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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? I did not do enough research to answer the questions I was posing. The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work.

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3 Questions for Elizabeth Dellavedova, Associate Library Director at a Public Community College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Elizabeth Dellavedova, associate library director at a community college, connected with me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Q: Can you share your concerns about my blog post on academic library spending? Ask about library resources.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Professor Andrew Comrie reached out after reading my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Sarah R. Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Can you enlighten us?

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Want to improve your enrollment marketing campaign? You need a better content library.

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You need a better content library. In response to our discussion, the Enroll360 creative team crowdsourced a list of tips and suggestions for enrollment and marketing teams who want to create the ideal asset library. What is an asset library? 7 Tenets of an Effective Campaign Asset Library. Mind the minimum quality.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?