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Interesting post this morning in The Chronicle of Higher Education.  An opinion piece from David Lewis (dean of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library and assistant vice president for digital scholarly communications at Indiana University) makes the by now well-known case that we need to lower textbook costs. The Chronicle’s tweet goes a tad ……

Inside Higher Ed’s Technology and Learning blogger Josh Kim has written about Symtext. We couldn’t be more pleased.  Josh has also asked his readers for ideas to help us so let me make it clear that we’re all ears over here!
Let me also take a few minutes to respond to a couple of the questions ……

There’s nothing like a little sun, both physical and metaphorical, to make your day.
So after a brilliant long weekend, it’s nice to step out of the proverbial shadows with today’s coverage in the Toronto Star. Here’s an extract or three from Naomi Carniol’s piece:
Unlike a traditional eBook, which digitizes an entire paper book, the ……

On Saturday May 15th I went back to school and attended BookCampTO held at the iSchool at UofT. As I walked through the familiar doors I wondered what new information my old classrooms would hold. The outline for the day looked promising: it began with coffee and ended with drinks. With bookends like those ……