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Selling Placement in Library Search Results


This morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog has a story with the title “Should Colleges Sell Ads to Pay for New Technology?” that links to a blog posting by Martin Weller of the Open University in the U.K. As it happens, a colleague and I were talking about a strikingly similar topic at lunch yesterday: not just that advertisements could pay for new technology but that ads could pay for content in the libraries. I felt strangely uncomfortable with the concept, and I still do, so (in jester fashion) what better way to explore the discomfort than in a posting here on DLTJ.

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Data Visualization: Depth, Breadth, and Malleable


In case you haven’t run across Gapminder.org yet, I encourage you to carve out about 45 minutes of a day to do so. Even before going to the URL above, your first stop should be this 20 minute video by Hans Rosling — professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute — from a TEDtalk last year. 1

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2007 05 22 Comments (1)
From the Disruptive Library Technology Jester (http://dltj.org/), printed on Friday the 14th of November 2008 at 5:49:49 AM EST (-0500). The URL to this page is http://dltj.org/tag/search/

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