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Imagining a better future for Higher Education
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here are some takeaways:
🌼 open access without open infrastructure cannot meet the goals of equity, quality, usability, and sustainability. Regardless of who owns them, decisions about our platforms must be transparent and community driven.
🌼 it is hard to move people away from closed infrastructure like social media platforms because we expect these platforms to be free and easy to use.
Listening to Alan Liu talk today:
How do we show that the humanities can scale between individual experiences and global or national events?
I have a new article!
It’s about photostats, the copying technology that transformed how libraries circulate information and set the stage for microfilm, photocopy, and digitization. I ask how librarians came to define a good copy - and what that means for copies today.
DM for a copy.
Thanks to amazing editors @wynkenhimself and Jesse Erickson 📚
Erica Watson
Hourly Otters (old)