Why numerical literacy is important.

The falling cats would be great to use with students.

Uses and Misuses of Statistics

A nice and funny speech by RBI DG KC Chakrabarty on the topic. He uses some very funny examples on how people misuse stats. Sample this: In article about cats appeared in The New York Times’...

Find out why an infographic about research needs better research...

Research and an infographic about research « NeverEndingSearch

Wikipedia. Infographics are viral. In my own PLN, one of us discovers an infographic relevant to learning or libraries or research and it's all over the edtech/library world in a matter of minutes...

Google Books digitization slows...

Would this have happened if the legal problems experienced by this project and Hathi Trust had been more easily resolved?

Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Jennifer Howard. Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project. But what that ...

Publishers, Libraries and Copyright.

This meeting summary generated a lot of interesting online comments.

How to Protect Copyright Is Key Topic at Publishers' Meeting - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Book reviews.... getting students into the act.

If your online catalog has social media tools, students could also post reviews there...

Crowdsourced Book-Review Project Puts Critiques Online - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The traditional academic-publishing industry moves slowly, and scholarly book reviews can take a long time to get printed. So one group of students is trying to speed up the review process and make it...

Retention of online reading.

I read a lot online. Not sure that I've noticed a major difference. Thoughts, anyone?

Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? | Healthland | TIME.com

I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying "light reading," in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found tha...

Using Google Books to find quotes

This is a great idea! The article has an example with step-by-step instructions.

Can’t Confirm That Quotation? Search Google Books | MindShift

Dear Savvy Searcher,. “We have hit a stumper. A colleague is looking for confirmation that Maya Angelou said the following (along with where and when): 'We all should know that diversity makes for...