Building Academic Library 2.0

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Academic Library 2.0 Keynote Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian Norwich University, Northfield A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized...

Academic Cluster Computing Initiative

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In October 2007, Google announced that it was partnering with IBM to provide largescale cluster computing resources to undergraduate computer science students along with a creative commons licensed curriculum. Using the cluster and curriculum as a starting point, students have been able to...

Twilight of Academic Freedom

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Cary Nelson describes how the shift to a majority contingent faculty is an intellectual sea change for undergraduates as well as faculty themselves.

The Academic Working Poor

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Working in an airport gift shop, standing in line for free cheese, sharing a bowl of soup for dinner... these are the all-too-typical coping strategies adopted by the working poor among the contingent faculty who are now the overwhelming majority of the professoriate. In part 2 of our interview,...

"Connected" Part 2: Academic Uses

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What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff member is...

Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Research Networking

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Google Tech Talks January, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Topics include: * New applications and apps usage/deployment and the challenges they pose for networks * Network trends in the R&E community. o towards network virtualisation (circuits as a service/light paths provisioned by users...

Librarian's Guide to...Understanding Academic Copyright

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Prof Weasel struggles to understand the problems with the traditional journal publication system (he'd be better off going open access but he'd never understand it). All while the fat Mr G.Ratt publishers makes the big cheese...

INFORMAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

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Professor Bob Friedhoffer talks of the importance of informal science education in the USA and around the world.

Benjamin Netanyahu on the academic boycott

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This is not Britain's finest hour.

Brahms, Academic Festival Overture, Davis Jr High School Orc

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Performance of the Davis Combined Jr High Advanced Orchestra at their Finale Concert, May 23, 2007 See: http://groups.dcn.org/jhs-orchestras for orchestra information

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