New Jobs for New Directions

The position appearing below is currently being recruited for within UC Berkeley's Educational Technology Services to work on Berkeley's contribution to the Kuali Student project. It struck me that the library should be creating complimentary pos… more »

Emerging Issues Framework

I'd like to suggest we add a category, something like National and International Impact / Roles Under it I would add ideas like political actionnationwide collaborationslibrary as open access publishercollecting via in-country digitizationintentional… more »
Dec 04, 2007 | Categories: The global library, Emerging issues framework | gford

The Library - our public obligation?

The latest edition of "Bear in Mind", conversations with Chancellor Birgeneau, has just been released http://www.berkeley.edu/news/chancellor/bim/ . The Chancellor talks here of the Hewlett Challenge Grant, the Energy Biosciences Institute, and… more »
Oct 24, 2007 | Categories: The global library | gford

Betsy Wilson - Libraries for a saner and more secure world

New Directions is a big topic and invites us to look beyond the daily mysteries of moving projects forward and paying for stuff. Betsy's talk ranged from how we might recreate local spaces, to how we might collaborate on a global scale. I guess the i… more »
Oct 19, 2007 | Categories: The global library | gford