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EDUCAUSE, Cornell Form Institute for Computer Policy, Law

EDUCAUSE, Cornell Form Institute for Computer Policy, Law By Ronald Roach DENVEREDUCAUSE, higher education’s leading association for information technology, and Cornell University have developed the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law (ICPL). The institute’s formation comes at a time when colleges and universities are aligning their information technology policies with evolving legislation and cybersecurity […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive ATLANTAEmory University has received a gift to its library collections that greatly increases teaching and research opportunities in 20th-century African American studies. A portion of the Hatch/Billops Collection in New York — an extraordinary collection assembled during the past 35 years — has been given to […]

November 20, 2002

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Tracking Down People With a Little Help From the Internet

Tracking Down People With a Little Help From the InternetBy Reid Goldsborough You can find a mind-boggling amount of information on the Internet about virtually every conceivable subject. However, you can’t find everything, and sometimes you have to use traditional offline sources, such as books and libraries. The same is true with people. The Internet […]

November 6, 2002

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Getting Your Facts Straight

Getting Your Facts StraightSay you’re writing a report and need to double-check a fact or two. Or say you just heard something on TV or the radio and want to make sure it’s correct. What do you do?In the past, you reached for an almanac or encyclopedia or headed to the library. Today, in the […]

October 9, 2002

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Survey: Internet Now Part of Everyday Life

Survey: Internet Now Part of Everyday Life For College StudentsCHICAGOAndy Perez uses the library at Rice University in Houston for the quiet, not the books. He does his research online. Edell Fiedler taps into the Internet to register for classes and check grades at Minnesota State University, Mankato, sometimes saving her the 60-mile drive to […]

October 9, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History Project

Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History ProjectNEW YORKColumbia University has launched the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project, which will include an archive of Dinkins’ official and personal papers and correspondence, an oral history of Dinkins’ life, political philosophy and policy agenda, and a program initiative documenting the influences of Black […]

May 22, 2002

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Breaking the Information Logjam

Breaking the Information LogjamToday, in the Information Age, we typically think of ourselves as being uniquely inundated with information. But nearly two millennia ago, the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote, “What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, […]

May 8, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]

May 8, 2002

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Malcolm X Archival Material Rescued From the Auction Block

Malcolm X Archival Material Rescued From the Auction BlockSchomburg Center could be recipient of collection, Shabazz family says    Scholars around the nation are breathing sighs of relief now that a treasure trove of original speech manuscripts, diaries, photos and letters belonging to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — more commonly known as Malcolm X — have been […]

April 10, 2002

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The Rising Cost of Free Lunches on the Web

The Rising Cost of Free Lunches on the WebThe golden age of the Web is over. Or is it? The ongoing tumble in the value of technology stocks and the subsequent drying up of venture capital for dot-coms has had a dramatic repercussion for Web-empowered consumers and businesses: Many Web services that were once free […]

September 12, 2001

Native Americans

Library Program to Recruit Hispanics, American Indians

Library Program to Recruit Hispanics, American Indians TUCSON, Ariz.The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science is using a $500,000 federal grant to boost the numbers of Hispanics and American Indians who are employed as academic or public librarians. Fewer than five percent of librarians are Hispanic and less than one percent […]

August 29, 2001

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Law School Urged to Increase Admissions Standards

Law School Urged to Increase Admissions StandardsAmerican Bar Association concerned with Texas Southern University law school’s bar exam failure rate. By Lydia LumHOUSTONBased on an accreditation review, the American Bar Association (ABA) has criticized Texas Southern University’s law school, saying its students are “short-changed.” Among other things, the ABA said TSU officials enroll students “incapable” […]

August 29, 2001