience last week in Chicago, I don’t know what I said at that meeting but I was never asked back! I am fairly confident most of what I did say in Denver still has relevance today, and as I thought about what I was going to say this time, it was the length of time...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
A short piece in Inside Higher Ed two weeks ago announced the quiet demise of the New York Times' foray into online education and learning. As reported in IHEd, Times spokeswoman Linda Zeban confirmed the news by saying "I can confirm that after July 31, Knowledge Network courses will no longer be available online," As I noted in 2007 (again referencing a report in IHEd) the venture looked both...
Monday, June 25, 2012
Blackboard is in the run up to their annual user conference next month so expect more announcements to come but this one is significant. Blackboard and The Learning Company have announced a partnership to integrate TLC content within the Blackboard platform which will, they hope, enable K-12 teachers to create high quality content for their courses quickly and easily within the Blackboard Learn...
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Last week the Association of American University Presses held their annual conference in Chicago, (where I attended and made two presentations but more on that later) and there were several write-ups. First, the organizers added a session on the last afternoon about the Georgia eReserves case and here is a blow-by-blow of the session (Inside Higher Ed):University presses are still unhappy with...
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Strategy+Business has an interesting article titled "How to be a more Coherent Marketer" (S+B)Many of our respondents pointed to the importance of developing senior marketing executives with traits that will enable them to evolve as the scope of their responsibilities changes. For instance, best-in-class senior marketing leaders demonstrate a collaborative and participative leadership style. They...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
By nature, business development is often more disappointing than validating. That brilliant deal you thought was so obvious and beneficial can fail for all kinds of reasons. Rallying internal support for a business initiative can be harder than finding the perfect external partner and there’s no accounting for how short-sighted or uninspired a company might be in assessing its position...
Monday, June 11, 2012
Jay McInerney writing in the Observer about The Great Gatsby (Observer):The Great Gatsby seems to be enjoying a moment, what with the success of the New York production of Gatz, opening in London (described by America's leading theatre critic Ben Brantley as "The most remarkable achievement in theatre not only of this year but also of this decade"), and the release later this year of Baz Luhrman's...
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Park Court Hotel, Cheetham Hill, Manchester 1972This was one of my grand father's bed and breakfast hotels and on travels back to England we stayed here a few times. As was typical of the time, most of the rooms had their own electricity meter and I remember that you had to feed this meter 50pense coins...
Friday, June 8, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Most conferences now encourage attendees to reach out in advance to set up meetings with exhibitors. I tend to use this option as a last resort but and I've occasionally been able to set up business meetings with a target this way. London Bookfair and BookExpo are two conferences where I used their conference networking function. Unfortunately, it is my experience this avenue is frequently...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Gail Collins in the NY Review of Books on the influence of Texas and the selection of content in many educational textbooks. It's an old story but entertaining nevertheless.The changes often seemed to be thrown out haphazardly, and to pass or fail on the basis of frequently opaque conclusions on the part of the swing members. In 2010, the board tossed out books by the late Bill Martin Jr., the...
Monday, June 4, 2012
ISHEd reviews the latest information pertaining to the Georgia State eReserves case (ISHEd)Strictly speaking, Cambridge v. Patton only pertains to e-reserve practices at Georgia State. However, given the ambiguity over the boundaries of educational fair use with respect to academic libraries, many observers expect that the resolution of the case will cause ripple effects in e-reserve policies...
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Some of the many interesting sessions at the Book Expo conference here in the big smoke this week. (Full Program)Raise Your Revenue & Increase Your Profit Margins With Direct-To-Consumer SalesDate: Monday, June 4 9:30 am - 10:20 am Location: 1E04 Author/Participant: Don Leeper (Founder ) BookMobile John Oakes (co-publisher) OR Books Keith Shay (CEO) Ware-Pak ...
In a heavily retweeted article, The Nation takes a look at The Amazon Effect. In the process, the author seems to rely a lot on what Jason Epstein had to say. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).Jeff Bezos got what he wanted: Amazon got big fast and is getting bigger, dwarfing all rivals. To fully appreciate the fear that is sucking the oxygen out of publishers’ suites, it...
Friday, June 1, 2012
Bus Station Kabul 1971I think this was the central bus station for Kabul. Hard to tell but there does seem to be some commotion down front where it looks like a crowd has gather over some dispute or other.See all the bus passengers crammed onto the bus on the right. Hope they're not going far.Another weekly...
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