As the library of the University of Michigan makes its final decision about taking on responsibilitiy for OER (Open Education Resources) publishing at the University, a report entitled Reaching the heart of the university: Libraries and the future of OER looks at progress on this collaboration to date. Importantly, the authors, Pieter Kleymeer, Molly Kleinman and Ted Hanss, who will be presenting this as a paper at the Open Education 2010 Conference in Barcelona next month, also reflect more widely and on the many synergies between academic libraries and the OER movement.

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

Weibel Lines review of presentation about the effect of Google Book Search on libraries and the use of monographs in scholarship (which speaker expects to rise significantly)