This post is guest-authored by Lea Wade, STEM Librarian, University Libraries, and member of the Textbook Affordability Task Force of the Washington Research Library Consortium. Textbook costs are increasing. Since 1977, college textbook prices have risen over 1,000 percent. Vox had a recent article on how much students spend on textbooks, and what publishers are offering Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic Textbooks Beyond the Classroom
This week’s post is guest-authored by Austin Arminio, a graduate student in the field of Library and Information Science. For the past three months, I worked on a project to digitize publications of the Commission on American Citizenship of The Catholic University of America. During the 1938 Golden Jubilee of The Catholic University of America Read More
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