Day: November 9, 2017

Ask the Administrator: Labeling OER Sections

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Ask the Administrator: Labeling OER Sections

Will this force all faculty to migrate to the free/online materials? What will happen to publishers? What will be the incentive for faculty to write textbooks
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Jacques Pauw expected years of legal shenanigans after publishing his book

Author Jacques Pauw (in striped shirt) prior to the official launch of his book The President's Keepers at Exclusive Books in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.
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Small Business Saturday feature: Plains Trading Company

… religious, cooking, crafts and quilting, modern-day best sellers, and ever popular vintage books such as those by Mari Sandoz or Nellie Snyder Yost.
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It's no wonder there's no 'book of the year'. Publishers have forgotten how to edit

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It's no wonder there's no 'book of the year'. Publishers have forgotten how to edit

Where is that word-of-mouth publishing sensation which grips the nation, that Secret History clutched in every hand on the Tube, subject of countless
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Intro to Grant Writing course to be held at a later date

MCHENRY — The Garrett College's Continuing Education and Workforce Development division has rescheduled Introduction to Grant Writing which
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State Security Agency tries to block Jacques Pauw's book again

The SSA in their first letter to the publisher last week said the book contravened the Intelligence Service Act and wanted parts of the book recalled.
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General Manager

The Crossroad Publishing Company is looking for a General Manager combined with sales & marketing responsibility. We are a leading independent
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Finding your community: National Young Writers' Festival celebrates 20 years

Members of the bookselling and publishing communities are also invited to apply for the current vacancies for the 2018-19 festivals. Applications to be
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How I sold out to the Putin-Soros-Murdoch conspiracy to destroy Western civilization

He's professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. You can support his attempts to build a
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Ebook imposters selling fake novels on Amazon Kindle

Ebook imposters selling fake novels on Amazon Kindle … A growing number of novelists claim that imposters are selling ebooks on Amazon … the Society of Authors, said the problem may lie with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
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DCL Discovery Bridge Helps Publishers Make Content More Discoverable

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DCL Discovery Bridge Helps Publishers Make Content More Discoverable

They created DCL Discovery Bridge, “a hosted subscription-based service that allows publishers to offload the burden [of discovery services' varied
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Wyoming newspaper publisher buys Sisters weekly

A Wyoming newspaper publisher who's bullish on weeklies is the new owner of The Nugget, which has been serving Sisters since 1978. J. Louis
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Alumnus, comic artist prepares for launch of graphic novel

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Alumnus, comic artist prepares for launch of graphic novel

Publication of the graphic novel “Bodie Troll” in February 2018 will be a … material and “never-before-seen” stories created exclusively for the book.
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Graphic novels exhibit at Cal State Fullerton shows myriad paths to creativity

Campus clubs that participated in the exhibit include Sigma Tau Delta, Acacia, the Creative Writing Club and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club.
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LOVING VINCENT | Handcrafted film animates Van Gogh

I came across this film by accident. Maybe divine accident, if you believe in that sort of stuff. A film with 65,000 frames handcrafted by 125 classically
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Don't tax me, bro!

“I was the president who urged [the corporate tax rate] to be raised to 35 percent, but when I did it, it was precisely in the middle of OECD countries.
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First Book Was Key For Local Authors At Library Fair

It feels more doable than ever, thanks to online self-publishing tools, e-books, and retailers like Amazon. And if you need any inspiration, the
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Bighorn sheep horns in on west Loveland business

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Bighorn sheep horns in on west Loveland business

A bighorn sheep ram stares through a staff entrance of the Group Publishing office building, 1515 Cascade Ave., in west Loveland around 1:15 p.m.
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Texas education officials reject another Mexican-American studies textbook

When the other book was rejected in November, the board issued a second call for ethnic studies book proposals — giving publishers less than a year
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Is Shaq Attaq! Literature? Does It Matter?

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Is Shaq Attaq! Literature? Does It Matter?

The assignment was to write about a work of literature. … I told him I liked him and would hate to see him fail the course when he was so close to
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Poet PT Paul to speak at Nov. 20 LA Beach Writers Meeting

20 L.A. Beach Writers meeting at the Gulf Shores Library, located at 221 W 19th Ave … In Creative Writing from the University of South Alabama (USA).
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Franklin County Sheriff: Don't send money to Mexico

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) – Deputies are warning about a recent scam involving a fake call from Publishers Clearing House stating that you
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Premiere: Wellington's Erith Unveils New Single 'Talk'

… for people listening, it's also whole new territory in regards to my writing. It will of course have remnants of heartbreak and many many vocal layers.”.
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Review: 'Office Hour' Is the Play That Goes Bang

Set on a university campus, the play concerns a student named Dennis who is not doing well in a creative-writing class. Big whoop. What's the worst
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LA History Museum to host lecture on Ranch School at 7 pm Tuesday

The Los Alamos History Museum will present a lecture by Sharon Snyder at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fuller Lodge, called “How Los Alamos Became a
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Theater Review: Office Hour Is a Well-Intentioned Mistake

… her student, a silent loner in a black hoodie and sunglasses whose creative-writing assignments are aggressively sexual, scatological, and violent.
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Vets to meet at 9/11 Tribute Museum to share tales of war, peace

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Vets to meet at 9/11 Tribute Museum to share tales of war, peace

Marine Corps veteran Jared Alexander, above left, at a recent creative writing class at NYU in Manhattan, will discuss his writings along with other vets
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Ladee Hubbard's 'The Talented Ribkins' Wins 11th Annual Ernest Gaines Award

New Orleans writer Ladee Hubbard's novel, “The Talented Ribkins,” has … a master's of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin.
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NLA unveils restored Blaeu map

The National Library of Australia (NLA) has unveiled the restored 1663 map of Australia by cartographer Joan Blaeu for the first time, after acquiring
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ARTS NEWS: 404 Ink suffrage book, Deveron Arts talk peace, RIAS architecture prize, Shetland …

THE Scottish publishers 404 Ink and BHP Comics are to bring out a graphic novel anthology to mark the centenary of woman gaining the power to
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NLA to relaunch CiP service as Prepublication Data Service

Pre-publication records will continue to be upgraded to full cataloguing standards once a legal deposit of the corresponding book has been processed
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The Doreen Fernandez Food Writing Award awaits your 'bagoong' stories

Ilocano strong.” I remembered his pronouncement when I had to write about Ilocano cooking for the first time. And then, of course, papa's stories about
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'It's shocking': Moose Jaw Times-Herald, city's only daily, to print final issue next month

After more than a century of publishing, the Moose Jaw Times-Herald will publish its last issue on Dec. 7. Star News Publishing Inc., the company that
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BMG Signs Sydney Artist Jesse Porsches To Global Publishing Deal

“I had spoken to just about every publisher at one point or another. The team at BMG are really driven and hardworking, so I knew straight away that I
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Campus creative writing shouldn't be limited to arts and humanities students

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Campus creative writing shouldn't be limited to arts and humanities students

The canon of creative writing at Western University is limited in contrast to the number of students with the ability to contribute to it. Campus
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Books by famous Kiwi authors sent to China to help kids learn English

… series hopes to engage Chinese children, helping them to understand the context of words through the use of illustrations and creative writing.
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Laux to headline Marcus Poetry Reading

Laux teaches poetry in the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where she lives with her husband Joseph Millar, also
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Publishers push ResearchGate harder in copyright battle

ResearchGate has moved at least 1.7 million articles to make them less easily available, according to a publishers' group that sent mass take-down
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Rights news/offering detail

Description: Daniel, a brazen, well-liked high school senior, has pursued his English teacher, Mr. Stewart, since the year began. When the two begin
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The New York Times Best Sellers – Politics and American History

Boston University Libraries holdings from the NY Times Best Sellers list in Politics and American History. 9 Items in the List The New York Times Best
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Omaha author Andrew Hilleman reads excerpt from first novel at Bailey Library

Tim Schaffert, an associate professor and the director of creative writing at UNL, started the questions off by asking Hilleman when he felt like he had
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Student Authors at Amarillo ISD

For two months, these students researched and some worked together in exploring the world of self-publishing. Now their books are all available for
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Skadden, Davis Polk and Clifford Chance Advise on Tencent Ebook Unit $1B IPO

Shanghai-based China Literature was formed in 2015 when Tencent's own e-reading arm acquired China's largest online publishing company
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Sullivan named Associate Publisher of Gold Country Media

In this new role, Sullivan will work hand in hand with Tom Kirk, Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of BCI and Gold Country Media Publisher
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Celebrating 10 years of publishing young authors

A group of young writers aged 9 to 13 have published a new book, joining a team of accomplished authors and illustrators who have helped raise
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Don't hibernate … educate

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Don't hibernate … educate

Add to this list a course in mediation, one in negotiations, a tenure at Harvard University one summer, and two courses in creative writing at Edison
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Vintage Video #1's: Eddie Boyd Tops the R&B Singles For Seven Weeks With "Five Long Years …

Specifically, Boyd was at the top of the Juke Box list starting 65 years ago today on November 8, 1952 (he also topped the R&B best sellers list for two
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