The latest issue of Reference Services Review (Volume 39 issue 3) includes: - Developing learning landscapes : academic libraries driving organisational change by Leo Appleton, Valerie Stevenson, Debbi Boden - Library and Marketing Class Collaborate To Create Next Generation Learning Landscape by Sabra E. USA UK academic sector Information Literac MORE >>

Unemployment remains disturbingly high in the United States, and at the same time, employers can’t seem to find the right people. Despite there being a massive surplus of people looking for work, companies are having a hard time finding talent. billboards lining the freeways in Silicon Valley. Why the short supply on local talent? MORE >>

Sometimes the efforts are small and unsanctioned, sometimes they are big and bold, but increasingly businesses are employing social media strategically to engage deeply with both their workers and customers. We see this all the time in the large firms represented in our Social Business Council and elsewhere. This is often called the pilot phase. MORE >>

Continuing our series of conversations between fellow-futurist Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency and myself, here is our session on the future of newspapers. Are we interested in news, or in paper? The newspaper industry may not die but it certainly won’t grow, but the news business can and probably will grow. MORE >>

Mathew Ingram posed an interesting piece, No, Twitter Is Not a Replacement For Journalism , on Gigaom.    I have covered this topic a bit already. see The New Twitter Journalism or if your prefer, Le Nouveau Journalisme Twitter ) as well as: Can Social Media Support Quality Journalism? say that in some cases it will not be. MORE >>