The textbook has long been a mainstay of education. Although online textbooks can provide students with easy (and sometimes free) access to increasingly interactive resources, authors have a bewildering array of tools and publishing models to select from.

“Science is a broad church, full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less”. That’s according to Steve Jones, but in Computing Education Research (CER) are we being too narrow-minded about what counts (and what doesn’t count) as a contribution?

Veranstaltungsbericht zur Diskussion der o-bib-Themenschwerpunkte Überblick Am 15. Juli 2025 kamen rund 85 Personen und die geschäftsführenden Herausgeber*innen der Zeitschrift „o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal“ sowie die Initiator*innen eines Themenschwerpunkts in einem oa.talk miteinander ins Gespräch.

Appalachian History Series Setting the Scene On the South Fork Holston River just southeast of Bristol, Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority built South Holston Dam to curb destructive flooding and to supply hydropower in the mid-twentieth century. The project impounded a long, slender reservoir that reaches about 24 miles into Virginia, and it became the upstream anchor of TVA’s Holston River system.

Introduction This piece makes a simple claim: Google’s AI Mode may out-search you, but it won’t necessarily be able to out-evaluate you. Launched in March 2025 (US in May, global in August), AI mode pairs Gemini 2.5 Pro with aggressive fan-out—splitting a question into many sub-queries, sweeping hundreds of pages, and answering in seconds. Thanks for reading Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship!

In the old days, research was done by famous individuals. Nowadays, research is a team effort! Working together requires making agreements about how to collaborate and using common tools. These kinds of agreements (or standards) and tools are especially crucial given the amount of data nowadays.

I don’t write about my non-working life much on the Internet; my online presence has been pretty closely tied to Rowan and I try to adhere to some level of what Mary Harrington calls “digital modesty” regarding my family. Still, some basic demographics are helpful for context. I have two kids (aged 2 and 4) and one more due in December.

Appalachian History Series Introduction Martins Fork Lake is a small mountain reservoir tucked into the Smith community of Harlan County, Kentucky. Completed in 1979 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 340-acre lake sits at river mile 15.6 on Martins Fork, just southeast of the town of Harlan.

Die Sozialwissenschaften und die Soziologie im Speziellen haben sich dem Thema Bürgerkrieg bislang vor allem als einem empirischen Gegenstand angenommen: Ursachen, Dauer, Auswirkungen auf das internationale Staatensystem oder Logiken der Mobilisierung sind zentrale Themen dieser Forschung (vgl. Newman/DeRouen 2014). Kaum Aufmerksamkeit gefunden hat der Bürgerkrieg bislang als anspruchsvoller sozial- oder ordnungstheoretischer Begriff.

Appalachian History Series Kentucky on the Brink In late 1861 Kentucky stood in a dangerous middle ground. The Commonwealth had remained in the Union, yet communities were split in loyalty and both armies moved to control key valleys and roads. In the Big Sandy country of the eastern mountains, Confederate Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall crossed in from Virginia to recruit, while Union commanders rushed to push him back. Col.

Appalachian History Series A county at war with itself By the turn of the twentieth century, Breathitt County, Kentucky, had become a byword for political killings and courthouse cliques. The flashpoint came on May 4, 1903, when attorney and United States commissioner James Buchanan Marcum was shot at the entrance to the Jackson courthouse.