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Fox News personality attacks libraries – response is swift, expert and factual – go figure

Inside Higher Ed: “Former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Monday provoked the ire of academic librarians after she suggested their institutions are “vanity projects” and that the services they provide — from acquiring scholarly journals and serving as a starting point for research to preserving materials and training faculty members and students — “are on our smartphones.” Van Susteren, who until this September hosted the weeknight current affairs show On the Record, made the comments at 6:28 a.m. in response to a Yahoo Finance article showing tuition rates increasing both at private and public colleges. In subsequent tweets, she criticized colleges for building “hugely expensive new buildings” and passing the costs on to students instead of renovating existing ones…”

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