Tech & Innovation

Faculty members say U. of San Diego layoffs of library workers whose jobs weren't digital fly in the face of the Catholic institution's social teachings.

Citing a need to save money and rethink information access, several liberal arts colleges have placed libraries and IT in the same administrative unit.

Students who loathed a Pennsylvania university's weeklong campus ban of social networking sites last year won't be happy today. But the university hopes they'll learn something.

The residential liberal arts college remains vital, but the model needs to consider how recent advances may transform education, writes Barry Mills.

U. of Michigan Library admits to flaws in process for identifying copyright "orphans" in HathiTrust Digital Library, in setback for project aimed at increasing access to digitized texts.

A sharp split over digitized versions of "orphan works," as well as anger over Google's books project, led authors' group to sue major university libraries.

U. of Illinois says it is trying to protect privacy and intellectual property, but two national groups see unreasonable limits on free speech.

The exercise of figuring out one’s “porn star name” is probably more familiar to college students than to college administrators...