Council on Library and Information Resources  Core Functions of the Research Library in the 21st CenturyFebruary 27, 2008 http://www.clir.org/activities/registration/08r21.html "The information landscape of early twenty-first century higher educatio… more »

This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (April 29) underscores what other recent studies have shown.  "Eszter Hargittai, an assistant professor in Northwestern University?s sociology department, has discovered that students aren?t nearly… more »

Roy Tennant recently wrote about New Directions for the UC Berkeley Library on his Library Journal blog. Roy provides an accurate picture of our process - it is worth a read. He also highlights our tag cloud, which I promised to update in a previous post… more »

According to a recent article in the New York Times: Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops? co… more »

This recent article in Wired made me think about the New Directions project, and specifically about how we might rethink some of our paradigms. Essentially, the article talks about how Apple got into the cell phone business and turned it upside down.… more »