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'A simple economic idea underlies his argument. Until relatively recently, forgetting was "easier and cheaper than remembering." Before widespread literacy, lastingly recording knowledge and experience required the painstaking labor of educated specialists, from ancient scribes to medieval monks. Well into modernity, the material costs of preserving knowledge remained high. Paper alone, Mr. Mayer-Schönberger notes, accounted for two-thirds of the price of Diderot's Encyclopédie. Forgetting comes easily when remembrance is costly.'

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'Nearly half of the survey’s 500 respondents — including more than two-thirds of public universities — have pared down their IT budgets in 2009. That figure represents a reversal from 2008, when about half reported budget increases. Only 21 percent put more money into information technology this year. For the first time this decade, financing information technology registered as one of the most pressing concerns among campus technologists.'

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Article (available in html, pdf, ps) 1DOI:0.3217/jucs-000-00-0003. Includes info on library costs for journals

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"Many early adopters of educational technology report increased costs, both in technology and in faculty time. This research shows how early followers can decrease costs by using existing on-line supplementary materials and a redesigned course structure that increases face-to-face contact and provides multiple means for students to learn course concepts."

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'This research bulletin provides a review of current tools and metrics for assessing IT sustainability and green initiatives. It evaluates current measurement tools and proposes conceptual models of tools that are needed. It is intended to pave the way for institutional discussions ...'

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"Unlike other organizations in higher education, the Delta Project is focused on the spending part of the college cost problem – how spending relates to access and success, and ways that costs can be controlled without compromising quality. "

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'So which is the most accurate assessment of what a university spends to educate a graduate? The catalog cost of $26,485, the transcript cost of $33,672, or the "full cost" $40,645? The last is "probably closer to an answer" to the question that policy makers are increasingly asking now, about "what would we have to spend to get more graduates," though that assumes that colleges maintained their current enrollment and expenditure levels, he notes. '

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'When people talk about "colleges" doing this or that, or "higher education" failing to confront one problem or another, to whom are they referring? Anyone who has worked in or around the academy knows all too well that colleges and universities are made up of significantly different audiences that approach any given subject from widely divergent perspectives. It's probably not surprising, then, that quick and decisive action to deal with emerging problems may be hard to come by.'

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'With the price of personal computers dropping below $500, it's tempting to toss out “old” putty-colored sub-GHz computers with their bulky CRT monitors in favor of sleek, two-tone models with fast processors and flat-panel displays. But before you do, co

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"The biggest economic shock when upgrading from, say, a Windows 98 machine to a new PC running Windows XP is the investment in new software"

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"Facing stark economic realities, colleges and universities of all types—public and private, large and small, two-year and four-year—are taking it upon themselves to do what they can to maintain operations and survive. From cutting costs to searching for

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"A recent announcement out of Indiana hasn't received the same attention, but may represent a larger challenge in the end to the traditional model of scholarly publishing, which has evolved to a system with expensive print and online publications and limi

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"ICSU Press held a workshop in Oxford (UK) at the end of March 1998 to follow-up one of the main recommendations of the Joint ICSU Press/UNESCO Conference of Experts (February 1996 - ref1) - to conduct a technical study on the economics, real costs and be

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"With increasing demands for widespread access to internal and external databases and online, interactive systems, one thing is clear--costs of providing information technology services are escalating at an alarming rate. Multiple approaches to informatio

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"Although the initial cost of creating digital images and associated indexes, databases, and finding aids can be high, presenting them online offers greater opportunities for distributed uses, with a subsequent lower unit cost per use. We will present a m

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"It is the same way with Information Technology (IT) costs. The costs of hardware and software are "visible;" they are "above the waterline." Hardware is cheap. Software probably costs more than the hardware it runs on nowadays. Together, these "visible"

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"Software implementation projects tend to have many hidden costs that you need to ensure are captured as part of you business case, and managed during the project. Examples of hidden costs are... "

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'Further, as tough as things are already, ICOLC reminded readers that the full impact of this recession has yet to be felt. “We have yet to see the full effects, as many 2009 journal and database subscriptions have already been renewed,” the statement poi

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"Written on behalf of the many library consortia across the world that participate in the ICOLC, this statement has two purposes. It is intended to help publishers and other content providers from whom we license electronic information resources (hereaft

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"Commentators have increasingly been wondering if the end might finally be in sight for the many years’ worth of steady and often not-so-slow increases in college tuitions. How much longer, the thinking goes, will American students and parents be able to

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