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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. How do academic libraries spend their budgets?

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

EAB

You need a better content library. Not only do enrollment and marketing leaders often struggle with differentiation and distinctiveness, but several other industries have poked fun at higher ed’s marketing sea-of-sameness—check out Reese’s University and Monsters University if you haven’t already. What is an asset library?

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Maine’s Colby College counters higher ed mistrust with community outreach

University Business

A major investment in surrounding Waterville has brought more than 30 new businesses and art programs, while a downtown dormitory houses students, who commit to working in area homeless shelters, the public library or schools. Read more from Public News Service.

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CCS Announces Winter 2024 Lecture Programming

College for Creative Study

The Toyota Lecture Series will feature accomplished alumni and industry professionals from the disciplines of Communication Design, Advertising Design, Entertainment Arts, Illustration, User Experience Design, Film and Photography. All lectures are free and open to the public. Her poetry has been translated into German, French and Italian.

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Facility reinvestment, bogged by inflationary costs, manages upswing in 2024, report

University Business

Research takes place just as often in a student’s room as in the library,” the report reads. Staffing shortages will possibly increase in the coming years, as an estimated 40% of current building industry workers will retire by 2030, according to the National Center for Construction Education and Research.

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Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning

EAB

Library Access: Stanford Alumni Association members have free access to the University’s library and library database of thousands of journals, trade publications, and newspapers. Additionally, Harvard University alumni are allowed to apply for a Library Borrowing Card at no charge, giving alumni on-site access to the library.

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Career Ceilings

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For an industry as status-obsessed as it is, higher ed is remarkably bad at building career ladders. For colleges that only have one library, the next step up for the head of the library is likely a very different job. This week’s piece in IHE about community colleges’ struggles to hire staff reminded me of that.