Newsletter 2673 Issue 26732010225143359

Editor's Note

At an O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference keynote on Tuesday, Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington introduced a new section titled HuffPost College, which will highlight "voices from colleges and universities all around the country and offers a real-time snapshot of what's going on in the lives of the nation's 19 million college students."

It will feature a very different set of stories than those you'll find in the Newswire, but may help you learn more about your student patrons. Don't miss our coverage of the digital textbook discussions at TOC, and as always, enjoy the Newswire.—Josh Hadro, Editor, Academic Newswire

• The Scientific American Controversy: a Q&A with NPG's Steven Inchcoombe
  Publisher defends price increase, says only a handful of subscriptions have been lost.
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• New Mexico State Must Cut Materials Budget by 27%
  focus on journals, says library dean, and consider cost per use.
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• Librarians at McMaster University in Ontario Vote to Unionize
  Leaving the faculty association, librarians approved labor board certification last week.
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• O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change Conference Highlights Copyright, Digital Textbooks
  Trend toward faculty additions to course materials and textbooks may press libraries to reconsider their stance.
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• Experts Offer Predictions Regarding Internet as of 2020
  Google not a threat to intelligence, new apps will surprise, most agree.
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• Peer to Peer Review—The Inflatable CV
  Barbara Fister tackles the productivity problem in her campaign for liberation bibliography.
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• From the Bell Tower—For-Profits and the Search for the Key to Better Retention
  When it comes to student retention, says Steven Bell, we could all use more answers and less data.
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• People
  Featured people from the library world.
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• Best Sellers in Computer Science
  June 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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