Xavier University of Cincinnati is among at least three dozen colleges that have taken the drastic step of merging their library and technology departments … CIO’s … see traditional boundaries between library and technology work blurring. Those leaders observe increasing amounts of scholarship being digitized, students doing research online, library books sitting unused, and a constant stream of requests for computer and Web support. They want the flexibility to allocate funds where they are most needed, be it hiring an instructional technologist or purchasing an e-book collection. (Chronicle)

As more and more knowledge is made available online for students, it would be of interest to track which e-book collections are purchased and which are not. That is, the selection of what knowledge is made available in digitalized form surely has the same potential for bias as the selection of old-fashioned books made available “in the stacks.”