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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? The CARL Competencies. How do you envision your role as an academic librarian? With your job description? And do you have the knowledge, skills, and values to support this work?

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

This last item is worth discussing because it brings up a few misconceptions about sponsored research - e.g. that it is revenue neutral (or even positive) for the institution. Each grant is then composed of a direct cost component and an indirect component that is obtained by multiplying the direct component by the indirect cost rate.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.