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My colleague Brad Matthies<\/a> shared a link to a bit of library science fiction in the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><\/a>. It is an obituary, written in 2050, in the wake of the passing away of\u2026the academic library.<\/p>\n

Brad also shared links to two articles<\/a> about Wikipedia in academic settings. Both appear in the online journal First Monday<\/em> and thus\u00a0are freely accessible without an academic library, I ought to point out.<\/p>\n

Also related to digital scholarship is the new blog<\/a> dedicated to \u201cPaperless Archaeology<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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