Article: Intellectual authority in the infosphere

In this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education:

INTELLECTUAL AUTHORITY
In the rapidly growing infosphere, has the wisdom of crowds left no room for the sagacity of experts? asks Peter J.M. Nicholson, president and chief executive officer of the Council of Canadian Academies.

BINDING TRUST
Books, newspapers, and other printed media have enduring advantages, even in the digital age, writes Edward Tenner, an affiliate of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

HISTORY VS. LEGACY
Controversy over the prospective George W. Bush library at Southern Methodist University highlights the tensions between presidential libraries and their academic hosts.

TOWARD ‘INFORMATION LITERACY’
College students may consider themselves computer-savvy, but librarians have plenty to teach them about how to use technology to do research.

(Illustration by Christophe Vorlet)

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