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Bandwidth Futures
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

As a person assigned responsibility for developing the strategic vision of the University’s access to the world’s digital resources, I read with interest yesterday’s report in the Chronicle of Higher Education of an industry-sponsored study about overall inability of available bandwidth to meet demand in coming years. The Chronicle cites concerns from some readers [...]

The Demise of Reading
Monday, November 19th, 2007

The subtitle for this, my first blogpost, should probably be “The New Disability: An Evaporating Capacity to Engage Complex (or Even Just Lengthy) Texts.” The folks who work with me have heard me worry about this notion for some time now, and a recent Chronicle link drove the point home for me. The Chronicle story [...]