Library Intelligencer

Managing in a New Reality Philip J. Goldstein
The author draws an early roadmap to help IT leaders navigate beyond the economic downturn and to understand how a new economic reality might take shape in higher education institutions and in higher education IT organizations.

CIOs Talk about Budgets: Emerging Stronger and Leaner Bruce Maas, Fredrick Miller, Pattie Orr, Julie Ouska, and Shelton M. Waggener
To explore current and future implications of the economic downturn, EDUCAUSE Review assembled a panel of senior IT leaders to answer questions regarding their IT budgets, possible structural changes and cost models, and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

CFOs Talk about Finances: Glimmers of Hope Laurie G. Antolovic, Albert G. Horvath, and Margaret F. Plympton
In a discussion of costs and revenues and information technology, three higher education financial officers provide a budgetary perspective on the topics of technology adoption, investments in technology, and management of the IT budget in the current fiscal climate.

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009
Anne Scrivener Agee, Catherine Yang, and the 2009 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee
EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues in terms of strategic importance to the institution, as revealed by the tenth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. Not surprisingly, IT Funding is back as #1 on the list.

On the WebLeadership: IT and the Economy: A Focus on Priorities: Kent John Chabotar

E-Content: Data-Driven Science: A New Paradigm? Michael L. Nelson

Essential versus Strategic IT Investments James Hilton

Learning and Technology — “In That Order” Malcolm Brown

Cloud Computing: “Be Prepared” Bernard Golden

Higher Education and the Academic Library: Perspectives for Slovakia Jaroslav Šušol

The Return of the Opportunity Manager? Richard N. Katz