There’s No Place Like Home

One of the reports on higher ed and technology that I make a point of reading every year when it comes out is The ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology. I read it because it never fails to give me at least one “aha” moment that shifts my [...]

The Disruption of Universities – and Libraries

The week before last I both attended and gave a talk at the Institute for Computer Policy and Law. There was an interesting thread on how IT is disrupting universities, and university libraries, that ran through a number of the presentations. For this post, I’m going to draw on material from three of those presentations: [...]

IT Policy and Security

This post will be a bit less “fun” than most, and it’s also pretty specifically focused on Cornell Library issues. If you are not that interested in the IT policy part, I would still encourage you to check out the new handbook on Computer Security at Cornell, since it will be useful to all Cornell [...]