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Academic librarians are pleased with the progress they’ve made in leading their campuses to recognize the value of Open Educational Resources (OER). Now publishers are responding to OER with new learning platforms. It may be time for a new strategy....

There is no better city than Boston in which to hold the first professional conference of the election year. This is especially true for the Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits of the American Library Association (ALA), to be held January 8–12, 2016. It...

Creating Sustainable Community By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Reporter and Blogger Note: A summary of this article appeared in the June 2015 issue of Against The Grain, v27 #3, on page XX. The 2015 conference of the Association of College...

President Obama signing the Every Student Succeeds Act. whitehouse.gov I am savoring the moments spent watching President Obama sign the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) on December 10, 2015. The long-awaited rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary...

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (KF) announced its second News Challenge on Libraries at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Conference in January, asking for entries that would address the question, “How might libraries serve...