Colleges Challenge Web Advertising Practices of For-Profit Institutions

An article in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education looks at web-sponsored links of for-profit institutions and online degree programs.

RSS Changing How People Access News

NewsHour has a story this month on how news organizations are using new technologies such as RSS feeds to reach and build their audiences.

College Librarians Highlight Rare Collections

A story in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education says that a growing number of librarians are trying to turn their libraries' rare holdings into promotional and marketing tools for their institutions. Special collections, librarians say, can help charm tech-obsessed undergraduates into a love affair with old-fashioned books, and with the library as a whole.

Summer Reading List

Here's a list of books for your summer reading, recommended by members of the St. Thomas Libraries staff.

Library Catalogs and RSS Feeds

The Shifted Librarian reports that Innovative (the producer of the libraries' online catalog) has some interesting features in upcoming product releases, including RSS (Really Simple Syndication), "smart" linking, and spell-checking for catalog searches - likely in 2006.