Items of interest

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

Two items of note:

1.  In the December 5 issue of Business Week (p. 50 of the California 
hardcopy edition), there is an article on the financial situation of 
Oxford University.  One item under consideration (hard for me to believe, 
but that is what it says) is to sell Oxford University Press:  " Another 
idea is to sell of Oxford University Press, which made $128 million in 
profits last year, to raise an endowment kitty."  Could that figure 
possibly be correct?

2.  A friend pointed me to an excellent essay by Cornell's Sarah Thomas:

http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2174

Perhaps some of what is in here is old news to the librarians on this 
list, but I found the piece to be innovative and provocative, the kind of 
thing that makes you rethink your own mental categories even when you 
don't entirely agree with it.  The topic is new forms of cooperation among 
libraries in the future.  Definitely worth looking at.

Joe Esposito