Reading List for Orbis Cascade Alliance Council Meeting

A reading list distributed to Orbis Cascade Alliance library directors in preparation for a strategic planning discussion to begin next week:

• Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition
• Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Study
• 2012 top ten trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education
• Redefining the Academic Library
• Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism

A Book Only in the Abstract Sense?

One of my companions today has been The Oxford Companion to the Book. While reading the online version, I discovered that I was only reading a book in "the abstract, non-corporeal sense":

book (1): A word that has long been used interchangeably and variously to signify any of the many kinds of text that have been circulated in written or printed forms, and the material objects through which those words and images are transmitted. The ancestor of the modern word ‘book’ is used in both senses in Anglo-Saxon documents. This Oxford Companion is a book in the abstract, non-corporeal sense (and can be thus described in its Internet manifestation), and also in the physical sense of a three-dimensional object in codex format.